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SYDNEY - Steve Waugh is to be replaced as captain of Australia's one-daycricket team, the Australian Cricket Board announced today.

The National One-day Cricket Tournament will be played from March 8 to April 7 with 28 teams, including 10departments, 14 associations and four provincial sides vying for top honours

Australia's selectors have dropped a bombshell today, announcing the axing of national captain Steve Waugh from the country's one-day international team.

Whitewashing visiting cricket sides is becoming quite a common feature with Sri Lankan national teams and Sri Lanka A are looking for a three-nil clean sweep when they take on Kenya in the final unofficial Test at Dambulla on Thursday

Queenslander Martin Love compiled a stylish century against South Australia as the Pura Cup leaders dominated the opening day of the top of the table clash here today.

Former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram said that he was shocked to learn that the Australian captain Steve Waugh was sacked as captain of the one-day squad and dropped from the team to take on South Africa in the return away series.

There is a new face on the scene at the County Ground

Marlon Samuels' promising start to his international career has been put on hold for at least three months and probably beyond the upcoming home series against India and New Zealand

It was a good move by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to postpone the start of the Ranji Trophy quarter-finals by two days in order to give leading players the opportunity to play for their states in the crucial games

Gujarat notched up a quick-fire five-wicket win over Bengal in their 40-over tie during the ongoing HSBC National Cricket Tournament for the Blind, getting to their target of 187 in only 23.2 overs.

New Zealand's four-wicket victory over England in the National Bank Series opener at Christchurch's Jade Stadium was achieved because their collapse of four for eight was nowhere near as injurious as the eight for 40 suffered by England

Baroda may be Ranji Trophy champions in the running for their second successive title

Fresh from their whitewash of the truncated Test rubber, Pakistan take on the much-harried West Indies in the first of a series of three one-dayers here today

Were the Barbados cricket selectors correct in exposing so many young players at the start of the 2002 Busta Series

The Selection Committee of the BCCSL has chosen the following 14 players for the Sri Lanka `A' squad, from whom 11 players will be selected on the morning of the 3rd Unofficial Test Match versus the Kenya National Cricket Team, which is to be played

Lahore Whites powered their way to a big first innings total Tuesday in their Quaid Trophy Grade-I game against Rawalpindi, thanks to patient half centuries by a trio of their batsmen

Stephen Waugh will not be selected in the Australian one-day international team to tour South Africa and Zimbabwe in March, it was announced today.

Mathew Sinclair drummed out a reminder to the national selectors that he still wants to be considered for the Test series with an unbeaten century for Central Districts against Otago at Alexandra in their State Championship match today

Auckland clawed their way back into a match they looked in danger of conceding on the first day of what has become effectively a three-day fifth-round State Championship after the first day was abandoned

Last season Wellington recorded their lowest score of 78 against Northern Districts at WestpacTrust Park, Hamilton