Cricket News

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) today confirmed that Yorkshire bowler, Steven Kirby, has received three penalty points under the ECB's newdiscipline code following an incident during Yorkshire's Frizzell CountyChampionship Division One

Gloucestershire County Cricket Club is delighted to announce that they will play host to the Sri Lankan touring team on Sunday 23 June 2002

For an hour yesterday afternoon, there would have been fears that today's opening Cable & Wireless One-Day International between West Indies and New Zealand was in serious doubt

The England and Wales Cricket Board chief executive Tim Lamb was full of enthusiasm for The Rose Bowl after visiting during the Warwickshire match last week as a guest of Chairman Rod Bransgrove.

Today (Wednesday) marks exactly 249 days to go before the start of the ICC Cricket World Cup in South Africa in 2003 - a global sports event that will have a major music component throughout its 44 days' duration

The first new community cricket ground in London is to open in Lambeth on June 8 as part of a major initiative to give local people the chance to play the game

Warwickshire Bears will be aiming to consolidate their grip on the First Division of the Norwich Union League when they meet Somerset Sabres at Edgbaston this Sunday

Whoa there

Sri Lanka team manager Chandra Schaffter has denied that Muttiah Muralitharan was forced to play at Edgbaston after media speculation that he would have preferred to sit out the match and allow his shoulder to fully heal

So far, no Ali Bacher (and Majid Khan) have come forward to accuse France of 'throwing' the match against Senegal nor have other professional 'accusers' come out of their hibernation and claim with authoritative , inside-dope that the bookies had

The Indian team finally managed to salvage some pride towards the end of their Caribbean tour by winning the truncated limited overs series

Sri Lanka team manager Chandra Schaffter has denied that Muttiah Muralitharan was forced to play at Edgbaston after media speculation that he would have preferred to sit out the second Test.

Dunstable: Bedfordshire 257 & 198-6dec (A Cook 67, N Stanley 67) Cambridgeshire 166 & 154-4 (C Jones 73*, G Freear 52) Match drawn

St George's Park in Port Elizabeth will keep its World Cup semi-final, for the time being anyway, despite a new outbreak of infighting in the Eastern Province Cricket Board which prompted the resignation of president Ronnie Pillay at the weekend

Veteran Redbacks leg spin bowler Peter McIntyre today announced hisretirement from all levels of cricket.

Averages are often frowned upon when it comes to player ratings

While Glamorgan Dragons were outwitting Leicestershire Foxes in our featured match, it was appropriate that Worcestershire Royals were crowning the Golden Jubilee with an emphatic win over Yorkshire Phoenix at Headingley

On a Grace Road pitch that delivered less to the batsman than it appeared to promise at the outset, Glamorgan Dragons successfully defended a total of 194 for six to defeat Leicestershire Foxes by 45 runs in their second division match in the Norwich

Javagal Srinath might have announced the reasons for his sudden and surprising retirement from Test cricket but Sourav Ganguly is not having any of it

Test matches have offered little success for Akram Khan, the veteran batsman of Bangladesh