Cricket News

The offspinner, Richard Dawson, has signed a new contract with Yorkshire for the 2006 season

Glamorgan chairman Paul Russell has warned that the county may quit Cardiff after the local council objected to a new arena at Sophia Gardens

Nuwan Zoysa is the only new face in Sri Lanka's 15-man one-day squad to tour India later this month after the selectors kept faith with the side that recently routed Bangladesh 3-0

Six of Mashonaland's leading clubs are on the verge of ceding from the Mashonaland Cricket Association and forming their own splinter league

Nathan Bracken and Doug Bollinger each took four wickets as New South Wales trounced Queensland at Brisbane by 144 runs

Graeme Smith is confident his plan to hire only two specialist fast bowlers will pay off on an SCG pitch already assisting the spinners

Mohammad Ali, the left-arm fast-medium bowler from Pakistan, has signed for Middlesex

Matthew Hayden made sure he will stay for the summer with his second century in consecutive Tests and his 22nd overall

If Yohannan put Quilon on the Indian cricket map, then Sreesanth has added Ernakulam to the list

Malcolm Speed, the former Australian Cricket Board (ACB) chief, has said that he sought the opinions of two influential legal entities prior to threatening to drop Mark Waugh from the national side

John Buchanan has extended his contract until the 2007 World Cup in the West Indies

Rahul Dravid was handed a Test cap at Lord's, in the second Test against England, after Sanjay Manjrekar twisted his ankle in the first. Since then he has not looked back, and has played a record 91 straight Tests

S Sreeshanth has been included in the Indian squad for the first two one-day internationals against Sri Lanka

The West Indies was the only one of the ten International Cricket Council full members not represented at the annual meeting of Test captains

Nick van Woerkom (71) and Pierre Joubert (56) helped Northerns post 264 against North West at Supersport Park

Australia ended the first day of the Super Test on 331 for 6

Greg Chappell, the Indian coach, feels that Sachin Tendulkar, despite his three failures, showed good signs of regaining his touch and was confident that he was "really close to hitting some good form".

Mohammad Kaif is likely to miss the opening few games of the forthcoming one-day series against Sri Lanka, beginning on October 25

Sourav Ganguly is likely to be left out when the national selectors announce the squad for the first two games of the forthcoming ODI series against Sri Lanka

Chris Tremlett has been ruled out of England's tour to Pakistan, which gets underway at the end of the month