Cricket News

Glamorgan CCC have finalised their fixture list for 2002, with confirmation of the details of the matches at Swansea and Colwyn Bay

Wes Hall has thrown out an invitation to former great West Indies Test players to come and assist in reviving the regional side's battered image

South Australian captain Darren Lehmann has mastered desperately hot conditions as well as a determined attack to lead his team to a vital win over New South Wales in the teams' ING Cup match at Coffs Harbour today.

Flummoxed as much by the eccentricities of the Duckworth-Lewis system as they were by the dazzling Central Districts fielding, Auckland might have felt hard done by as they lost the State Shield one-day match by 19 runs at Eden Park Outer Oval today

A magnificent century by Darren Lehmann led South Australia to a convincing winover New South Wales in the ING Cup cricket match here today.

Zimbabwe finished the first day of the final Janashakthi National Test with their self-respect intact

The Young West Indies departed the Caribbean on Thursday for the ICC's Youth World Cup in New Zealand

After the blitz of Virender Sehwag on the second day of the Challenger Trophy, everything that followed was doomed to being termed ordinary

Star batsman Aravinda de Silva has been given fresh hope of an international recall after a meeting with Sri Lanka's newly appointed selection committee

The West Indies selectors have named a 22-man squad for a pre-tour trial match

Peter Anderson was back at his desk at the County Ground on Friday morning after attending a meeting in London on Thursday

New Zealand got out of maxium security prison last night to beat Australia and claim an improbable 23-run victory to launch their VB Series campaign

It is cruel that a season which has lifted cricket's profile to such a marked extent in New Zealand is being marred by the most abominable weather possible

Australia's VB One-Day International Series campaign has been thrown into disarray with Glenn McGrath banned for the home side's next match and another fast bowler, Brad Williams, likely to be out of action for a month with a fractured right thumb

Centuries by Farhan Adil and Asim Kamal gave Karachi Blues a first innings lead of 146 on the third day of the Quaid-i- Azam Trophy Grade-I fixture against Rest of Balochistan at KCCA Stadium here Thursday

Cricket has a reputation for producing the unexpected but there are few safer predictions than Muttiah Muralitharan grabbing a bagful of wickets on a dusty Galle track

FULL NAME: Paul Andrew Strang BORN: 28 July 1970, Bulawayo MAJOR TEAMS: Zimbabwe (since 1994/95), Mashonaland Country Districts (1993/94-1995/96), Mashonaland (1996/97- )

FULL NAME: Grant William Flower BORN: 20 December 1970, Salisbury (now Harare) MAJOR TEAMS: Zimbabwe (since 1989/90), Mashonaland Under-25 (1993/94- 1995/96), Mashonaland (1996/97- )

FIRST-CLASS DEBUT: 2-4 October 1998, ZCU President's XI v Indians, at Sunrise Sports Club TEST DEBUT: 26-30 December 2000, v New Zealand, at Wellington ODI DEBUT: 30 September 2000, v New Zealand, at Queens Sports Club, Bulawayo

Pakistan defeated Bangladesh by an innings and 178 runs in the third day of the first Test in the Coca-Cola series