Dubai, Nov 11 : Pakistan could move up to fourth in the Reliance Mobile ICC ODI Championship table if its beats the West Indies 3-0 in the upcoming series beginning on Wednesday in Abu Dhabi.

All the ODIs will be day and night matches and will take place at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi and if Shoaib Malik’s men can win all three they will gain four ratings points and move above fifth-placed India and fourth-placed New Zealand.

Dubai, Nov. 11 : Indian off-spinner Harbhajan Singh has gained two places in the latest Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for Test bowlers and is now in seventh position, the highest ranking the off-spinner has enjoyed since 2003.

London, Nov 11 : English middle order batsman Paul Collingwood has insisted that England has the firepower to crush India — and put down a marker for next summer’s Ashes.

Collignwood believes the pace attack of Andrew Flintoff and Steve Harmison will be crucial against India over the next six weeks, The Sun reported.

The Durham all-rounder said: “Apart from the Allen Stanford match, we’ve had two successful months under Kevin Pietersen’s captaincy. Our seam attack, firing on all cylinders, is very hard to beat. And the balance in our side is there now, just look at the team-sheet.”

Melbourne, Nov. 11 : Queensland and Australian all-rounder Shane Watson and some other Australian cricketers have become pin-up boys in a soon-to-be-released calendar aimed at raising funds for the McGrath Foundation.

The blond-haired, blue-eyed Watson, according to the Courier Mail, hottie, who is also known as the main squeeze of Fox Sports talking head Lee Furlong, peeled off his threads for the racy shoot at Coolum beach recently and emerged as somewhat of a natural according to snapper Pedro Virgil.

Sydney, Nov 11 : Australia’s new found spin-sensation Jason Kreja has said that after taking 12 crucial wickets in his debut Nagpur Test against India, he didn’t want to let the chance to play a long innings in Test cricket go away easily.

Dubai, Nov. 11 : Leading international cricketers from England, West Indies and Pakistan have helped launch ICC Diversity Day 2008.

ICC Diversity Day, which was held for the first time last year during the ICC World Twenty20 2007, will take place on 20 November 2008 to coincide with a busy programme of fixtures in the international cricket calendar. The day, which is set to become an annual feature in the cricket calendar, will see a variety of activities around the world that celebrate the diversity of the sport.