Cricket News

Finally, apparently begrudgingly, one man short, and only just, the West Indies have left their sunny islands in the Caribbean for Sri Lanka

The West Indies have been hit by another injury blow as they prepare to leave for their seven-week tour of Sri Lanka

World Cup champions Australia will start their defence of their title in a repeat of the 1999 final against Pakistan at the Wanderers in Johannesburg on February 11 according to the 2003 World Cup schedule released in Durban on Saturday

Sri Lanka take on Zimbabwe in the opening match of the Sharjah Champions Trophy today with skipper Sanath Jayasuriya hoping to make it a hat-trick of wins at the venue

The chairman of the West Indies selectors, Mike Findlay, has come to the defence of a controversial decision to include Brian Lara in the party to tour Sri Lanka in November

The West Indies Cricket Board stands to lose approximately 300,000 US dollars on the forthcoming tour of Sri Lanka

Less than 24 hours after Brian Lara passed a medical test and West Indies looked set to take a full strength squad to Sri Lanka key middle order batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul has been ruled out with a back injury

Former England Test batsman, Raman Subba Row, has been appointed match referee for the three-match Test series between Sri Lanka and West Indies and for the triangular tournament that follows, ICC communications manager, Mark Harrison, confirmed

Star West Indian batsman, Brian Lara, has been given the all-clear to play in the forthcoming tour of Sri Lanka according to a BBC Online report Monday, but doubts still linger over his fitness

West Indies were boosted Friday by news that key middle order batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul has been cleared to tour Sri Lanka next month following tests on his back

Star batsman, Brian Lara, is uncertain for the West Indies tour of Sri Lanka in November because of the persistent hamstring injury that forced him to pull out of this year's tour of Zimbabwe and Kenya

The West Indies will leave for their tour of Sri Lanka on October 30 as planned, despite the September 11th atrocities in the United States and subsequent military action in Afghanistan

With the upcoming tour to Sri Lanka by the West Indies cricket team less than two weeks away, and with concerns in the Caribbean high over the safety of the West Indian players, assurances have been received by the sport's governing body in the West

With parliamentary elections now scheduled for December 5 the Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka (BCCSL) has been forced to reschedule itineraries for the West Indies three-Test tour of Sri Lanka and the one-day international triangular which

Singer Sri Lanka Ltd have come forward to sponsor the West Indies women's cricket tour of Sri Lanka early next year

Despite the uncertainty surrounding the upcoming tour to Sri Lanka, the West Indies selectors have named a sixteen-man squad

Virtuoso performances from Ramnaresh Sarwan and captain Carl Hooper saw Guyana vanquish Barbados to lift the Red Stripe Bowl at Discovery Bay, Jamaica

An unbeaten century from Floyd Reifer set up a 49-run win for Barbados over Trinidad and Tobago in the Red Stripe Bowl semi-final at the Kaiser Sports Club, Discovery Bay, Jamaica.

Test cricket's newly-introduced world championship system may soon be matched by an equivalent model for one-day internationals.

Sir Viv Richard's Induction Photo © WICB World renowned star batsman, Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards of Antigua was inducted into the Cricket Hall of Fame in a gala ceremony held at the Radisson Hotel, Cromwell, Connecticut, Saturday,