Cricket News

A veritable pot of gold awaits the champion team when the Rainbow Nation hosts next year's ICC Cricket World Cup

It's mid-April and on the fields of England the cricket season is underway

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Though it seemed to escape serious attention on both sides of the Atlantic last year, it's worth bearing in mind that, among the four major prizes that were on offer in English domestic cricket in 2001, only one went to a team without an Australian

Somerset continue their build up for the new season when they play Cardiff UCCE in a three-day match at Millfield School, Street, on Saturday

It was some years ago when April 1st fell on a Saturday

After their astronomical success in the recent past, Gloucestershire were brought down to earth with a resounding thump in 2001, and realise that an improvement is necessary this year

Middlesex captain Angus Fraser is retiring from county cricket in order to take a job on a national newspaper.The former England opening bowler is to become cricket correspondent of The Independent newspaper after 18 years in top cricket.

Heavy overnight rain put pay to any thoughts of play in Glamorgan`s final match of their pre-season tour to Cape Town yesterday, and the 50 over match against the Hermanus club was called off without a ball being bowled

The members of the press descended upon the County Ground on Wednesday morning to meet the players and take pre-season photographs

Angus Fraser retires from First-Class cricket

Glamorgan recorded the second win of their pre-season tour to Cape Town, beating a Western Province Academy XI by four wickets in a 50 overs contest at Uitsig yesterday

Somerset recorded another emphatic victory in their second pre-season warm up at the County Ground against the Somerset Board XI at the County Ground today

Richard Dawson and James Foster, the two players who made their Test debuts for England against India at Chandigarh last December, are amongst the 18 winners of the NBC Denis Compton Awards for 2001

A strong Somerset side recorded a resounding victory over the West of England Premier League XI at the County Ground today

The chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board, Lord MacLaurin has publicly backed the England coach and captain, Duncan Fletcher and Nasser Hussain, and stated that he would like them to stay on beyond next year's World Cup in South Africa

Glamorgan drew their three day friendly against the Boland Academy at the Somerset West ground

Critical comments about the county cricket system in England by the Editor of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack have provoked an incandescent response from the Chief Executive of one of the leading counties.

At the end of a week that has seen the players practice on grass for the first time this season, Somerset Coach Kevin Shine said that he was delighted with the way that everything had gone

Sri Lanka's cricketers departed on Thursday morning for the United Arab Emirates confident of reclaiming Sharjah's desert crown from a full strength Pakistan side in the bi-annual triangular