Cricket News

Leicestershire's teenage allrounder Zak Chappell wrote his name in the county's record books despite falling four runs short of a century on his first-class debut

Still needing nine points to be safe from relegation, Sussex cannot yet permit themselves the gentle deceleration towards October in all its amber abundance

Like winning a hat the day after losing your head, Worcestershire's discovery of a potent overseas bowler has come too late to save their Division One status

Medium-pacer L Balaji has been named bowling coach and player for Tamil Nadu for the 2015-16 domestic season

James Kettleborough and Aneurin Donald hit career-best first-class scores on the opening day of Glamorgan's LV=County Championship match with Gloucestershire at Bristol

Zimbabwe Cricket has appointed former Zimbabwe coach Stephen Mangongo the coach of the Under-19 side

The successor to Paul Grayson will be asked to secure promotion to Division One of the Championship, says Derek Bowden, the chief executive

The Australians will not get a taste of Bangladeshi spin in their only three-day tour match in Bangladesh as the BCB XI squad of 13 was devoid of any genuine spinners

Uncapped Karnataka seamer S Aravind has reacted to his recall to the India squad for the T20 internationals against South Africa by saying he was "expecting this"

An on-field brawl between two Bermuda club cricketers during the country's Champion of Champions final on September 12 has resulted in one of them being banned for life and the other slapped with a lengthy suspension by the Bermuda Cricket Board

Tasmania have picked 18-year-old wicketkeeper-batsman Jake Doran and uncapped 21-year-old bowler Ryan Lees in their squad for next month's Matador Cup one-day competition

Bangladesh bowling coach Heath Streak believes the team still has a "long way to go" before becoming a force in Test cricket despite recent success in one-day internationals

Michael Klinger will lead Western Australia in the Matador Cup and the young allrounder Ashton Turner has been elevated to the vice-captaincy for the tournament

Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Amir has said that a return to international cricket is not his current focus and has stressed that domestic cricket will be his top priority

Fast bowler Josh Hazlewood has been named in the New South Wales squad for next month's Matador Cup one-day competition after being rested from the Test tour of Bangladesh

Eoin Morgan has been ruled out of Middlesex's final County Championship fixture of the season after failing to recover sufficiently from a blow to the head

Mark Wallace's 14-year run of consecutive County Championship appearances for Glamorgan will come to an end on Wednesday

Former USA vice-captain Timroy Allen, who top-scored in the first trial match, and fast bowler David Pieters were the standout players during Sunday's trial matches at the ICC Americas Combine in Indianapolis

Shoaib Akhtar, the former Pakistan fast bowler, wants to own a team in the Pakistan Super League, a franchise-based T20 tournament to be held in February 2016

Richard Pyrah, the Yorkshire allrounder, has retired from professional cricket with immediate effect in order to take up a full-time post on the club's coaching staff