Cricket News

PERTH, Feb 23 AAP - Test opener Justin Langer says captain Steve Waugh is a "clown" if he doesn't tour the West Indies after leading NSW to a crushing ING Cup final win today

Almost 20 years ago - on 9 June 1983 to be precise - Zimbabwe met Australia in their first-ever World Cup match at the historic Trent Bridge ground in Nottingham

England will take a 17 run lead into the third day of the final Ashes Test match, with six wickets in hand, after finishing the day on 151-4 in reply to Australia's first innings score of 134

Muttiah Muralitharan (SL) needs 6 wickets to join the 25 World Cup wicket-club Chaminda Vaas (SL) needs 3 wickets to join the 25 World Cup wicket-club

POTCHEFSTROOM, South Africa, Feb 21 AAP - Australia's rampaging cricketers are on the verge of a world record.

SYDNEY, Feb 22 AAP - Shane Warne's year-long doping ban sparked a business-as-usual response from the head of Australian cricket's selection panel.

Australian captain Ricky Ponting was shocked and saddened by Shane Warne's 12-month suspension but predicted it would not be the the end of the great leg spinner's career

SYDNEY, Feb 22 AAP - Text of Shane Warne's statement after a three-person Australian Cricket Board anti-doping committee today banned the champion leg-spinner from all cricket for 12 months after he tested positive to diuretics last month:

Can Shane play cricket for Australia, Hampshire, Victoria or St Kilda

MELBOURNE, Feb 22 AAP - Shane Warne's reputation was in tatters and his sporting career in the balance today after he was found guilty of doping and banned from playing cricket for 12 months.

Hampshire will continue to fully support Shane Warne, despite the Australian test leg-spinner being unable to fulfil the first year of his contract with the county in 2003 - subject to an appeal on the twelve month ban dished out to him on

England's opening strike bowler, Lucy Pearson, took a career best seven for 51 in the second women's Ashes Test match in Sydney today.

MELBOURNE, Feb 22 AAP - Shane Warne was found guilty of a drugs charge by an Australian Cricket Board anti-doping committee today and suspended for 12 months.

MELBOURNE - The Australian Cricket Board committee hearing the dopingcharge against Shane Warne is expected to retire to consider its verdictat around 5pm this afternoon.

MELBOURNE, Feb 21 AAP - The committee in the Shane Warne drugs hearing will not return its verdict until tomorrow.

Former Sri Lanka captain Arjuna Ranatunga has called for the International Cricket Council (ICC) to take firm action against Shane Warne as the world waits to hear the outcome to the biggest drugs scandal in cricket history

ADELAIDE, Feb 20 AAP - Prime Minister John Howard today said it would be a great shame if Shane Warne was banned from cricket

BRISBANE, Feb 20 AAP - Nathan Hauritz expects his next match to be in suburban Brisbane and not South Africa

POTCHEFSTROOM, South Africa, Feb 19 AAP - Taciturn all-rounder Andrew Symonds may have silenced his critics with his match-winning century in Australia's opening World Cup match but his new-found fame means he can't escape the spotlight anymore

Shane Warne's mum and an exhaustive analysis of his urine sample will be key elements of the biggest drugs hearing in Australian sports history