Cricket News

Justin Langer will retire after the Sydney Test to become the fourth senior Australian player to quit in less than a month

Ryan Hinds, the West Indies middle-order batsman, has been reappointed as captain of Barbados for the Carib Beer Series and the KFC Cup one-day competition

Two eras will end at the SCG this week and the speed that Australia and England deal with the new beginnings will determine how they recover from the losses

Justin Langer will announce today whether he is to join Shane Warne, Damien Martyn and Glenn McGrath in retiring from Test cricket

Thirty probables for the Cricket World Cup and a team for India's first two one-dayers against the West Indies will be selected at Rajkot on January 12

South Africa's greater desperation prevailed on a tense weather-interrupted final day, leaving the series beautifully poised going into the final Test at Cape Town

Less than three months after sacking him, the Pakistan board have reappointed Mushtaq Ahmed as assistant coach for the tour to South Africa

Stuart Clark has urged his retiring mentor Glenn McGrath to help Australia with his vast playing experience after he quits

Shane Bond, the fast bowler, has been added to New Zealand's squad for the third one-dayer against Sri Lanka at Christchurch on January 2

Disappointed with the collapse of the Indian top order on the fifth day of the Durban Test, Dilip Vengsarkar, the chairman of selectors, has expressed concern over the form of India's openers - Virender Sehwag and Wasim Jaffer

Kevin Pietersen has hit back at suggestions from Australia's coach, John Buchanan, that he is not a team player, insisting that the war of words that has erupted since the end of the Melbourne Test is all part of the Aussies' psychological ploy

James Franklin's calmness under pressure and Michael Mason's last-ball four clinched a nail-biting one-wicket victory against Sri Lanka in the second ODI at Queenstown

Russel Arnold and Upul Chandana have been included in a 20-man pool for four ODIs against India in February

Rahul Dravid isn't the sort of man prone to giving his team a spray of abuse in the dressing-room, but he could have been forgiven that at Kingsmead

Pressure is building on the Sri Lankan board (SLC) to retain Tom Moody, the hottest property on the international cricket coaching circuit, after three countries expressed interest in his services

South Africa's victory wasn't about one man but a fantastic performance from the entire unit, felt Smith

Speculation is mounting that Justin Langer will join Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath in making the final Ashes Test at Sydney his last for Australia

Dennis Amiss, chairman of the ECB's international management committee, has said that Duncan Fletcher's position as a tour selector could be reviewed in the near future

Jamie Dalrymple, the England offspinning allrounder, is eager to help the team avoid an Ashes whitewash in Sydney

Mandy Mitchell-Innes, England's oldest surviving Test cricketer, died on December 28 aged 92. He was the last England cricketer who played a Test before the Second World War