Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir, the three Pakistan players at the centre of spot-fixing allegations, will travel to London on Wednesday for meetings with PCB chairman Ijaz Butt

Shane Bond, the former New Zealand fast bowler, has been appointed assistant coach of Central Districts for the Champions League Twenty20 in South Africa

If Kent go on to suffer relegation this season, they will surely rue the first day of this Championship match at Edgbaston

James Franklin took career-best figures of 7 for 14 as Derbyshire were bowled out for just 44 on a day in which 24 wickets fell at Bristol

A total of 12 wickets fell on the opening day of the County Championship match between Lancashire and Hampshire at Liverpool but it is the hosts who will rest the easier

Durham skipper Phil Mustard underlined that his team will not hand over the County Championship title to Nottinghamshire without a fight

Owais Shah has been released by Middlesex, leaving him searching for a new county

The chairman of a UK commission set up to investigate the threat of gambling-related corruption in sport has told Cricinfo he believes there is insufficient evidence for police to press charges against Mazhar Majeed

Scotland have reversed their decision to tour Zimbabwe for an Intercontinental Cup fixture in October, following advice from the Scottish government and ministers against visiting the country

Kevin Pietersen has been dropped by England for the first time in his career and will play out the rest of the season while on loan with Surrey, after the selectors announced two squads of 12 and 14 players respectively for the two-Twenty20 and five-ODI N

Captain Dean Elgar and David Miller helped South Africa A overcome a top-order wobble with a 165-run stand and steered their team to what was, in the end, a comfortable win over Pakistan A in Colombo

Ijaz Butt, the Pakistan Cricket Board chairman, has insisted none of the players at the centre of spot-fixing allegations will be suspended until the police investigation comes up with some solid evidence

The BCCI's Corporate Trophy, launched last year with much acclaim, is a more subdued affair this year

The 2010 Champions League Twenty20 in South Africa will be a success but there are challenges to build its popularity, the tournament's CEO Sundar Raman has said

Shane Watson, who reported two approaches by an illegal bookmaker in England last year, said he was in "complete shock" at the allegations levelled at Pakistan

A team made up from Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and possibly an official from the sports ministry will be heading to England as part of Pakistan's probe into the spot-fixing allegations

Speculation that the ICC and ECB have asked the PCB to drop the tainted players could mean that the PCB may choose to neither suspend nor select the four

South Africa's AB de Villiers has displaced MS Dhoni as the top ODI batsman in the world according to the latest ICC ratings

Chris Rogers, the Australian batsman, will not return to Derbyshire in 2011 after accepting an offer from Middlesex

Former Pakistan captain Imran Khan has said he is concerned about the long-term repercussions the match-fixing crisis could have on the country's cricketing establishment