Cricket News

The ICL appears to be facing an exodus of players who are eager to cash in on the BCCI's new amnesty offer but the unofficial league remains confident that it will survive the latest crisis

Cricinfo previews the ICL match between Hyderabad Heroes and Mumbai Champs on November 6

The South Africans began their preparations for the one-day leg of their tour with a 23-run victory against a PCA Masters XI at Wormsley

The Mumbai Champs, already out of the reckoning for a semi-final spot, cruised to a consolation 35-run victory over the Chandigarh Lions

Hamish Marshall and Daryl Tuffey are among six New Zealand players banned from representing their country again

The Mumbai Champs completed a close seven-run win over the Kolkata Tigers in their final league game

Inzamam-ul-Haq boosted the Heroes to 121 for 6 before their bowlers wrapped up a 33-run win

Nathan Astle doesn't buy John Buchanan's idea of world cricket being turned into a franchise-based system where players could choose which country to represent and so increase the element of competition

Stephen Fleming feels a policy to keep senior players uncertain of their place in the New Zealand side led to the retirements of Nathan Astle and Chris Cairns

Chris Cairns, Chris Harris, Nathan Astle, Hamish Marshal, Darren Maddy and Azhar Mahmood have signed with the Indian Cricket League

Nathan Astle has quit first-class cricket after he had himself excluded from the list of 12 contracted players for Canterbury this season

The Professional Cricketers' Association have named their side to take on West Indies in a charity Twenty20 match at Arundel on June 26

Ireland are scouting around for a replacement overseas player after Jesse Ryder's no-show for the Friends Provident match against Surrey.

The retirement of Nathan Astle will create mixed emotions among New Zealand cricket fans

In a career spanning more than a decade Nathan Astle had his share of moments in the sun

Nathan Astle has announced his retirement from international cricket, just six weeks before what would have been his fourth World Cup

Andrew Flintoff put the Ashes whitewash behind him and dragged England to their first win on the Australian tour as they beat New Zealand with a ball to spare at Hobart

Sanath Jayasuriya overpowered New Zealand with brutal batting display, crashing 111 off 82 deliveries, and set up an emphatic seven-wicket victory for Sri Lanka in the first match of a five-game series at Napier

New Zealand and Sri Lanka won a Test and Twenty20 each and the five-match one-day series will decide who takes the winner's position

Stuttering, stumbling, bumbling, New Zealand eventually managed to find a way home, beating Sri Lanka by five wickets at Eden Park to ensure that the two match Twenty20 series was shared one-all