Cricket News

Waqar Younis was Sunday retained Pakistan captain for the three-Test home series against Australia to be played at offshore venues of Colombo and Sharjah with the opener starting Oct 3

Bryan Strang, who left Zimbabwe cricket at the beginning of the year, discouraged at selection policy, is working in Johannesburg and is now a South African citizen

Iain Sutcliffe, who goes to the Oval for the final Championship match against Surrey this week needing just eight more runs to reach 1,000 for the season, has been named as Leicestershire's Bland Bankart "Player of the Month" for August

England beat Bangladesh by 77 runs in an ICC Champions Trophy warm-up game played at the NCC ground in Colombo

The good thing about Roland Lefebvre, the Dutch captain, is that he has no delusions about his team's place in world cricket

COLOMBO - Australian captain Ricky Ponting promises Australia won't takethings easy against Bangladesh in Thursday's Champions Trophy one-daycricket match here.

Simon made his Durham debut in 1991 and celebrated his benefit year in 2001

All-rounder Andy Blignaut's plans for the season are as yet unclear, but he caused a sensation in the opening National League match of the season, taking eight cheap wickets against Old Georgians and then making the top score of the match to give

A sponsorship event was held at Harare Sports Club on Tuesday 3 September for Old Mutual Life Assurance and Bata Shoe Company, the two major sponsors of the national team

The Anti Corruption Unit (ACU), the organisation created by the International Cricket Council (ICC) to rid the game of match fixing, is investigating Pakistan's defeat in the opening game of the ICC Champions Trophy, when they lost to Sri Lanka by

It was in their fourth game of the World Cup 1996 that West Indies surrendered to Kenya by 73 runs at Poona

Sri Lanka breezed into the semi-finals of the ICC Champions Trophy by crushing their former colonial masters by a massive 206 runs

The Somerset players were all back in training at the County Ground in Taunton this morning after their innings defeat inside at the hands of Leicestershire last week that consigned them to the basement of the county championship next season

This Sunday has to be the saddest day of the year, when the last round of Norwich Union League matches brings the curtain down on the 2002 English season

Barmy Army v Bunburys Photo © Barmy Army The final game of the Bunbury's season saw them travel to Twickenham to take on the might of England's greatest and most vocal supporters, the Barmy Army

The match was billed as one of the potential humdingers of the ICC Champions Trophy, pitting as it did the current world champions against the defending champions

Article: Taha Noor, comment on Pak cricket, PCB

Sri Lanka captain Sanath Jayasuriya claims his side will not take tournament minnows Holland lightly in their day-night clash at Premadasa International Stadium on Monday

Article: Taha Noor, comment piece on PSO Tri-Nation in Kenya, PCB

Cricket is a game of inches and it was by no more than an inch that Paul Nixon was run out in the last over when ten runs were needed by Kent Spitfires and Glamorgan Dragons became the 2002 Norwich Union League champions, winning by just 4 runs