The West Indies will defend their Champions Trophy title with the same players that will play in the tri-series in Malaysia against India and Australia. "The team that is going to Malaysia was picked for the ICC tournament and these are the players who will go on for the Champions Trophy, barring injury. This is the team which will go on to defend the Champions Trophy," skipper Brian Lara told Jamaica Observer.

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Left-hander Suresh Raina was injured on Friday during a practice match organized for the Indian cricket team before it leaves for the tri-series in Malaysia. The Uttar Pradesh batsman got hit when he deflected an Ajit Agarkar full-toss on to his cheek and started bleeding on the field.

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The Board of Control for Cricket in India has named three umpires for the ICC Elite Panel. There is, so far, not a single Indian in the current 10-member Elite Panel. Besides S Venkataraghavan, the former Indian offspinner, no other Indian umpire has ever figured in the Elite Panel.

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New Zealand Cricket (NZC) have appointed Don Neely, a noted historian and administrator, to succeed John Reed as their next president. At the conclusion of the board's Annual General Meeting in Wellington, it was also announced that NZC had completed its four year financial cycle with a surplus of $217,779 (US$ 140,000 approx).

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Mark Taylor, the former Test captain, will chair the five-man committee that will recommend the coach to follow John Buchanan's seven-year reign. Buchanan will walk away after the World Cup in April and Tim Nielsen, the current Centre of Excellence mentor, and Tom Moody, the former Australia allrounder and current Sri Lanka coach, are the early favourites.

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The International Cricket Council (ICC) experts will review a new construction schedule before announcing a final decision in about two weeks as to whether the Brian Lara Stadium in Tarouba will be used for the World Cup next year.

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England captain Andrew Strauss is confident that Marcus Trescothick will recover from a stress-related illness in time for the Ashes series in Australia. Trescothick has pulled out of next month's Champions Trophy one-day tournament in India after saying the illness had dogged him since he returned home for family reasons from the tour of India in March.

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Nicky Boje won't need to worry about interrogation by the Delhi Police. He has been left out of the South African squad for the ICC Champions Trophy in India in November-December. While Boje failed to find a place, Herschelle Gibbs was included in the 14-member squad announced by the South African selectors today.

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Closed-circuit TV cameras will form part of the fool-proof security apparatus which would be put in place for the high-profile ICC Champions Trophy to be hosted at four centres in the country in October-November.

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Indian cricket captain Rahul Dravid on Thursday said the players were unanimous in their opinion that individual members as well as the team as a whole needed to improve in the fielding department.

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