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International Cricket Council president Malcolm Gray has met the new chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board, David Morgan, and the result could be a reprieve for the ECB from their dilemma over going to Zimbabwe for the scheduled World Cup

HOBART, Jan 11 AAP - Damien Martyn hit a boundary from the last ball of the innings to set England a target of 272 in the one day international in Hobart today.

Former Sri Lanka captain Arjuna Ranatunga has overturned a proposed sports law preventing politicians from holding office in sports bodies

PIA battered Karachi Blues into submission on Friday scoring an innings and 161-run victory inside three days in their Quaid-i-Azam Trophy Group-IV match at KRL Stadium

Indian captain Sourav Ganguly thought his side was home and hosed with four or five overs to go in Auckland tonight but New Zealand came bouncing back in an exciting finish - the best finish of a ball-dominated series

It's the middle of summer over here but in true sympathetic form I came down with a cold just after Christmas

The Indian domestic season in December threw up few fresh names for the Ray-Ban domestic ratings

Note: these averages are not accurate due to numerous discrepancies in the scoresheets submitted

The president of the International Cricket Council, Malcolm Gray, is insisting that there will be no change in the organisation's position despite the row over the staging of World Cup matches in Zimbabwe.

The Warwickshire all-rounder, Graham Wagg, has been ruled out of the remainder of this winter's ECB National Academy programme through injury

A pair of day/night matches at the new, floodlit Airport Cricket Ground on January 23 and 26 will be a feature of the two-week preparatory camp for the West Indies World Cup cricket squad

Queensland's latest Test player Martin Love will captain the XXXXQueensland Bulls in Sunday's one-day match against Australian Country inBundaberg.

Hemang Badani struck a well-paced run-a-ball century to propel South Zone to a 10-run win over East Zone in their Deodhar Trophy tie at Visakhapatnam's Indira Priyadarshini Stadium on Thursday

Ensuring that India emerge from their tour of New Zealand with spirits high heading into the World Cup was the hope of skipper Sourav Ganguly before tomorrow's sixth National Bank Series match in Auckland

Home advantage could work in Barbados' favour during this year's regional first-class cricket competition and coach Hendy Springer is hoping to make the most of it

At Alexandra Sports Club

The year 2003 gets into motion to the strident cries of well-meaning people advocating a total cricketing boycott of Zimbabwe for the World Cup

HOBART - A revitalised Glenn McGrath is confident he'll be fit to playas England sweat over star batsman Michael Vaughan ahead of theirone-day cricket match in Hobart tomorrow.

MELBOURNE, Jan 10 AAP - Shane Warne's immediate destiny should rest in his hands rather than his much-discussed shoulder after an encouraging cricket comeback here today.

India's cricketers are hopeful that a compromise can be reached that will allow them to meet the sponsorship requirements for the World Cup starting next month