Cricket News

The two Shanes - Warne and Watson - are likely to play a significant role for Australia when one-day international cricket returns to Melbourne's Colonial Stadium next month.

Blues coach Steve Rixon admits his patience has run out with the NSW cricket team and he'll break with tradition by bolstering his under-performing Pura Cup squad with interstate players this season.

MONTE CARLO - Australia's cricketers were named the best team in worldsport at sport's Oscars here tonight while Ian Thorpe was beaten to theindividual gong by Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher.

Shane Warne says he won't go to Pakistan if Australia's cricket tour later this year goes ahead.

Australian authorities will continue to monitor events in the region but this year's Test and one-day international tours of Pakistan appear in grave doubt after today's fatal bomb blast in Karachi.

Adam Gilchrist has become the first regular No.7 batsman to top the Test batting rankings.

Pakistan's Shoaib Akhtar and Australia's Brett Lee have been clearly the two most devastatingly destructive bowlers in world cricket over the last few years

Cricket's transformation in Australia from summer sport to all-year-round sport has received another fillip today with confirmation that northern cities Darwin and Cairns will each host international matches from next year.

The changing of the guard in Australia's international playing ranks has received further expression today with an unprecedented seven revisions made to the annual list of Australian Cricket Board (ACB) contract holders.

While Pakistani speedster Shoaib Akhtar has claimed the glory for becoming the first man to bowl over 100 miles per hour, it appears Australia's Brett Lee may have already beaten him to it.

The past two years will be marked forever as poignant ones in the history of cricket, especially from an Australian point of view

Former Australian vice-captain David Hookes has been named as Victoria's new cricket coach at a press conference in Melbourne today.

Cairns and Darwin are set to become Australia's newest Test cricket venues as early as next year.

South African one-day specialist Jonty Rhodes has no intention of quitting South Africa to play in Australia - or anywhere else, for that matter - at this stage

Jonty Rhodes is interested in furthering his career outside of South African cricket, revealing that he would regard South Australia as an ideal place to play the game.

Such is the clamour for new state coaches that Tasmania's decision today to appoint Brian McFadyen will arguably assume as much importance in the short-term in Victoria as it will further south.

Greg Chappell has signed a new one-year deal to coach the South Australian team, but will not be drawn on his cricketing future beyond next season.

Victorian elite coaching co-ordinator Brian McFadyen will be switching to a new home within a month after winning appointment today as Tasmania's new cricket coach.

A veritable pot of gold awaits the champion team when the Rainbow Nation hosts next year's ICC Cricket World Cup

The English county system takes in four major competitions during the course of the northern domestic summer