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West Indies have openly embraced the return of their premier batsman Chris Gayle

Ajmal Shahzad is free to leave by Yorkshire because of his reluctance to accept team discipline, according to Colin Graves and Martyn Moxon

Worcestershire will decide within the next 48 hours whether they will need to relocate their County Championship match against Surrey.

Port Qasim Authority (PQA) qualified for first-class cricket after drawing with Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) in the final of the PCB Patron’s Trophy

Faf du Plessis will be joining Somerset – subject to all necessary clearance – as their second overseas player for the FLt20

Kings XI Punjab’s full-time captain, Adam Gilchrist, has praised stand-in captain David Hussey for inspiring the team to three away wins in their last five matches

The ICC’s nomination committee, headed by its president Sharad Pawar, will meet in Mumbai on May 6 to conduct interviews with the four short-listed candidates to determine the successor to Haroon Lorgat, the outgoing chief executive officer

Tom Sears will join Ireland’s Connacht rugby club in July

An all-round performance from Stafanie Taylor helped West Indies Women to a seven-run win over Sri Lanka Women in the second Twenty20 game in Barbados

Alviro Petersen hit 145 against his former county but Essex’s England batsmen Alastair Cook and Ravi Bopara were less successfull