Cricket News

Sometimes fairy tales do happen in sport. Geraint Jones, Ashes winner in 2005 turned priceless county pro - via Papua New Guinea - signed off his professional career by being chaired around Lord's

Gloucestershire claimed their first limited-overs trophy in more than a decade after tightening like a vice during the last third of Surrey's innings to suffocate the run chase and triumph in a thrilling finish

The Lahore City Cricket Association has launched an inquiry into the poor performance and alleged discipline issues during Lahore Whites' campaign in the Haier Mobile T-20 Cup in Rawalpindi

India batsman Rohit Sharma has railed against the popular perception that he isn't making best use of his abundant natural talent, saying that he has got where he is through sheer hard work

Sri Lanka interim head coach Jerome Jayaratne has slammed the team's fielding standards, describing it as "the worst in Asia"

Steven Smith is prepared to shelve his attacking mindset and "bore" the batsmen out if that is what is needed to succeed in his first full series as Australia's Test captain, in Bangladesh in October

After scoring an unbeaten 102 to lift his team from a precarious 82 for 5 to a total of 252 for 8, Nasir Hossain said that he had walked out to bat with the aim of playing the full quota of overs

Craig Overton has received an automatic two-match suspension after an ECB cricket discipline commission examined a ditsurbing disciplinary record which has brought three umpiring reports in a single season

Peter Barrable, a former batsman and captain of Northern Transvaal, has died at the age of 72 on Thursday

BCCI president Jagmohan Dalmiya, who was hospitalised on Thursday evening in Kolkata after suffering a heart attack, is now stable

A sparkling all-round performance from Nasir Hossain proved match-winning as he led Bangladesh A to a 65-run win against India A in the second one-dayer to level the series 1-1

Moin Ashraf, Dan Hodgson and Jonny Tattersall, have been released by Yorkshire

Shahid Afridi, the Pakistan T20 captain, has said that the Pakistan Super League should be held within the country, with or without overseas players

Kevin Roberts has emerged as a prospective replacement for the Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland, after taking the lateral step of resigning from the board of directors to join the executive management team

Stuart Law believes Australia may be surprised at the strength of the Bangladesh team they take on in next month's Test series in Chittagong and Dhaka

This was an excellent match for Surrey. It illustrated their strengths and suggested they are ready for the tough school that is Division One of the County Championship

An outstanding unbeaten career-best 151 from opener Nick Browne, during which he passed 1,000 championship runs for the season, helped Essex to victory over Leicestershire at Grace Road

Jagmohan Dalmiya, the BCCI president, suffered a heart attack on Thursday evening and has undergone an angiogram at the BM Birla hospital in Kolkata

Worcestershire produced a valiant effort on the final day at Chyester-le-Street but a three-wicket defeat late in the day meant they were relegated and ended Durham's barren run

This was a day spent chuntering about could-be controversies and moral quagmires that never quite came to pass. In those disputes stead stood Marcus Trescothick.