Cricket News

Matthew Hayden has completed a remarkable limited-overs comeback, winning the ODI Player of the Year award in Johannesburg

Australia's Ricky Ponting was named as the Captain of the Year at the ICC Awards in Johannesburg

Ricky Ponting was rewarded for another brilliant season with his second consecutive Cricketer of the Year title at the ICC Awards in Johannesburg

Jhulan Goswami has become the first player from India to take the ICC Women's Player of the Year award

A round-up of all the ICC Awards

The ICC is considering providing first-class status to matches of the rebel tours to South Africa in the 1980s

A remarkable spell of 5 for 6 from Arsalan Qadir decimated Cayman Islands for 77 to give Canada their third successive win in the Americas Under-19s tournament at King City

Openers Ruvindu Gunasekera and Terryn Fray stroked centuries of contrasting styles and offspinner Pratik Patel captured a remarkable 7 for 3 at the Americas Under-19 qualifiers

India's 1-0 series victory in England has propelled them to No. 3 in the ICC Test Championship

Malcolm Speed, the ICC's chief executive, has said that he will step down when his contract expires in June 2008.

Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan and Kumar Sangakkara have both topped 900 points in the latest ICC player rankings

Zimbabwe have dropped out of the ICC Test Championship as a result of them only playing eight Tests in the last three years

KPMG in South Africa have been appointed to carry out the forensic audit of Zimbabwe Cricket which the ICC insisted on at its annual conference in London last month

ICC chief executive Malcolm Speed has said that he is unsure whether Zimbabwe will ever be able to resume playing Test cricket

Zimbabwe's self-imposed suspension from Test cricket will continue for the foreseeable future after the ICC said that Peter Chingoka, the board chairman, had reported that it was not yet ready to return

The following came out of the ICC meetings held at Lord's

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'

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

Neil Drysdale on a solution to the funding problems stalling development among the Associates