Miscellaneous

MELBOURNE - Victorian allrounder Ian Harvey will be fit for Australia's one-day tour of India despite missing the Bushrangers' last Pura Cup match due to a thumb injury

Their rehabilitation to international cricket has taken off spinner Grant Bradburn and fast-medium bowler Chris Drum down different roads, but they both feel ready should they be called into the New Zealand playing XI for the second Test against

Claremont-Nedlands left hander Geoff Cullen will make his first-class debut for the Western Warriors in the Pura Cup clash against the Victorian Bushrangers at the MCG, starting on Thursday 15 March 2001

Auckland witnessed a sensational end to the 1st Test between Pakistan and New Zealand, when the wickets tumbled like ninepins to give a thundering 299 runs victory to Pakistan

The first two days of the second Test match at Kolkata proved the old dictum that international cricket is about mental toughness

Twelve months ago it is unlikely that England would have won the tense Second Test Match in Kandy

Back home the cricket-crazy Pakistanis are celebrating

New Zealand's batsmen have escaped selectorial blood-letting after today's embarrassing 299-run loss to Pakistan at Eden Park

In the latest edition of his exclusive diary for CricInfo, Alec Stewart looks back at England's nail-biting triumph in the Second Test against Sri Lanka at Kandy, which leaves them all square with one game to play

Hamilton will host the Hawke Cup final in 12 days time after Hamilton held out a determined Canterbury Country bid for victory in today's semi-final and after Hawke's Bay beat Bay of Plenty in Napier

Former Test allrounder Nasim-ul-Ghani on Sunday resigned from the five-man advisory council of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB)

A wonderful day's cricket at the Eden Gardens, watched by over 75,000 people, ended with Australia at 291-8

Harbhajan Singh became first Indian to claim a Test match hat trick on the opening day of the Kolkata Test

The touring Australian team has been sponsored by a refrigeration company

"It was excellent, I hope my son will do much better and everything will be good," was precisely the reaction of Avtar Kaur, mother of Harbhajan Singh, who made history by becoming the first Indian to take a hat trick in the second Test against

Pakistan's bowling legend Wasim Akram may have gone home injured but he was still at Eden Park in spirit today

Putting in the portable pitch block at Eden Park before a Test match was "pretty risky" according to beaten New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming

Having spent the last four days of the first Test match as a commentator I have had a bird's eye view of what was, until the last morning, a very topsy-turvy game

Former leg-spin wizard Abdul Qadir has withdrawn from the three-man bowling committee constituted to study the action of paceman Shoaib Akhtar

Sanath Jayasuriya and Nasser Hussain last night hoped that the controversy that has marred the first two Test Matches in Sri Lanka will not ruin the grand finale to an enthralling series in the Third Test Match, which starts in Colombo on Thursday