Cricket News

The ECB is clamping down on the burgeoning number of Kolpak players who it believes are turning out for counties without having the correct work permits

The amateurish cricket setup in the region, Chris Dehring said, meant that young West Indian cricketers were losing out on opportunities that were being enjoyed by their counterparts in other countries

Dennis Lillee is optimistic about Irfan Pathan's chances of returning to the Indian side

Srl Lanka took the last five Bangladesh wickets in just 30 minutes on the fourth morning to sweep to victory by an innings and 234 runs

Matthew Hayden has no plans to follow his long-time opening partner Justin Langer into retirement, and says he is ready to help lead Australia through their gruelling 2008

The ICC's future tours programme (FTP) has turned Australia into a cricket superpower, according to Cricket South Africa's chief executive Gerald Majola

A report by the BBC's Mihir Bose claims that Malcolm Speed does not believe that Zimbabwe should be allowed to resume playing Test cricket in November, and that there the board's accounts have been 'deliberately falsified'

Shane Warne has rejected the comfort of the Channel Nine commentary box to spend more time with his children

A dismal day for Zimbabwe cricket was capped by confirmation from the West Indies that the proposed A-team tour had been cancelled

UAE's Saqib Ali and Khurram Khan defied Scotland's bowlers with a dogged century partnership on the first day of their Intercontinental Cup match at Ayr

Peter Drinnen, the Scotland coach, has made it clear that he will fight to save his job, despite his position being undermined by a whispering campaign against him, allegedly launched by a number of his senior players

West Indies' under-fire captain, Chris Gayle, has said there is "no love lost" between himself and the West Indies Cricket Board and he has vowed he will fight his bosses every inch of the way as the team's off-field problems escalated on the eve of the f

Paul Collingwood's first challenge as England's one-day captain comes at The Oval on Thursday, when his new-look side takes on West Indies in the first of back-to-back Twenty20 internationals

Stand-in coach Trevor Penney said that there there are no excuses for dropping so many catches

Gary Kirsten, the former South African opening batsman, is in Zimbabwe for a week-long coaching clinic with the Zimbabwe national team

Rubies and Emeralds, the top two sides, brushed aside the rain to storm to victory and maintain their status in the Super 4s table. Rubies are still undefeated in the tournament

David Morgan, the chairman of the England & Wales Cricket Board, is set to be named as the next president of the ICC, and will take over from Ray Mali, the South African acting president next year

The flu virus that has affected more than half of the India squad is continuing to leave them with some difficult selection issues as they prepare for the second one-dayer against South Africa in Belfast on Friday

Twenty20 has well and truly claimed its place in the cricketing world with the ICC approving the inaugural World Cup in South Africa in September