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Persistent rain in Scarborough meant no play was possible on the third day of the one-off Test between England and New Zealand's women

Rain thwarts England's women's progress

Umar Gul, the injured Pakistani fast bowler, is set to get treatment from specialists in South Africa

Umar Gul to consult doctors in South Africa

Rain interrupted play with two balls left in Australia's innings

Match abandoned after Clarke's pyrotechnics

23-Aug-2004•Bulletin by Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

Glamorgan claim third one-day title

Robert Croft, whose 106 set up the victory over Lancashire on Sunday that sealed the National League title for Glamorgan, has expressed his delight at winning the title with three games to spare, giving Glamorgan time to focus on the County

Richie Benaud, the former Australian captain and current doyen of television commentators, has named his World XI of the 20th century

Murali misses out in Benaud's Greatest XI

At The Oval on Saturday, England completed an unprecedented summer of success with their seventh win in a row

The magnificent seventh

23-Aug-2004•Andrew Miller

Smith - 'We would be lucky to be called club cricketers'

South Africa are having a decidedly bad time of it in Sri Lanka

The dust has barely settled on England's historic summer of Test victories, but already the coach, Duncan Fletcher, has turned his thoughts to a tough winter campaign in South Africa

England set sights on South Africa

23-Aug-2004•Andrew Miller

Smith - 'We would be lucky to be called club cricketers'

South Africa are having a decidedly bad time of it in Sri Lanka

There is much mutual lauding going on in Pakistan right now, and with good reason

Rashid hails Woolmer, Woolmer hails his team

South Africa are having a decidedly bad time of it in Sri Lanka

Smith - 'We would be lucky to be called club cricketers'

Nuwan Zoysa celebrated the last day of his bachelorhood - he gets married tomorrow before the team's departure to Dambulla - with a stump-flying career-best five-wicket burst that decimated South Africa at the Premadasa Stadium

Zoysa inspires 37-run win

22-Aug-2004•Bulletin by Charlie Austin in Colombo

Ganguly - 'We need to be consistent'

India were comprehensively outplayed by Pakistan in the opening match of the Videocon Cup

Eric Simons, South Africa's coach, is seriously considering giving up his job

Simons considers resigning as South Africa's coach

22-Aug-2004•Charlie Austin

Zoysa inspires 37-run win

Chandana assaulted after traffic incident

Upul Chandana was passed fit to play in the second one-day against SouthAfrica on Sunday despite being physically assaulted on Saturday afternoon bytwo members of the Sri Lankan army during a road-rage attack whilst drivingwith his young son

India have suffered another blow ahead of their crucial game against Australia with Ajit Agarkar being ruled out due to a side strain, PTI reported

Agarkar ruled out of Australia match

As England wrapped up a 4-0 series whitewash with victory in the fourth Test at The Oval, the country's press looked forward to one thing: The Ashes

Bring on the Aussies

22-Aug-2004•The Paper Round by Liam Brickhill

England's openers retain control

England's women continued their dominance of New Zealand on the second day of the one-off Test at Scarborough