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A five-wicket haul from India seamer Iqbal Siddiqui helped Maharashtra reduce Saurashtra to 288 for nine on the opening day of the West Zone Ranji match between the two sides at the Nehru Stadium, Pune

It is very rare to find an international team, other than Australia, that is healthy in a cricket sense these days

Zimbabwean captain Stuart Carlisle tried to look on the bright side after his team crashed to an innings defeat against Sri Lanka in the opening Janashakthi National Test on Monday but admitted that they needed to think long and hard at how to

It looks as if England will be forced to change the venue of their three-day game against Otago - one of two scheduled warm-up matches for the Tests on their forthcoming tour of New Zealand

Two comprehensive victories over the last week have seen the CLEAR Black Caps move up the ICC Test Championship ladder

England captain Nasser Hussain has been awarded an OBE in the New Year Honours List, announced today

Blessed be the name of the Lord

At 16, Martin Nurse is already living part of his life-long dream and making good on a promise he made to his mother when she was alive

Pakistan Juniors warmed for next month's World Cup in New Zealand with a four-wicket victory Saturday over PCB XI, pacer Najaf Shah snapping up five wickets

Sri Lankan captain Sanath Jayasuriya praised the efforts of his bowlers on Saturday after their grueling and successful endeavors in the scorching heat at the Sinhalese Sports Club in Colombo

In a move that smacks ominously of desperation, left-arm spinner Nicky Boje is to fly to Australia on Monday at the request of the South African selectors "to give them an extra option as a spinner" ahead of the third Test in Sydney which starts on

With Graham Grace hitting an unbeaten maiden limited-overs century, North West scramble to a one-wicket win over Border in a Standard Bank Cup match in Potchefstroom on Sunday

A tense, rather than exciting, third day saw this State Championship match move into the control of Northern Districts, but a quickfire sixth wicket partnership between Kyle Mills and Tama Canning left Auckland with some hope

Wellington started out with good intentions on day three of their State Championship match with Otago at Carisbrook today, but the loss of wickets forced it to abandon any hopes of first innings points and declare to set up a last day run chase

Ben Smith reached his second double century in first-class matches for Central Districts against Canterbury at Pukekura Park today, transforming at one stroke this match and his season

As a full moon holiday in Colombo brought the first Test to a temporary halt on Sunday, Zimbabwean captain Stuart Carlisle was left ruing a string of poor umpiring decisions on the first three days that leaves his side facing a massive innings defeat

The West Indies will have to put two teams in the field at the same time in different countries next June because of a clash in dates between the home Tests against New Zealand and the A team's tour of England

Australian captain Steve Waugh will forego half of his current match payment after being found guilty of misconduct in a hearing before match referee Ranjan Madugalle in Melbourne last night.

Gerhard Strydom played the innings of his life to lift Boland to a four-wicket Standard Bank Cup victory over Western Province that was as remarkable as it was unexpected in Paarl on Friday night

Ben Smith's story is an old one - as old as cricket