Cricket News

Surrey opened their Friends Life t20 campaign with a 17-run victory over Essex at The Oval

A bludgeoned half-century from new boy Richard Levi and career-best bowling figures from Max Waller saw Somerset to a 63-run victory over Warwickshire

Sri Lanka Cricket has decided to franchise the seven teams that will comprise the Sri Lanka Premier League through a tender process that began today, and hold a draft to allocate players to each franchise

Johan Botha has been ruled out of the unofficial Twenty20 tri-series between South Africa, Zimbabwe and Bangladesh with a knee injury

England's offspinner Graeme Swann has voiced sympathy for Kevin Pietersen's decision to retire from one-day internationals to escape a relentless international schedule.

Darren Bravo returned to form with an unbeaten hundred against Middlesex and Dwayne Smith made 96 in a crushing win

Muttiah Muralitharan, Sri Lanka's record-breaking spin bowler, has dismissed England's Twenty20 format as "old fashioned" and called for it to adopt the franchise format favoured by the IPL.

Australia and Pakistan could ask the ICC for permission to stage the longest bilateral Twenty20 international series ever played later this year

The south-west monsoon allowed only 6.2 overs of play in the third ODI between Sri Lanka and Pakistan at the R Premadasa Stadium, leaving the series level at 1-1

South Africa have named an unchanged Test squad from the one that toured New Zealand for the three-match series in England in July and August

The ICC will not consider creating an official window for the IPL in its Future Tours Programme, according to the outgoing ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat

Leicestershire Foxes were bowled out for 96 in a calamitous start to the defence of their Friends Life t20 title against Nottinghamshire Outlaws at Grace Road

West Indies A levelled the series 1-1 by bundling out India A for 94 to complete a 125-run victory in Kingstown

The Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) governing council said that the outstanding amounts due to the league's foreign players will be paid very shortly

Andy Flower, England's director of cricket, has voiced concern that Kevin Pietersen will become detached from the rest of the England squad

Chris Gayle will have enough 'hunger and desire' when he returns to West Indies colours for the first time in 15 months to perform against England. That is the opinion of Gayle's West Indies team-mate Kieron Pollard

The preview of the third ODI between Sri Lanka and Pakistan at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo

Durham have suffered a major blow ahead of their Friends Life t20 campaign with the news that Paul Collingwood will miss at least the next month through injury, the club revealed today.

Sri Lanka may not have beaten Pakistan in the last five one-dayers the teams have played at the R Premadasa Stadium, but the hosts' captain, Mahela Jayawardene, is confident of his team doing well in Wednesday's ODI

Anil Kumble has said that the suggested changes to domestic cricket will make it more competitive