Cricket News

It must be a hoot inside Viv Richards's head

This Test match has simmered for days, but in an extraordinary hour after tea, it erupted in a fury

West Indies saved the follow-on on the third day at Port-of-Spain ... just.

Anyone who had any doubts about the problems facing West Indian cricket would have had it brought home to them that the position is extremely serious after watching the first day of the Trinidad Test.

After a soul-destroying first day at the Queen's Park Oval, West Indies resumed the second Test against Australia with a heavy air of resignation

Once again, this was not a day to be a bowler. Saturday's play produced 391 runs for the loss of three wickets, two of them extremely fortuitous.

Australia won the toss and chose to bat at a sunny Port of Spain in the second Test, with Steve Waugh convinced that the grassy pitch would favour his two spinners towards the end of the match

It should have been Brian Lara's day, a triumphant homecoming for the newly-reappointed West Indies captain. But aside from two awful umpiring decisions by Asoka de Silva, little went right for him.

Tradition may have been a big deal for the Fiddler on the Roof but for Steve Waugh and his Australian side it doesn't mean much.

Australian batsman Matthew Hayden hopes to feast on his favourite dishin Trinidad this weekend when the West Indies send a little-knownAnguillan off-spinner into his first cricket Test.

Ridley Jacobs and Jermaine Lawson will miss West Indies' second Test against Australia, which starts on Saturday (April 19)

Go to any country, town, or one-horse pit-stop in the world, and the chances are that there'll be an Australian somewhere in the vicinity

Australia's bold move to field five specialist bowlers in its first Test victory over the West Indies could be short-lived depending on conditions in Trinidad for Saturday's second Test.

The West Indian revival in the first Cable & Wireless Test, so encouragingly mounted by Brian Lara, Daren Ganga and Devon Smith on Saturday, unravelled within the first hour of the fourth day yesterday to the familiar accompaniment of tumbling lower

Ramnaresh Sarwan and 20-year-old offspinner Omari Banks have been drafted into the West Indies squad for the second Test against Australia in Trinidad starting on Saturday (April 19)

Australian one-day cricket captain Ricky Ponting says most of his team-mates fear having their careers cut short because of gruelling schedules

It was a fairly predictable excuse for Australia's capitulation in the final three matches of their Caribbean tour, but it was no less valid for that: Ricky Ponting has argued that their recent seven-match one-day series against West Indies lacked

So when is Steve Waugh retiring

Wavell Hinds scored a magnificent 103 not out, his second century in three days, and Chris Gayle emulated Viv Richards's feat at Dunedin in 1986-87, with five wickets and a half-century in the same match, as West Indies cruised to a nine-wicket

Australia's total domination of world cricket is endangering the sport, according to Malcolm Gray, the outgoing chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC).