Cricket News

Leaders Yorkshire are on course for their eighth CricInfo Championship win of the season as they chase their first title for 33 years

LEEDS, England - Debutant Simon Katich was presented with a baggy greencap by former Australian captain Richie Benaud while rain delayed thestart of the fourth Ashes Test at Headingley.

The Deodhar Trophy matches will be played in the North Zone from February 20 to 27

Hampshire want to play in the Southern Electric ECB Premier League next year, with a team made up of young contracted players and academy students

The technical committee of the Asian Cricket Foundation which met in Kolkata on Thursday, decided that the matches of the Asian Test Championship will be supervised by neutral umpires

The Asian Cricket Council (ACC) announced that it will go ahead with the Asian Test Championship as per schedule even if India pulled out of the meet though it was prepared to "bend backward" to ensure that all countries participate

Discarded former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram got a word of encouragement and support from Australian fast bowling coach Daryl Foster who said the left-armer was brilliant in his last Test against England

Hampshire select 13 for Durham CricInfo Championship match.

Sri Lanka's wicketkeeper batsman, Kumar Sangakkara who made an unbeaten 105 and helped his side consolidate their position in the first Test Match against India at the Galle International Stadium was delighted with his maiden hundred today, "It feels

Sussex pace duo Jason Lewry and James Kirtley claimed their 50th first-class wickets of the season but the Division Two leaders were frustrated by a battling century from Luke Sutton

Kent's bid to claim the CricInfo Championship runners-up slot moved a step closer as they dominated the opening day of their match with reigning champions Surrey in sunny Canterbury

England enjoyed probably their best day so far in the Under-19 Test series against the West Indies at Trent Bridge, finishing the day only 103 runs behind the tourists with seven wickets left

It's not even the silly season but sport's pre-occupation with the production of lists, and that's not necessarily a bad thing, has produced a couple of pearlers over the last month

LONDON - Australian Darren Lehmann struck his fifth century of theseason on Thursday to keep Yorkshire firmly on course to win its firstEnglish county cricket championship title since 1968.

A maiden Test century from Kumar Sangakkara and a dramatic second innings collapse by the India's top order in the evening left Sri Lanka on the verge of an emphatic victory in the first Test at the Galle International Stadium on Thursday

Sussex CCC are pleased to announce the appointment of 32-year-old Keith Greenfield as its inaugural ECB-linked Academy Director

Ricky Ponting shrugged off his Ashes blues to make a long overdue and superb century at Headingley to give Australia another sizzling success to celebrate in the Fourth npower Test Match

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has finally realized that squad for the forthcoming Asian Test Championships cannot be named after analyzing the performance of its players in limited overs games

Australian Daryl Foster arrived in city late Monday evening and was to business Tuesday when he had his initial workouts with the Pakistan fast bowlers

Pakistan has invited the Indian junior cricket team to play matches in an under-19 tournament in preparation for next year's Youth World Cup to be held in New Zealand