Cricket News

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

NSW secure draw after Harwood gives Victoria hope

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

Warne's back given all-clear for ING Cup

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

Police warn against bad behaviour

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

Clark called in while Clarke stays out

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

de Villiers 'turned on' by pace

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

Vettori captains despite Fleming return

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

Wise inspires Victoria turnaround

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

Vincent maintains Australia are beatable

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

Alderman blasts South Africa's abilities

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

MCG administrators to woo female fans

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

Three A-teams to tour Australia early next year

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

Cricket Australia and Travelex renew partnership

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

Johnson drafted into 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

Aussies rein in the show pony

Brett Lee will return home from New Zealand on Thursday to receive treatment for a breathing problem

Lee returns home

Ricky Poting, the Australian captain, and Bob Woolmer, Pakistan's coach, have urged the International Cricket Council to amend the Supersub rule presently used in one-day international cricket

Ponting, Woolmer push for Supersub amendment

Phil Jaques smashed a superb unbeaten century as NSW were comfortably placed at 2 for 217 at the end of the second day's play against Victoria

Blues ride on Jaques's ton

Beau Casson's second four-wicket haul of the match helped to consign the South Africans to a humiliating innings defeat in their tour opener at the WACA

South Africans crash to innings defeat