Cricket News

Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Sami has been ruled out of the forthcoming home series against Bangladesh with an ankle injury

An increase in the number of situations where penalty runs can be imposed - even retrospectively - was the main outcome of a review of cricket's laws by a Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) working party

Both Michael Vaughan and Herschelle Gibbs moved up one place in the latest PriceWaterhouseCoopers Test ratings after scoring hundreds at Edgbaston, but the biggest gainer was Graeme Smith

Despite losing both Tests against Australia by an innings, Bangladesh did their reputation plenty of good

Four wickets in 14 balls doomed Bangladesh to their 20th Test defeat in 21 matches when Australia grabbed victory by an innings and 98 runs at Cairns this morning to complete a 2-0 sweep of the series

Sanwar Hossain was cleared to play for Bangladesh against Australia in the three-match ODI series despite being reported to the International Cricket Council for having a suspect bowling action

Steve Waugh: the first man to score 150 against all Test opposition All three Australian batsmen who took guard at Cairns' Bundaberg Rum Stadium today walked off with milestones that became millstones around Bangladesh's neck as the

Australian one-day international spinner Nathan Hauritz will captain the Queensland Academy of Sport XII against Bangladesh in a limited overs match in Innisfail on Thursday

International Cricket Council match referee in Cairns for the Australia-Bangladesh second Test Mike Procter is to return home following the death of his father

Darren Lehmann on his way to a superb hundred Darren Lehmann was in rampant mood as he scored his second century in two innings against Bangladesh at Cairns today

Australia's Top End Tour -­ the experiment of trying Test matches in the far north of the country in what is technically their winter ­- has moved on to Cairns, in far north Queensland and the main jumpoff for the Great Barrier Reef

Just before the cricket roadshow moved from Darwin to Cairns, there was a chance to take in some of the sights of the Northern Territory

A fast pitch at Cairns was meant to spell doom for Bangladesh

Adam Gilchrist practises ahead of the second Test at Carins Surprisingly, given the ease with which the top-ranked Australians disposed of cellar-dwellers Bangladesh in their first Test match last weekend at Darwin, it is the home side who

The rhetoric was familiar, but after a less than impressive performance in the first Test at Darwin, Steve Waugh's assertion that Australia would be looking to improve carried a little more weight than usual

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has issued a vigorous defence of its one-day rankings system as "objective, fair and fact-based," and said India fully deserved their current lowly status

England second to Australia on the world Test rankings

The predictability of Australia's thumping victory over Bangladesh in their first Test at Darwin at the weekend is reflected in the Test ratings - the victory didn't raise a blip on the ratings monitor

There has been no let-up for Bangladesh following their innings defeat by Australia in the first Test at Darwin

Australia, as expected, won their first Test against Bangladesh by an innings