Cricket News

Australia won their second warmup game against Queensland at Allan Border Field, Brisbane, today, completing their program of match practice before this week's Super Challenge 2000

Opener Trevor Ward led the way with a fluent 61 from 79 balls as Leicestershire Foxes posted a useful total in their National League Division One contest with Northamptonshire Steelbacks at Wantage Road

Canada has won the inaugural Americas Cup with an emphatic seven wicket victory over Bermuda at Toronto, Ontario, Canada on Saturday

Toronto, Canada - Argentina failed in a brave bid to cause one of the biggest upsets in cricket history in going down by 5 wickets to Canada yesterday

Nick Knight and Anurag Singh gleefully seized on the opportunity to make runs after Warwickshire were put into bat by Hampshire at Edgbaston in the first of the NatWest semi-finals this weekend

A record-breaking opening partnership between Nick Knight and Anurag Singh left the odds in favour of a Warwickshire victory in their NatWest Trophy semi-final against Hampshire today

Robin Smith reversed the fortunes of a disappointing season to raise Hampshire's hopes of securing a place in the final of the NatWest Trophy final at Edgbaston this afternoon

Nottinghamshire's hopes of avoiding an embarrassing innings defeat by Middlesex were plunged into doubt on the third morning at Trent Bridge as seamers Angus Fraser and Richard Johnson picked up seven wickets between them

Nottinghamshire can take very little credit for making Middlesex bat for a second time as they slumped to an embarassing 10 wicket defeat inside 3 days at Trent Bridge

Carl Crowe took a career best 4 for 55, and coupled with Vince Wells 4 for 54 it led Leicestershire to an unexpected victory after Hampshire had directed much of the play in the morning session

Jason Brown claimed his 100th first-class wicket in only his 23rd match to help Northamptonshire close in on an emphatic victory against Sussex at Northampton

Northamptonshire missed out on maximum batting points against Sussex at Northampton today, opting instead to build up a formidable first-innings lead

Australia have begun their warmup for the Super Challenge series against South Africa next week with a 75-run win over a Queensland XI at Allan Border Field, Brisbane, today

All things considered, South Africa could not have asked a great deal more of Shaun Pollock and his overhauled team than has been forthcoming in Sri Lanka over the past five to six weeks

At lunch Leicestershire had reached 116 for 5 a lead of 154 over their hosts

An eventful morning at Trent Bridge saw Notts recover from the loss of both openers to reach 87-2 in their first innings, still 325 behind Middlesex's all-out total of 412

Russell Warren and Tony Penberthy secured a handy first-innings lead for Northamptonshire in their top-of-the-table Division Two contest with Sussex at Wantage Road

A wretched last two sessions for Nottinghamshire left them 167 runs behind Middlesex on first innings and facing an uphill battle to avoid defeat after Justin Langer enforced the follow-on

James Kirtley bowled Sussex back into contention with a double-strike to slow top-of-the-table Northamptonshire's progress in the County Championship Division Two contest at Northampton

Stuart Law overshadowed another dismal batting display by Nasser Hussain as Essex took control of their County Championship Division One match at Kidderminster against Worcestershire