Cricket News

Aleem Dar, the Pakistan umpire, has been named the Umpire of the Year at the ICC Awards ceremony in Bangalore

New Zealand have been honoured with the Spirit of Cricket Award at the ICC Awards in Bangalore

South Africa's AB de Villiers has won the ODI Player of the Year award at the ICC Awards in Bengaluru. De Villiers beat off tough competition from India's Sachin Tendulkar and the Australia duo of Shane Watson and Ryan Harris to take the prestigious award

Ryan ten Doeschate, the Netherlands allrounder, has been named the Associate and Affiliate Player of the Year at the ICC Awards ceremony in Bangalore

McCullum's unbeaten 116 against Australia in Christchurch in February this year was singled out as the best among five nominations

The England fast bowler Steven Finn has capped a remarkable maiden year of international cricket by being named as the ICC's Emerging Player at their annual awards ceremony in Bengaluru

Sachin Tendulkar has won his first ICC award, the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy, by being named the Cricketer of the Year during the 2010 ICC Award ceremony in Bangalore

The appeals of the three Pakistani players against the provisional suspensions imposed on them by the ICC will take place in Doha, Qatar

Medium-pacer Hamid Hassan single-handedly ended Kenya's resistance on the fourth and final day to give Afghanistan a 167-win

Kenya's bowlers, followed by their batsmen, made a strong rally on the third day, but Afghanistan were still in control and in sight of victory that would take them to the top of the table in the Intercontinental Cup

Afghanistan are primed to top the table in the Intercontinental Cup after quick bowler Hamid Hassan ripped through Kenya to give his side a 304-run first-innings lead

The ICC has moved to clarify "sensationalist and emotional"reports in the media that the future of the Intercontinental Cup was in doubt

Cricket Australia has called on the ICC to commission an independent review on corruption in the sport, in the wake of the allegations of spot-fixing by some Pakistan players

Graeme Swann, the England offspinner, has jumped 15 places to a career-best third spot in the ICC one-day rankings after his successful series against Pakistan

Namibia completed a crushing ten-wicket victory over Uganda on the final day in Windhoek, despite Roger Mukasa's maiden first-class hundred

Namibia followed up a solid batting display by picking up two wickets in Uganda's second innings to move into a commanding position in Windhoek

Half-centuries from Ewaid Steenkamp, Craig Williams and Sarel Burger took Namibia to 320 for 4 on the second day of their ICC Intercontinental Shield match against Uganda in Windhoek

The ICC is looking into allegations that bookies were aware of patterns in the Pakistan innings before the third ODI against England at The Oval

The ICC's proposal to limit to 10 the number of teams in the World Cup is exactly that - a proposal - and does not exclude Associate nations, a senior official has said

The ICC's plan for a smaller 50-over World Cup has been criticised by its leading Associate members, who say such a move would curtail the growth of the game in their countries