Cricket News

Sri Lanka's squad for the Natwest triangular series has been modified after last-minute discussions between the team management, the selectors and the Sports Ministry

The international season is in full swing now, and straight after that great win by England at Edgbaston, they are in action again at Old Trafford

Sri Lanka's selectors have made four changes to their squad for the NatWestone-day triangular series against England and India starting June 27 at Trent Bridge

Alec Stewart will this week equal the record number of appearances for England in Test cricket

England are hoping that Mark Butcher will be able to play in the final Test against Sri Lanka at Old Trafford

Sri Lanka coach Dav Whatmore is confident that his players can bounce back and surprise England at Old Trafford if they are honest to themselves and accept the mistakes made at Edgbaston.

The Sussex captain Chris Adams has undergone knee surgery after damaging the joint in training last month

Sri Lanka's confidence ahead of the final npower Test against England will hardly have been boosted by their performance in the rain-affected match against an MCC side full of England hopefuls, which ended today in a draw.

John Crawley is on standby to replace Mark Butcher in England's final eleven for the third and final test against Sri Lanka, which starts at Old Trafford on Thursday

Usman Afzaal was one of a number of players on the fringe of the England Test side who impressed when play eventually got under way at Chesterfield on what was scheduled to be the second day of the match between MCC and the Sri Lankans

The England batsman Mark Butcher says that his knee injury makes him no more than

The first day's play in the three-day tour match between Sri Lanka and the MCC has been washed out by steady rain

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) today confirmed that Yorkshire bowler, Steven Kirby, has received three penalty points under the ECB's newdiscipline code following an incident during Yorkshire's Frizzell CountyChampionship Division One

The England and Wales Cricket Board chief executive Tim Lamb was full of enthusiasm for The Rose Bowl after visiting during the Warwickshire match last week as a guest of Chairman Rod Bransgrove.

Sri Lanka team manager Chandra Schaffter has denied that Muttiah Muralitharan was forced to play at Edgbaston after media speculation that he would have preferred to sit out the match and allow his shoulder to fully heal

Sri Lanka team manager Chandra Schaffter has denied that Muttiah Muralitharan was forced to play at Edgbaston after media speculation that he would have preferred to sit out the second Test.

Cricket may not be suffering from one-day fatigue, but a surfeit of the 50-over game signed the death warrant of the Benson and Hedges Cup

As another English season draws to a close, the trees turn yellow and the temperature falls, cupboards will be raided for fleeces and pullovers

The England football team might have thrown away a winning position in Japan, but the country's cricketers made no mistake at Edgbaston after bursting through what had been stubborn Sri Lankan resistance with the new ball after lunch on the fourth

Sanath Jayasuriya, the Sri Lankan captain, blamed the fact that his side did not get enough runs in the first innings in the second npower Test at Edgbaston for the eventual defeat by an innings and 111 runs.