Cricket News

Chris Cairns (NZ) needs 9 wickets to join the 25 World Cup wicket-club Heath Streak (ZIM) needs 5 wickets to join the 25 World Cup wicket-club

ADELAIDE, March 8 AAP - All-rounder Mark Higgs followed a quickfire century yesterday with two wickets today to push South Australia close to an outright victory over Tasmania on day three of their Pura Cup match at Adelaide Oval.

MELBOURNE, March 8 AAP - Victoria is seven wickets from an outright win over Western Australia in their Pura Cup cricket match at the MCG, but it would be an empty win.

Brett Lee's scorching pace and unforgiving hostility very nearly ended Sri Lanka's World Cup dream on Friday afternoon.

Sanath Jayasuriya is determined to play against India on Monday despite a badly bruised left forearm and a hairline fracture on his left thumb.

The squad will depart Johannesburg at 0915 on South African Airways flight SA 405, arriving into Port Elizabeth at 1030

The West Indies Cricket Board has changed the dates for the second Test of the Cable & Wireless 2003 Cricket Series between West Indies and Australia at Port of Spain, and the subsequent three-day match between the University of the West Indies Vice

Have Zimbabwe shed their inferiority complex yet and adjusted to the idea that they might just be able to justify their position in the Super Sixes

The Nine Network will broadcast live Australia's matches in the SuperSix series of the 2003 Cricket World Cup.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa, March 7 AP - Steve Tikolo expects Kenya's gallant performance against India will silence the critics who have sneered at the African minnows for advancing to the Super Six through the back door

Bert Sutcliffe's achievement in scoring 385 runs for Otago against Canterbury in 1952/53 and setting a standard which is still the highest score by a New Zealander, will be honoured in a novel, or should that be a non-fiction, way by Otago Cricket

Michael Bevan (AUS) needs 20 runs to complete 500 World Cup runs Adam Gilchrist (AUS) needs 131 runs to complete 500 World Cup runs Darren Lehmann (AUS) needs 192 runs to complete 500 World Cup runs Aravinda De Silva (SL) needs 64 runs to complete

India are lucky to play Kenya in the opening game of the Super Sixes

KARACHI, March 6: Discarded Pakistan all-rounder Shoaib Malik helped himself to a blistering unbeaten century as PIA chalked up their fifth straight victory in the NBP One-day Patron's Cup at National Stadium here on Thursday

Sri Lanka need to win at least one if not both of their remaining Super Sixes matches against India and Kenya to have any chance of reaching the World Cup semi-finals.

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TINO BEST hasn't become down-spirited as a result of a few dangerous, full-pitched deliveries in what has been an otherwise impressive performance in the 2003 Carib Beer Series

Sri Lanka captain Sanath Jayasuriya has badly bruised his forearm after being hit by a Brett Lee thunderbolt and is expected to miss Sri Lanka's next game against India on Monday

A century from skipper Ricky Ponting and devastating spell of express pace bowling from speedster Brett Lee handed Australia an emphatic 96 run victory in their opening Super Six clash against Sri Lanka at Centurion on Friday

Over the last few days, Kenya's cricketers could only have felt that they were included in this World Cup purely to make up the numbers, and that their relative success somehow baffled the organisers