Cricket News

Netherlands were denied the chance to push for a victory when heavy rain lashed Stormont and forced the abandonment of their quadrangular series match against Scotland

Kumar Sangakkara played down comparisons with batting greats after a second consecutive double hundred against Bangladesh

Bjorn Kotze was named Namibia's Player of the Year in their recent awards ceremony

The Canadian board has announced that the quadrangular Twenty20 tournament this September has been postponed

The UAE wound up a woeful trip to the Greater Toronto Area with a six-wicket win against Ontario on Wednesday

England will play their first one-day international against Scotland on August 18, 2008 after an agreement between the two boards

Bangladesh won their second consecutive match by 10 wickets, this time against Singapore, to qualify for the semi-final

Worcestershire have been forced to move another match away from New Road after further rain exacerbated the recent problems caused by the flooding

An unbeaten century from Tim Bresnen, and his 129-run partnership with Stuart Broad for the eighth wicket, allowed England Lions to gain the upper hand at the end of the first day against the touring Indians at Chelmsford

Hong Kong booked their place in the semi-final of the ACC women's tournament with a six-wicket victory over Thailand at Johor

Shoaib Akhtar has slammed the new bowling rule that allows batsmen a free hit after a no-ball and has asked the ICC to reconsider it

Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara combined for a 311-run third-wicket partnership to see Sri Lanka out of early trouble on day three at Kandy and finish off on a position from where Muttiah Muralitharan can press for a clean sweep of the series

Nathan Bracken believes Australia should not get too stressed by the Twenty20 World Championship and the tournament will reveal how the format is really viewed by players and fans

New Zealand will prepare for the Chappell-Hadlee Series in December by appearing in the annual Lilac Hill fixture in Western Australia

The third version of the Emerging Players Tournament begins in Queensland on Monday

West Indies might have beaten England in the recent one-day series, but an old and unwelcome ghost briefly reappeared today at Clontarf in Dublin as Scotland ran them desperately close in the third match of the Quadrangular series

South Africa's passion for Twenty20 has meant that four matches for September's World Championship are already sold out

Chris Gayle kept his cool as West Indies nearly slipped up in dramatic style against Scotland at Clontarf. Chasing a revised 165, they lost six for 38 in seven overs and entered the final three overs needing 29 to win

Saqlain Mushtaq, the Pakistan offspinner, could swap allegiances and play for England after finally relaunching his career following three years of serious knee problems

The trial of the former Zimbabwe opening batsman, Mark Vermeulen, was postponed indefinitely on Wednesday