Cricket News

The Tasmanian Selectors have today announced the Cascade Tasmanian Tigers ACB Cup team to play the Southern Redbacks 2nd X1 in Adelaide on the Adelaide No: 2 ground, on Monday, 21st - Thursday, 24th October 2002.

SHARJAH - The Australian cricket team is

Somerset's reserve wicket-keeper Carl Gazzard who hails from Penzance has just flown out to the sunshine of Perth in Western Australia where he will spend the winter training and playing cricket

MELBOURNE - Victoria will go into this first-class cricket season with abowling attack short on experience but big on ambition.

The ICC Cricket World Cup in South Africa in four months' time - described by its executive director Dr Ali Bacher as "the biggest empowerment project that South African sport as ever embarked upon" - will be backed by the largest galaxy of

Pakistan sports took a hammering Saturday in the most humiliating fashion when sons of the soil betrayed the nation's faith in them by losing to Australia in cricket and, for the first time , the hockey team failed to win an Asian Games medal

Ian Blackwell left the rains of Somerset far behind on Sunday when he jetted out to the sunshine of Australia with the rest of the Academy players for the first part of a winter that he hopes will conclude with a place in the England World Cup team

Pakistan already beleaguered team suffered another blow when all-rounder Abdul Razzaq was ruled out for six weeks after his wrist X-ray revealed transverse fracture of left styloid

Australia inflicted on Pakistan the country's first-ever defeat in less than two days by winning the second Test by an innings and 198 runs to take an unbeatable 2-0 lead in the three-Test series at the boiling Sharjah Stadium Saturday

SYDNEY, Oct 13 AAP - Queensland cricket captain Jimmy Maher expects Michael Slater will fight his way back into the NSW team.

New Queensland captain Maher felt 240 was a very achievable target on a small ground with a good wicket and fast outfield and felt the Bulls contributed to their downfall.

SYDNEY, Oct 13 AAP - Michael Bevan has ensured New South Wales recovered from the worst possible start to post a competitive target in its season opening ING Cup cricket match against Queensland at North Sydney Oval today.

Somerset young cricketer Neil Edwards has already started his preparations for his trip to Australia this winter having just spent a week with the England Under 19 team at Lilleshall

Australia's captain Steve Waugh admits he struggled to find pleasure in his side's crushing win over a young and fragile Pakistan in Sharjah on Saturday.

Hampshire seamer Chris Tremlett sets off for the England Academy in Adelaide, Austraila on Sunday, with the main brief to retain his fitness after missing much of the latter part of the season with a stress fracture of the metatarsal bone in his left

The cards keep falling the wrong way for the Waugh twins but their longest serving ally in the Australian cricket team believes it's only a matter of time before the pair put a redemptive century next to their names.

STARS from the world of sport joined businessmen at the Concorde Club in Eastleigh last night as part of a benefit dinner for Hampshire cricketer, Shaun Udal.

SYDNEY, Oct 12 AAP - A Law-less Queensland will be out to heal an eight month old scar when it plays defending ING Cup champion NSW in the opening interstate cricket match of the new season at North Sydney Oval tomorrow.

Eddie Lawrence, who is the author of the forthcoming publication `Somerset C.C.C

The final round of the National Junior (Under-19) Grade-I One-day Cricket Tournament takes place Friday to decide qualifiers for next week's triangular series