Martin Williamson

There’s not much to cheer in Zimbabwe these days, so you can forgive the state-run Herald newspaper, the only mainstream publication in the country, from going overboard after Zimbabwe’s stunning win against Australia

A strong Dutch squad will fly to India next weekend to play four Twenty20 matches and three fifty-over games.

Essex have announced they will not be offering a contract extension to Andrew McGarry, whose existing agreement finishes at the end of the 2007 season.

With an outstanding century by coach Ryan Maron – his third of the season – and a totally committed effort in the field, VRA Amsterdam took their third successive Hoofdklasse title on Saturday, beating Voorburg by 20 runs in the final

Yorkshire legspinner Adil Rashid has been named the Cricket Writers' Club 2007 Young Cricketer of the Year.

The Chinese People’s Daily - admittedly an unlikely source of cricket news – reports that Papua New Guinea scored 572 for 6 in a South Pacific Games match against New Caledonia.

If the French had any remaining doubts that Rwanda, the tiny country in the heart of Central Africa, was a lost colonial cause they must have been banished by the sight of the heavy home-made rollers - oil barrels filled with concrete - smoothing the

Supporters of Genoa, Italy's oldest professional football club, have long been proud of their Anglo roots

Canada and Bermuda lived up to their pre-tournament favourites' tag by scoring convincing victories in their Americas Under-19 Qualifiers in Toronto on Tuesday

Village cricketers from Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Oxfordshire and Sussex meet in the semi-finals of the npower Village Cup this Sunday (August 19)

The real impact of the USA's suspension from international cricket will hit home today when north of the border in Toronto the region's leading teams will meet to take part in the Americas Under-19 Qualifier.

Barry Ganese hit the cricketing maximum on Friday (August 10), powering his was to six sixes in one over of six balls

Canada face a stiff challenge from Bermuda in their bid to return to the Under-19 World Cup when the five-team round-robin Americas U-19 Qualifier begins at Mapleleaf CC, King City in Toronto on Monday (August 13).

Quick Haag won the first-ever Nachenius Tjeenk Twenty20 Cup final in Schiedam on Saturday evening, beating hosts Hermes-DVS by 32 runs in front of a crowd of several hundred.

On caribbeancricket.com , Peter Montgomery makes a stinging attack on the West Indies team’s management and the way the players have been treated.

Chris Dehring, who headed the organising committee of the World Cup, has been named as the independent third party in attempts to resolve the dispute which led to the United States being suspended from international cricket by the ICC.

The Nottingham Test has been played against a backdrop of sledging and other less-than-impressive behaviour from both sides

England’s players may have found the scattering of jelly beans in Zaheer Khan’s crease amusing but not many others did, including Zaheer who responded in the best way (no, not by brandishing his bat at Kevin Pietersen, for once possibly the

Derbyshire have turned down Chris Taylor's request to be released a year into a two-year contract

As recently as five years ago, no one would have given US junior cricket a chance to exist, let alone flourish in any meaningful sense.