An heroic back-to-the-wall hundred by Yuvraj Singh took North Zone to a four-wicket victory and helped them win the Deodhar Trophy

South Australia surged to a comprehensive 98-run victory over Western Australia in their floodlit game at the WACA in Perth, in the process ending WA's admittedly slim hopes of progressing to the final

Pakistan's fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar, who recently returned from the tour of Australia after suffering a leg injury, has been summoned to the office of Shaharyar Khan, the chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board, and asked to explain his recent

Andy Pick, England Under-19's coach, had no excuses after watching his side lose 16 wickets on the final day of their Test series against India

A radical set of rules to revamp the one-day game will be considered by the International Cricket Council, which began a meeting in Melbourne yesterday

The Pakistan board has requested the ICC to clear Shoaib Malik's bowling action on medical grounds

Scotland have cancelled their pre-season tour of Namibia

Western Province Boland and Titans will play each other in two charity matches next week to help the victims of the fires at the Joe Slovo Settlement

High winds snapped an 80-metre crane jib as heavy showers hit the MCG last night, but the surface was not damaged before tomorrow's first VB Series final between Australia and Pakistan

The South African allrounder, Zander de Bruyn, has signed as one of Worcestershire's two overseas players for the 2005 season

After being cleared of a stress fracture, Jacob Oram, the New Zealand allrounder, is hopeful of being fit for the three Test series against Australia which begins in March

Donovan Pagon inched towards his a composed hundred, his second regional first-class century, as Jamaica reached 293 for 8 on the opening day of their fifth round Carib Beer Series match against Trinidad & Tobago at the Alpart Sports Club

A hip injury has forced Dominic Thornely, the New South Wales allrounder, out of the ING Cup match against Tasmania at Hobart on Saturday

Zee Telefilms Ltd will move the Mumbai High Court citing article 226 of the Indian constitution after their writ petition against the Board of Control for cricket in India was dismissed by the Supreme Court on Wednesday

Inzamam-ul-Haq has said that Pakistan will concentrate on preserving wickets early in the innings as they bid to upset Australia in the first match of the VB Series finals at Melbourne on Friday

Herschelle Gibbs has signed a three-month contract to play for the Englishclub Lashings this season

Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid and Virender Sehwag have been appointed as captains of the India Senior, India A and India B sides to contest in the Challenger Trophy one-day tournament to be held in Mumbai from February 7

In the wake of Bangladesh's victories in Test and one-day series against Zimbabwe at home, the Bangladesh Cricket Board has honoured the players with huge cash rewards

Later this month, New Zealand take on Australia in a Twenty20 international, and for the occasion, they will be kitted out in their iconic brown-and-tan uniforms that they wore during the glory days of the 1980s

At the close of the second day's play at Jamshedpur, England Under-19's hopes of avoiding a 3-0 series whitewash against India were resting on the shoulders of Ben Harmison, the younger brother of the Test paceman, Steve