Cricket News

BCCI vice-president Niranjan Shah has criticised the Decision Review System (DRS) in its present form, saying it offers marginal gains for a technology that is exorbitant and not error-free

DRS technology expensive, unreliable - Niranjan Shah

Worcestershire seamer Matt Mason has announced his retirement from competitive cricket with immediate effect

Matt Mason announces retirement

The draft of the FTP for 2012 to 2020 has a division among the Test playing countries, with England, Australia and India scheduled to play the most Tests, followed by Sri Lanka and South Africa

More Tests for major countries in FTP draft

25-Jun-2011•Tariq Engineer

Jayawardene crushes lacklustre England

Mahela Jayawardene put his struggles in the Test series firmly behind him with a fluent and dominant 72 from 57 balls, as Stuart Broad's maiden outing as England Twenty20 captain ended in a thumping nine-wicket defeat at Bristol

25-Jun-2011•The Bulletin by Andrew Miller

England surge to quadrangular finals

England progressed to the final of the Natwest quadrangular t20 with 22-run win over World Twenty20 holders Australia at Bristol

Ijaz Butt, the PCB chairman, will go on one month's leave following the ICC's five-day annual conference that begins on Sunday in Hong Kong

Ijaz Butt to go on one month's leave

Pakistan star Shahid Afridi celebrated his home debut for Hampshire by taking five wickets in a 16-run Friends Life t20 defeat of Gloucestershire at the Rose Bowl

Afridi gets Hampshire back to winning form

England batsman Jonathan Trott disappointed on his return to county action as he was run out for one in Warwickshire's rain-wrecked Friends Life t20 match against Yorkshire

Bresnan returns but rain has final say

Rain ruins big-hitting contest

Ireland batsman Paul Stirling led Middlesex to only their second win in nine Friends Life t20 matches this season as they beat southern section rivals Kent by 28 runs

Stirling blitz enough for Middlesex

Durham leapfrogged Lancashire in the northern section of the Friends Life t20 after a comprehensive 83-run victory at Chester-le-Street

Anderson suffers in Lancashire defeat

Asif Ali smashed a century on debut to set up a match-winning total for his team against Multan Tigers in the opening game of the tournament

Asif Ali sparkles on debut

The USA Cricket Association's series of Town Hall meetings for its eight member regions received mixed reviews

Town Hall meetings get mixed reviews

25-Jun-2011•Peter Della Penna

Vettori to play only Tests

Daniel Vettori has confirmed that he will be taking a break from short-form cricket in an effort to prolong his Test career

Iain O'Brien wants to return to international cricket and could start his comeback by playing for Wellington in the 2011-12 domestic season

O'Brien targets New Zealand comeback

Scotland's Majid Haq and the Netherlands Mudassar Bukhari recorded career-best figures with bat and ball respectively, as their ICC Intercontinental Cup fixture drifted to stalemate on the final day in Aberdeen

Haq and Bukhari enliven dour final day

Associate nations will discover whether they will be given a chance to appear at the 2015 World Cup when the structure of tournament is debated once again at the ICC's annual conference

Associates hope for World Cup lifeline

24-Jun-2011•Andrew McGlashan

Zimbabwe announce limited-overs squad

Zimbabwe have named their squads for the limited-overs tri-series against Australian and South African A sides, and for a two-day warm-up match preceding their four-day games against Australia A