Cricket News

Adam Gilchrist says Brad Hogg is capable of being Australia's Test spinner next summer

Nantie Hayward, the South Africa quick bowler, has signed as one of Ireland's overseas players for the Friends Provident Trophy. He has played 16 Tests and 21 ODIs for South Africa but hasn't appeared on the international stage since 2004

Mohammad Ashraful is the new Bangladesh vice-captain in an expected 14-man squad for the one-day series against India this month

A collection of the best quotes from the World Cup

Tom Cartwright, who played five Tests for England in the mid 1960s as a medium-pace seamer, has died at the age of 71

Martin Williamson with a brief history of matches between Australia and Zimbabwe

David Harrison, the Glamorgan seamer, has been ruled out for the whole season with a bulging disc in his back leaving the county desperately short of pace bowling options

The ICC received a broadside from Niranjan Shah, the Indian board secretary, for becoming "more and more bureaucratic" and costing its members money by "unnecessarily employing so many people"

Rumblings over the standard of cricket in the Logan Cup continued to grow at the end of the third round of the competition which saw more low scores and underprepared pitches

A BBC television investigation into the death of Bob Woolmer, shown on Monday night, claimed that toxicology tests support earlier reports that he was poisoned before being strangled

But the ICC chief executive said that no match official from the final would be sacked

can think of no better time in the history of West Indies cricket for the people who have repeatedly called for change to establish their moral and economic right to enforce it because of their current investment

The former fast bowler Dick Motz, the first New Zealander to take 100 wickets in Tests, died on Sunday aged 67

John Buchanan, who has retired from his coaching role, said it was Australia's destiny to be at the cutting edge of cricket after they had won a third straight World Cup title

Tom Moody is confident Sri Lanka will be a force to reckon with despite the World Cup defeat

A round-up from the latest Friends Provident Trophy matches

Tom Moody, the Sri Lanka coach who was tipped by many to be the favourite to succeed Duncan Fletcher, has admitted he would have been interested in the role had the ECB approached him

Alistair Brown, the Surrey and former England batsman, struck an astonishing 176 from just 97 balls in Surrey's world record 496 for 4 against Gloucestershire at The Oval

Peter Moores, the new England coach, plans to hold talks with Andrew Flintoff in a bid to rekindle his passion for the game following a tortuous winter in Australia and the Caribbean

South Africa have returned home after their World Cup exit, thrashed at the hands of Australia in the semi-finals, with the talk still being very much of what a good game they played