Most of the Indian cricketers have a high level of motivation and mental strength, but the inability of the set-up to allow players to make mistakes and learn from them is the biggest roadblock to their progress

Matthew Hayden has been declared fit to tour New Zealand for the five match one-day series

Worcestershire have announced that Sri Lankan fast bowler Chaminda Vaas has agreed a two-month contract for the early part of the 2005 season

Julia Price, the Queensland wicketkeeper, has regained her Australia spot after a two-year absence as part of the 14-player squad for the women's World Cup in South Africa next month

Just days after ruffling feathers by not consulting a Pakistan Cricket Board-endorsed physician, Shoaib Akhtar has once again thumbed his nose at officialdom by refusing to play in a Patron's Trophy match

Andrew Symonds and James Hopes passed fitness tests for the one-day tour of New Zealand today while Matthew Hayden will have his future sealed tomorrow

Kevin Pietersen's explosive start in international cricket could earn him a spot in the Test side, according to Michael Vaughan, the England captain.

South Africa's 4-1 series victory over England has enabled them to address their decline in the ICC One-Day Championship table

Graeme Smith, the South African captain, has backed Ray Jennings to be the permanent coach of the team

Darren Lehmann, recently dropped from the Australian team, has lamented the loss of enjoyment and fun in modern international cricket

The ABC's opening bid for secondary rights to broadcast the Ashes has been rejected by the ECB, a Senate committee in Canberra heard today

If evidence were needed that Bennett King's all-too-brief honeymoon period as West Indies coach is over, it came courtesy of a stinging attack which lambasted him for not returning to the Caribbean after West Indies exit from the VB Series

Barbados ended a four-match losing streak in the Carib Beer Cup, beating Windward Islands by 8 wickets

The British Council, in conjunction with the Bangladesh Cricket Board, has launched a week-long Cricket Carnival at the at the BKSP Sports Academy near Dhaka

As the Zimbabwe squad prepares to travel to South Africa for the forthcoming Test and ODi series, Dean du Plessis, a local analyst, claimed that most players are not fit enough for the demands of international cricket

Glenn McGrath has jumped in five months early to set his always-eager sights on a target for the Ashes and is torn between Michael Vaughan and Andrew Strauss

Victoria staged a dramatic come-from-behind series victory to seal the Women's National Cricket League trophy against New South Wales at Bankstown Oval

Graeme Smith, the South African captain, has marked out Steve Harmison as one of England's weak links in the forthcoming Ashes

Inzamam-ul-Haq has sent out warning signals to the Indian camp ahead of the tour, saying that his team should not be underestimated

Jeff Wilson has been included in New Zealand's 13-man squad to play Australia in a one-off Twenty20 international on February 17 at Eden Park in Auckland