Cricket News

Former England great, Graham Gooch, has echoed the words of David Graveney and suggested that the key to the series between England and Pakistan could be the inexperience of the tourists' batsmen on seaming pitches

Stephen Fleming produced an innings of international class to lead Middlesex to a five-wicket win at Bristol after Gloucestershire had set a target of 293 in 82 overs

Hampshire's go-ahead Cricket Development Office has been chosen to launch a new ECB initiative to attract youngsters to take up the game

Mal Loye's first County Championship century for two years killed off Surrey's hopes of forcing a win in their high-scoring Division One game against Northamptonshire at Wantage Road

Sussex's acting skipper James Kirtley led from the front with four wickets as his side eased to their first CricInfo Championship win of the season by an emphatic 162 runs against Nottinghamshire at Hove

Sussex are in a strong position going into the final day of their Cricinfo Championship match against Nottinghamshire after establishing a lead of more than 300 at Hove yesterday

Two sensational catches from Australian Daniel Marsh won a nail-biting CricInfo Championship game for Leicestershire at Grace Road

Matt Windows emerged from a worrying sequence of three successive ducks to bat Gloucestershire into a strong position at Bristol

Pakistan in England: Review of previous Test Victories

Only Darren Lehmann would appear to stand between Somerset and a crushing Cricinfo Championship victory over Yorkshire at Headingley on the fourth and final day tomorrow

Hampshire marked their first appearance at their new ground with a resounding 124-run victory over Worcestershire in an extraordinary day's cricket in which 20 wickets fell

The failure of Yousuf Youhana in the two tour matches against British Universities and Derbyshire has understandably sent ripples of anxiety in Pakistan's tour management

The ECB today moved to refute allegations that Shoaib Akhtar's bowling action was under investigation by umpires during Pakistan's tour game at Derby

Warwickshire powered towards their first home County Championship win since September 1999 as Durham meekly surrendered a position of strength on the third day

Graham Thorpe batted himself into fighting trim for next week's First Test against Pakistan with a fluent 148 to give Surrey a first-innings lead in their high-scoring Division One tussle with Northamptonshire at Wantage Road

Pakistan's three day match at Derby ended in a draw but not before Yousuf Youhana suffered another failure

Somerset had worked their way into a strong position by the end of an incident-packed second day of their Cricinfo Championship match with Yorkshire at Headingley

Warwickshire narrowly avoided the follow-on before conceding a first innings lead of 124 to Durham on a day which started and finished with career-best performances for the northerners

It was a day for the bowlers at Grace Road where 14 wickets fell for 226 runs, to leave this CricInfo Championship clash between Leicestershire and Lancashire delicately balanced

Stephen Fleming rescued Middlesex from a precarious 5-2 with his first CricInfo Championship half-century on an attritional second day at Bristol