Cricket News

Graeme Swann's performances in the one-day series are putting significant pressure on Xavier Doherty and he is feeling the strain

Gloucestershire are on the verge of completing negotiations with Ed Cowan, the Australia Test batsman, to play on a short-term basis ahead of the Australia A tour of England.

Essex have confirmed the signing of Harbhajan Singh, the India offspinner, for the second half of the domestic season

Northamptonshire head coach David Capel has left his role with immediate effect after six years in the job

Somerset's CB40 game against Durham, scheduled to take place at The Recreation Ground in Bath on Sunday July 22, has been moved to Taunton

Paul Collingwood has replaced Phil Mustard as Durham captain as the county try to pull around a season that sees them threatened with relegation from Division One of County Championship.

The Champions League 2012 will be held between October 9 and 28 this year and will be preceded by a qualifying stage involving six teams, consistent with the format for the tournament last year

Rain fell from the sky, records fell by the wayside, but in all likelihood the wickets fell too late in the day

The New South Wales batsman Kurtis Patterson is one of three players with senior state cricket experience named in Australia's squad for the Under-19 World Cup

The fast bowler Mark Gillespie has been ruled out of New Zealand's Test series against West Indies due to an ongoing ankle problem, further depleting a squad already hit by injuries

If anything could sum up the struggles of this season's Friends Life t20 to achieve lift-off, it was surely Kevin Pietersen's first-ball duck against Hampshire.

In the space of two matches, Australia have gone from questioning England's balance to thinking about appropriating it

Former Pakistan wicket-keeper Kamran Akmal has been summoned to appear before the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) integrity committee on July 4

BCB's decision to give contracts to 120 cricketers from January next year is being welcomed as a step towards finally making cricket an inclusive sport

Jade Dernbach, the England pace bowler, has been ruled out of the remainder of the NatWest Series against Australia with a side strain

South Africa depart for England determined to become the No. 1 Test side in the world

Bangladesh have brought back Shakib Al Hasan and medium-pacer Shafiul Islam to their squad for the Twenty20 matches in Ireland and the Netherlands in July

Back-to-back Ashes series in 2013 may arrive too soon for Pat Cummins' young body to cope with, says Australia coach Mickey Arthur

Abdur Rehman, the Pakistan left-arm spinner, is set to join Somerset for the latter part of the season subject to being granted a visa

If Ireland need any reminders of Afghanistan's threat as they prepare for a pair of critical World Cup qualifiers, they need only recall Boyd Rankin's opening delivery in the World Twenty20 qualifying final in Dubai.