Dubai, Nov. 20 : Cricket players across the world today united for ICC Diversity Day and celebrated the unique social qualities of the sport.

This is the second annual ICC Diversity Day which highlights cricket as a game with a diverse history and a genuine social significance that goes way beyond its laws and regulations.

Cricket is a global phenomenon that brings people together in a spirit of passionate competition and mutual respect. The ICC is keen to celebrate cricket’s rich diversity, something which facilitates the coming together of people from many countries, cultures and social backgrounds and can foster greater harmony and understanding within the community.

Dunedin (New Zealand), Nov. 20 : The West Indian cricket team will be greeted with an "It''s all white here" slogan when it arrives in Dunedin next month.

While the catch-cry has raised some eyebrows, Otago Cricket officials are confident the visitors will take the concept in the right sporting spirit, reports stuff. co. nz.

Brisbane, Nov. 20 (ANI): Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting believes all Test players owe it to the game to address the over rate crisis, which is ruining it at present.

"There is a great responsibility for everyone around the world to look at this over rate issue and make sure each team is doing the right thing by the game," The Australian quoted Ponting as saying ahead of the Gabba Test against New Zealand.

India's two consecutive wins over England in the ODI series has shuffled the ICC's ODI rankings with the side moving up two places from fifth to third position. Moreover, Yuvraj Singh, with his back-to-back powerpacked knocks - his two centuries - has also been rewarded for his performance as he climbed to the sixth spot of the ICC player rankings for ODI batsmen, gaining as many as 11 places to enjoy the highest rating of his career to date!

India's two consecutive wins over England in the ODI series has shuffled the ICC's ODI rankings with the side moving up two places from fifth to third position. Moreover, Yuvraj Singh, with his back-to-back powerpacked knocks - his two centuries - has also been rewarded for his performance as he climbed to the sixth spot of the ICC player rankings for ODI batsmen, gaining as many as 11 places to enjoy the highest rating of his career to date!

Kanpur, Nov 19 : Indian cricket captain, Mahendra Singh Dhoni today said that his team will go with full strength in the third One-day International (ODI) against England to be played in Kanpur on Thursday.

Addressing a news conference after the net practice session at the Green Park stadium, the venue of the match, Dhoni said, there won''t be much experimentation in the selection of players for the third ODI.