Cricket News

There could not have been a greater contrast between the two Shell Shield games played at Pukekura Park, New Plymouth over the last three days

Defiant innings from young Victorians Jon Moss and Michael Klinger were not enough to stop Western Australia gaining a slight advantage at stumps on day one of their Pura Cup match.

Ashley Giles is not the sort of person who is afraid to stick his head above the parapet

The hex that has firmly attached itself to the West Indies team has struck again

If Chris Harris' name is missing from the Queen's Birthday Honours list this year then the system is flawed

New Zealand gave itself a boost yesterday when taking a 29-run win from Pakistan in their ICC Under-19 World Cup warm-up game at Lincoln

Few people know the behavioural characteristics of the Bert Sutcliffe Oval, the centrepiece ground of the ICC Under-19 World Cup which starts at Lincoln University tomorrow, better than Dayle Hadlee

New Zealand all-rounder Chris Harris, the man of the match in both New Zealand's VB Series victories over Australia, has returned home for personal reasons and may be out of the rest of the series

England are not fully prepared for a six-match one-day series against India, which starts on Saturday, due to lack of adequate practice, coach Duncan Fletcher has said.

All three teams playing in the VB One-Day International Series in Australia will spend Australia Day on January 26 in Adelaide

A team's form in Test cricket can rarely be used as a yardstick for judging their performance in one-day internationals

Eden Gardens in Kolkata will host the first one-day international between India and England on Saturday

Sri Lanka cricket selectors recalled fast bowler Pramodya Wickramasinghe to the national squad of 16 picked for training for the Sharjah and England tours in April and May-July respectively.

After the Sri Lankan cricket team's annihilation of the West Indies and Zimbabwe sides during the last few months, which were almost one-sided affairs, the attention has now turned to a tough competition, not international but domestic

The South African international wicketkeeper-batsman Nic Pothas has joined Hampshire on a two-year contract.

Northern Districts 228 (K Read 86, P Carey 33; B Newton 4-29) beat Canterbury 219 (D Crosbie 42, M Ling 40; J Morgan 5-35, K Goble 2-31) by 9 runs

Yousuf Youhana and Younis Khan hit strokeful centuries as Pakistan feasted on Bangladesh's mediocre attack in the second and final cricket Test here Thursday

An asking rate of five an hour wasn't going to be easy against Willis, Lever, Botham, Underwood and Gooch

What shaped as a David and Goliath battle was transformed into the Shane and Sean show as two outstanding young players helped Tasmania slay Queensland by an innings and 50 runs in an amazing finish to the teams' Pura Cup clash here in Hobart today.

Never expect the expected in India