Cricket News

Test leg spinner Stuart MacGill has today been named captain of a new-look New South Wales team for this week's vital ING Cup match against South Australia.

New Zealand's cricketers received more than a warm-up for Friday's tri-series opener against Australia when they fell to Australia A at the Gabba tonight.

England Under-19 lost by five wickets against the Australian Cricket Board (ACB) Under-19 in Adelaide today, in their second one-day warm-up match before the ICC Under-19 World Cup starts later this month in New Zealand.

South African captain Shaun Pollock and coaches Graham Ford and Corrie van Zyl have received the full backing of the United Cricket Board despite the furore that has enveloped South African cricket since the start of the third Test against Australia

Australia 'A' has established an imposing victory target for New Zealand by the halfway mark of the teams' day-night clash at the 'Gabba ground in Brisbane this afternoon.

Souths left-hander Michael Sippel will make his State debut againstTasmania on Sunday with XXXX Queensland Bulls captain Stuart Law missinghis first game since 1998-99.

WA under 17's created a new record score for a WA team competing at the National Underage Championships.

Run machine Matthew Hayden will again force Australian selectors to split stable openers Adam Gilchrist and Mark Waugh when the triangular one-day series begins on Friday.

The Konica Queensland Fire will welcome back Australian squad allrounderTricia Brown for their crucial round of Women's National Cricket Leaguematches against the Southern Scorpions in Adelaide this weekend.

Wellington left-armer James Franklin will join the New Zealand team in Brisbane today to take Kyle Mills' place in the CLEAR Black Caps for the VB Series

Jacques Rudolph, one of the men unwittingly cast at the centre of the storm currently tearing South African cricket apart, flew home on Monday to say that he still hoped to play for his country

A rare domestic one-day cricket hat-trick by paceman Nathan Bracken wasn't enough to prevent NSW losing a helter-skelter ING Cup match against Victoria at the MCG today.

Most recent attempts at staging cricket matches in Tasmania have been aborted because of rain, but the sun finally returned to bless one of its venues today

What began as a rout has ended as a contest

Australian paceman Jason Gillespie will know tomorrow whether he can resume his international cricket career after undergoing a fitness test on his injured right shoulder today.

Australian skipper Steve Waugh believes Matthew Hayden is playing cricket as well as anyone who's gone before him, with the possible exception of Don Bradman.

The Australian cricket team has donated its $51,000 prize money for beating South Africa today to the Salvation Army's bushfire relief fund.

Hopes of Australia's first series whitewash over South Africa in 70 years appear closer to fruition after a four-pronged attack bowled the home team into a winning position on the third morning of the Third Test in Sydney today

Controversial United Cricket Board president Percy Sonn is on his own in believing that banned former captain Hansie Cronje should be allowed back into cricket at this stage

New South Wales all-rounder Shane Lee has been ruled out of Australia A's two matches against the New Zealanders and South Africans next week, due to on-going soreness in his right knee.