Cricket News

Stuart MacGill, Brad Hogg and Phil Jaques have all made the final 13 for Australia's first Test against Sri Lanka

New Zealand have awarded Craig Cumming a contract for the 2007-08 season

Paul Nixon, the 37-year-old former England wicketkeeper, has signed for the Indian Cricket League

Alex Obanda, the 19-year old Kenyan batsman, will miss the four-day ICC Intercontinental Cup match against Bermuda due to injury

The ICC has asked the West Indies board (WICB) to investigate match-fixing allegations against allrounder Marlon Samuels

Twenty20 champions India have been grouped with Bangladesh and Zimbabwe in the first round of the 2009 ICC World Twenty20 which the ICC revealed today

Ravi Bopara, the England allrounder, was today hurt in a car crash while on a demonstration of off-road driving

Jamie Siddons, Bangladesh's new coach, has laid emphasis on the team's improvement in Test matches as his major aim in the coming months

India will remain without a coach for sometime longer as the scheduled meeting of the committee appointed to select the next coach, has been postponed indefinitely

Javed Miandad, the former Pakistan captain, has slammed the national selectors for persisting with older players while ignoring new talent, which he felt led to the ODI series loss against South Africa

South African allrounder Albie Morkel has been withdrawn from the South Africa A squad for the tour match against the New Zealanders in Potchefstroom after sustaining a minor injury during the tour of Pakistan

Brad Hogg did his Test chances no harm with 4 for 37 to confirm Western Australia's 47-run win over Victoria after Justin Langer's century set the Warriors up

Geoff Lawson, the Pakistan coach, says he's looking forward to the clash between traditional rivals India and Pakistan

Delhi's opening match of the 2007-08 Ranji Trophy against Rajasthan, scheduled for November 3, has been postponed by a day

After rejecting the captaincy twice in his career, Pakistan batsman Younis Khan has accepted the responsibility of taking over as the vice-captain for the tour of India

A janitorial supervisor in the Pakistan dressing room during the World Cup testified at the inquest into Bob Woolmer's death that she saw him counting a bundle of notes in the presence of another man she claimed looked Indian

Loots Bosman, the South African opener, has rejected a contract with the Indian Cricket League, and instead signed with the Indian Premier League

Ricky Ponting enjoyed his return to the Pura Cup with 96 before conceding first-innings points in an effort to set up a final-day chase for Tasmania

Geoffrey Boycott has called Duncan Fletcher "a hypocrite" for his comments about Andrew Flintoff's drinking habits on tour

Stephen Fleming, the former New Zealand captain, is in doubt for the second warm-up match against South Africa A in Potchefstroom beginning tomorrow, after dislocating his thumb during practice