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The final schedule for England's tour of Sri Lanka later this year has been confirmed after slight changes by the Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka

Steve Waugh visits a home for leprosy-afflicted children on the outskirts of Calcutta As the long, white luxury limousine pulled up at the MRF Pace Foundation, pandemonium broke loose

Hampshire slumped to their second Frizzell Championship defeat of the season, when they went down to Northamptonshire at Wantage Road within three days.

St Cross Symondians bid to secure their new-found Southern Electric Premier League, Division 2 leadership with a sixth win in seven games against United Services at Burnaby Road, Portsmouth, tomorrow, 1pm.

Trojans bid to regain the Southern Electric Premier League, Division 3 leadership from Alton has been hit by injury and unavailabilities.

John Bracewell, the newly appointed New Zealand coach, feels that it is the right time to accept a job at the international level because of the potential for the side to continue its rise in the world rankings

The second day of India A's tour game against Nottinghamshire has been rained off

John Bracewell has been given a three-year contract as New Zealand's latest coach

St Cross Symondians chase their sixth successive win when they entertain Southern Electric Premier League, Division 2 strugglers Gosport Borough at the Royal Green Jackets Ground, Winchester, tomorrow, 1pm.

They are winless after seven County Championship matches, and staring relegation full in the face, but Kent's prospects for the season have increased tenfold after it was announced that Muttiah Muralitharan would be joining them for the remainder of

Ben Phillips: vital runs and wickets as Northants beat Hampshire Surrey 401 and 249 for 3 lead Kent 352 for 5 by 300 runs at The Oval Scorecard A generous declaration from Kent's captain, David Fulton, gave Surrey an unlikely chance

Teenage Portsmouth batsman Michael Barnes has joined the growing list of cricketers who have been ruled out of action for the remainder of the season.

Over 400 New Forest sportsmen packed All Saints Church, Hordle, on Tuesday morning to pay their last respects to Bashley (Rydal) cricketer Dale Middleton, who was found dead at his Lymington home recently.

Bangladesh will get a chance to show their ability to score runs in a chase situation on the final day of their match against the Commonwealth Bank Academy XI at Brisbane tomorrow

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1929 Birth of a left-arm spinner whose career makes Phil Tufnell's look boring

South Wilts' prospects of bowling BAT Sports off the top of the ECB Southern Electric Premier League at Lower Bemerton tomorrow, 11.30am, have received a double setback.

Plans to resume cricket contact between India and Pakistan, even if below full international level, have been welcomed by the International Cricket Council

An unbeaten fourth-wicket partnership of 145 between the two Jacques, Kallis and Rudolph, guided South Africa to an easy win over England in the fifth match of the NatWest Series

Heads of Government of West Indian nations will be getting the message on plans for the staging of the ICC Cricket World Cup in the Caribbean in 2007 during their CARICOM meeting in Montego Bay, Jamaica on Sautrday