Cricket News | Cricket Updates | Match Report

Angelo Mathews ready for Test captaincy

Angelo Mathews has expressed enthusiasm for the leadership role and appears ready to take over the captaincy once Mahela Jayawardene, Sri Lanka's current Test captain, steps down

12-Dec-2012•Andrew Fernando in Hobart

Siddle stares down vegetarian critics

Peter Siddle has chewed up and spat out the suggestion that the absence of meat from his diet was the reason he was unable to recover from his Adelaide exertions

12-Dec-2012•Daniel Brettig in Hobart

Wade's tenuous grip on gloves

Australia's wicketkeeper Matthew Wade is acutely aware of his tenuous place at the top of what is by far the national team's most competitive market

12-Dec-2012•Daniel Brettig in Hobart

I am number four, says Watson

Shuffled almost as often as a deck of cards in a poker den, Shane Watson's itinerant Test match batting career may finally have found a permanent home at No. 4

12-Dec-2012•Daniel Brettig in Hobart

Green pitch would 'elevate' SL bowlers - Sangakkara

Kumar Sangakkara is hopeful of a lively surface when the tourists meet Australia in the first Test at Bellerive Oval on Friday

11-Dec-2012•Daniel Brettig

Hughes seeks runs to match his desire

Even as he showed near monastic zeal to remodel the game that slid him into horrendous batting trouble against New Zealand last summer, Phillip Hughes did not expect to be back in the Australian Test team in the space of a year

11-Dec-2012•Daniel Brettig in Hobart

Filling the Ponting void

Australia's Test team convened without Ricky Ponting in Hobart on Monday evening

10-Dec-2012•Daniel Brettig

Ford warning over ageing Sri Lanka stars

The Sri Lanka coach Graham Ford has warned that the team needs to start producing cricketers capable of replacing the star names

09-Dec-2012•Sa'adi Thawfeeq

Half-centuries for Chandimal, Prasanna in draw

Cricket Australia Chairman's XI and Sri Lankans played out a draw at the Manuka Oval in Canberra. Just 31 overs were bowled today and the visitors finished on 396 for 6

08-Dec-2012•ESPNcricinfo staff

New No.4 Watson wants more bowling

Shane Watson hopes his move to No.4 in the Test batting order will allow him to take on a greater bowling workload

07-Dec-2012•ESPNcricinfo staff

Dilshan warms up for Tests with ton

Tillakaratne Dilshan warmed up for the Test series against Australia with a century as most of Sri Lanka's top-order batsmen spent some valuable time in the middle on the second day of their tour match in Canberra

07-Dec-2012•ESPNcricinfo staff

Henry, Maxwell pummel tourists

Scott Henry outshone the Test aspirants Usman Khawaja and Alex Doolan on a barren opening day's play for the Sri Lankan tourists in Canberra

06-Dec-2012•ESPNcricinfo staff

Hughes chosen to replace Ponting

Phillip Hughes has been chosen to fill the gulf left by the retired Ricky Ponting, taking his place in Australia's Test squad to face Sri Lanka in the first Test in Hobart

06-Dec-2012•Daniel Brettig

Khawaja shuffle adds intrigue to Test squad

Usman Khawaja will be an Australian Test aspirant one day and a Twenty20 billboard the next after a compromise between Cricket Australia and the Sydney Thunder

05-Dec-2012•Daniel Brettig

Hazlewood out of Sri Lanka Tests

Josh Hazlewood is out of contention for the Test series against Sri Lanka after complaining of foot soreness reminiscent of the stress fracture he suffered last season

05-Dec-2012•Daniel Brettig

Paranavitana yet to cement his spot

Tharanga Paranavitana has had a long run at the top of Sri Lanka's order to try and make the opening position his own. He hasn't done it yet

04-Dec-2012•Andrew Fernando

Jayawardene to decide on future after Australia tour

Mahela Jayawardene will seriously re-assess his future as Sri Lanka's captain and as an international cricketer at the end of the tour of Australia

03-Dec-2012•Sa'adi Thawfeeq

'We are not quite ready for the Australians'

The Sri Lanka coach has said his team had to improve on their batting against pace ahead of the three-Test series in Australia

02-Dec-2012•Sa'adi Thawfeeq

Khawaja earns chance against Sri Lanka

Usman Khawaja and Alex Doolan will have the perfect chance to push their claims to become Ricky Ponting's Test replacement after being named in the Chairman's XI squad to take on Sri Lanka in Canberra next week

30-Nov-2012•Brydon Coverdale

Karunaratne, Pradeep in SL Test squad to Australia

Opener Dimuth Karunaratne has been named in Sri Lanka's squad to Australia for three Tests, the first of which begins in Hobart on December 14

20-Nov-2012•ESPNcricinfo staff

4 5 6 7 8

Showing 121 - 140 of 141