Cricket News

Three days into a pivotal second Test match and South Africa appear to have rediscovered the fighting spirit so sadly absent from their cricket for much of this summer

If there were a crime called cricket brutality, Barbados cricketers would be wanted men this morning

There has been a sudden surge of optimism in West Indies cricket, a word all but obliterated from its vocabulary

Pakistan were seeing light at the other end of the tunnel after Mother Nature came to their rescue and curtailed fourth day's play to just 32 overs in the Asian Test Championship final against Sri Lanka at the Gaddafi Stadium Saturday

As the Australian domestic season heads towards a spectacular conclusion, here's our guide - which, by necessity, still contains a wide range of possible outcomes - as to who might finish where.

The following players have been named by the WA Selectors to represent the Western Warriors v the Southern Redbacks in a Pura Cup game at the WACA ground: Wednesday 13 March - Saturday 16 March 2002.

The overnight announcement of Worcestershire's recruitment of New South Wales paceman Stuart Clark now ensures that at least 12 Australians will play as overseas professionals in the forthcoming English county season.

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is to investigate the alleged disharmony in the team that has performed so pathetically in the Asian Test Championship final

New Zealanders more than most know the value of the very best of wicket-keepers and the recent furore over the possible absence of Adam Parore from the Test side for the National Bank Series was evidence enough of that

Dinesh Mongia and Yuvraj Singh's styles meshed perfectly and took India to a mammoth 333/6 in 50 overs, practically batting Zimbabwe out of the fifth and final one-dayer at Guwahati

Nasirul Alam Nahid and leg-spinner Alok Kapali played two key roles to Sylhet Division's emphatic victory over hosts Rajshahi today

It may have been a match to celebrate 125 years of Canterbury cricket but today's match with England at Hagley Oval won't rate any special mentions when the next 125 years are celebrated

Mazharul Haq Mridul is bringing off quite well in West Indies while his team Bangladesh-A is striving to evade more humiliating defeats

Worcestershire have signed the Australian fast bowler Stuart Clark as theirreplacement overseas player for the early weeks of the season

Pakistan will be pressing the International Cricket Council (ICC) to enforce Stage Three on paceman Shoaib Akhtar and clear him once and for all

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has refused to release Saqlain Mushtaq for Surrey in the English county championship

David James, who played for Glamorgan in their Championship winning year in 1948, has died at Margam on February 22nd, nine days short of his 81st birthday

If a team had to win the Ranji Trophy title for the first time, they would no doubt choose to do it by a comprehensive margin on home turf, in front of their staunchest supporters, and against a team that rudely deprived them of the title the year

LAHORE-The rain, overnight and intermittent through the day came to Pakistan's rescue, and with the weatherman forecasting more showers between Saturday night and Sunday afternoon, it might end up saving Pakistan from the humiliation of defeat in

With South Africa as competitive as at any stage this summer, the second day of the second Test match at Newlands contained just about everything: aggressive Australian batting, a collapse and a 100th wicket for South Africa's Paul Adams