Cricket News

Peshawar Panthers defeated Sialkot Stallions by eight wickets in the ABN-AMRO Cup Gold League final at Karachi to claim the title of domestic limited-overs champions

Sunil Gavaskar delivered a strong retort in what was the latest in his joust with Australia's captain Ricky Ponting

A round-up of the second day's play in the final round of State Championship games

Pakistan and West Indies were forced to scrap plans for their final World Cup training sessions at Sabina Park on Monday because the facilities were not ready

Tasmania will be lucky to break even when they host their first Pura Cup final next week because the game will not be played over a weekend, according to the Tasmanian Cricket Association

Pakistan and West Indies generally don't do boring World Cup games

Stephen Fleming said New Zealand's task of remaining in form for six weeks would be a challenge but the length of the World Cup meant no side would go through undefeated

South Africa's tag as World Cup "chokers" continues to follow the team but Graeme Smith said they had moved on from past disappointments

Australia have used an 18th-century St Vincent fort as the stage for a crucial pre-tournament team meeting

Ricky Ponting is confident Australia have the right blend of youth and experience to snatch a third successive World Cup

A round-up of the latest matches from the Pro20 tournament

Dougie Brown, the Scotland allrounder, is targeting his team's match against Netherlands as their major match of the World Cup

Jason Gillespie thinks Adil Rashid, Yorkshire's young legspinner, could be a future England allrounder

Darren Lehmann has announced he is interested in coaching the club next season

Domestic cricket in Zimbabwe came face-to-face with the madding political air prevailing in the country when three league matches failed to take place on Sunday due to a police-imposed curfew

Andy Roberts has predicted that the pitches in the tournament may not necessarily be slow turners, contrary to general expectations

A round-up of the first day's play in the final round of State Championship games

West Zone continued their winning streak in the Deodhar Trophy by beating South Zone by 192 runs after Shrikant Mundhe and Abhishek Nayar took four wickets each and removed any chance of South Zone chasing West Zone's mammoth 308

Pakistan have been banned from speaking in English at World Cup news conferences to prevent players from being misquoted, a team spokesman has said.

Prosper Utseya firmly believes that West Indies' inconsistencies and Pakistan's pre-World Cup woes can be exploited to get Zimbabwe into the Super Eights