Cricket News

THE Western Australian Cricket Association today announced its team to play the Southern Redbacks in a Pura Cup match in Adelaide from December 19-22.

MCC raised over £1,250 for Save the Children during yesterday's 'Evening of Carols' in the Long Room at Lord's

Somerset have boosted their chances of gaining promotion in 2003 by announcing that they have signed batsman James Bryant to strengthen their top order

Shaun Udal, Hampshire Cricket's long service all-rounder has been offered a new two year contract.

Somerset County Cricket Club announce they have signed James Bryant from Eastern Province, South Africa on a two-year contract

Registering a win over Andhra Pradesh in their Ranji one-day tie at Bangalore, Tamil Nadu topped the points table for the South Zone, consequently lifting the Subbaiah Pillai Trophy and qualifying for the Wills Trophy 2003-04

"It won't happen again this series," was New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming's commitment about the catching in the slips cordon after his side went unpunished for errors by India in the first National Bank Test at Wellington's Basin Reserve today

Jacob Oram could be entitled to wonder what the fuss is all about regarding Test cricket

BRISBANE, Dec 12 AAP - Controversial Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan insists he holds no grudges with Australian cricket officials and he doesn't expect to be called for throwing again in the country

Auckland's Murray's Bay Intermediate School are the MILO Cup (boys') winners and Tauranga Intermediate won the MILO Shield (girls') after games played at Fitzherbert Park in Palmerston North today

South African captain Rory Field led from the front as his team edged out Australia and made it to the final of the 2002 Blind World Cup

SYDNEY, Dec 12 AAP - Adam Hollioake is on the verge of an England recall today after Andrew Flintoff became the latest casualty on a tour that has been ravaged and ruined by injury

It wasn't quite possible to hear the squeaking of under-prepared muscles and joints in the New Zealand team but they showed the depth of their competitive resolve by getting on top of India from the second over of the first Test in the National Bank

Pakistan have thrashed England by 111 runs to make it to the final of the 2002 Blind World Cup

SYDNEY - All-rounder Andrew Flintoff will return home from England'stroubled cricket tour of Australia after failing to overcome a groininjury.

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has accepted the request of paceman Wasim Akram, to release him from the two-Test series against South Africa starting at Durban from Dec 26

You might not think it looking at England's record in Australia so far, but recent one-day international form indicates that their chances of reaching the finals of the VB triangular series, which starts in Sydney tomorrow, are not entirely

Entertainment won't be lacking at the Basin Reserve in Wellington over the next five days - that's the view of New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming as he takes on India in the first of two National Bank Series Tests

Expect some more evidence of applied technology analysis of India's batsmen and bowlers when New Zealand step out onto the Basin Reserve for the first National Bank Test starting tomorrow

MELBOURNE - The Australian Cricket Board said the MCG's future as aone-day cricket venue was in jeopardy because of crowd trouble.