Cricket News

Angelo Mathews has expressed enthusiasm for the leadership role and appears ready to take over the captaincy once Mahela Jayawardene, Sri Lanka's current Test captain, steps down

Mark Greatbatch, the former New Zealand coach, has called for NZC chairman Chris Moller to resign in the wake of Ross Taylor being dumped as captain

Peter Siddle has chewed up and spat out the suggestion that the absence of meat from his diet was the reason he was unable to recover from his Adelaide exertions

Steven Finn has emerged as a major injury doubt ahead of the fourth Test in Nagpur after suffering a back injury

An unbeaten century by Suzie Bates led New Zealand Women to a comfortable eight wicket win against Australia Women in the first match of the Rose Bowl

Australia's wicketkeeper Matthew Wade is acutely aware of his tenuous place at the top of what is by far the national team's most competitive market

New Zealand Cricket chairman Chris Moller has apologised to Ross Taylor for the manner in which the team's captaincy changeover played out, but he said there was no need for heads to roll over the saga

New Zealand fast bowler Adam Milne has been ruled out of the Twenty20 series against South Africa, after picking up an Achilles injury

Shuffled almost as often as a deck of cards in a poker den, Shane Watson's itinerant Test match batting career may finally have found a permanent home at No. 4

Former selector Mohinder Amarnath has pointed the finger at the BCCI president, N Srinivasan, for overruling the selectors' unanimous call for sacking of MS Dhoni as captain after the two whitewashes in England and in Australia

Brad Young has become the latest veteran spinner to join the Big Bash League after signing with the Adelaide Strikers

Graeme Swann has urged caution ahead of England's final Test against India, warning that the hosts will be desperate for a victory in Nagpur that would tie the series

It took five games for a struggling Karnataka to get their first win of the season, but with only 11 points on the board their captain Vinay Kumar is bullish about making the quarter-finals

A round-up of the third day of the sixth round of Ranji Trophy Group C matches

Former India selectors, one of them a part of the selection committee as recently as the World Twenty20 in September this year, have called for drastic changes to the team they themselves built

A round-up of the sixth round of Ranji Trophy's Group B matches on December 11, 2012

Karnataka recorded their first outright win to spark life into an underwhelming Ranji season

Nottinghamshire are currently in talks to sign Australia batsman Ed Cowan as their overseas player for the start of the 2013 county season

Brendon McCullum, the New Zealand captain, has said he has been in touch with Jesse Ryder and expects him to be back in national colours in the "not too distant future"

Kumar Sangakkara is hopeful of a lively surface when the tourists meet Australia in the first Test at Bellerive Oval on Friday