Cricket News

Article/Interview: Taj Malik Afghan National coach on telephone with Suhael Ahmed, Thursday 12 Jun 2003

Surrey beat Essex by 44 runs at Imber Court Scorecard An allround performance from Azhar Mahmood enabled Surrey to make it two wins in as many days at a sun-drenched Metropolitan Police ground as Essex never mounted a serious challenge in front

Heath Streak, the Zimbabwe captain, is no doubt a frustrated man

Alec Stewart has followed in his father's illustrious footsteps by being awarded an OBE for his services to cricket in the Queen's Birthday Honours' List

Somerset will be looking to recapture their one day form when they entertain the Scottish Saltires at the County Ground in the National Cricket League on Sunday

Friday the 13th, unlucky some may say, but that was certainly not the case at The Rose Bowl, where superstition was put aside as a sell out crowd came to the cricket and the pop concert.

Abdul Razzaq will join the Pakistan team for the three-match NatWest Challenge against England, the Pakistan Cricket Board announced today

Harbhajan Singh is set to make a trip to the same American hospital where Sachin Tendulkar just had an operation on his right index finger

Simon Jones suggested he could be back playing cricket in two months time as his recovery from a horrific knee injury continues to make good progress

Pakistan ended their preparations for the NatWest Challenge against England with a five-wicket victory over Leicestershire at Grace Road

Michael Vaughan's first game as England one-day captain ended with a narrow 8-run win over a typically spirited Welsh side

Hampshire's second eleven cricketer's are evenly poised with their opponents from Gloucestershire after the first day's play at Bournemouth, despite twice being in a position to take a firm grasp on the game.

1929 Birth of the Australian Alan Davidson , the main rival to Wasim Akram as the greatest left-arm seamer in history

James Hamblin won the Man of the Match award, after helping Hampshire Hawks to a thrilling 5 run victory over Sussex Sharks in the inaugural Twenty20 match at The Rose Bowl in front of a sell out crowd and the Sky TV viewers.

Duncan Fletcher will continue to combine his role of head coach with that of tour manager in all of England's overseas series

There will be plenty on the table when the top decision-makers of the International Cricket Council (ICC) meet next week at Lord's

Sri Lanka will rest some of their big guns, including their injured wicketkeeper Romesh Kaluwitharana, for the three-day practice match against a West Indies Cricket Board President's XI starting at Arnos Vale grounds here on June 14

On the eve of the launch of the new Twenty20 Cup competition that gets underway at the County Ground this evening when Somerset entertain Warwickshire the county have received some good news regarding one of their favourite adopted sons

Dropped catches cost Minor Counties dearly, together with some wayward seam bowling on a pitch of variable bounce and slow pace, enabling Northants to score 271 for 8 in their 50 overs

1970 Birth of Chris Cairns , the star of a largely faceless New Zealand team