Cricket News

Jim Troughton, the former Warwickshire captain who was forced to retire through injury last season, will return to Edgbaston this summer as fielding coach.

Twenty-one wickets fell on the opening day of the first semi-final, as hosts Karnataka gained an upper hand against Mumbai at the Chinnaswamy Stadium

Vijay Shankar continued his good form to help Tamil Nadu begin assuredly against Maharashtra on what is said to be a lively Eden Gardens surface

Lack of regular game time has contributed to Wayne Parnell's erratic form, according to former South African captain Shaun Pollock, who admitted to empathising with the left-arm pace bowler

New South Wales, electing to bat, managed no more than an average showing after stumbling in the early part of their innings in Newcastle.

South Australia recovered from a disastrous start, where they lost their top-three batsmen - Kelvin Smith, Mark Cosgrove and Callum Ferguson - for two runs inside the first three overs, to finish the day with a respectable score at the Gliderol Stadium.

Queensland couldn't capitalise on a sound start after electing to bat, ending the day with only one wicket in hand, and not many on the board, in Alice Springs.

Test cricket could be reduced to four days, and the next World Cup curtailed to just 40 overs a side if wide-ranging discussions between the chairmen of the English counties and the ECB become firm proposals, and are ultimately adopted by the ICC

English cricket is undergoing another major review: four-day Tests, an ambitious T20 tournament with England players, floodlit three-day Championship cricket - just about anything is possible

Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews has voiced his support for Lasith Malinga despite the seamer's patchy form, believing "he will come good" when it matters most

Hashim Amla has urged South Africa not to overreact after their defeat to India on Sunday and pinned their uncharacteristic blow-out at the MCG on "a few mistakes" from which they could "move on" fast.

Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza believes his team has quality fast bowlers, and that the bouncy wickets in Australia necessitated playing an extra paceman

Tim Southee and Trent Boult have earned the highest possible praise from the highest possible source in New Zealand cricket, with Richard Hadlee declaring them the country's finest ever new-ball combination

Scotland captain Preston Mommsen believes his team will take "a huge psychological advantage" into their match against Afghanistan

Bangladesh are a point above Sri Lanka and although the World Cup is still at a very early stage, it is hard to imagine both sides envisioning themselves in their respective positions after their first two matches

BCB president Nazmul Hassan has said that the ACSU did not bring any corruption charges against Al-Amin Hossain, although the agency gave information about the player's whereabouts to the Bangladesh team management

The two games where both came close to registering their respective maiden World Cup wins were played at the University Oval in Dunedin. It will be in Dunedin where one team will walk ahead

There have been no easy starts for Shane Watson in this World Cup. In his only innings of the tournament, he was out for a first-ball duck when he edged Stuart Broad behind at the MCG

With nuggety wicketkeeper Gary Wilson for company, the big-hitting Kevin O'Brien set right the mess he had left Ireland in with some ordinary plans and bowling at the death

Former New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming has been announced as the new head coach of the Melbourne Stars