Cricket News

Rain may have played spoilsport in the first Test between Sri Lanka and West Indies at St Lucia, but Brian Lara's scintillating double-hundred livened up proceedings before the game headed for a draw

The International Cricket Council (ICC), in order to improve the accuracy levels of umpires in adjudicating lbw decisions, has proposed to introduce white stump-to-stump lines on the pitch

The three most celebrated batsmen in the world, Sachin Tendulkar, Steve Waugh and Brian Lara, will gather in India early next month to promote the sport of go-karting

Berkshire made full use of a very flat wicket at the delightful Alderley Edge ground, batting to the 100 over 1st innings closure for a total of 466 - 5 wickets

Hampshire return to Frizzell Championship action after two weeks of Twenty20 games, and retain the same team that narrowly failed to defeat Durham.

Early breakthrough: the impressive Heath Streak removes Vikram Solanki Grant Flower led Zimbabwe to a memorable and surprising win against England in the opening match of the NatWest Series at Trent Bridge

Doug Ring, the former Australian legspinner, has died in Melbourne at the age of 84

A crowd of 6,500 attended the Twenty20 match at the Rose Bowl, all the more remarkable as the qualification contest had been decided

Inzamam-ul-Haq has announced he wants to play league cricket in England in an attempt to salvage his international career

South Africa continued to prepare for their opening match of the NatWest Series on Saturday, by easing to a 69-run victory against Worcestershire at New Road

Rashid Latif, the Pakistan captain, has been fined 20% of his match fee due to Pakistan's slow over-rate in the third one-day international of the NatWest Challenge at Lord's

According to an Associated Press report, Dalmiya had raised this point in the board meeting of the IDI

The Austrian National Team Squad for the forthcoming ECC Notts Sport® Trophy has been selected.

Dennis Lillee has accused the International Cricket Council (ICC) of placing television-generated revenue ahead of the interests of the game

Taking a no-nonsense stand, the International Cricket Council (ICC) has threatened to cancel plans to fund cricket in Kenya if the Kenyan Cricket Association (KCA) does not begin league cricket in Nairobi by early July

Playing his first match of the tour, Jacques Kallis stroked an assured 81 from 95 balls as the South Africans eased to a 50-run win against Sir Paul Getty's XI at Wormsley yesterday

Waqar Younis, the former Pakistan captain, has publicly criticised Shoaib Akhtar's bowling performances in the NatWest Challenge

Steven Lynch I have been pleasantly surprised by the crowds, the obvious fun, and the way the players have tucked in (maybe the promise of meeting Atomic Kitten at Trent Bridge has something to do with that)

The International Cricket Council is threatening to withhold a £300,000 grant to the Kenyan Cricket Association, unless a fully-fledged national league is approved

The Professional Cricketers' Association (PCA) has unveiled its flagship events for 2003 with the PCA Masters taking on South Africa on 6th August and the return of Zone6 City Cricket on 8th August