Cricket News

Jamaican fast bowler, Franklyn Rose has arrived in Johannesburg to join the Highveld Strikers for the upcoming 2001/2002 season

Star New Zealand all-rounder Chris Cairns was the focus of most people's attention in the New Zealand Academy-Otago two-day match at Lincoln Green yesterday, but Otago's gutsy lower order display allowed it to take first innings honours

Four new caps have been named today for the world champion CLEAR White Ferns' tour to India in November-December

The Victorian Cricket Association Board last night received a report from CEO Ken Jacobs and General Manager, Cricket Operations Shaun Graf, following the resignation of John Scholes from the position of State Coach yesterday morning.

Abbottabad, Oct 1: The Pakistan Cricket Control Board (PCB) are hoping that New Zealand's tour to Pakistan would be rescheduled in March- April next year, chairman of the board Lt Gen Tauqir Zia told reporters

HARARE, Oct 1: England cruised to a 138-run win over Zimbabwe 'A' in their opening tour match at the Alexandra Sports Club Monday, thanks largely to an innings of 95 by Graham Thorpe

NSW will start the new cricket season slightly down on strike power with skipper Steve Waugh and pacemen Brett Lee and Nathan Bracken all missing from the Blues' season-opening ING Cup clash with Victoria at Bankstown Oval on Sunday.

If conditions at Lincoln Green were only the start of the summer watch out for the main event

England prepare for the first match of their one-day series in Zimbabwe tomorrow buoyed up by the impressive return of Graham Thorpe after he was out of action for most of the summer

Led by a thunderous century from Thomas Odoyo, Kenya's batsmen savaged an inexperienced Gauteng XI attack on Tuesday to set up a 224-run victory in a one-day game at the Soweto Cricket Oval on Tuesday

England cricket captain Nasser Hussain believes that it's time they put a stop to the losing streak that has seen them lose 11 consecutive one-day matches since last year when they embark on a five-match series against Zimbabwe

- The so-called shareholders of a Barbados team which has not won a regional limited-overs title for 13 years have been given a simple but strict message for the 2001 Red Stripe Bowl starting here today

Still no Allan Donald and still no Nicky Boje, but South Africa will take a 12-man squad of proven quality to the Wanderers on Friday for the first Standard Bank Summer Spice Series one-day match against India

Although more than two years have passed since he last donned a baggy green cap, it would be grossly wide of the mark to describe Matthew Elliott as a forgotten man of Australian cricket

West Indian fast bowler Marlon Black lost his place in international cricket as well as income of $A100,000 following an attack on him early this year, a court in Melbourne was told today.

After Round 2, Khan Research Labs (KRL) is at the top of the point's table after winning both their matches in Patron's Trophy Grade-I First Class Tournament

Makhaya Ntini and Mfuneko Ngam became the first African players to receive one of South African cricket's highest awards on Monday when they were named among five 2001 Cricketers of the Year

The Spec-Savers Jumbos team will play against Border in their first match of the season in a Supersport 4 day match at St

New Zealand's CLEAR Black Caps will compete in Sharjah against Pakistan and Sri Lanka in April

Anna Corbin has more reason than most to celebrate her selection in the CLEAR White Ferns to tour India next month