Cricket News

Batsmen continued to hold sway on the second day of the CricInfo Championship match at Hove as Nottinghamshire closed on 214-4 in reply to Sussex's 404

Mark Ramprakash suffered an untimely failure as Surrey launched their reply to Northamptonshire's daunting 476 all out in the Division One contest at Wantage Road

Hampshire were made to pay dearly for dropping Graeme Hick early in his innings at the Rose Bowl

MELBOURNE - Australian cricket team coach John Buchanan has been stripped of his role as a tour selector ahead of the Ashes tour

Somerset collapsed dramatically against Yorkshire on the first day of the Cricinfo Championship match at Headingley when they lost their last six wickets for 32 runs to slump to 257 all out

Kim Barnett's unbeaten 92 led Gloucestershire to 247-7 on the first day of the Cricinfo Championship Division Two match with Middlesex at Bristol

Paul Collingwood continued his prolific start to the season by reaching 665 runs in all cricket as Durham recovered from early problems against Warwickshire paceman Vasbert Drakes

Australian left-handers Mike Hussey and Jeff Cook laid the foundations for a solid Northamptonshire score against the reigning champions Surrey at Wantage Road

Sussex have a Dutch master of their own to admire tonight after Bas Zuiderent made a maiden first-class hundred to give his side the upper hand against Nottinghamshire after the first day of the Cricinfo Championship match at Hove

The Chief Executive of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), Tim Lamb, today responded to media comment regarding the length of Pakistan's current tour to England

Glen Chapple claimed his second five-wicket haul of the season to put Lancashire in a healthy position by the end of the first day of their CricInfo Championship clash against Leicestershire at Grace Road

Dimitri Mascarenhas scored a career-best 104 to rescue Hampshire after a poor start to their match against Worcestershire at Southampton

Azhar Mahmood saved Pakistan from embarrassment with an unbeaten 80 after an unknown off-spinner wrecked their batting at Derby

Australia will fly to England in late May for a triangular limited over series against Pakistan and England and later defend the Ashes which they have held for the last 12 years

Events have conspired against Queensland wicketkeeper Wade Seccombe many times over the course of the last decade

Hampshire and Worcestershire teams for CricInfo Championship match

Australia will fly to England in late May for a triangular limited over series against Pakistan and England and later defend the Ashes which they have held for the last 12 years

Shoaib Akhtar made his comeback at Derby but was nudged out of the spotlight by Saqlain Mushtaq who routed a weakened Derbyshire side

A new round of CricInfo Championship games sees several fascinating clashes in both divisions

Darren Lehmann scooped his third gold award in eight days to set up Yorkshire for victory by 30 runs over Durham at Headingley in the Benson and Hedges Cup