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Sri Lankan wicketkeeper Prasanna Jayawardene will miss the first Test against Pakistan in Galle on Saturday after fracturing his finger, skipper Kumar Sangakkara said on Monday. Jayawardene, 29, who picked up the injury during a practice match, will need about two weeks to recover. “With Jayawardene out of action, we have a vacancy at the [...]

Smarting from the eight-wicket defeat to West Indies, a dejected Mahendra Singh Dhoni said his team failed to gauge the wicket and felt that batsmen should have paid more respect to the rival bowlers. Dhoni stood amid the ruins with a sedate 95 as India suffered a batting collapse against some fierce fast bowling to [...]

England’s most successful Test cricket captain Michael Vaughan will announce his retirement from Test and first-class cricket this week. Vaughan, 34, is understood to have made his decision because his right knee makes it impossible for him to field all day and because he does not want to block the progress of some promising young [...]

Australian allrounder Shane Watson has been named in the New South Wales squad for the 2009/10 season, Cricket NSW said on Monday. Watson, who is struggling with a knee problem ahead of Australia’s Ashes series opener in England next week, has switched states from Queensland and is one of 10 NSW players contracted by Cricket [...]

Mahendra Singh Dhoni put in a monumental rearguard effort to score 95 of an Indian total of 188 in the second ODI against West Indies at the Sabina Park in Kingston, Jamaica. Mediumpacers Ravi Rampaul and Dwayne Bravo combined superbly with quickie Jerome Taylor to knock the stuffing out of the Indians early on to [...]