Cricket News

A dramatic West Indies batting collapse inspired by spin wizard Muttiah Muralitharan pulled Sri Lanka back into the first Test in Galle on Wednesday, to leave the match evenly poised after the second day

Sri Lanka commence their three-Test series against West Indies on Tuesday knowing that a series win will guarantee will see them climb up the ICC Test Championship table

Brian Lara, temporarily at least, silenced his vocal band of critics on Tuesday with a superb century on his return to Test cricket in the first Test against Sri Lanka at Galle

West Indian preparations may well have been bedeviled by poor weather and injuries, but that did not hinder the performance of star batsmen Brian Lara, who announced his return to Test cricket with a brilliant hundred on the opening day of this

Sri Lankan coach Dav Whatmore has warned his players not to take their recent Test record in Galle for granted as they prepare to take on West Indies in the first ever three-Test series against the two sides on Tuesday

West Indian preparations for the first Test in Galle, which have already been hampered by security fears, poor weather and the production of a spinner friendly surface, have been hit by fresh injury problems on the eve of the series opener

New Zealand gained one of the plums of world cricket, the staging of the 16-team ICC Under-19 World Cup event, more or less by popular acclaim

West Indies fans may yet get to see and hear live cricket coverage of their team's campaign in Sri Lanka starting later this week

The West Indies preparations for the first Test against Sri Lanka next week were disrupted once again on the last day of their final practice match at Matara on Saturday

West Indies fans in the Caribbean who were hoping to either see or listen to live cricket coverage of the West Indies' Test series with Sri Lanka can forget about it - at least for now

Left-hand opener Chris Gayle powered his way towards a century, but rain intervened again on the second day of the West Indies last practice game at Matara on Friday

Sri Lanka may have put their faith in pace against India but their strategy has changed for the West Indies Test series and the selectors have picked three spinners for the first Test starting next week in Galle

West Indies bowlers enjoyed their first match practice of their Sri Lanka tour on Thursday, easing fears that they would start the Test series next week under prepared, but they were still forced to toil hard in high heat by a strong Sri Lanka A side

Historic as that victory was, it pales before the scale of achievementof the 1976 triumph

The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), today announced a 14-member squad for next year's International Cricket Council's (ICC) Under-19 World Cup which will be held in New Zealand.

The Jamaican opening batsman, Wavell Hinds, has been cleared to make the tour of Sri Lanka with the West Indies team after all

A one-nil victory Test series victory against lowly Zimbabwe, and a triangular final win against professional big stage flops India, is not the kind of success that the West Indians of yesteryear would boast about, but captain Carl Hooper is

The Soweto Cricket Oval became the focus of international attention on Thursday when it was turned into dazzling scene of colour and song for the official launch of the eighth ICC Cricket World Cup to be staged in South Africa in February and March

Caribbean batting superstar Brian Lara and wicket-keeper Ridley Jacobs will both make comebacks from injury on Saturday when West Indies play Sri Lanka `A' in a three-day practice game

West Indies' captain, Carl Hooper, has warned his players to focus on the cricket and not on safety concerns as the West Indies begin their first tour to the island for eight years