Cricket News

The CCA Senior Selectors have invited an initial list of 38 players for World Cup training

The CCA Senior Selection Committee will shortly be annoucing a squad of players who will be asked to train for and to participate in events this year in preparation for the World Cup 2003 in South Africa

Sri Lanka's new chairman of selectors believes that experience will be the key to success in the 2003 World Cup in South Africa, suggesting an imminent shift away from the youth focused selection policy pursued in recent years

ICC Cricket World Cup 2003 scored a major coup this week when South African-born CNN International news anchor Tumi Makgabo was confirmed as compere for the Opening Ceremony scheduled for Cape Town on February 8

Eight members of a proposed 10-member interim committee, appointed to run the affairs of the Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka (BCCSL) earlier this month, have formally accepted letters of appointment from Sports Minister Johnston Fernando

New Zealand's players may be struggling to come to grips with Pakistan in their one-day and Test tour at the moment, but the boffins back at HQ in Christchurch are researching a strategy for next summer's World Cup campaign

In yet another blow to the credibility of the Eastern Province Cricket Board, one of the union's board members, Rajan Moodaley, has been found guilty of fraud at a United Cricket Board disciplinary hearing and suspended from cricket for one year

A veritable pot of gold awaits the champion team when the Rainbow Nation hosts next year's ICC Cricket World Cup

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Thursday said countdown for next year's World Cup has begun and promised to continue to provide all possible facilities and support to the team to acquire best results upto the mega event

The Canadian cricket team recieved national recognition last night when they were nominated for "Canadian male team of the year" at the Canadian Sports Awards in Toronto

Imran Khan Sunday said next year's World Cup was an open tournament despite the fact that Australia remained firm favourites

Arjuna Ranatunga has congratulated the International Cricket Council for their decision to host the ICC Champions Trophy in Sri Lanka, hoping that it will provide a stepping-stone to the eventual hosting of a World Cup

The International Cricket Council (ICC) have informed the Sri Lankan cricket board that the record team sponsorship brokered with Dilmah Tea last year conflicts with one of the World Cup's official sponsors

WHAT ARE THE PRICES OF TICKETS

Match ticket prices have been announced for the 2003 ICC Cricket World Cup in South Africa between Feb 8-March 23 next year

It will be bigger that anything that cricket has before experienced and on a scale that will make all South Africans proud

As he prepared to depart on the second leg of the winter tour to India and New Zealand on a trip that will include 11 one-day internationals, England captain Nasser Hussain acknowledged that the ultimate destination is the World Cup in South Africa

Former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram said Sunday he was raring to compete in the 2003 World Cup in South Africa

Dr Ali Bacher, executive director of the ICC Cricket World Cup in South Africa in 2003, today received an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg

Speculation that South Africa might lose the right to host the 2003 World Cup as a result of the country siding with India in the Mike Denness affair is groundless, a top United Cricket Board official said on Friday