Cricket News

Australia have named New South Wales' Ellyse Perry and South Australia's Kris Britt in a 13-member squad to play New Zealand in the Top End Series in July

Jamaica police have confirmed that Bob Woolmer died of natural causes and was not murdered

John Wright has confirmed he would like to work with New Zealand Cricket but he believes John Bracewell will keep his job as the national coach

Shane Warne and Stuart Clark helped bowl Hampshire one step closer to a place in the Friends Provident Trophy finals with a thrilling two-run win over Kent at Tunbridge Wells

Daren Ganga, West Indies' defeated captain, said that his team would take a huge amount of confidence out of their performance in the third Test at Old Trafford

The board appears to have sorted out the differences with the players in relation to the contract issue and said that they expect it to be signed in the next few days

England retained the Wisden Trophy, first played for in 1963

Matthew Hoggard is expected to return to England's attack for the fourth Test against West Indies which gets underway at Durham on Friday

The USA may well be readmitted to the international fold after talks between the warring factions battling for control of the USA Cricket Association in Washington over the weekend

Pakistan have announced a 33-player training camp ahead of the World Cup qualifiers in November

Rosalie Birch has been named as England's captain in their Twenty20 curtain raisers later this month

England finally broke West Indies' resistance on the final day at Old Trafford as Steve Harmison and Monty Panesar bowled them to a 60-run series-clinching victory

Allan Donald, England's new bowling coach, is due to fly home to South Africa between Tests this week following the death of his father in Bloemfontein

Graham Ford has turned down the Indian board's offer to coach the national side, opting instead to stay on as director of coaching at Kent County Cricket Club

The duo are hoping to make the tour to Ireland and England

With 154 runs needed on the fifth day to record a historic win West Indies pinned their hopes on the under-rated Shivnarine Chanderpaul

Amy Satterthwaite, the Canterbury allrounder, and Rachel Priest, the wicketkeeper-batsman from Central Districts, were both in the New Zealand A team last summer

the fact that the West Indies are still in with a chance at the start of the last day, gives us reason to believe that somewhere among this much-maligned group are a few of the building blocks required for the reconstruction of West Indies cricket

The West Indian camp sounded confident ahead of the final day's play at Old Trafford.

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