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Melbourne, Nov.23 (ANI): Former Australian leg spinner Shane Warne has called on the game's managers to take urgent steps to keep Test cricket alive and popular among the spectators

Sydney, Nov.23 (ANI): Noted cricket columnist Peter Roebuck has said that Australia's best young cricketers ought to think long and hard before rushing to join the Indian Premier League (IPL) because of its big money lure.

Lahore, Nov. 23 (ANI): Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Asif is looking at the brighter side of his absence from international cricket for two years, saying that he got time to recover from a crucial elbow injury which could have doomed his cricketing career prematurely.

Brisbane (Australia), Nov.23 (ANI): Fearing another mass exodus of senior players in the coming years, leg-spinning great Shane Warne has urged the national selection committee to avoid becoming too comfortable with up-and-down results in a period of transition, and to plan for the future on a priority basis.

Lahore, Nov. 23 (ANI): Pakistan's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has asked the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to learn financial management from the Board of Cricket for Control in India.

Brisbane (Australia), Nov.23 (ANI): Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting has revealed he has two tricky dilemmas ahead of the first Test against West Indies-whether to throw Mitchell Johnson the new ball and how much to bowl Shane Watson.

Islamabad, Nov. 23 (ANI): Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Ijaz Butt has said that he would like to see out-of-form Younus Khan as part of the Pakistani squad touring Australia next month.

Islamabad, Nov. 23 (ANI): The Pakistan Government has assured the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ijaz Butt that it would not object to Pakistani players participating in the Indian Premier League (IPL) next year.

London, Nov.23 (ANI): Chelsea will try to steal Franck Ribery from under the nose of Real Madrid in the January transfer window.

Wellington, Nov.23 (ANI): New Zealand cricketers Neil Broom and Aaron Redmond have owned up to breaking the team curfew and inadvertently starting what has been described as a riot in Chennai while touring India with the New Zealand A team in August, reports the New Zealand Herald.

New Delhi, Nov 23 (ANI): Indian hockey team coach Jose Manuel Brasa has expressed confidence about the team winning the Champions Challenge Tournament in Argentina next month.

Indian hockey coach Jose Brasa on Sunday said that he is confident that the Indian team would win the Champions Challenge tournament in Argentina next month. Indian team on Sunday left for a week's camp in Spain to prepare for the tournament beginning December 6.

Melbourne, Nov.22 (ANI): Former Australian leg spinner Shane Warne believes that off-spinner Nathan Hauritz is the country's number one spinner.

Brisbane, Nov. 22 (ANI): Australia's fourth specialist paceman, Doug Bollinger is likely to be 12th man in the first Test against the West Indies, starting on Thursday.

Islamabad, Nov.22 (ANI): Controversial Pakistan pacer Shoaib Akhtar's close doctor friend, Tauseef Razaq, said the fast bowler had always consulted him before any medical treatment, but, didn't heed his advise against going for liposuction surgery.

Perth, Nov.22 (ANI): Australian middle order batsman Mike Hussey has accepted that he is under pressure to hold on to his Test spot despite scoring a battling 121 in his last outing at The Oval and returning home with fine performances in the Champions League in South Africa and the one-day series against India.

Brisbane, Nov. 22 (ANI): West Indian cricket team coach David Williams has warned the Australians that the visitors will not to wilt under pressure from the hosts this summer, even as former players Shane Warne and Dennis Lillee have come up with doomsday predictions.

Melbourne, Nov.22 (ANI): Former star players have questioned Michael Clarke's capacity to ascend to the Test captaincy and believe Ricky Ponting must lead Australia to England for Ashes revenge in 2013.

London, Nov. 22 (ANI): A fear of sweeping changes at Manchester United has not only senior players under scrutiny, but just everybody at the club.

Melbourne, Nov. 22 (ANI): Former Australian leg spinner Shane Warne has nominated Michael Clarke as his 'bunny' for tonight's All Stars Twenty20 match.