Cricket News

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.

Jacques Faul, CSA's acting chief executive, has paid tribute to Mark Boucher's "wonderful contribution" to the South Africa team

Saqlain Mushtaq, the former Pakistan offspinner, has been offered the post of Bangladesh's spin-bowling consultant for a period of three months

Danish Kaneria, the Pakistan legspinner, has filed an appeal against the lifetime ban handed down to him by the ECB for his involvement in spot-fixing

New Zealand lifted their fielding, and exposed West Indies' brittle batting to get an 88-run victory

Kamran Akmal, the Pakistan wicketkeeper who is awaiting clearance by the PCB's integrity committee, has been named in the country's provisional 30-man squad for September's World Twenty20

New South Wales have followed Australia's lead and appointed their state captain to the selection panel, using the same model recommended by the Argus review

On a day that began with Pakistan needing to bat positively to set a competitive target, Sri Lanka surged ahead with a strong chance of winning the series 2-0