Cricket News

It may have been for all intents and purposes a picnic game to open the Australian tour, but England were probably looking for a more decisive victory than the one they scored yesterday

Shane Bond ripped through Sri Lanka during an extraordinary day of Test cricket to leave New Zealand on the verge of victory in the opening Test

Sylvester Joseph's half-century was not enough to save West Indies A from sliding to a 20-run defeat to Sri Lanka A in the opening one-dayer of the five-match series at St Kitts yesterday

On a day when Sourav Ganguly and Irfan Pathan saved Indian blushes, it was Harbhajan Singh - whose cavalier 47 in the final session exasperated the bowlers - that came to address the media

A big century by Qaiser Ali was not enough to save Canada - or even to take them to a fourth day - as Netherlands completed victory at Pretoria

Straight off the plane, Ganguly was tired but focused and middling the balls

Paul Adams, the left-arm spinner, has been recalled to the South African squad for the three-Test series against India, starting at Johannesburg on December 15

England coach Duncan Fletcher has ruled out the possibility of Michael Vaughan featuring in this Ashes series.

Monty Panesar has told Cricinfo that he is "raring to go" and is "itching to bowl" as speculation grows that he will be picked for next week's third Test at Perth.

Rory Hamilton-Brown will captain England under-19's squad for their tour of Malaysia in January and February 2007

The England winter training squad has been announced - there is no place for Ashes winner Jo Watts, while Nikki Shaw is injured

The countdown for the 2009 women's World Cup begins this Friday when four African countries will assemble in Nairobi, Kenya for the start of the World Cup regional qualifiers

Sourav Ganguly and Irfan Pathan launched a superb counterattack in the afternoon after the highly-rated Morne Morkel cut a swathe through the Indian top order at Sedgars Park in Potchefstroom

Andrew Miller previews the match between a CA Chairman's XI and an England XI at Lilac Hill ... an inconvenient interruption in a week when the squad would like nothing better than to sink into a uranium mine and hide

Last-placed South Australia are on the verge of taking first-innings points against the competition leaders Tasmania despite a seven-wicket haul from Ben Hilfenhaus

A summary of the first day's play in the fifth round of the State Championship

A great game of attritional cricket on a pitch with a bit of life in it saw Pakistan prevail over West Indies at Faisalabad, successfully chasing 152, but only by two wickets

Brad Hodge has been ruled out of Sunday's Ford Ranger Cup match between Victoria and New South Wales at Canberra after failing to recover from a quadriceps strain

Rob Kurz, the former head of the Kwazulu-Natal Cricket Union, has denied claims that Kevin Pietersen was forced out of South African cricket

Shane Watson is aiming to be fit for Boxing Day after he conceded he would not be ready for the third Test starting in Perth on Thursday