Miscellaneous

The rehabilitation of Carl Hooper to the West Indian cricket team was made complete on Friday evening

Five days after Nasser Hussain called for discipline from his players following a turbulent Test Match in Galle, Darren Gough has become embroiled in an ugly confrontation with a Sri Lankan player at Welagedara Stadium today

My first look at the 16 selected to prepare for the South African tour made a great smile come to my face

1984-85 Pakistan in New Zealand On reaching New Zealand the situation reversed in a dramatic fashion

Alistair Campbell talks about his first Test century, scored in India, and the Australian tour to John Ward

Carl Hooper, who quit the game in 1999 saying "my heart was not in it anymore", was last night confirmed as West Indies captain for the forthcoming home series against South Africa

Stuart Carlisle continues his talk with John Ward about Zimbabwe's recently concluded extended tour

Shoaib Akhtar may be gone and out of the Pakistan Test series against New Zealand but Mohammad Sami has arrived and sent out a warning that there is still fire aplenty among the tourists' attack

MUMBAI, India - Beleaguered Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly will play for the Board President's XI against Australia in Delhi next week as he seeks to find some form and regain his grip on the captaincy ahead of the second Test in his home town

In the latest edition of his exclusive diary for CricInfo from Sri Lanka, Alec Stewart looks back at England's innings defeat in the First Test at Galle, including his own performance, and gives his own assessment of the umpiring controversy

Five days after Nasser Hussain called for discipline from his players following a turbulent Test Match in Galle, Darren Gough has become embroiled in a confrontation with a Sri Lankan player at Welagedara Stadium today

The Cricket Club of India presented an honorary life membership of the club to Australian captain Steve Waugh at a function held in the Jamnagar Lounge of the CCI in Mumbai on Friday

So India lost the first Test and conceded the initiative on a platter to the Australians

The Australian skipper Steve Waugh on Friday sounded a further warning to the Indians saying not to expect any mercy from his team after they beat the hosts by ten wickets in the first Test at Mumbai

The Kiwis (as the New Zealand sports teams were fondly called then) made their first-ever visit to Pakistan in the autumn of 1955

South African coach Graham Ford is unconcerned about his side's apparent lack of preparation time ahead of the First Test against the West Indies that begins at the Bourda ground in Georgetown on March 9th, although he does admit that having just one

Australian opening batsman Michael Slater has apologised to Rahul Dravid for using abusive language against the Indian vice-captain during the first cricket Test between the two countries here on Thursday

"Much ado about nothing"

Stuart Carlisle finished the long tour of Sharjah, India, New Zealand and Australia on a high, with a magnificent century against the might of Australia that almost won the match for his side

FULL NAME: Ryan Eric Butterworth BORN: At Harare, 14 April 1981 MAJOR TEAMS: CFX Academy KNOWN AS: Ryan Butterworth (Nicknames: Butters, Stork [make of butter]) BATTING STYLE: Right Hand Bat BOWLING STYLE: Right Arm Medium Pace