Cricket News

Derbyshire's groundstaff were cleared of any blame after the third day of the LV= County Championship Division Two match against Gloucestershire was abandoned without a ball bowled.

In addition to appointing Charl Langeveldt as bowing coach, CSA has extended coach Russell Domingo's contract until April 30, 2017

Leicestershire established themselves as firm favourites to claim their first Championship victory in 38 attempts after being left a modest target of 163 in their Division Two clash with Essex at Chelmsford.

Brendon McCullum was delighted with the way his team had stayed true to their attacking instincts in levelling the Investec series against England with only their fifth Test victory in the country

James Anderson and Stuart Broad have been left out of England's first ODI squad since the disastrous World Cup campaign. Moeen Ali has also been left out to concentrate on red-ball cricket ahead of the Ashes that begins on July 8.

For the first time in in 21 years, West Indian fans must consider a Chanderpaul-less future. And their first engagement of that future is against Australia, a team West Indies have not beaten in a Test for 12 years, and in a series for 23 years

Steve Davis has announced his retirement after the five-match ODI series between England and New Zealand in June

Lord William Griffiths, who had a brief career as a fast bowler in Glamorgan, has died aged 91

Sri Lanka Cricket has taken strides towards wiping out chucking in domestic and school cricket

The PCB has nominated former Pakistan batsman Zaheer Abbas for the ICC presidency, a day after Najam Sethi, the head of the board executive committee, withdrew his candidature for the post

BCB's High Performance coach Mal Loye wants to keep the message simple in his first international coaching stint

New Zealand wrapped up victory in the second Test by 199 runs with time to spare, levelling the series and extending their unbeaten run

ESPNcricinfo has learnt that he is being considered to take over the India under-19 and 'A' teams

All must live in a post-Phillip Hughes world, where the protection of the head and the region around it is given far greater attention due to the unimaginable events of last summer. As a result, Chris Rogers has been ruled out of the first Test in Dominic

Steven Smith has been anointed Australia's new Test match No. 3, Shaun Marsh appears to be the choice as stand-in opening batsman, and one of Fawad Ahmed or Adam Voges will debut in the first Test against the West Indies in Dominica on Wednesday

Virat Kohli, India's Test captain, has backed Ravi Shastri as the team's director, saying that the latter's presence is a "massive boost" for the side.

Ravi Shastri has been named India's team director for the upcoming tour to Bangladesh, while Sanjay Bangar, Bharat Arun and R Sridhar will continue as assistant coaches for the tour

The ECB are getting behind the "This Girl Can" campaign, encouraging cricket clubs to get more women and girls across the country to play cricket. Taster sessions will be staged along with four new cricket festivals aimed at women of all abilities.

By his own admission, Luke Wood has no pedigree as a batsman. When he made his debut at the end of last season his thoughts were that if he might achieve anything in cricket it would be through his ability with the ball. He might now have to revise that

Angus Robson struck his first century of the season as Leicestershire ended the second day at Chelmsford as favourites to claim a long-overdue victory.