Players want the ECB to reduce one-day as well as four-day cricket in the new-look structure for 2011 amid concern that Twenty20 is about to pass the point of overkill this summer. With the LV= County Championship due to make its earliest start on Friday, they also want an early indication from the governing body about the future.

Source: Timesonline.co.uk

Iran has demanded that Fifa overturn a ban on its girls football team from the Youth Olympic games after the team was kicked out for wearing Islamic scarves that contravene international rules.

Source: Telegraph.co.uk

Portsmouth could soon have a new owner after representatives of an investor interested in taking charge of the club began the process of due diligence. Rob Lloyd, the businessman fronting the bid for an unnamed colleague, arrived at the club this morning with a lawyer to commence the study of their accounts.

Source: Guardian.co.uk

Fresh questions have been raised over Mark Cavendish's future with his team HTC-Columbia with Team Sky, among others, on high alert after the British cyclist criticised his German team-mate André Greipel yesterday.

Source: Guardian.co.uk