Cricket News

SYDNEY - Steve Waugh has a golden opportunity to prove his World Cupcredentials when he leads NSW in a 40-over-a-side match against afull-strength Australia at North Sydney Oval on Tuesday.

Nick Knight is aiming to seal his selection for the World Cup in the forthcoming one-day series in Australia, after enduring the agony of sitting on the sidelines for the previous World Cup four years ago.

SYDNEY - Test captains from three countries, along with survivors of DonBradman's greatest team, gathered in Sydney tonight to honour worldcricket's oldest living skipper, former Invincible Bill Brown.

SYDNEY - Brett Lee has finally settled on his one-day game plan -attack, and if that goes wrong, attack some more.

The fragile Ashes urn will never be handed to Australia despite pleas from cricket fans including Prime Minister John Howard

A century from Nick Haydar and a fine performance from their bowlers helped Australia beat Sri Lanka by 49 runs in the second match of 2002 World Cup for the Blind, which was played at the SPIC-YMCA Ground, Chennai on Tuesday

WESTERN Australia's selectors today announced that three Western Warriors will make debuts in a Pura Cup match against Tasmania starting at the WACA Ground on Sunday.

Robert Key is aiming to enjoy his first one-day series in England blues in the hope of upping the scoring tempo for the remaining two Test matches of the Ashes series.

Successful teams in sport are those where the whole is far greater than the sum of the individual parts

THE Western Australian Cricket Association today announced its team for a Pura Cup match against Tasmania at the WACA Ground from December 8 to 11.

The Tasmanian Selectors have today announced the Cascade Tasmanian Tigers squad to play the Western Warriors in the Day-Night ING Cup match on Friday 6th December, 2002 at the WACA Ground in Perth.

England has a chance to resurrect its tour and Steve Waugh will be out to prove a point when he leads New South Wales against the tourists at Sydney on Friday

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LONDON - Viv Richards reckons the current crop of Australian cricketershave adopted a similar approach to the game which made the West Indiessuch a force towards the end of the last century.

The Tasmanian Selectors have today announced the Cascade Tasmanian Tigers team to play the Western Warriors in the Pura Cup match from Sunday, 8th December to Wednesday, 11th December 2002 at the WACA Ground in Perth.

Tasmanian cricket fans are being urged to secure their tickets for Bellerive Oval's historic VB Series one-day international cricket match between Australia and England on Saturday 11 January 2003.

The South Australian Cricket Association (SACA) has named a 13-man squad for the day/night ING Cup match to be played this Friday, December 6 against Victoria, at the MCG.

Steve Waugh's omission from Australia's 30-man World Cup squad has basically signalled the end of his one-day career and with that, cricket can begin the lengthy process of defining Waugh's legacy to the shorter form of the game.

Steve Harmison has admitted to surprise at his call-up to England's one-day squad for the VB series against Australia and Sri Lanka, but hopes the experience will be another step towards establishing himself as England's premier strike bowler over

As Nasser Hussain was about to depart from Heathrow on what turned out to be this ill-fated Ashes tour, he said that he genuinely believed his side stood a chance of competing with the Australians