Cricket News

It took eight rounds across 31 days for Chris Gayle to deliver and yet, incredibly, Sydney Thunder lost again to gift the Melbourne Stars a semi-final berth

Cricket South Africa has been dealt another blow with acting chief executive Jacques Faul confirming he will not apply for the post full-time

Mumbai buried Baroda under a mountain of runs on a flat track, and then watched irresponsible Baroda batsmen crumble under the weight

Karnataka's Manish Pandey finally broke his century drought with a stylish, attacking hundred, but Saurashta gained a 73-run first-innings advantage

Vernon Philander has been ruled out of the second Test against New Zealand in Port Elizabeth, which starts on Friday

England suffered their second successive defeat in a tour game as their bowlers failed to defend 295 against Delhi at the Kotla in seemingly bowling-friendly conditions

Paul Harris, the South African spinner, is to retire at the end of the season, bringing to an end a 14-year first-class career.

Services stunned UP, beating them by five wickets, to enter the semi-finals of the Ranji Trophy 2012-13

Angelo Mathews is confident Sri Lanka can bounce back after their disappointing Test series and challenge Australia in the one-day internationals, which begin at the MCG on Friday.

Melbourne Renegades will replace Marlon Samuels with England player Alex Hales after the West Indian was ruled out of the remainder of the Big Bash League due to an eye injury

There's nothing like being picked while in form, and Phillip Hughes is in the one-day form of his life

Willie Basson, CSA's acting president, has been convinced not to step down from his post with less than a month to go before the body's AGM

A round-up of the two matches played in the Caribbean T20 in Port of Spain

South Africa Women beat West Indies Women by 80 runs in the first of the five ODIs played in St Kitts

Chris Gayle is not playing for Jamaica in the ongoing Caribbean T20 after the selectors decided to omit him from the squad because of a clash with the Big Bash

Punjab captain Harbhajan Singh has been fined 50% of his match fee for showing dissent at the umpire's decision on the second day of their Ranji Trophy quarter-final against Jharkhand in Jamshedpur

Pakistan returned home to a rousing welcome after winning the ODI series against archrivals India and drawing the Twenty20 series 1-1

BCB president Nazmul Hassan met Zaka Ashraf, the PCB chairman, during the third India-Pakistan ODI in Delhi in a bid to restore bilateral relations, but no firm commitment of a future tour was made

Poor visibility in Jamshedpur, due to fog, meant that only 40 overs were possible during the second day, resulting in over two sessions of play lost due to bad weather over the two days

Neil Wagner's impressive display in the nets will have aided his chances of a recall to the Test side