Cricket News

Chris Gayle, the West Indies opening batsman, will miss the third and final Test against Australia at the Adelaide Oval, starting on Friday, to recover from heart surgery

Gayle undergoes heart surgery

Michael Bevan will play for Tasmania for the first time since off-season knee surgery after replacing the badly out of form opener Jamie Cox

Fit Bevan replaces miserable Cox

Chris Cairns has been recalled to New Zealand's one-day side for next month's Chappell-Hadlee Series but Stephen Fleming is in doubt

Cairns returns to face Australia

Michael Clarke knows he has to work hard to return to the Test team but is not planning on changing his natural approach

'I don't want to change too much'

23-Nov-2005•AFP

Waughs back sacked Clarke

Steve Waugh feels Michael Clarke can keep his attacking mindset and succeed as a Test player while Mark Waugh still expects him to captain Australia

Shane Watson has said that he hopes to be fit and available for selection for tour of South Africa beginning in February 2006

Watson hopes to make South Africa tour

Jason Gillespie, who lost his place in the Australian side during a wretched Ashes series, will return to England in 2006 after signing for Yorkshire

Gillespie signs for Yorkshire

Matthew Elliott, the opening batsman, returns to the South Australia side after recovering from a knee injury which kept him out of last week's matches against Western Australia

Elliott returns from injury to face former state

A piece of cricket history will be auctioned in Melbourne on Thursday when a bat used by Don Bradman on his way to a double century is expected to fetch up to Aus$120,000

Bradman bat expected to fetch Aus$120,000

Marlon Samuels has been forced home from the tour of Australia with a recurrence of his long-standing knee problem

Samuels forced home by knee injury

A cloud of suspicion hangs over Michael Lewis, the fast bowler from Victoria, after his dubious tinkering with the ball during Victoria's game against Queensland at the Gabba

Ball-tampering probe against Michael Lewis

Shane Warne was 'stiff and sore' after bowling a long stint in the second Test with a sore back but was likely to play in the third Test against the West Indies

'Stiff' Warne to play at Adelaide, says Ponting

Justin Cordy has replaced Jock Campbell as the new strength and conditioning coach of Australia, Cricket Australia states in a media release November 21

Cordy replaces Campbell as fitness specialist

Michael Clarke's ride as Australia's golden boy has ended with his dropping from the side for the third Test at Adelaide

Clarke dropped from Australian squad

21-Nov-2005•Peter English in Hobart

Kasprowicz bowls Queensland to victory

Michael Kasprowicz claimed a superb 8 for 44, his career-best figures, as Queensland hammered Victoria by 225 runs in the Pura Cup clash at Brisbane