Cricket News

Cricket Australia has said it is too early to consider the status of the tour of Pakistan which is due to take place next February and March

Australia to send security experts to Pakistan

The Indian board has said they may go the same way as Cricket Australia with regard to match pictures taken by agency photographers

BCCI backs Australian board stand on photographs

Chris Simpson will captain Queensland in their FR Cup match against Western Australia at the WACA on Wednesday

Simpson to lead Bulls in one-day game

South Australia have signed Daniel Christian in a bid to shore up their batting and he will be available immediately

Redbacks call on Christian to boost batting

13-Nov-2007•Jenny Thompson

Sri Lanka fear Murali milestone blackout

Sri Lanka's media fear that Muttiah Muralitharan may break the world record for Test wickets without any coverage because of an ongoing media dispute

13-Nov-2007•AFP

Johnson asks Hobart locals for advice

The local knowledge of the Australia squad's two Tasmanians will be tapped by Mitchell Johnson as he looks to build on his impressive debut

13-Nov-2007•Peter English in Brisbane

Check Murali's action in a Test - Warne

Shane Warne believes Muttiah Muralitharan's action should be assessed in a Test match to end any lingering speculation over its legality

Australia have not downgraded the threat of Muttiah Muralitharan despite delivering a significant obstacle to his hopes of breaking Shane Warne's Test wicket-taking record in Hobart

No underestimating Murali

Sri Lanka's tactics in the first Test were conservative and they were beaten easily despite the public mutterings of self-belief, writes Peter English

Failing to walk the talk

Australia's evolving Test team has flowered in only one match but Ricky Ponting is already demanding it becomes a better outfit than the one that dismantled in January

Ponting demands even better at Hobart

Plays of the day from the fifth day of the first Test between Australia and Sri Lanka in Brisbane

Another Stuart, another milestone

Brad Hogg's five wickets helped Western Australia complete a thumping victory against Queensland on the final day, by an innings and 170 runs

Hogg's five consigns Queensland to thumping defeat

Simon Katich and Dominic Thornely defied an early wobble to take New South Wales to the inevitable win against South Australia

Katich and Thornely ease Blues to win

Gerard Denton's six wickets killed off his old side Tasmania early in the final morning at the MCG, as the visitors lost 6 for 40 to slide to defeat by an innings and 4 runs

Denton six seals Bushrangers victory