Cricket News

Australian cricket's custodians have voted themselves out of their own jobs, formally approving the introduction of a smaller, nine-person Cricket Australia board

Matt Prior, the England wicketkeeper, and the New Zealand opener Martin Guptill have been signed by the Sydney Thunder to substitute for Chris Gayle and Shahid Afridi at various points of this summer's BBL

Ireland have suffered a blow ahead of the ICC World Twenty20 with the allrounder John Mooney ruled out due to a serious finger fracture

David Willey and David Murphy frustrated promotion-seeking Hampshire by leading some defiant Northamptonshire tail-end resistance on another rain-interrupted day at West End.

Is there a cleaner striker of a ball in English cricket than Craig Kieswetter? Those who watched him make 112 not out on the second day of the England Lions game against Australia A at Edgbaston might find it hard to believe so.

Graham Onions has suffered some ups and downs in his career but will not have too many ups to rival this one.

Openers Tom Westley and Jaik Mickleburgh put together an unbroken partnership of 165 to lead a superb Essex fightback against Glamorgan on the second day at Colchester.

Having postponed talks on a new deal until next month, Anthony McGrath is putting up a strong case to continue a county career already spanning 17 years.

Only 11.2 overs were bowled on the second day of the County Championship Division Two match between Gloucestershire and Kent at Bristol before a torrential downpour left the outfield resembling a lake.

The golden age of the overseas spinner may have passed, but The Oval remains as good a place as any for county twirlers to show off their skills

Worcestershire's inexperienced pair Neil Pinner and Joe Leach defied relegation rivals Lancashire in their crucial County Championship clash at New Road.

Rahul Dravid has said that creating a window for the Indian Premier League would allow the world's best players to play Test cricket, thereby enlivening the longer format

Lancashire have moved another Championship fixture away from Old Trafford due to the wet summer

India's batting is still in need of improvement, their coach Bharat Arun has said

England put the brouhaha with Kevin Pietersen behind them, temporarily at least, with the third Test initially taking shape in their favour at Lord's

The ICC have extended the deadlines for naming World Twenty20 squads, although the chances of Kevin Pietersen being included for England remain very slim

The Bangladesh Premier League will collapse if its franchises cannot survive, the league's governing council chairman Gazi Ashraf Hossain has warned

Farhad Reza, a pace-bowling allrounder, is the only new inclusion in an otherwise settled 15-member Bangladesh squad for the ICC World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka

A round-up of matches on August 16 at the Under-19 World Cup 2012