Cricket News

It was a day of anticlimax for a packed house on Sunday as the Ormeau ground in Belfast hosted its last major game of cricket

There was some encouragement for England rejects Craig White and Ian Ward as they pondered on their omission from this week's fourth Ashes Test at Headingley

A packed house will bid farewell to cricket at Ormeau, in Northern Ireland, today as the touring Australian team make their sole venture outside of English-Welsh territory to take on Ireland in the Northern Bank Challenge match.

Graham Thorpe has been ruled out of the Fourth npower Test at Headingley

Hats off to the dynamic Aussies and their great captain Steve Waugh for winning the 7th successive Ashes series

HOVE, England - Steve Waugh is working around the clock in a determined bid to overcome his torn calf muscle in time for the fifth and final Ashes Test against England at The Oval

Sussex Police were called to a burglary at the pavilion at the Hove County Cricket Ground

Adam Gilchrist and Ricky Ponting both scored centuries as Australia warmed up for next week's Fourth Test with a comfortable eight-wicket win over Sussex in the final match of their tour against county opposition

Australian pair Michael Slater and Mark Waugh made up for lost time with an entertaining, unbroken partnership of 70 in the 55 minutes of play that was possible on the second day of the rain affected tour match against Sussex at Hove

Alec Stewart looks set to drop down the order at Headingley as England revert to their policy of fielding seven batsmen and four bowlers

Sussex batsman Richard Montgomerie is being recommended for an England call-up - by his opening partner Murray Goodwin

Sussex were in the driving seat at the close on the first day against Australia after rattling up 355-4 declared from 81 overs before reducing the tourists to 19-2 by stumps

No evidence has been found over which Mark Waugh could be charged over bribery allegations made in India last year, according to a special investigator of the Australian Cricket Board.

Adam Gilchrist is to stand in as captain of Australia in place of the injured Steve Waugh

As England comes to terms with another two years without the Ashes after only ten days of cricket, the England hierarchy have defended themselves while former players from both sides have suggested ways for the team to move forward

Tim Lamb, chief executive of the England and Wales Cricket Board, has extinguished Australian hopes of returning home with the real Ashes

In his latest exclusive diary entry for CricInfo, Alec Stewart confirms his availability for the rest of the present series, and adds his voice to calls for Australia to take the original Ashes urn home

Australian captain Steve Waugh, injured while running a single during the tourists' victory in the Third Ashes Test at Trent Bridge, has said that he may leave England before the end of the series if he believes he has become a "nuisance" to his

Duncan Fletcher has insisted that England still have plenty to play for in the remainder of the npower Test series, despite the Ashes having been lost

NOTTINGHAM, England - Australian captain Steve Waugh has been encouraged to stay on the Ashes tour by the person he presumed would most want him to leave - his wife, Lynette