Lahore, Jan. 15 : Banned Pakistani fast bowler Mohammad Asif will be in New Delhi today to resolve some `financial issues' with the Delhi Daredevils, the team he represents in the Indian Premiere League (IPL).

"I am going to Delhi to try and sort out some financial issues with the Daredevils," The Daily Times quoted Asif, as saying.

Accompanied by his lawyer, Asif rejected the notion that his visit to India is in connection with the hearing regarding his case in the doping scandal during the first season of the IPL in April last year.

Dubai, Jan. 15 : Matthew Hayden's position of 10th and 18th in the all-time Test and ODI Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for batsmen is an impressive achievement by anyone's standards, but this has sparked off a debate on whether he is actually the 10th-best Test batsman or 18th-best ODI batsman in the history of the game.

The controversy seems to have erupted over the downgrading of India''s Sachin Tendulkar, who has been ranked 28th on the list of all time greats.

Wellington, Jan. 15 : New Zealand will take on Australia in a five-match Chappell-Hadlee Trophy ODI series in January and February.

The New Zealand Press Association quoted team coach Andy Moles as saying that his team would go all out for a win against their trans-Tasmanian rivals.

"To get a win under our belts is really key, we want to become a winning unit," Moles said of a side that has slipped from third to fifth on the ODI rankings since the 2007 World Cup.

, Jan. 15 : New Zealand Cricket and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) have announced a revised schedule for India''s cricket tour to New Zealand, which will now include an additional test and a second Twenty20 International.

A New Zealand Press Association report said Napier has been allocated the additional test from March 26 to 30, which will form part of a three-match series.

Melbourne, Jan. 15: Cricket authorities are expecting Friday's 50-over one-day international between Australia and South Africa on Friday to show which format is more popular among fans -- Twenty20 or the 50-over game.

According to the Courier Mail, Cricket Victoria CEO Tony Dodemaide expects a smaller crowd than the 63,000 who watched the pyrotechnics of Twenty20 specialist David Warner in Melbourne four nights ago, and said the turnout would say a lot about the health of "traditional" limited-overs cricket.

Sydney, Jan. 15 : Former Australian Test great Mark Waugh believes 20-year-old Phillip Hughes is the man who should take the opener's slot in the Australian squad.

Waugh said a fit and firing 20-year-old Hughes was worth the gamble, instead of Phillip Jacques, for the tour to South Africa.

"You could go either way but if you wanted a younger guy you''d go with Hughes," Fox Sports quoted Waugh, who played 128 Tests and was arguably one of the country''s greatest fielders, as saying.