Cricket News

Ross Taylor is confident he will return from injury earlier than anticipated, but it will still be too late to revive New Zealand's one-day hopes unless they can stay alive in the series in St Kitts on Wednesday

Australia's captain Michael Clarke is digesting the first series defeat of his reign, and its nature cannot go down easily

None of the bowlers likely to make up England's attack for the first Test against South Africa will play first-class cricket before the series

Bangladesh Richard Pybus has said there are a few spots to be claimed in the national Twenty20 side

Preview of the third ODI between West Indies and New Zealand in Basseterre

Incoming captain Paul Collingwood was left on the sidelines as Durham's under-fire batting line-up tiptoed into a new era against Worcestershire

Pakistan coach Dav Whatmore has said his side has conceded the advantage they had coming into the third day of the Pallekele Test

Australia's coach, Mickey Arthur, had called for more mongrel but the Australian attack dog barely raised a whimper as England were set 146 for victory

Mark Boucher's will be a significant loss for South Africa on their tour of England, the Australia coach Mickey Arthur has said

Allrounder Javed Ahmadi will lead Afghanistan at the Under-19 World Cup in Australia in August

Leicestershire are in a desperate financial position after a Twenty20 campaign officially described as "gruesome."

Geoffrey Toyana has been appointed Highveld Lions' head coach for the 2012-13 and 2013-14 domestic seasons, the Gauteng Cricket Board has confirmed

JP Duminy and Hashim Amla made half-centuries ahead of the Test series as Somerset gave the South Africans a useful work-out

Former Kenya captain Steve Tikolo has been appointed as the new batting coach of Uganda

Aiden Blizzard has become the first player to change teams during the Big Bash League contract window, signing with the Hobart Hurricanes after playing with the Adelaide Strikers last summer

Sri Lanka took a significant step in their attempt to thwart Pakistan from levelling this rain-affected series, through a combination of dogged batting on a testing pitch, a fair amount of luck, and aggression

Kraigg Brathwaite, the Test opener, has been named captain of the 15-man West Indies squad for the Under-19 World Cup in Australia in August

Darren Sammy has declared his intention to donate his match fee for Wednesday's one-day international against New Zealand to the family of Runako Morton, the West Indies batsman who died in a car accident in March

Mark Boucher has retired from international cricket after undergoing surgery on the severe eye injury he sustained on the opening day against Somerset

It might be a case of stating the bleeding obvious, but the New Zealand allrounder Nathan McCullum knows there is one simple way his side can get back into the series against West Indies. Get Chris Gayle out cheaply