Cricket News

New Zealand fast bowler Shane Bond has been offered a contract to play for Warwickshire in the English county championship next summer

Anti corruption unit (ACU) officials are satisfied that Pakistan did not 'throw' the opening match of the ICC Champions Trophy according to ICC sources

Former Hampshire and England opening batsman Paul Terry has been unveiled as the county's new first XI manager, following the sacking of Jimmy Cook midway through last season.

Derek Kenway has reversed his verbal decision to leave the county, being prepared to battle to regain his place in the first XI next season

Thanks to an inninngs of 118 from Andrew Hall and an opening partnership of 135 with Loots Bosman, South Africa `A' managed to avoid a whitewash by beating Australia A by eight wickets in Pietermaritzburg

Matt Bulbeck and Richard Johnson bowled Somerset into a good position at the end of the first day of their final championship match of the season against Lancashire at Taunton, where the visitors will resume 133 behind with four wickets intact

Nottinghamshire today gave a vote of confidence to four of their most-promising bowling prospects by offering them fresh deals at Trent Bridge

COLOMBO - Injury has forced batsman Damien Martyn out of the Australian cricket side for tomorrow's ICC Champions Trophy match against Bangladesh.

The Second World Cup Cricket for the Blind is scheduled to be held at Chennai from December 3-14, 2002

Mudassar Nazar, sacked Tuesday as Pakistan coach following a string of poor performances denied that there was any rift within the team

Even, as we slam our cricket team, spare a thought for the brilliant cricket that Sri Lanka played, this was a team that seemed down and out on its tour of England, almost entirely because Muttiah Muralitharan was unfit

Australia have been forced to make a change ahead of their ICC Champions Trophy clash against Bangladesh on Thursday

Hampshire Cricket have today announced that Shane Warne has signed a two-year contract to return to the club he played for in 2000 as one of their overseas players for 2003, and will in the process become captain, replacing Robin Smith who has

Left-handed opener Marcus Trescothick was at his belligerent best on Wednesday afternoon, crashing his second consecutive one-day century to pave the way for a massive 108-run English victory

Captain Nasser Hussain looked forward to England's crucial clash against India on Sunday after his side's emphatic 108-run victory against Zimbabwe claiming that his inexperienced side were the clear underdogs

Brian Lara was in hospital here last night, anxiously awaiting the return of tests from the laboratory today that will determine whether he has been stricken with hepatitis, an infection of the liver

Warwickshire County Cricket Club today announced that John Inverarity had been appointed Director of Coaching at Edgbaston from March 2003, as part of a 2 year contract

Former international left-arm spinner Stephen Boock never imagined when his playing career finished in the summer of 1989/90 that he would later enter the halls of cricket administration

New Zealand domestic cricket lost one of its longest-serving players of the modern generation today when Northern Districts stalwart Grant Bradburn decided to retire

Pakistan 'A' held the upper hand after dismissing their Sri Lankan rivals for just 183 in their first innings on the opening day of the four-day first 'Test' at Iqbal Stadium here Tuesday