Cricket News

Totteridge Millhillians CC, a village club in North London, has developed a link with Arusha CC in Tanzania, leading the Club Cricket Conference to encourage more clubs to set up 'twinning' arrrangements with clubs in Africa.

Muttiah Muralitharan confirmed he would play for the Renegades in the Big Bash League

Several leading India and overseas players contracted to Royal Challengers Bangalore, including team captain Daniel Vettori, are awaiting the first instalment of their fees for the 2012 season

Sanitha de Mel, the right-arm medium-pacer, will lead Sri Lanka at the Under-19 World Cup in Australia in August

PM Rungta, a former BCCI president and head of the Rajasthan Cricket Association, has died at the age of 84 at his residence in Mumbai

Sri Lanka's focus turned to securing their 1-0 lead and they changed their approach to a chase of 270 after tea to settle for a draw

Kane Williamson hopes an improved performance with the ball and in the field in St Kitts will be the catalyst for a turnaround in the side's fortunes

The Melbourne Stars have poached two key players from their cross-town rivals the Melbourne Renegades, with Brad Hodge and Glenn Maxwell both signing multi-year deals with the Stars

Run-hungry Phil Hughes made a smooth transition from the shortest format to the longest in the County Championship as Worcestershire and Durham battled for supremacy in between the showers at New Road.

Max Sorensen and Alex Cusack each took four wickets to help Ireland skittle Afghanistan for 84, as their rain-hit Intercontinental Cup match got underway on day three

Leicestershire's veteran pace bowler Matthew Hoggard marked his relinquishing of the county's one-day captaincy to Josh Cobb with three wickets against Netherlands in Amstelveen.

Paul Horton, with a composed, efficient century, ensured that Lancashire enjoyed the best of the first day against Surrey

Ed Cowan, the Australian batsman, just happened to be living in Cirencester because of his heavily-pregnant wife. He made a first-class debut for Gloucestershire and promptly won his county cap.

England Women completed their sterling comeback in the five-match ODI series, recording their third straight win against India Women, in Wormsley, to win 3-2

A month after his last knock, in the third Test against West Indies, Andrew Strauss displayed the traditional virtues that his team-mates had forgotten to score more than half of Middlesex's runs in a sorry first-innings at Uxbridge

Aakash Chopra, the former India opener, will switch from Rajasthan to Himachal Pradesh for the upcoming domestic season

Sri Lanka coach Graham Ford said that the home team will need to "work hard" on the fifth day, as the Test is evenly poised at the end of the fourth

Neil McKenzie played a lot alongside Mark Boucher for South Africa and as rain prevented action against Yorkshire he spoke about his former team-mate

Alviro Petersen will play in South Africa's second match of their tour to England against Kent

Matthew Hoggard has stepped aside as Leicestershire captain in limited-overs cricket. Josh Cobb, aged just 21, has succeed him.