Cricket News

Kevin Hill has been appointed as Leicestershire's new general manager

Steve Harmison's spirits have lifted considerably after a vastly improved performance against Western Australia on day one of the Perth warm-up

England enjoyed the better of the first day of their warm-up match with Western Australia at the WACA with much their best performance of the tour so far

Marcus Trescothick missed the start of the second day of their warm-up match in Perth to visit a a local doctor and receive a pain-killing injection on his right shoulder, which has troubled him since the tour to Sri Lanka two years ago.

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) will send a seven-man England squad for the Hong Kong Sixes, which will be played at Kowloon Cricket Club on 2nd and 3rd November 2002.

All the profits from recent turf sale at Lord's - amounting to £35,000 - are to be invested in youth cricket by MCC

Worcestershire County Cricket Club and Alamgir Sheriyar have mutually agreed to forego the final year of his contract with the Club and have announced his immediate release

Kent County Cricket Club today announced that David Fulton will captain the County in 2003

Nasser Hussain played down concerns over Marcus Trescothick's shoulder injury after England drew their two-day warm-up match against Western Australia in Perth.

England today called up the Yorkshire all-rounder Craig White to their Ashes tour party as cover for the injured Andrew Flintoff

England had Andrew Caddick to thank for pulling them out of the mire on the first day of their warm-up match against Western Australia at Perth

Andrew Caddick, whose unbeaten 62 rescued England from the perils of 126 for eight against Western Australia, believes their top order has been struggling because they aren't yet used to Australian conditions.

England today announced that the Lancashire all-rounder Andrew Flintoff is to fly to the ECB's National Academy in Adelaide tomorrow for further treatment following his recent hernia operation

Either Craig White or Alex Tudor could be called into the England Ashes squad should they decide to look outside the existing party for a replacement for Andrew Flintoff

England have begun their tour of Australia with a 58-run defeat, going down to the ACB Chairman's XI for the first time in the traditional opener to the Ashes series at Lilac Hill

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Western Australian cricket selectors, in conjunction with the Australian Cricket Board, today confirmed the ACB Chairman's XI to play England at Lilac Hill next Tuesday.

Hampshire seamer Chris Tremlett sets off for the England Academy in Adelaide, Austraila on Sunday, with the main brief to retain his fitness after missing much of the latter part of the season with a stress fracture of the metatarsal bone in his left

Resolving sponsorship issues and players' concerns are a priority for International Cricket Council administrators

Any player representative recognition by the International Cricket Council (ICC) has to be when all Test players are represented by that body