Graham Thorpe, the England batsman, has urged his team not to be intimidated by Australia's reputation when the Ashes begin at Lords' on July 27

Luke Woodcock's composed hundred gave Wellington an outside chance in the State Championship final against Auckland at Eden Park

Richard McInnes has been appointed senior coach at Australia's Centre of Excellence in Brisbane

Cricket in Scotland has been given a boost with an injection of more than £270,000 from Sportscotland

Darren Lehmann has taken his exclusion from the Ashes squad as a sign that his international career might just have ended

Shaun Pollock is out of the second Test against the West Indies due to his ankle injury

South Africa fought hard on the fifth day of the first Test against West Indies to draw the game, after being outplayed on the first four days

The sponsorship imbroglio that threatened to rip West Indian cricket apart is seemingly over, but it has cost Brian Lara his captaincy, at least for the moment

An impressive allround display from Tana Canning gave Auckland control of the State Championship at Eden Park in Auckland, as Wellington closed the third day holding a slender lead of 21 with six wickets remaining

Andrew Flintoff has wasted no time in getting back into the groove after his successful ankle surgery, and he demonstrated his returning fitness in fine style at Old Trafford on Monday, by pasting Lancashire's bowlers to all corners of the ground in

West Indies women edged to a tight three-wicket victory against South Africa, at the Technikon Oval, to take a 1-0 lead in the three-match one-day series, hastily arranged after both teams where knocked out of the World Cup

Andrew Flintoff has wasted no time in getting back into the groove after his successful ankle surgery, and he demonstrated his returning fitness in fine style at Old Trafford on Monday, by pasting Lancashire's bowlers to all corners of the ground in

The closing stages of the 2005 ICC Intercontinental Cup will be held in Namibia, with the semi-finals and final being staged in Windhoek

After weeks of high drama, the sponsorship dispute between the West Indies cricket board and the players has finally come to end, with the board directing the selectors to consider Chris Gayle, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Dwayne Bravo and Fidel Edwards for

Rob Nicol and Tama Canning's efforts offset the major early losses Auckland suffered on the second day of the State Championship final at Eden Park, providing them a satisfactory score of 208 for 5

Rahul Dravid has backed a beleagured Sourav Ganguly who is currently attempting to fight his way into form

Rene Ferdinands, one of the game's leading biomechanists, has said that unless rules on chucking are reviewed then cricket will turn into a game in which fast bowlers hurl the ball down at more than 100mph (160kph) off short runs and spinners turn

Mashonaland continue with their bid to clinch a sixth Logan Cup title in a row when they take on Manicaland, at Mutare Sports Club tomorrow (Tuesday)

India's five-match one-day series against Sri Lanka has been postponed

Rain washed out all matches in and around Pretoria