Cricket News

Gloucestershire County Cricket Club are delighted to announce the signing of the best fielder in the World, Jonty Rhodes as one of their two overseas players for 2003

Darren Gough today issued the following statement in response to media reports concerning his knee injury

The Essex and England wicket-keeper James Foster today broke his left thumbwhile playing for his county against Glamorgan in the Frizzell CountyChampionship at Chelmsford.

A classy half-century from young all-rounder Damien Brandy was the highlight of the second day of Leicestershire Second X1's clash with Essex at Oakham School

Canadian cricket history will be made when between July 31-August 9, when the West Indies (A) team wil visit Canada, led by Test batsman Darren Ganga

The WA Cricket Association is proud to confirm that Mr Brian Rakich will continue as President for another term.

The West Indies `A' ended the day in an almost unassailable position at Taunton where they were 453 runs ahead with three second innings wickets remaining at close of play

Somerset's Cheltenham and Gloucester semi final match against Kent next Thursday will be a sell out

Auckland coach Mark O'Donnell could not be more aware of the differences between his home of 17 years in South Africa, and his new home in New Zealand

A century from Nasser Hussain and a partnership of 145 for the fourth wicket with John Crawley put England into a commanding position after the first day of the first npower Test against India at Lord's

Bowling Player O M R W 4w Best Ave S/R E/R Inzamam-ul-Haq 3 1 12 1 0 1/0 12.00 18.00 3.99 Imran Nazir 4.1 0 19 1 0 1/3 19.00 25.00 4.63 Shoaib Akhtar 265.2 21 1219 62

James Foster's second misfortune with injury this season has ruled him out of the remainder of England's Test series against India

West Indies A opted not to enforce the follow-on in their tour match with Somerset at Taunton

Like their away record in most countries, India's past performances in England make for poor reading

Adulation would be one word to describe it, but it would be a fairly poor one

Bowling Player O M R W 5wI 10wM Best Ave Aamer Sohail 42.2 9 99 5 0 0 2/20 19.80 Danish Kaneria 292.4 69 814 38 4 1 7/77 21.42 Waqar Younis 639 109 2074 78 1 0 6/55 26.59

The Second XI Trophy Semi-Final draw, made this morning by Alan Fordham, ECB Cricket Operations Manager

The news that the Sri Lanka 'A' cricket team will tour Pakistan next month, on its own, is not significant

Gloucestershire is playing host to Lashings on Sunday 11 August and is trying out the new 20 over games format

The first day between Surrey and Yorkshire was a pretty fair reflection of the teams' respective positions at the top and bottom of Division One