Cricket News

The West Indian team may have sprung a surprise in the ODIs against England there is plenty of work to be done, says Tony Cozier

The Indian board has tied up with Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Mumbai to test soil from various centres, with a view to gaining some scientific knowledge about pitch preparation

Chris Gayle brushed off suggestions that he could permanently take over as West Indies captain

Paul Nixon will captain Leicestershire in their remaining County Championship matches this season, taking over from Darren Robinson whose form has been poor in the first half of the summer

Scotland have named a depleted 14-man squad for next week's quadrangular series in Ireland, including Navdeep Poonia - even though he has been unable to gain a county first XI spot this season

Fears over the future of Clontarf, in Dublin, as a one-day international venue have been eased with confirmation that existing grounds which have been approved don't come under the new rulings regarding boundary sizes

West Indies produced a near-perfect one-day performance as they claimed the series against England with a handsome 93-run victory at Trent Bridge

Dinesh Karthik and Gautam Gambhir made half-centuries to set up a strong foundation as the Indians reached 281 for 3 at stumps

Daren Powell, the West Indian fast bowler, is expected to sign for Glamorgan

Mohammed Kaif is to be captain of India A for the African tour

Steven Welsh ripped through UAE on the opening day of their Intercontinental Cup match against Canada in Toronto.

Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly have been left out of the 30 probables that India's selectors picked for the Twenty20 World Championship to be held in South Africa in September

The South African board's income from the ODI series against India in Ireland is expected to be higher than the earnings from the coming season's home series

Houghton was sounded out by the Bangladesh board to fill their national coach vacancy this June but at that time Houghton was reluctant to take up the job as he had relocated his family to England from Zimbabwe

Robin stressed on the importance of doing well in the practice matches, saying that it would help the team management a fair idea of the players' form and confidence

Greg Chappell has questioned the schedule that gives the Indians just one warm-up game before the Test series against Australia later this year.

A round-up of the final round of Twenty20 matches as Surrey and Leicestershire fail to progress for the first time

Peter Drinnen has stood down as Scotland's coach, ending a fortnight of speculation over his job

Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lanka's vice-captain, has shot up to No.3 in the LG ICC Player Rankings for Test batsmen

Ken Gordon will not be seeking re-election as president of the West Indies Cricket Board at the end of the month