Cricket News

Kithuruwan Vithanage was the entertainer of the day, as the Sri Lanka Development Emerging Team gave Bangladesh a Sri Lankan workout on the opening day of their tour game

Mohammed Hafeez and Umar Gul turned their tour around to take Pakistan to an emphatic victory and leapfrog three places on the ICC rankings to No.3

A round-up of the Ford Trophy matches on March 3

Andy Flower, the England team director, has cautioned against over-hyping Joe Root's early success at international level

West Indies completed a second crushing victory over Sri Lanka in the Twenty20 series, winning by six wickets with 26 balls to spare at the R Premadasa

Sammy Guillen, one of the handful of players to have played Test cricket for two countries, has died in Christchurch aged 88

A round-up of the Ram Slam T20 Challenge matches played on March 2, 2013

M Vijay and Cheteshwar Pujara ran amok with an unbroken 294-run stand, which put India in command of the second Test

Lendl Simmons felt "free" during his match-winning innings on Saturday, an innings that guided West Indies to an easy win against Zimbabwe in the first Twenty20

West Indies may have been without Chris Gayle, but they were not exactly missing his presence at the top as Lendl Simmons matched him for destructiveness, making a chase of 131 look ridiculously simple

Kings XI Punjab added two India uncapped players - Manan Vohra and Sandeep Sharma - to their squad for the sixth IPL season

Sri Lanka Cricket has frozen out 23 of its top players after a meeting on Saturday could not break the contract deadlock between the board and the nation's best cricketers

The preview for the second T20 between South Africa and Pakistan in Centurion

Matthew Wade, whose confident innings of 62 rescued Australia after they had lost early wickets, said he felt in control during his innings, but was disappointed not to have played a bigger knock

Bangladesh's three-day practice match at the Uyanwatte Stadium in Matara has as much poignancy for the locals, as it has importance for the visitors' build-up

A major contract dispute between SLC and the nation's top cricketers has threatened to derail Sri Lanka's home series against Bangladesh

A round-up of the Vijay Hazare semi-finals on March 2, 2013

England's bowlers will know plenty about BJ Watling after the wicketkeeper guided New Zealand XI to an excellent three-wicket victory with eight balls to spare in Queenstown

A wrap of matches from the Regional Four Day competition

Clarke was once again Australia's standout batsman but the innings crumbled either side of his hold-it-together stand with Matthew Wade to leave India in control