Cricket News

After contrasting fortunes all year, England and West Indies have reached the final of the Champions Trophy

Sourav Ganguly will lead a near-full-strength India Seniors side against an India A team captained by Dinesh Mongia in a practice match to be held in Bangalore from September 28 to October 1

The International Cricket Council has nominated the umpires and match referees who will officiate in the four-match Test series between India and Australia

Here are some of the other Tests that went down to the wire with cricket emerging as the only winner from the contest

Venugopal Rao, who has distinguished himself for Andhra Pradesh in the Ranji Trophy, scored a fine century, and added 162 runs for the fifth wicket with Parthiv Patel as Rest of India consolidated their already considerable gains on the third day of

Our Punter's Point article on the problems experienced by spectators at the Rose Bowl produced a level of feedback not seen since the Denness affair in 2001

Danish Kaneria, the Pakistan leg-spinner, has signed a two-year contract extension with Essex

"I expected us to win games if cricket, but I certainly didn't expect to win 10 out of 11 test matches

"The one day team is much different from the test team

England and West Indies have played each other almost non-stop over the last seven months, but neither captain was prepared to read much into those results as they prepared for a final fling this season

An unbeaten 90 from Brendan Taylor ensured that the Zimbabweans enjoyed a better second day in their match against PCB Patron's XI at Lahore

New Zealand enjoyed their expected run glut against the Zimbabwe bowling

Kim Hughes, the former Australian captain, has blamed the pathetic world class bowling for Australia's downfall in the current Ashes series

Glenn McGrath has become Test cricket's most prolific No. 11 batsman

Ricky Ponting has said that Jason Gillespie's place in the team will be closely scrutinised before the fourth Test

Ken Gordon, the West Indies Cricket Board president, will make public relevant aspects of the Justice Anthony Lucky report

Ricky Ponting was both happy and relieved after playing a vital innings and enabling Australia to secure a draw against England at Old Trafford

Tommy Simsek, a Melbourne-based physiotherapist is due to arrive tomorrow to take up an appointment as physio of the Sri Lankan cricket team

Ben Harmison topscored with 57 as England Under 19s made 298 all out on the first day against Sri Lanka Under 19s at Headingley

A battling hundred from Paul Weekes was not enough to give Middlesex victory over Northamptonshire