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Perennial 'unfit' fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar was rewarded when named to lead PCB-XI in the warm up match one-day match against New Zealand to be played at the National Stadium, Karachi on Sept 16

Urgent action over the state of the country's spin bowling is being considered by New Zealand Cricket

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Tuesday announcedthe itinerary for the Zimbabwean tour of India in 2002.The 36-day tour which will immediately follow the India-England series will see India and Zimbabwe clashing in two Tests and

Adam Gilchrist's list of cricketing achievements continues to grow, with news today that he has been appointed Western Australia's captain for the 2001-02 domestic season.

Lancashire's relegation worries deepened as rain ruined the first day of their Cricinfo Championship match against Kent at Old Trafford

Dilhara Fernando, Nuwan Zoysa and Suresh Perera - bowlers with questionmarks against their fitness or bowling actions - were all named in a Sri Lanka pool of 20 by the national selectors to prepare for the three-nation Champions trophy cricket

Michael Hussey and Russell Warren shared a third-wicket stand of 287 as relegation-threatened Northants reached 382-5 on the opening day of the CricInfo Championship match with Somerset at Taunton

The Somerset Board Eleven set off for Lakenham today for their second round match on Thursday against Norfolk in the 2002 Cheltenham and Gloucester Trophy

Outstanding Test batsman Andy Flower has made history by becoming the first Zimbabwean and the first wicket-keeper ever to go on top of the Pricewaterhouse world ratings after his heroics against South Africa

The familiar figure of Andre van Troost was back at The County Ground todaybut only as a visitor

A logistical headache in the lead-up to the New Zealand tour of Pakistan appears to have been solved should New Zealand A make the final of the Coromandel King Moin-ud-Dowlah Gold Cup in Hyderabad

Pakistan cricket selectors left out eternally unfit "six-million Rupee man" Shoaib Akhtar from the 16-man squad for the three-match one-day internationals series against New Zealand starting here next Wednesday

The four-nation tournament that Pakistan and India were planning tohost early next year

The fast bowlers in the Indian team for the upcoming one-day triseries have all been told by Indian coach John Wright to undergo a special training stint with legendary fast bowler Dennis Lillee at the Chennai-based MRF Pace foundation

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The Western Australian Cricket Association is pleased to advise that Adam Gilchrist has today been officially named Captain of the Western Warriors.

Everything went according to plan for Warwickshire until rain washed out most of the last two sessions at Derby

New CricInfo County Champions Yorkshire received the Lord's Taverners Trophy from CricInfo managing director Peter Griffiths during the lunch interval on the first day of their last match of the season against Essex at Scarborough today

On a rain-shortened first day at Trent Bridge, Notts reached 164-5 against Hampshire

A current West Indies batsman and a former West Indies spin bowler have called on cricketing authorities to return to the day when regional competition was played in all the territories