Cricket News

Opening batsman Ed Cowan will officially be part of the New South Wales squad again after being handed a state contract for 2015-16

Opening batsman Fahad Babar navigated USA through a tricky chase with an unbeaten 78 off 54 balls to give the host nation a five-wicket win over Bermuda on Sunday at Indianapolis World Sports Park

East Zone chased down 224 in 30.5 overs on the final day to beat Central Zone by three wickets in a dramatic BCL game in Chittagong

Rizwan Cheema and Junaid Siddiqui inspired Canada to a 62-run win over Suriname in their ICC Americas Regional Division One T20 game in Indianapolis

James Harris and Steven Finn, two seam bowlers who have laboured so long under the burden of "promise", combined to haul Middlesex into the ascendancy on a day of hard graft at Lord's

Perhaps Essex have spent too much time watching England recently. Serenely placed on 61 for 0, Chelmsford offered no hint of the bedlam that once again was about to engulf Essex's batting

Leicestershire skipper Mark Cosgrove hit his first century of the summer to help the visitors recover from a sticky start during a rain-affected opening day against Kent in Canterbury.

Charlie Morris reached a new milestone in a fast-developing career as Worcestershire dismissed Somerset for 250 on the opening day of the County Championship meeting between teams who each lost their first two matches of the season.

Peter Siddle and Kyle Jarvis kept up Lancashire's momentum from last week's win over Kent as they claimed a narrow advantage over Northamptonshire at Wantage Road.

Just selecting a team was demanding enough for Derbyshire in Cardiff. Five injuries and a two-match suspension for Billy Godleman meant five changes from the side that dismissed Gloucestershire with such confidence

West Indies turned what looked likely to be a nail-biting chase into a canter over the line as the evening shadows enveloped Kensington Oval to secure a hugely notable shared series

Forget the on-field rivalry for a moment. This is one of the most fiercely anticipated tussles by fans of either team, and tickets for the game are among the fastest to be sold out

It's that time of the season when the middle of the table is a logjam, with a constant churn in the teams' positions after each match-day

Ajinkya Rahane's serene unbeaten 91 off 54 balls helped return Rajasthan Royals to winning ways, and returned the tournament's orange cap to him

Shakib Al Hasan and Wahab Riaz have been fined 30 per cent of their match fees for breaching Level 1 of the ICC code of conduct during the final day's play of the drawn first Test between Bangladesh and Pakistan in Khulna

Bangladesh captain Mushfiqur Rahim said he was happy that Tamim Iqbal overtook his individual highest Test score but added that Imrul Kayes deserved more recognition because he did it under physical and circumstantial pressure

Mumbai Indians continued to repair damage caused by a poor start to the season, winning their third game in a row to add to the mid-table pile-up of teams on eight or nine points

Sri Lanka A won the three-match one-day series against Pakistan A 2-1 but their primary objective to provide a steady flow of players to the senior team remains a concern

Mukhtar Ahmed's 96 and Fawad Alam's unbeaten 76 guided Pakistan A to a consolation win over Sri Lanka A to finish the three-match series 2-1

It is eight and a half months since Sam Robson sloped back to the pavilion at The Oval after his last innings for England but at two minutes past three on Saturday afternoon, Robson dabbed Scott Borthwick through backward point to bring up his first centu