Cricket News

Shahid Afridi, the Pakistan captain, has asked his team-mates to be united on the field and off it as they left Karachi to take part in the Asia Cup in Sri Lanka

Our team should be united - Afridi

India registered their first win of the tour against Zimbabwe after their spinners choked the life out of the middle of Zimbabwe's innings

Spinners take India to comfortable win

12-Jun-2010•The Bulletin by Sidharth Monga

Kyle McCallan honoured with MBE

Kyle McCallan, the Ireland allrounder, who retired in December last year after a 13-year career, has been awarded the MBE

Frank Duckworth and Tony Lewis, the inventors of what is widely regarded as the best available system to set revised targets in shortened games, have been awarded the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire)

Duckworth and Lewis honoured with MBE

Mark Cosgrove and Tom Maynard powered Glamorgan to a superb seven-wicket victory over Essex in their Friends Provident t20 match at Chelmsford

Cosgrove and Maynard set up easy win

Kieron Pollard and Alfonso Thomas demolished Hampshire, who lost their last six wickets for four runs to slide to a sensational last-over defeat

Pollard and Thomas secure amazing victory

Chaminda Vaas starred with bat and ball as Northamptonshire finally broke their duck in this year's Friends Provident t20 with a 21-run win over Worcestershire

Vaas carries Northamptonshire to first win

Half-centuries from Alex Hales and Samit Patel eclipsed a brilliant hundred from Wes Durston as the Nottinghamshire romped past Derbyshire by five wickets with three overs to spare

Wes Durston's hundred in vain as Alex Hales stars

A round-up from the latest Friends Provident t20 matches as Matt Prior, Ian Bell and Adam Gilchrist all make their mark

Taylor, Hales and Prior star as runs flow

Emergency skipper Adam Gilchrist answered the Middlesex call by cracking a 47-ball century to ease the visitors to a comfortable six-wicket win over Kent in Canterbury

Captain Gilchrist lifts Middlesex with 47-ball ton

Leicestershire spin duo Brad Hodge and Claude Henderson ended Lancashire's unbeaten start to their campaign with a 14-run win

Brad Hodge helps beat former team-mates

Richie Berrington struck a responsible 82 as Scotland overcame a top-order scare to move into the ascendancy on the second day against Netherlands in Deventer

Berrington and McCallum put Scotland on top

Ross Taylor and Ian Blackwell trumped Warwickshire with high-powered half-centuries as Durham registered their first Friends Provident t20 win of the season by 15 runs at Edgbaston

Ross Taylor and Ian Blackwell break Durham's duck

Matt Prior issued a powerful message to the England selectors as reigning champions Sussex beat Gloucestershire by seven wickets

Matt Prior makes point to selectors

Jaidev Unadkat launched his first-class career in spectacular style, running through West Indies A with a spell of penetrative fast bowling to finish with figures of 7 for 41 on the second day at Grace Road

Unadkat sizzles with seven on debut

India have two games to salvage the tour, and build some confidence for the players who head to Sri Lanka for the Asia Cup, but Zimbabwe are the favourites

India seek to redeem disappointing tour

11-Jun-2010•The Preview by Nitin Sundar

Boucher and Benn share honours on tight day

Sulieman Benn picked up his second five-wicket haul in Tests, finishing with 5 for 120 as South Africa were eventually bowled out for 352, but the visitors will feel they had the better of an attritional second day at the Queens Park Oval

11-Jun-2010•The Bulletin by Liam Brickhill

Shaun Udal resigns as Middlesex captain

Shaun Udal has stood down from the Middlesex captaincy following his team's poor start to the season and will be replaced by Adam Gilchrist for the next six games, after Gilchrist requested to extend the terms of his contract and play in Middlesex's away