Cricket News

Scotland's captain Craig Wright is hopeful that Rahul Dravid will be returning to Edinburgh next year, after his influence helped the team to exceed expectations in their maiden season in the National League

Scots hopeful for Dravid return

We were babes in the woods during our first tour of India in 1955-56

'The dinner service was all gold'

25-Sep-2003•John Reid

We need to execute our plans: Fleming

Stephen Fleming said that New Zealand had come to India eminently prepared to meet every challenge thrown at them, but he added that executing tactical plans in Indian conditions would prove to be the real challenge

25-Sep-2003•Wisden Cricinfo staff

Australia to help out cash-strapped Sri Lanka

Cricket Australia has come to the aid of Sri Lanka's cash-strapped cricket board, agreeing to play two extra one-day internationals during next year's tour, a gesture of goodwill that will raise an estimated US$800,000

Stuart Law has renewed his contract with Lancashire and will be back at Old Trafford for the 2004 season

Law to return to Lancashire in 2004

Sydney Grade Cricket's 111th season commences this Saturday 27 September, with a round of one-day limited-overs matches commencing at 9.30am

Mark Waugh to lead brother Steve, and beloved Bulldogs

25-Sep-2003•Sydney Cricket Association

Reeve lined up for Yorkshire role

Dermot Reeve is being lined up by Yorkshire as a member of their new management team at Headingley, to help the club bounce back from another poor year

John Bracewell might be thousands of miles removed from the New Zealand players of whom he will take charge in December, but he will be keeping up with their exploits on their Indian tour courtesy of CD technology, at least until he arrives at his

Enjoy the excitement and the challenge - Bracewell

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has announced a revised itinerary for South Africa's forthcoming tour, on account of the security fears surrounding the proposed matches in Karachi and Peshawar

Pakistan announce new itinerary

Following last weeks captains meeting, the Webmaster has been good enough to allow me to express my personal views, re 'time cricket'.

Time cricket - an alternative view

24-Sep-2003•Geoffrey Elderfield - Chairman Portsmouth Cricket

An Indian hero

1950 The boyish good looks of Mohinder Amarnath , who was born today, hid a steely resolve

New Zealand's women cricketers will start their annual State League competition on December 27 with the final scheduled for January 31, at the home ground of the top qualifying team

Later start for women's State League

Ronnie Irani has flown out to Colorado for a make-or-break operation on his troublesome right knee

Irani undergoes knee operation

Glamorgan CCC has won the "Spirit of Cricket" Award for the third successive summer

Glamorgan win the Spirit of Cricket Award again

24-Sep-2003•Andrew Hignell

Streak says draws would be achievements for Zimbabwe

Not much that is new in cricket is left as a challenge for the all-conquering Australians, but a home Test match against Zimbabwe is one of them, and Test cricket's second-youngest participants arrived in Perth yesterday for their first crack at the

It is a measure of the hold it has on the sporting psyche of the people of Melbourne that yesterday's 150th anniversary of the Melbourne Cricket Ground evoked so many personal memories of Test cricket's first venue

No lack of memories as the MCG turns 150

Tukkies will meet University of Port Elizabeth in the final of the MTN Club Championship at Supersport Park, Centurion, tomorrow

UCT knocked out of club champs

24-Sep-2003•UCBSA

Afzaal joins Trent Bridge exodus

Usman Afzaal has been released by Nottinghamshire at the end of a season in which he played only seven Championship matches

Although Ashish Nehra is definitively ruled out of the Test series against New Zealand, he should be back on his feet in time for the one-day triseries, said Andrew Leipus, the Indian team's physiotherapist

Nehra to recover fitness in time for ODIs