Cricket News

Duncan Fletcher's job as England coach after the latest demoralising one-day hammering by Australia is not under threat, according to the ECB

Bangladesh's first cricket tournament got underway on Saturday, with three matches across the country

Injured captain Michael Vaughan fears for the mental scars inflicted on England during their tour of Australia, which has so far brought just one win

A seven-wicket haul from David Bandy almost earned Western Australia first-innings points within a day but at stumps they were still 27 runs short of Queensland's 139

South Africa gained their second Test series success of the season, but the five-wicket margin doesn't tell the whole story of the third and final day at Cape Town

Brad Hodge's bold declaration 117 runs behind set up a thrilling final day at Melbourne as Jason Borgas helped South Australia extend their lead to 288

Andre Adams starred in a dream finish for Auckland with a last-ball six against Northern Districts at Seddon Park

The top-of-the-table Tasmania could not live up to their reputation and faced following-on as they crashed to 133 and a first-innings deficit of 407 at Sydney

A round-up of the fourth day's play of the fourth round of matches in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, 2006-07

Lisa Sthalekar and Kate Blackwell guided New South Wales Breakers to their ninth title in 11 years as the Breakers chased down Victoria Spirit's 205 at Melbourne

The Eden Gardens in Kolkata has been confirmed as the venue for the first one-dayer between India and Sri Lanka on February 8

On the first day Pakistan were bowled out for 157 with Makhaya Ntini and Jacques Kallis getting four wickets each. South Africa batted for the 39 overs remaining in the day and lost five wickets

Jacob Oram gave Australia some serious jitters but they successfully defended their huge 5 for 343 that was set up by punishing Matthew Hayden and Ricky Ponting centuries

England's slump is being worsened by their poor attitude and their selection of ageing debutants, according to Glenn McGrath

The injury-plagued Shane Watson should not be taken to the World Cup unless he strings together a series of impressive performances before the squad is named, according to Bob Simpson

Tom Moody has pulled out of the race to replace John Buchanan, leaving Tim Nielsen as the leading candidate to coach Australia after the World Cup

England routed Malaysia in their opening match of the Malaysian Invitational Under-19 Tri-Series at the Selangor Turf Club, bowling the home side out for 73 and knocking off the runs for the loss of two wickets

It has emerged that Zimbabwe Cricket has ordered its dreadlocked players to get their hair cut of face being dropped from the side

South Africa's batting stars of the first match - Alviro Petersen and Morne van Wyk - again shone, both notching up easy half centuries as Zimbabwe A failed to impress with bat or ball

Sa'adi Thawfeeq reports on the successful introduction of match referees for all Premier and Sara trophy matches