Cricket News

The winner of Durham County Cricket Club's Pro for a Day competition, Alastair Gibson, got the chance to play against some of the best cricketers in the world when he played in the Durham team against Lashings on Wednesday

Golden Overs, 'hot seats', ball boys and time-wasting penalties to speed upover rates form part of a package of regulations for the ECB's first trialgame of the 20 over competition which will replace the Benson & Hedges Cupnext year.

ADELAIDE, Aug 9 AAP - Australian cricket aims to lift its use of computer and video analysis with today's appointment of South Australian assistant coach Tim Nielsen to the newly created role of Australian assistant coach.

New Zealand's domestic one-day competition for the State Shield moves into the day/night era in the new summer

Incessant and often heavy overnight Manchester rain put paid to any hopes of play on the second day of the Frizzell County Championship match with Lancashire, with umpires Barry Dudleston and Nigel Llong deciding to call a halt to waiting for any

England's women's U-21 cricket team are celebrating in Dublin tonight having won the inaugural U-21 European Cup by comprehensively beating the hosts today

Fourteen members of the CCA's Senior Squad have been invited by the Selectors to participate in the West Indies Cricket Board 2002 Red Stripe competition

Rowledge will face Oxfordshire side Shipton-under-Wychwood a week tomorrow, Sunday August 18, for a place in the National Village Championship final at Lord's

Dan Goldstraw is within eight victims of becoming only the fourth bowler in Southern League history to take 50 wickets in a season

Early this morning, Somerset announced that their allocation of tickets for the Cheltenham and Gloucester trophy final against Yorkshire on August 31st had all been sold

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Essex entertain India next week between Wednesday 14th August and Saturday 17th August at the County Ground, Chelmsford in the Vodafone Challenge Series

Most of the Norwich Union League action is concentrated on Sunday this week, but there are a couple of floodlit games during the week to which spectators can look forward - especially if they can get to Bristol or Chester-le-Street

BAT Sports bid to land back-to-back ECB Southern Electric Premier League championships goes into the home straight tomorrow with a return to 50-over format afternoon matches

Whisper it quietly, but reigning champions Yorkshire have got themselves into a good position in search of their first championship win of this season against Warwickshire at Headingley

Virender Sehwag, India's centurion on day one of the second Test at Trent Bridge, praised England's Matthew Hoggard for his bowling performance, while adding that England might have been disappointed not to take more wickets

At the end of the second day's play at Canterbury Somerset's county championship match against high flying Kent is balanced slightly in favour of the hosts as they ended the day 220 runs ahead with five second innings wickets remaining

There are times in cricket when it is conceivable when going out to toss that both captains would rather the coin did not fall in their favour

Following recent press speculation, Essex is now in a position to confirm that it has secured the services of Australian test star Mark Waugh to take over from Andy Flower in September when he leaves for the ICC Trophy competition in Sri Lanka