Cricket News

In appreciation for his bowling feats in 2005, Shane Warne has been named BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year

Liam Buchanan and David Hussey notched half-centuries as Victoria beat Queensland comfortably after restricting them to just 185.

Callum Ferguson and Matthew Elliott were the stars for South Australia as they eked out a three-wicket win in an ING Cup match against Tasmania

A Scott Styris hundred and a last-gasp half-century from Brendon McCullum surged New Zealand to a world-record chase of 332 for 8

Herschelle Gibbs hit an unbeaten 91 to give the South Africans a comfortable eight-wicket victory

Matthew Hayden has backed Andrew Symonds to replicate his terrific one-day form in the Test series against South Africa

Shane Harwood gave Victoria an outside chance of a stunning outright victory with four top-order wickets before New South Wales held on for a draw

Shane Warne has been cleared to play for Victoria in Sunday's ING Cup match against Queensland

Police have warned spectators against unruly behaviour during the final match of the Chappell-Hadlee Series

Stuart Clark has been added to Australia's 12-man squad for the first Test against South Africa starting next Friday

de Villiers, the South Africa opener, is the latest to join the war of words ahead of the first Test beginning at Perth on December 16

Stephen Fleming will return to New Zealand's side for Saturday's third and final Chappell-Hadlee Series match but Daniel Vettori has been retained as captain to give him more experience

An inspired spell of left-arm seam bowling from Allan Wise, who snapped up career-best figures of 6 for 89, led Victoria's fightback against New South Wales

Lou Vincent, the New Zealand opener, believes that New Zealand have helped shatter Australia's aura of invincibility, following yesterday's thriller in the second one-day match at Wellington

Terry Aldermann, the former Australian fast bowler, has questioned the ability of South Africa's cricketers after they succumbed to an innings defeat against Western Australia yesterday

In a move targeted at wooing female fans, Cricket Australia has declared that a day of the Boxing Day Test between Australia and South Africa in Melbourne is to be dedicated to women

A-teams from India, Pakistan and New Zealand will tour Australia for a the top end series - comprising Twenty20, one-day and four-day fixtures - to be held in Darwin and Cairns in July 2006

Australia's World Cup campaign received a significant boost with the renewal of sponsorship between Cricket Australia and Travelex, the world's largest foreign exchange specialist, extending the partnership until the end of 2010

Mitchell Johnson's dramatic season has continued with the Queensland left-arm fast bowler called into the Australia one-day squad

A recent poll among Australia's 25 contracted players revealed that almost three-quarters of them rated Billy Bowden as the worst umpire on the circuit