Wellington: Brendon McCullum wants to open the batting in cricket Tests for New Zealand after deciding this year to quit his wicketkeeping role.

Christchurch: New Zealand batsman Jesse Ryder was on Wednesday ruled out of next month's tri-series in Sri Lanka, also involving India, as he failed to fully recover from his nagging elbow injury.

New Zealand batsman Ross Taylor will have a unique dilemma in this year's Champions League Twenty20 with the New Zealand batsman having qualified for as many as three teams for the September 10-26 event.

Sydney: New Zealand wicketkeeper Brendon McCullum has said that he will no longer keep wicket in Test matches, but will continue to do so in 50-over and Twenty20 cricket . Buzz up! McCullum said on Sunday his decision to quit the Test wicketkeeping role had not been made lightly and was intended to prolong his international career.

CRICKET Australia will attempt to sign the death warrant of the traditional one-day game this week by making its domestic competition another version of the booming Twenty20 game. Terrified that 50-over cricket will be irrelevant when Australia and New Zealand host the 2015 World Cup, CA is hoping its radical new concept will be taken up internationally in the next two years

Florida: Sri Lanka beat New Zealand by seven wickets in the second of two Twenty20 matches on Sunday,

Nuwan Kulasekara took three wickets in an over to help set up a comfortable seven-wicket win for Sri Lanka over New Zealand

USA: Kiwis post a historic win against Sri Lankans by 28 runs in the first T20 clash in the US here on Saturday.

Karachi: Pakistan cricket is facing a fresh controversy as the video recording of the recent PCB inquiry committee proceedings has been leaked, which has the visuals of Intikhab Alam and Aaqib Javed suspecting Kamran Akmal's involvement in match fixing during Australia tour. A TV Channel aired the video recordings of the statements made by officials and players in February-March and what came out was infighting and lack of unity in the team.

New Zealand and Canterbury fast bowler Shane Bond has announced his retirement from all cricket, New Zealand Cricket (NZC) has confirmed.