Other cricket news (25th March 2009).

• Nel retires: Andre Nel on Wednesday announced his retirement from international cricket after an outstanding career for both the Proteas Castle Test squad and Standard Bank ODI cricket in which he took more than 100 wickets in both forms of the game. Nel has signed to play for Surrey in the England county season. Nel took 123 wickets in 36 Tests for South Africa at an average of 31.86. He took five wickets in an innings on three occasions and 10 wickets in a match once. He played 79 ODIs and took 106 wickets at 27.68 with an economy rate of 4.63. He took five wickets in an innings once and four wickets in an innings three times. Currently he has 381 first-class wickets.