Cricket News

Following the Super Sixes, the 2003 World Cup says goodbye to two of its stars

BRISBANE, March 15 AAP - Stuart MacGill spun Queensland into a Pura Cup nightmare today as New South Wales' hardened Test men set the Bulls up for a final drubbing at the Gabba

Glenn McGrath (AUS) needs 9 wickets to join the 50 World Cup wicket-club Maurice Odumbe (KEN) needs 7 wickets to join the 25 World Cup wicket-club Thomas Odoyo (KEN) needs 10 wickets to join the 25 World Cup wicket-club

After their glum-faced humiliation against India the smiles returned to Sri Lanka's players on Saturday as they booked themselves into the World Cup semi-finals with a 74 run victory against Zimbabwe at Buffalo Park

Sri Lanka are set to discard middle order batsman Mahela Jayawardene for the first time since 1998 following a string of World Cup failures

NEW DELHI, March 15 AFP - India's leading film stars, politicians and industrialists are at the head of thousands of fans going to South Africa for next week's cricket World Cup semi-final clash with Kenya, officials said

Abbreviations: Capital letters for team names denotes a Test match

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'The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.' Not so with the Zimbabwe cricket team

Fast bowler Darren Gough has managed to secure a new contract with Yorkshire despite being virtually out of the game for a year with a recurring knee injury

There might not have been too much riding on the last Super Six match of the tournament, but there was no lack of incident or entertainment to enthral a large crowd in Durban as Australia were made to fight for their five-wicket victory by the

LAHORE, March 13: Pakistan junior cricket team will tour Sri Lanka in August this year

WEST INDIES "B" may be languishing rock bottom of the Carib Beer Series standings, but team coach Roddy Estwick is heartened by some of the emerging talent among the region's territorial reserves

Daryl Tuffey hasn't played since the first match of New Zealand's World Cup campaign against Sri Lanka but has been recalled for today's winner-take-all Super Six match against India at Centurion

© Reuters That first shock referred to, of course, was their win over the West Indies in the 1996 World Cup, and although that line was again remembered when Kenya beat Sri Lanka, I believed more shocks were in store

India, currently second-favourite to win this World Cup, are in an extremely luxurious position now, secure in the knowledge that their opponent in the semi-final will be the relatively weak Kenya

BRISBANE, March 14 AAP - Queensland paceman Joe Dawes knocked over NSW's batting kingpins tonight to ensure the Bulls survived one of the best centuries of Michael Slater's career in the Pura Cup final at the Gabba

LAHORE, March 13: Former Test cricketer Sarfraz Nawaz has levelled corruption allegations against some senior officials of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and demanded of President Pervez Musharraf to change the present set up

COLIN INGLEBY-MACKENZIE stands by traditions of fine fielding, attractive batting and camaraderie

The ECB National Acadmey's batsmen completely dominated their one-day match against Sri Lanka A in Dambulla, winning by five wickets with more than eight overs in hand as they chased the home side's total of 240 all out