The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief assured MPs on Monday that the body would review fines and bans
imposed on seven top players after receiving a report from a one-man arbitration panel.

Sri Lanka beat New Zealand by seven wickets in the second of the two Twenty20 matches, part of international cricket’s historic attempt to break into the US market.
Lanka triumphed in the low-scoring affair with more than four overs to spare to earn a 1-1 draw in the series on Sunday.

Michael Clarke was on Monday retained as skipper of Australia’s Twenty20 squad for July’s series with Pakistan in England despite his below-par batting performances in T20 cricket.

The England and Wales Cricket Board’s decision to pull out counties from this year’s Champions League T20 in South Africa this September has rendered the competition as a 10-team event.

England middle-order batsman Eoin Morgan, who was a key member of the side that won the the World Twenty20 final against Australia in Barbados last Sunday, has been called up into a Test squad for the Bangladesh series opener, which starts at Lord’s on Thursday.

New Zealand beat Sri Lanka by 28 runs in the first of two Twenty20 matches on Saturday as international cricket made an historic attempt to break into the American market.

Cricket Australia has sought from the ICC the details of its investigation into Pakistan’s tour Down Under but insisted that the series was won fair and square by the hosts.

Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ejaz Butt has rubbished claims of match-fixing during Pakistan’s disastrous tour of Australia even though the International Cricket Council has begun investigating Pakistan’s performance in the Sydney Test earlier this year.

Ryan McLaren kept his nerve in a tense final over to help South Africa formalise a one-run victory over the West Indies, and sweep their two-match Twenty20 International series on Thursday.

In a bid to standardise the use of technology across all formats of the game, the ICC’s cricket committee has recommended that UDRS be used in all Test matches as well as in the World Cup in the subcontinent next year.