Cricket News

BAT Sports must guard against complacency when they face ECB Southern Electric Premier League strugglers Liphook & Ripsley at Southern Gardens tomorrow, 11am

The Hampshire Cricket League is asking clubs if they want a ban on imported overseas players and professional cricketers turning out on Saturday afternoons next season

New Zealand manager Jeff Crowe predicted, right at the start of the tour of the West Indies, that rain would have a significant role to play in the series

Lincolnshire continued to take wickets in each of the sessions througout the day but an 8th wicket partnership of 52 between Salem & Ward enabled Bucks to believe that the follow on could be saved

Taking an early lead can always stand a team in very good stead and India have done well in going to the top of the table in the NatWest tri-series after the first round of matches

Australian spin bowler and coach Peter Philpott was unwittingly in on the ground floor of the revival that has been behind New Zealand's advance in cricket

Hampshire v Sussex - Southampton The two highest-placed promoted sides meet in a confrontation that could prove key to their end-of-season placings, in particular for Sussex, whose points average rather than points total puts them in seventh, not

Somerset entertain championship table toppers Surrey at the County Ground tomorrow, and will be anxious to earn some vital points to enable themselves to climb away from the relegation zone

Somerset's new mascot `Stumpy' was the hero of the day at the County Ground on Sunday when he stepped into repair a damaged water pipe

Rain forced the abandonment of New Zealand women's first game of their three-match series against Ireland at Clontarf, Dublin today

New Zealand fast bowler Shane Bond is to play for Warwickshire in August

Test discard Vikram Rathour will lead the 16-member Punjab Ranji team on a tour of Kenya from July 22 to August 12

Australian Michael Bevan looks set to return to the Leicestershire side for the County Championship match against Lancashire starting at Grace Road on Wednesday

By his own calculation, former Australian Test spinner Peter Philpott has been involved in 60 cricket summers in his 67 years of life

Lamphey: Wales 273 and 199-9d Berkshire 153-1d (TD Fray 57*, FS Patel 78*) and 16-0 Match drawn

The Australian Cricket Board (ACB) said it was too early to react toconflicting reports Australia will play Pakistan at a neutral venuelater this year.

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Monday announced the appointment of an Australian duo who will assist the youngsters at the National Cricket Academy (NCA)

New Zealand pace man Shane Bond has signed a contract to replace Shaun Pollock as Warwickshire's overseas player for 3 weeks in August to allow the South African captain to take part in a cricketing tournament in Morocco

Owing to a troublesome hamstring strain in the right leg sustained in the recent championship match against Gloucestershire, it has been decided to rest Jon Dakin for the next two weeks

The Punjab Cricket Association has drawn up an ambitious plan to expand the north pavilion of the PCA stadium at Mohali near Chandigarh