Cricket News

Already down 2-0 in the seven-match series, England need to turn the momentum around quickly, else the second half of the series could be reduced to a time for experiments and trying out new talent

More runs likely in hot and humid Goa

Dav Whatmore, Bangladesh's coach, has no pretensions about the massive task that Bangladesh face when Australia arrive in the country later this week

Whatmore wary of Australian juggernaut

Australia will have to chase at least 284 for a 3-0 cleansweep after South Africa spent most of the day building a hugely competitive lead in an absorbing contest

Boucher knock gives South Africa the edge

02-Apr-2006•The Bulletin by Peter English

Yousuf for short stint with Derbyshire

Mohammad Yousuf will play four games for English county Derbyshire this season before returning home to join the training camp for the England tour

Mike Hussey has said Australia were disappointed that pitch microphones had not been turned off between deliveries during the first two Tests in South Africa

Hussey irked at stump mikes

A round-up of the Pentangular Cricket Championship matches that happened on April 1 2006

Easy victory for Faisalabad

Despite another catastrophic overseas tour, Daren Ganga is upbeat about the immediate future and a turnaround in fortunes for the team

Ganga upbeat about West Indies' future

Guyana have named an under-strength 13-man squad for their Carib Beer Series semi-final against Barbados at the Carlton Sports Club starting on Friday

Guyana without Sarwan and Chanderpaul

Despite a fifty from Daan van Bunge, time was against the Netherlands and they failed to enforce a win against Kenya

Time runs out for the Netherlands

Cricket South Africa has named a 22-man squad for the High Performance Programme

South Africa name strong High Performance squad

Despite a quick-fire 58 from Wallace Albertyn, Border fell by four runs to Northerns in the final of the SAA Provincial Cup at Paarl

Northerns edge past Boland in tight final

Sri Lanka are hoping to give their former skipper, Snath Jayasuriya, a grand farewell by winning the second and final Test against Pakistan

Sri Lanka aim to send Jayasuriya off in style

01-Apr-2006

Scans clear Langer of serious injury

Justin Langer has undergone scans in hospital after being struck on the head by Makhaya Ntini and suffering concussion, but has been cleared of serious injury

Duncan Fletcher, the England coach, has left England's tour of India to accompany his sick wife Marina back to South Africa

Duncan Fletcher leaves tour

A lower-order push led by Michael Hussey limited the damage of Makhaya Ntini's five-wicket demolition on a frenetic second day at Johannesburg

South Africa eye lead despite Hussey rescue act

01-Apr-2006•The Bulletin by Peter English

Tendulkar makes a quick recovery

Sachin Tendulkar could be declared fit to tour West Indies next month, having made a rapid recovery after undergoing shoulder surgery in London

Roger Brathwaite, CEO of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) yesterday announced he will be leaving the position effective April 28

Brathwaite steps down as chief executive

01-Apr-2006

Seamers take Faisalabad close to victory

A round-up of the Pentangular Cricket Championship matches that happened on March 31, 2006

01-Apr-2006

'Hayden's not the type to cheat' - Kallis

Jacques Kallis and Adam Gilchrist stood by Matthew Hayden and refused to accuse him of cheating after Hayden had controversially claimed a catch