News

Suresh Perera, the promising fast bowler tipped as a player who can turn out to be the great all-rounder Sri Lanka lusts after, justified his selection to the senior team by winning the man of the match award in the game against India on Sunday

New Zealand captain, Stephen Fleming, and West Indian Test players Phil Simmons and Junior Murray have added their names to the list of starts taking part in Darren Gough's benefit match

Security at the hotel, where the Indian and New Zealand cricketers are staying in Colombo, has been further tightened after a group of LTTE rebels attacked the Katunayake military airbase, adjoining the International airport in Colombo early today

In his latest exclusive diary entry for CricInfo, England's wicketkeeper-batsman reflects on the missed opportunities that have put England backs to the wall in the Ashes series

Leicestershire stayed on course for a one-day double by overwhelming Worcestershire by 118 runs to register an 11th consecutive victory in limited-overs competitions

Somerset Seconds had by for the best of the first day of their Championship match against Sussex at Hastings

Chester-le-Street: Gloucestershire 304 (RC Williams 75, M Kileen 4-73) and 55-1 Durham 86 and 163 (RJ Sillence 4-35) Gloucestershire win by 9 wickets

Manor Park: Lincolnshire 300 (JC Harrison 98, MA Fell 69; C Brown 5-111) Norfolk

Ryan Driver was in top form for Lancashire second XI

The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), today confirmed that it suffered losses totalling in excess of US $500,000 from two investments made on the US Stock Market.

State Wellington Firebirds coach Vaughn Johnson has named the following 18 players to form the Winter Training squad to prepare for the coming season

LONDON - England's floundering Ashes prospects were struck a body blow today when Graham Thorpe was ruled out of the third cricket Test just days after returning from a six-week injury lay-off

Ragama Cricket Club qualified to play the Premier League tournament next season when they beat Singha Sports Club in the first innings in the last promotion and relegation match at Galle on Sunday

The first three matches of the Coca-Cola Cup have been won by the side batting first and this has attracted plenty of discussion

The Sri Lankan cricket board confirmed this morning that the Coca Cola Cup would not be disrupted by the pre-dawn attack on an Air Force Base by the Tamil Tigers

Muttiah Muralitharan has returned to Sri Lanka after his second season in Lancashire with a point to prove

Well to go two nil up is fantastic

It was the 1552nd Test match in cricket history

Former Sri Lankan fast bowler Asantha de Mel is of the opinion that the Sri Lankans have the best side in the ongoing Coca-Cola Cup tri series in Colombo

Cricket was pushed into the background by security fears for the second time in a week today by the news that Tamil Tiger cadres had launched a pre-dawn attack on an Air Force base located just 30 km north of Colombo