Cricket News

New Zealand gave it a go, but without a steady top order contribution it was always going to struggle to score the 223 needed to beat England and prevent the National Bank Series being tied up 2-2 going in Tuesday's last match

An Australian Cricket Board official will visit Pakistan next month to foresee pre-tour arrangements

A Deodhar Trophy match between East Zone and North Zone at Ludhiana that started two hours 20 minutes late was abandoned at 2 p.m

Australia's cricketers have demanded extra security from loutish South African fans after Steve Waugh, Adam Gilchrist and Damien Martyn were spat on and sprayed with beer during the opening day of the Test series in Johannesburg.

New South Wales will arrive at the 'Gabba tomorrow missing a brace of its best players, with injury threatening the capacities of another, and with a young batsman cooling his heels at home as he waits for a drugs hearing that will shape his future

Australia thrashed New Zealand by 57 runs at the MCG today to take a clean sweep of the home leg of the women's one day cricket international series.

South African fast bowler Allan Donald is almost certain to miss the remainder of the Castle Lager/MTN Test series against Australia at the Wanderers with a hamstring strain

Adam Gilchrist missed out on a million, but carved his way into the record books with Test cricket's quickest double century as Australia took complete control of the first Castle Lager/MTN Test match against South Africa at the Wanderers on Saturday

Dave Tiller, Portsmouth's leading wicket-taker for eight of the past nine seasons, is returning to his old roots to play Hampshire League cricket with Southsea this coming season

Windy Wellington marked a very low point for all of us

A venture into the unknown awaits both sides when New Zealand and England meet in the fourth match of the National Bank One-Day International Series at a sellout Eden Park, Auckland tomorrow

Karachi Whites chalked up their sixth victory in the Quaid-i-Azam Trophy Grade-I Cricket Championship Thursday despite a gallant century by Sargodha skipper Misbah-ul-Haq at KCCA Stadium here

I write as Zimbabwe have just started the First Test against India, at Nagpur, inexplicably the same venue where they played just over a year ago

The State Central Stags team to play State Northern Knights at WestpacTrust Park, Hamilton starting on Monday in the first day-night first-class game to be played in New Zealand will see New Zealand representative Jacob Oram return to the side

Middle order batsman Tillakaratne Dilshan and pace bowler Dulip Liyanage have been recalled into Sri Lanka's14-man squad for the forthcoming Asian Test Championship final against Pakistan

The selectors must be pretty sanguine that the forthcoming Zimbabwe series will not tax the Indian players'technique or temperament unduly

Big-hitting all-rounder Gus Mackay, at the age of 34, reached a century off 45 balls in the Logan Cup match against Matabeleland last weekend

India plays host to the visiting Zimbabweans and the capital of the citrus fruit is the first venue for the Test match

Takashinga return to Murare Sports Club this Sunday - three weeks after their day of infamy - to contest the semi-finals of the league knockout competition

An unhappy day for South African cricket ended in shameful fashion with three spectators arrested for spitting and throwing beer at Australian batsmen, two of the home team's most senior players off the field with injuries and the tourists nicely