Cricket News

John Inverarity, Australia's national selector, is keen to give David Hussey, George Bailey, and Peter Forrest the best chances of exposure to England ahead of next year's Ashes series.

Tom Maynard's funeral in Cardiff has been attended by more than 1000 mourners including many figures from the sporting world

West Indies Twenty20 champions Trinidad and Tobago will have to play qualifying matches for the second-year running before the Champions League 2012 to join the four IPL teams and two teams each from Australia and South Africa

Mark Ramprakash, the Surrey batsman, is expected to announce his retirement from professional cricket on Thursday at the age of 42

Virender Sehwag and Zaheer Khan have returned to the Indian team for the limited-overs tour of Sri Lanka

Western Australia have finalised their squad for next summer, with the Tasmanian wicketkeeper Tom Triffitt and the young Victorian spinner Ashton Agar the only imports from outside the state

Kane Williamson believes he will be much better prepared to captain New Zealand in the opening one-day international against West Indies after being thrust into the role at short notice for the second T20 on Sunday

With more than a day's worth of overs lost to rain, and a pitch that was a scourge of bowlers, the SSC Test ended in the inevitable and dreary draw it was destined to be

As the six Australian states finalise their squads for 2012-13, ESPNcricinfo will provide a regularly updated list of confirmed moves and contract lists

Luke Pomersbach has been given a chance to resume his troubled Australian career after Queensland signed him on a one-year contract

Sussex booked their place in the quarter-finals of the Friends Life t20 and ended Surrey's hopes in the process following an emphatic six-wicket win at The Oval.

Nottinghamshire remained unbeaten as a record Lancashire opening stand between Stephen Moore and Tom Smith proved in vain in a rain-affected eight-wicket Friends Life t20 win.

For the first time India have had a significant break between the IPL and their subsequent international series, and all their first-choice players are expected to be available for the Sri Lanka trip when the selectors meets in Mumbai

Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara, who remained unbeaten on 144 at the end of the fourth day in Colombo, has said Pakistan 'shifted the momentum their way' by taking late wickets

Alan Isaac is only five days into his term as president of ICC but the New Zealander is already thinking of his legacy

England are a win away from securing their seventh consecutive home one-day series victory

Chris Gayle and Shahid Afridi have been chosen as the two international icons for the inaugural Sri Lanka Premier League

Surrey's captain, Rory Hamilton-Brown has taken indefinite compassionate leave and stepped down temporarily as Surrey captain following the death of his team mate Tom Maynard last month in an accident on the London underground.

Imran Tahir, the legspinner, has been left out of the Switzerland bonding session to working on his game with the South African A side

Prashant Chopra, the Himachal Pradesh batsman, has been recalled to the India Under-19 squad for the World Cup