Cricket News

England's cricket fans are still pinching themselves, after the class and ease with which their team has romped through the first two Tests of the summer

David Gilbert, New South Wales's chief executive, has expressed an interest in signing Heath Streak, the former Zimbabwe Test player

Stuart MacGill has been left out of Australia's 13-man squad to play Sri Lanka next month and Shaun Tait brought in, with the selectors putting their faith in pace to unsettle Sri Lanka's classy top order.

The five-day conditioning camp for the cream of India's pace bowling talent started off under cloudy skies in Bangalore on Tuesday morning

Haroon Rashid is likely to stay on as the manager of the Pakistan team despite his one-year term coming to an end after the series against India

England and Australia's boards have provisionally agreed to play a Twenty20-style international during next summer's Ashes series

Australia's domestic season for 2004-05 will kick off three weeks earlier than in the previous year, with an ING Cup match between Queensland and New South Wales in Brisbane on October 10

David Hussey, the Australian batsman and Nottinghamshire overseas player, became the fourth player this season to be wrapped on the knuckles by the ECB

Daniel Brigham reports on the first day's play at Chelmsford

The second phase of the bidding process for the for the 2007 World Cup in West Indies has begun

Fidel Edwards has been ruled out of the three-nation NatWest Series tournament in England due to a hamstring injury

Barry Richards has joined the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) as a consultant for their national academy

In the USA there are plans afoot to launch a professional circuit - last week, American Professional Cricket (APC) unveiled an eight-team league, and already it has signed up some high-profile names

New Zealand have called up Ian Butler to replace Shane Bond, who has gone home injured, for the NatWest series which begins on June 24

A select group of cricket heavyweights will meet in Dubai on Thursday to deliberate on Zimbabwe's future as a Test team

Derbyshire ran into trouble against Scotland in the National League, making only 182 in their innings at Derby

Sean Ervine is among 17 players who have earned a central contract with Western Australia for the 2004-05 season

Graham Napier, Essex's allrounder, has signed a one-year contract extension with the county up to the end of the 2005 season

In the latest round of Championship matches, a record-breaking 341 from Craig Spearman set up a 10-wicket win for Gloucestershire over Middlesex, while 13 wickets from Heath Streak for Warwickshire helped his side beat Northants at Edgbaston

Glenn McGrath has effectively been put on notice by Trevor Hohns, Australia's chairman of selectors, ahead of today's selection of the squad to play Sri Lanka next month.