Miscellaneous

Indian cricket coach John Wright said in Mumbai on Friday that the team was shaping well and was confident of doing well in the first Test

Mumbai coach Ashok Mankad said on Saturday that he was pleased with his team's performance as they had almost beaten the World champions Australia

If it were a crime in cricket to bludgeon bowlers, Jamaica would have been arrested, charged and convicted yesterday

MUMBAI, India - Injured Mark Waugh is little better than a 50-50 prospect to play in next week's first cricket Test against India, according to Australian physiotherapist Erroll Alcott

The long awaited series between India and Australia will get underway in just a few days time and the anticipation among the public is building up rapidly along with the hope that the Indians put a stop to Steve Waugh's winning streak

Glenn McGrath is the spearhead of the Australian team on their tour of India

Shane Warne came good in the second warm up game leading up to the first Test match with a seven wicket haul in the second innings against Ranji trophy champions Mumbai at the CCI on Saturday

What a peculiar domestic one-day season this has been

Rarely has a series revolved around the personal duel between two cricketers as much as the 1997-98 contest between India and Australia

Karachi: Middle-order batsman, Younis Khan, is certain to be named as one of the two changes the Pakistan cricket selectors are likely to make for the three-Test series against New Zealand starting next month

Tom Moody will be treating it as just another game

Well, perhaps the title is an exaggeration

Wisdom Siziba, one of the products of the township development scheme in Zimbabwe, shares in a rare record in first-class cricket

Even in the days of short tours in the 90s, it seemed inconceivable to think that India and Australia would ever play a one off Test

In keeping with its tough stance of late, the Board of Control for Cricket in India at the special general body meeting in Chennai on Friday, restrained its former President IS Bindra from attending meetings of the BCCI for two years, though the

Patron's Trophy, the second most premier tournament of Pakistan's domestic arena, has started with nothing less than a bang with all the four matches (of four-day duration each) of the first round yielding results well before their closing time

The first round of the Patron's Trophy (Grade II) ended with only one out of a total of three matches reaching a result as rain and subsequent bad weather seriously affected the two matches played at Lahore

FULL NAME: Hamilton Masakadza BORN: At Harare, 9 August 1983 MAJOR TEAMS: Manicaland (1999/2000), Mashonaland (2000/01- )

Karachi: Former England opener, Geoffrey Boycott, will visit Pakistan again in May and September in connection with his coaching assignment at the National Academy in Lahore

Leg spinner Narendra Hirwani, who has earned a recall into the Indian team for the ensuing India-Australia series, said in Indore that he would not let the selectors down and added that he would give his hundred percent on the field