Cricket News

Ricky Ponting hopes Australia's decision to leave Michael Hussey at home due to doubts over his hamstring injury won't cost them dearly later in the World Cup

Zimbabwe's coach Alan Butcher and captain Elton Chigumbura both agree that while the performance in the field against Australia was encouraging, the batsmen need to step up

The website entrusted with handling online sales for World Cup tickets crashed within five minutes of starting sales for the semi-finals and finals

The reality of being a South African cricketer is that, for the foreseeable future, all of them will be asked about choking

Pakistan have been, and probably will continue to be, reminded of the spot-fixing crisis for some time still

"We still have five matches left, and everyone is looking ahead," - Tamim Iqbal

ESPNcricinfo previews the fifth game of the 2011 World Cup between England and Netherlands in Nagpur

After the heavy defeats suffered by Kenya and Canada it's now the turn of Netherlands to go under the spotlight

The top Associate nation doesn't want to contribute verbally to the current debate; they want to give the ICC reasons to include them through their performances on the field

The debate on Associate nations participating in future World Cups should be on hold till the current tournament has ended, Andrew Strauss, the England captain, has said

Waqar Younis didn't have the best time in World Cups as a player, but hopes to correct that during his time as coach

Not since Marcus Trescothick was in his prime have England had an opener who could keep pace with the Sehwags, Dilshans and Gayles of the world

Matt Prior might have been surprised to get a late call-up to England's World Cup squad, but is now ready to play a new role

Australia began their World Cup campaign on a winning note, wrapping up an easy 91-run win over a Zimbabwean outfit with no answer to the pace battery of Brett Lee, Shaun Tait and Mitchell Johnson

Mahela Jayawardene, the Sri Lanka vice-captain, said he was pleased with Sri Lanka's start to the World Cup but there was still a lot of hard work ahead of his team in the tournament

The unavailability of Hot Spot technology during the current World Cup came under scrutiny as Sri Lanka took on Canada

Ratnakar Shetty, the World Cup's tournament director, has said that only 4,000 tickets for the World Cup final will be available to the general public due to commitments to give tickets to the ICC and the MCA's member clubs

Peter Drinnen, the Netherlands coach, has warned his players not to read too much into their shock World Twenty20 victory against England

Matt Prior might have been surprised to get a late call-up to England's World Cup squad, but is now ready to play a new role

Ricky Ponting, the Australia captain, believes the World Cup will be a better event without the weaker Associate nations, but hopes the ICC's decision doesn't hurt the development of the game around the world