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DURBAN - South Africa cricket coach Graham Ford hopes fast bowler Allan Donald and batsman Jonty Rhodes will return from retirement for the two, three-Test series against world champions Australia at the end of the 2001-02 season

Zimbabwe cricket seems to suffer one blow after another, and the latest has been the news that national team coach Carl Rackemann is to leave his job shortly

Despite the absence of a number of "star" players from both the Australian and Somerset teams, there were runs galore and plenty of entertainment for the large crowd who turned out to see the first day's play at Taunton

Graham Thorpe resumed training yesterday and hopes to be fit enough to play in the Second Test at Lord's

South Africa fast bowler Allan Donald may come out of retirement from Test cricket for the tour of Australia later this year, South Africa coach Graham Ford said

In my opinion, it was the right decision to appoint Michael Atherton as England captain for the Second Test against Australia at Lord's

Even in pre-historic times the game of cricket was played in some form or the other

South Perth opening batsman Chris Rogers has been awarded the nextWestern Warriors State player contract, following the recent retirementof champion all rounder Brendon Julian.

Ricky Ponting is to lead the Australians for the first time in a first-class match tomorrow when they take on Somerset at Taunton in the Vodaphone Challenge Series

Matthew Hoggard has been added to England's list of injured players

Going from the hotel to the ground for the first day of the First Ashes Test in England was an unusually casual affair

It's funny how your luck can turn around in this game

I had so much hope for English cricket just a little while ago

As the soothsayers sift the embers after England's loss in the first Test of the latest Ashes series and wonder at the Australian ability to bounce back from defeat in India, and at the English excellence at implosion, they might consider the

The VCA Board today named Matthew Elliott as Bushrangers captain for the 2001/02 ING Cup Competition (formerly Mercantile Mutual), replacing Paul Reiffel who has held the post for two seasons

In his latest exclusive diary entry for CricInfo, England's senior player assesses the implications of the innings defeat by Australia at Edgbaston, and confirms that he isn't a candidate for the captaincy

Australian Southern Stars all-rounder Karen Rolton was presented yesterday with the Peden-Archdale Medal as the outstanding player in this year's England v Australia women's cricket series

BIRMINGHAM, England - England lost its captain today, while Australia found another

BIRMINGHAM, England - His passion for the game restored, Shane Warne is likely to become the first Australian to break the magical 400-wicket barrier during the five-Test Ashes cricket series against bamboozled England

The England Women lost the Second CricInfo Ashes Test by nine wickets at Headingley this afternoon