Cricket News

Australia's young allrounder Glenn Maxwell has declared he will be his side's "x-factor" in the World Twenty20

West Indies Women avoided a whitewash against England but took their full 20 overs to chase down 140 at Arundel.

Steven Smith and Doug Bollinger helped New South Wales claim the first victory of the Australian domestic season, a 27-run win over Western Australia at the WACA

Jos Buttler's international career finally came alive at Edgbaston and in an instant his stock has rocketed

Brian Lara, who was inducted into the ICC's Hall of Fame, dedicated the honour to his late father Bunty Lara, who died before his son played a Test

Hampshire have proved more than a few times this season that it pays not to write them off and here they did so again to win on the last ball

England Women once again proved a class apart as they destroyed West Indies by 84 runs to move one step closer to a series whitewash.

Kumar Sangakkara has won three awards, including the prestigious Cricketer of the Year and Test Cricketer of the Year at the annual ICC awards ceremony in Colombo

West Indies' Stafanie Talyor has won the ICC Women's Cricket of the Year award, while England's Sarah Taylor took home the Twenty20 award

Virat Kohli, the India batsman, has been named the ODI Cricketer of the Year at the ICC awards function in Colombo

Daniel Vettori, the New Zealand left-arm spinner, has won the ICC Spirit of Cricket award, for a sporting gesture during a Test against Zimbabwe

South Africa's Richard Levi took home the ICC's T20I Performance of the Year award for his knock of 117 not out off 51 balls against New Zealand, in Auckland, in February

Sri Lankan umpire Kumar Dharmasena has won the David Shepherd trophy for the Umpire of the Year at the ICC Awards ceremony in Colombo

George Dockrell, the Ireland left-arm spinner, has been named the ICC Associate and Affiliate Player of the Year

The Indian board has done away with the zonal rotation system for electing its president, and also allowed its office bearers longer terms

West Indies' offspinner Sunil Narine has been named the Emerging Player of the Year for 2012 at the ICC Awards ceremony in Colombo

The fate of the IPL's Deccan Chargers franchise, which was terminated on Friday, is up in the air with the matter now in court and the BCCI saying it will wait for a ruling before deciding on floating a tender for a new franchise

Clint McKay became one of the fastest to 50 ODI wickets earlier this year but he knows his place in the shorter format is far from certain for Australia's World T20 campaign

A round-up of warm-up games ahead of the World Twenty20 2012

A 78-run recovery stand and a belligerent finish from MS Dhoni and Rohit Sharma paved the way for India's 26-run win over Sri Lanka