Cricket News

Central Districts and Wellington are to play a three-day warm-up match for the forthcoming State Championship, at Nelson Park in Napier starting tomorrow

CD to host Wellington for warm-up match

The Victorian Bushrangers will take on India in their first game of the Australian tour

Indians take on Victoria in tour opener

Greg Chappell, in an interview with Wisden Asia Cricket,talks about how a side like India could conceivably replicate Australia's success

Greg Chappell - 'India are best placed to topple Australia'

24-Nov-2003•Wisden Asia Cricket interview by Anand Vasu

'I support Kale completely' - Kapil Dev

Kapil Dev and Arun Lal have voiced their displeasure over the manner in which the Indian board has dealt with Abhijit Kale in the bribery scandal

1st Grade Men: R4 - 29 Nov & 6 Dec (2 Day Trophy) BWU v Ricc Burn 1, Syd v St A Syd 1, OC v Mar Elm 1, LPW v ES Gar 1, HSOB Bye

Canterbury senior cricket draw for Saturday

Senior 2: J'ville 162 met Karori 116-6( A Wellings 51*); Taita 237 & 177-5 ( B Seddon 100, M Best 33, J Sewell 5-58) met Well Coll 151-7 ( C Taylor 3-38) & 193-6 ( A Newdick 58, C Spring 44, J Dean 41*

Wellington and Hutt Valley lower grade results

Heath Streak, Zimbabwe's captain, hailed his side's performance after they fought back to beat West Indies by six wickets in the second one-day international at Bulawayo

Streak praises Zimbabwe fightback

Duncan Fletcher fears that England are slightly underprepared for the Test series against Sri Lanka

Fletcher rues the two one-day washouts

Karnataka fought back with a strong batting performance on the second day of the Ranji Trophy third round Elite Group match

Karnataka fight back after first innings debacle

24-Nov-2003•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

Norths on top of Pearce Cup in Wellington

Wainui 72 & 153 ( A Woodcock 3-29) lost to Johnsonville 176-7d ( L Woodcock 55*,A Mohammad 3-24) & 50-1 by 9 wickets

New Zealand's spin bowlers had a good work out on the first day of their two-day match against the WCAI XI at Mumbai

New Zealand women open tour with sound display

4B: Onslow B , Colls 27; Univ A 24; Tawa 18; Easts B 15; J'ville B, Karori B, Onslow A, Univ B , J'ville 12; Karori A 6; Easts A 3

Latest points from Wellington club cricket

Greg Stewart, a High School Old Boys' player who took part in an incident in a second grade club match against Sydenham on October 25 that attracted world-wide headlines, has been banned for the remainder of the season after a code of conduct hearing

Severe ban handed out to fighting cricketers in Christchurch

The Indian board has called an emergency meeting on November 30 to discuss the bribery scandal which has hit Indian cricket

BCCI calls emergency meeting to discuss bribery scandal

Glenn McGrath will miss the first two Test matches against India, while Darren Lehmann has been ruled out altogether due to a sore achilles tendon

Darren Lehmann ruled out of 3 Test Series

24-Nov-2003•Cricket Australia

New Score Board at CCC

Sri Lanka Cricket wish to announce that the new Score Board constructed by the National Development Center of Sri Lanka Cricket at Colombo Cricket Club/Gymkhana Club at Maitland Place Colombo 7, will be declared open by Sri Lanka Cricket President Mr

24-Nov-2003•Sri Lanka Cricket

Wright - 'It's important Sachin does well'

Sourav Ganguly and John Wright were guarded in their optimism when they spoke to the press for the first time after landing in Australia

24-Nov-2003•Wisden CricInfo staff

Teams increased in Patron's Trophy

The Pakistan board (PCB) has decided to increase the number of teams from eight to 12 for next month's Patron's Trophy tournament