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Cricket's world governing body the ICC is expecting to generate a $188m ($177m) profit pot from the current World Cup which concludes this weekend in Johannesburg.

A preliminary review of the Cricket World Cup will top the agenda when the sport's governing body, the ICC, meets in Johannesburg later this week.

Security around the remaining fixtures of the Cricket World Cup has been stepped up as the political crisis in the Middle East deepens.

Nearly 400,000 spectators have attended Cricket World Cup matches at the end of the first group phase of this year's tournament.

The bidding process for the 2010 FIFA World Cup has taken its latest procedural step forward after soccer’s governing body sent the ‘list of requirements’ to the six African candidates.

Betting at the Cricket World Cup is on course to exceed the £1billion mark - a record level for such activity at the tournament.

Headed up by the soccer governing body's president Sepp Blatter, a series of FIFA committee meetings kicks off next week with a status report on preparations for the 2006 World Cup in Germany and the potential for a FIFA Club World Championship in 2005 among the issues on the agenda.

Australia's Nine Network, with whom banned cricketer Shane Warne has a commentating contract, has confirmed that the player will not be returning to the World Cup in South Africa in a broadcasting capacity.

A business consortium from South Africa is reported to have expressed an interest in buying English rugby union side Gloucester.

World cricket governing body the ICC has reacted with anger over what it claims is 'ambush marketing' of the Indian cricket team by electrical giant Samsung.

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is facing another deadline today in its ongoing row over the England team's Cricket World Cup game against Zimbabwe.

The International Cricket Council's desire to stamp out ambush marketing at the Cricket World Cup has again been shown after a spectator was evicted from a stadium for opening a can of Coca-Cola.

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has written to the International Cricket Council (ICC) stating that the England team will not play its scheduled match in Zimbabwe.

The Cricket World Cup has finally got underway in South Africa - but the shadow of rows over co-hosting continues to blight the tournament.

The England & Wales Cricket Board's appeal against the ICC's decision to reject their request to move the scheduled World Cup game in Zimbabwe will be heard by the ICC-appointed South African judge, Justice Albie Sachs, in Cape Town today.

The International Cricket Council's Cricket World Cup Technical Committee, chaired by ICC president Malcolm Speed (pictured), will meet in Cape Town today to consider the England & Wales Cricket Board's request to move England's match against Zimbabwe from the latter country.