Cricket News

Otago's hopes for the New Zealand Under-19 tournament this year received an encouraging boost with good early season form displayed during the region's trial game played at Alexandra's Molyneus Park over the weekend

Two Barbadian cricket personalities who have recently visited Sri Lanka have no worries over safety in the politically volatile country which is preparing for parliamentary elections

Phil Chandler's prospective return to the Wellington Firebirds side this summer has been signalled with his inclusion in one of the two trial teams named by the Wellington selectors today

Zimbabwe's losing streak became 'unlucky' 13 as they predictably lost to Pakistan by a wide margin of 106 by runs in the Khaleej Times Trophy Sunday at the Sharjah Stadium

Somerset Head Groundsman Phil Frost has won the coveted Groundsman of the Year Award for a record breaking fifth time in the space of seven years

New Zealand batsman Lou Vincent enhanced his Test claims with a century against the Queensland Academy of Sport today as the tour match meandered to a draw at Allan Border Field.

India's three-day match against a President's XI at the Chatsworth Oval was officially abandoned on Tuesday morning, throwing the tourists' preparations for the first Test against South Africa which starts in Bloemfontein on Saturday into disarray

"New Zealanders in further disarray" the Australians trumpet

Banned fast bowler Mohammad Akram Saturday filed an appeal against the one-season ban to the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB)

Afghanistan were facing innings defeat after Mardan sent them on a leather chase on the first day of the two-day Quaid-i-Azam Trophy Grade-II match at Gymkhana ground in Peshawar

It was a mismatch with Pakistan well and truly whipped by a professional Sri Lankan team in a totally one-sided affair by seven wickets in the Khaleej Times Trophy here at the Sharjah Stadium Saturday

The Indian innings at Kingsmead resembled a pre-climax scene from a bad B-movie, where the villain has a noose around the neck of the heroine standing on an ice block

Tasmania's attack suffered the same fate as the WACA's fast-disappearing Players Stand as century makers Damien Martyn and Murray Goodwin set the Tigers a 244 run final day target.

New Zealand is going to have to hit the ground running when it begins its World Cup campaign in South Africa next summer

Another abject surrender by India saw them slump to their ninth consecutive one-day final loss at Kingsmead, Durban, on Friday

Brett Lee and Nathan Bracken buried their Ashes disappointments with outstanding comebacks as NSW thrashed South Australia by 290 at the Sydney Cricket Ground here today.

Its fellow full members of the International Cricket Council (ICC) have left the West Indies squeezed very tightly between a rock and a hard place

Chris Cairns unleashed one of his cyclonic knocks today to lift the chins of a New Zealand touring squad which still believes it can knock over Steve Waugh's Australians next week.

Queensland beat Victoria here today in a one-day cricket match with enough twists, farce and controversy to make a Hollywood scriptwriter happy.

Nashua WP scored a fine eight wicket victory over a luckless Griqua Diamonds side at Newlands on Sunday evening