Cricket News

With Cape Town abuzz at the start of 2002, sport will be a catalyst to promote an action-packed day of pure entertainment at Newlands cricket ground on January 2

Is the current Australian team the best ever in the history of Test cricket

Fine bowling by paceman Fazle Akbar (4-17) and an unbeaten 46 by Shoaib Malik powered Pakistan 'A' to a convincing sixwicket win over Pakistan Seniors in the firstpractice match at Gaddafi Stadium Tuesday

Pakistan opener Saeed Anwar pulled out of next month's Bangladesh tour after being diagnosed with a stress fracture in his left hand

Bowling out Karnataka between them, Avadoot Amonkar and Avinash Aware brought Goa marginally back into their Ranji Trophy league match at Bangalore on Wednesday

Y Venugopal Rao hit a patient century to take Andhra Pradesh to a position of strength at the end of the first day's play in their Ranji Trophy league match against Hyderabad at Secunderabad

Glenn McGrath's uncanny ability to identify his targets was in evidence again today at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

Recalled Test opener Matt Horne had reason to be thanking his lucky stars, not inappropriately given he was dropped when on seven, in New Zealand's reply to Bangladesh's 132 in the second National Bank Test at the Basin Reserve in Wellington today

For Zimbabwe's cricket team, Christmas was fun whilst it lasted

Bangladesh is continuing their poor batting display in Wellington too

Even though India won the Test series 1-0, the performance in the last two Tests should definitely be a wake-up call for the Indians

With the start of the new season just 108 days away Somerset are already looking forward to a bumper year in 2002

Dion Nash's appeal against his three-game suspension has been denied by New Zealand Cricket's national commissioner Nick Davidson

New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming is predicting "a very exciting batting day" for his side in their second National Bank Test with Bangladesh at the Basin Reserve in Wellington tomorrow

Dashing Gujarat wicket-keeper-cum-opening batsman Parthiv Patel has been named as the captain of the India Under-19 squad for the junior World Cup to be held in New Zealand in January-February 2002

Y Venugopal Rao hit a patient century to take Andhra Pradesh to a position of strength at the end of the first day's play in their Ranji Trophy league match against Hyderabad at Secunderabad

Boxing Day - aesthetically billed in the context of this heavyweight showdown between Australia and South Africa - is, in theory, the biggest day on the Australian cricket calendar

Controversial pacer Shoaib Akhtar and the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) got a sigh of relief when the International Cricket Council (ICC) named New Zealand's Brian Hastings as match referee for next month's Test series between Pakistan and Bangladesh

West Indies coach Roger Harper has a need a need for speed

The Rest Elevens of all the four provinces were announced at the conclusion of the two-daytrials held Sunday and Monday in different cities