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.

The International Cricket Council’s anti-corruption unit has been investigating Pakistan’s performance in their Sydney Test defeat against Australia in January, it was confirmed on Thursday.

Pakistan Twenty20 captain Shahid Afridi has alleged that some of his teammates were busy ogling at girls and loafing around the boundary line, not giving their 100 per cent in the team’s disastrous tour of Australia earlier this year.

A career-best spell from Ryan McLaren bowled South Africa to a 13-run victory in the first of two Twenty20 Internationals against the West Indies on Wednesday. McLaren captured 5/19 from 3.5 overs to earn the man of the match award, as West Indies, chasing 137 for victory from their 20 overs, were dismissed for 123 with one ball to spare at the Vivian Richards Cricket Ground.

The International Cricket Council on Thursday gave a clean chit to Indian Premier League-3 saying it had no evidence or intelligence of any corruption, despite rumours.
Lord Condon, the outgoing chairman of the ICC anti-corruption and security unit, said here on Thursday, “IPL-3 from a clean cricket point of view seems to have been a very clean event.

Two ultra-modern one-eyed creatures have been unveiled as the mascots for the 2012 London Olympics and Paralympics in the hope they will adorn millions of items of merchandise.

It’s talked about as a way to bring in the crowd, but the closest day-night Tests have come to being introduced to the cricket world has been inside the boardroom.
The International Cricket Council has spent millions on research to find the perfect coloured ball that can be used under floodlights and made to last 80 overs, but the pink and orange ones don’t seem to last as long as the traditional red ones.

Cricket’s oldest nation is now its newest winner in its latest T20 format. And the cricket world could not be happier after having experienced this wonderful break for Team England that had won nothing in ICC’s global events in the 35 years since the country hosted the first Prudential World Cup in 1975.

India coach Gary Kirsten will join the ICC cricket committee which will discuss the use of coloured ball in day-night Tests, one-day cricket format and the controversial switch hit in its two-day meeting starting here on Wednesday

World cricket’s top administrator is convinced it “won’t be too long” before day/night Tests are being played in either Australia or India.