Cricket News

Article: Agha Akbar, Pak

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

Canadian cricket faces huge challenges

New Zealand is going to have to hit the ground running when it begins its World Cup campaign in South Africa next summer

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

Cape Town, Oct 23 - The parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Sport and Recreation today praised the organizing committee of the 2003 ICC Cricket World Cup (CWC) for "accommodating all sectors" of society in its plans for the 54-match tournament to be

Kenya will stage two matches at cricket's 2003 World Cup, joining Zimbabwe as South Africa's co-hosts for the four-yearly showpiece, organizers said

Bob Woolmer, ICC High Performance Consultant will be visiting Canada, Holland, Kenya and Namibia in short order to start work with these countries on their World Cup preparation

The news from South Africa is undoubtedly good

South Africa will face the West Indies in the opening match of the 2003 World Cup and that, said 2003 CWC executive director Ali Bacher on Monday, is official

Holders Australia and losing finalists Pakistan will both meet Nasser Hussain's England in the pool stages of the 2003 World Cup

The 2003 Cricket World Cup will be the "best" and "cleanest" to date, Lord Condon, the director of the ICC's Anti-Corruption Unit, said on Monday

Travel packages that include tickets for matches at the 2003 Cricket World Cup in South Africa will become available to the South African public early next year through the approved joint venture company of Rennies and Connex Travel

Canada's cricketers have done the nation proud

India will prepare for the 2003 World Cup in the eastern coastal city of Durban as the organisers announced training camp locations on Monday, sprinkling competitors around South Africa

Four of the most distinguished names in cricket - Sir Vivian Richards, Sir Richard Hadlee, Allan Border and Sunil Gavaskar - have accepted invitations to become international ambassadors for the 2003 Cricket World Cup, it was announced on Monday

The Sri Lankan selectors have made four changes to the one-day squad that won the ARY Gold trophy in Sharjah last April and have revealed a change of strategy for the forthcoming triangular series against India and New Zealand

New Zealand's pool for the World Cup in 2003 will depend on how the side does in the tri-series with Sri Lanka and India next month, and its One-Day Internationals with Pakistan in September

Allan Donald, the South African fast bowler, has revealed that he would like to play another season of county cricket in 2002

Border will be the East London hosts of a Super Six game as well as a pool game during the World Cricket Cup 2003 held in South Africa -- as a reward for the tremendous enthusiasm that prevails at Buffalo Park