Cricket News

Des Wilson, former senior vice-chairman of Sport England and one of the UK's most experienced communications and public affairs advisors, has been elected unopposed by the First Class Forum to membership of the ECB's Management Board

News: Afghanistan awarded Associate Membership of Asian Cricket Council

Don Bradman's baggy green cap, as worn during the 1946-47 Ashes series, has been sold for £35,250 at an auction in London

Following their victories last night, Gloucestershire and Surrey are the first two counties to qualify for Twenty20 Cup Finals Day, having won their respective groups

News: ECB responds to call for help from Afghanistan

1974 India's lowest score - and the lowest total at Lord's

The Knight Riders have won Super Fours, the ECB competition for elite women's cricketers, securing four wins from five matches

Northern Districts achieved a significant improvement in its financial performance last season reducing its deficit for the year by $64,855

Hampshire Hawks were dumped out of the Twenty20 competition after losing to the Middlesex Crusaders at Uxbridge CC on Monday

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Gloucestershire 135 for 2 (Harvey 100*) beat Warwickshire 134 for 7 by 8 wickets at Edgbaston Ian Harvey thrashed the first century in Twenty20 Cup cricket as Gloucestershire maintained their 100% record at Edgbaston

England squeaked through to win the NatWest Challenge 2-1 after a nailbiting four-wicket win in the decider, thanks to a magnificent unbeaten 108 from Marcus Trescothick

Khaled Mahmud, the Bangladesh captain, put on a brave front as his 15-man squad left for a daunting one-month tour of Australia

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Transfer speculation has kept many football journalists in gainful employment during quiet times, and now it seems that English cricket writers will be granted the same relief

England have released Sussex fast bowler James Kirtley from their one-day squad for the upcoming triangular one-day series with South Africa and Zimbabwe, following Richard Johnson's return to fitness

Gloucestershire 135 for 2 (Harvey 100*) beat Warwickshire 134 for 7 by 8 wickets at Edgbaston Ian Harvey thrashed the first century in Twenty20 Cup cricket as Gloucestershire maintained their 100% record at Edgbaston

Harbhajan Singh, the Indian offspinner, will undergo surgery on his injured right knuckle next week - but not in Baltimore, as was widely expected, but at the Avenue Hospital in Melbourne, Australia

Glamorgan won their first Twenty20 match as they comprehensively beat Worcestershire by 56 runs at Sophia Gardens

The Crusaders showed the Austrian Cricket Association little mercy as they punished the ACA attack with a glorious exhibition of strokeplay