Cricket News

Ireland moved to the leading position in the International Women's Cricket Council tournament being played in the Netherlands when they beat the Pakistan team by eight wickets yesterday

Remember the technology trial held during the ICC Champions Trophy in Colombo last year

JP Maher RDB Croft * MJ Powell MP Maynard J Hughes A Dale MA Wallace + MS Kasprowicz AG Wharf DS Harrison DA Cosker SD Thomas

In light of England's dire start to the series, Freddie Auld looks back at seven other dismal series first days

Another blow for England as Marcus Trescothick leaves the field after fracturing his finger The news that Marcus Trescothick has suffered a fractured finger capped a miserable day for England in the first npower Test at Edgbaston

As had widely been expected, Virender Sehwag's contract with Leicestershire has been cancelled by mutual consent

Plans have been submitted for a major refurbishment to the Walker Cricket Ground in Southgate, Middlesex's second home in recent years

The rhetoric was familiar, but after a less than impressive performance in the first Test at Darwin, Steve Waugh's assertion that Australia would be looking to improve carried a little more weight than usual

Plans to erect a permanent replay screen at the Adelaide Oval have gone back to the drawing-board after the city's council rejected a proposal to build a Aus$2m structure next to the state heritage-listed scoreboard

England's elite players will rejoin their counties this week for the Frizzell Women's County Championship which starts on Saturday July 26 in Cambridge

Vasbert Drakes has decided to pledge his future to playing for West Indies, leaving his career with South African provincial side Border in doubt

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has issued a vigorous defence of its one-day rankings system as "objective, fair and fact-based," and said India fully deserved their current lowly status

Essex 271 for 6 v Leicestershire 600 for 7 dec at Southend Scorecard Only 16 overs at Southend, but it was enough for Leicestershire to tighten their grip on the game

Scoring a smash hit for six at the Hampshire Rose Bowl cricket ground this summer is the driving music of The New Gateway Jazz Band.

All Today's Yesterdays - July 24 down the years July 23 | July 25 1947 That classical strokemaker Zaheer Abbas was born

Dominic Hewson, the Derbyshire allrounder, spent today in hospital after he was taken ill with heart palpitations

One of South African cricket's proudest traditions goes on trial at Edgbaston and there are more than a few doubters who believe Graeme Smith's team lack the ability to maintain it

A spell of 3-3 in 14 balls from Robert Croft put Glamorgan in a promising position on the opening day of their match against India A at Swansea, as the tourists slumped to 149-6 in the 53rd over

Dring on ..

Age is only a number, as Steve Waugh and Alec Stewart have been telling us all for several years now