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Mammoth cricketing weekend in store for Austria, with the official opening of Concordia CC's ground, visits from teams from Slovakia, Germany, India and Australia.

It had better work

English cricket needs television but television needs England to do better

Martin Saggers has been forced to miss the Twenty20 Cup after undergoing keyhole surgery on a troublesome knee

Already this week, Scotland and Ireland have demonstrated that Britain's less-heralded international teams cannot be under-estimated by Test opposition

The new Twenty20 Cup competition was voted a hit by those who attended the first match at the County Ground in Taunton on Friday evening

Somerset lost to Warwickshire by 19 runs at Taunton Scorecard Trevor Penney launched Warwickshire to the largest total of the day as they ran out comfortable winners over Somerset

Two hundred and sixty inner London schoolchildren are to have the thrill of playing on the hallowed turf of the world's most famous cricket ground

Global Cricket Corporation (GCC) is expected to table a claim for 30 million pounds from lost revenues from the 2003 World Cup when the International Cricket Council (ICC) meets in London next week

Minor Counties failed to take advantage of first use of a wicket offering the bowlers variable bounce and were bowled out for 130 in just 42.5 overs, thanks to some poor shot selection and fine pace bowling by Sri Lankan overseas player Mohamed

Channel 4 have successfully arranged for an early start to the semi-finals of the Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy

ECB and the counties have extended their partnership with BBC Local Radio around the country to provide unrivalled audio coverage of the new Twenty20 Cup

India and Pakistan are no closer to resuming cricket ties, according to an Indian news agency, after negotiations between the two countries stalled

The Canadian Cricket Association wishes to congratulate the newly elected members of the USACA Executive

EDP's umpiring representative visits Vienna.

1957 Pakistan's greatest batsman is born

An independent review of New Zealand Cricket's High Performance Centre and Academy at Lincoln University has produced some new thinking on keeping to the forefront of developments in cricket

But for the extra "a", there might have been a flurry of international interest in the fact that the captain of the South African Under-19 team to tour England next month is one Imraan Khan

The 2003 cricket World Cup was as much about political controversy as about sport - and while the cricket is long over, the boardroom warfare lingers on

The England and Wales Cricket Board today announced that next week's NatWest Challenge matches between England and Pakistan are sold out