Cricket News

Peter Siddle is confident Australia's pace attack can stay on top of India's experienced batting line-up if they maintain the constant pressure they built up in the first Test in Melbourne

Sydney's 100th Test pitch should offer plenty to the fast bowlers on the first day, as the curator Tom Parker said he wanted to emulate the surfaces prepared for the previous two New Year's matches

India will not support the DRS until they are convinced that the technology is 100% perfect, captain MS Dhoni has reiterated

Ryan Harris has been deemed fit to return to Australia's squad, but Shane Watson's prospects for the remainder of the Test summer look increasingly cloudy

Jacques Rudolph and Ashwell Prince, the two most under-pressure South Africa batsmen, have been put on notice after Alviro Petersen was retained in the squad for the deciding Test

Aaqib Javed, Pakistan's bowling coach, has said the upcoming series against England will be a "clash of qualities"

The Perth Scorchers moved into the top four of the Big Bash League following a comfortable win over the Brisbane Heat at the WACA

Rain played spoilsport in New Zealand as one HRV Cup match was called off and the other abandoned without a ball being bowled

England batsman Ian Bell expects the occasional flashpoint in the series against Pakistan which starts next month

James Pattinson, the Australia fast bowler, has described his first Boxing Day Test as "a dream come true" after he won the Man-of-the-Match award in the 122-run victory over India

Michael Clarke, the Australia captain, has said fast bowler Ryan Harris has looked ready to play while bowling in the nets, though he is not sure if he is 100% fit

Michael Clarke is conscious of going to Sydney with a greater accent on repeating the good of Melbourne while remedying the bad.

After India's 122-run loss at the MCG, India's third first-Test loss on their last four tours, MS Dhoni said it was the batting that let the side down

As predicted the Durban Test was a one-sided affair, except that it was the no-hopers from Sri Lanka who were doing the dominating

Australia's fast men obliterated India with bowling of sustained hostility and direction to deliver a handsome 122-run victory to the hosts, on day four of the first Test at the MCG

Not many gave Sri Lanka a chance at the start of the tour but Sri Lanka have responded with a new-found sense of self belief

South Africa will enter the last two days of the Boxing Day Test under tremendous pressure, and Gary Kirsten said it was an opportunity for someone to be a put in a special performance

The Hobart Hurricanes Twenty20 blueprint, or more accurately purpleprint, has worked again. This time the Adelaide Strikers succumbed to Xavier Doherty's team by 14 runs

The first edition of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) will kick off on February 9, 2012 with the final to be played on February 29

Virender Sehwag and Ricky Ponting feel the Test is finely balanced going into the fourth day, which could also prove to be the final one