Cricket News

The South Australian Cricket Association (SACA) today announced a 13-man squad to play in the South Australian Under 19 National Carnival inCanberra from December 11 to 22.

THE Western Australian cricket selectors have named a 13-man squad for the Pura Cup match against Victoria starting at the WACA Ground on Thursday.

As if the English selectors didn't have enough problems already on their hands, the issue of Alec Stewart would give them sufficient food for thought to feed them for a week

Try as they might South Australia could not make the breakthrough needed to secure an outright win over Western Australia on the final day of the Pura Cup match in Perth on Monday

It is not often that a sportsman makes such a bold statement

MELBOURNE, Nov 11 AAP - Victoria beat Queensland by four wickets today in the Pura Cup cricket match at the MCG.

The second match of the season for me and we've won another toss; we'll bat first again

The South Australian Cricket Association has named Darren Lehmann ascaptain to lead the twelve-man squad for the Pura Cup game against NSWstarting this Thursday at the SCG.

South Australia set Western Australia a challenging target of 414 runs with a day and much of a session to play on day three of the four-day Pura Cup match in Perth today

Matthew Hayden has become the "complete opener" but not even his extended purple patch deserves comparison with Sir Donald Bradman

SYDNEY, Nov 10 AAP - Australia's leading female cricketer Karen Rolton made a sensational start to the new season as she helped end the lengthy unbeaten streak of women's national league champion New South Wales.

MELBOURNE, Nov 10 AAP - The Victorian team was fuming here tonight after the Pura Cup cricket match against Queensland was taken into the fourth and final day.

Australia destroyed England in just four days in the first Ashes Test at the Gabba

SYDNEY, Nov 10 AAP - New South Wales speedster Brett Lee again proved the destroyer, taking a second five wicket haul to lead his side to a convincing victory over Tasmania in the Pura Cup cricket match at the SCG today.

Australia destroyed England in just four days in the first Ashes Test at the Gabba

England captain Nasser Hussain admitted that he had been mistaken to put Australia in on the opening day of the first Test against Australia at the Gabba in Brisbane.

After everything has been said and done, it's doubtful that the toss had that much of an impact on the final result of the first Ashes Test of the summer.

England captain Nasser Hussain admitted that he had been mistaken to put Australia in on the opening day of the first Test against Australia at the Gabba in Brisbane.

Australia have opened up a 278-run lead after a day of hard-fought Test cricket in the best traditions of the Ashes

Given how perilous things looked for England at stumps on day one, they did a remarkable job on the second day to turn things around.They restricted Australia to 492 runs and had managed to reply with 158 runs of their own for the fall of just the