Cricket News

Australian Test players Adam Gilchrist, Jason Gillespie and Damien Martyn have won selection among the five Cricketers of the Year in the 2002 edition of Wisden Cricketers' Almanack.

Fast bowler David Saker has capped a memorable season by being named Tasmania's Player of the Year at a glittering award ceremony in Hobart tonight

Vice-captain Adam Gilchrist has praised Steve and Mark Waugh for their roles in Australia's emphatic series victory in South Africa even though the twins will never again play one-day international cricket.

Australian batsman Darren Lehmann hopes to overcome a minor hamstring niggle before Saturday's sixth one-day clash with South Africa as the tourists try to assemble a fully fit squad for the first time.

Adam Gilchrist has terrorised South African cricket fans in the last seven weeks with his explosive batting but the Australian vice-captain finally has good news for the Proteas.

Brad Hodge and Matthew Elliott's recent domination of Victorian cricket was formally recognised tonight when the pair took away the major prizes from the state's Gala Awards night at the Crown Casino in Melbourne.

International cricket will again move indoors when Pakistan visits Australia for a series of three limited-overs matches in June, it was announced in Melbourne today.

With Adam Gilchrist hammering out a thunderous century, Australia shrugged aside South Africa's highest total in five matches to wrap up the Standard Bank one-day series by eight wickets at Kingsmead on Wednesday night

Former Australian Test umpire Steve Randell will be granted parole and released from a Hobart prison later this month.

Captain Ricky Ponting said not even matchwinner Michael Bevan was an automatic selection in the Australian one-day team tomorrow as selectors face the toughest choice of the South African tour.

Stuart Law today announced he was standing down as captain of the XXXX Queensland Bulls in the wake of last week's historic Pura Cup championship.

With three modest contributions behind him, Australian captain Ricky Ponting came good in the fourth Standard Bank one-day international in Bloemfontein on Saturday to fashion a masterful century and guide his side to a 37-run victory

Shane Warne has been denied another crack at South Africa's batsmen as he battles the hamstring injury which has interrupted one of his best seasons of spin bowling.

Gary Kirsten, the man the South Africans like to call "The Banker", has been dropped from the South African squad for the last three Standard Bank one-day internationals against Australia

The decision by the Australian Cricket Board to pull out of their scheduled tour of Zimbabwe next month might have plunged the country's cricket fraternity into turmoil but the Zimbabwe Cricket Union are still hopeful that the tour will be revived

Adam Gilchrist was honoured as Western Australia's outstanding cricketer of the past year when he was named the winner of the 2001-02 Gold Cup at a gala function in Perth last night.

For the first time since 1928/29, Fitzroy Doncaster and Melbourne University will clash in the Victorian Premier Cricket Grand Final

Excited, pumped and nervous are all words which could describe the feeling of those Tasmanians who made the journey to Brisbane to watch the Tigers try and achieve something never done by a Tasmanian team

Jimmy Maher has left Australian cricket selectors in a no-win situationafter another dramatic tie as they try to sort out the best team for Saturday's fourth one-day international against South Africa.

In yet another demonstration of selectorial indecision, Graeme Smith has been called up to join a South African squad that now numbers 14 for the fourth Standard Bank one-day international against Australia in Bloemfontein on Saturday