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Middlesex and Essex played out an exciting tie at Southgate; both bowled out for 120 on a pitch that offered far too much help to bowlers of all types

BIRMINGHAM, England - His passion for the game restored, Shane Warne is likely to become the first Australian to break the magical 400-wicket barrier during the five-Test Ashes cricket series against bamboozled England

The confusion over Ridley Jacobs' suspension by ICC match referee Dennis Lindsay reached a conclusion yesterday

The residents of Matale could get a glimpse of former and present Sri Lankan cricketers when the Sri Lanka Cricketers' Association played a friendly match at Bernard Aluvihare Stadium yesterday

The England Women lost the Second CricInfo Ashes Test by nine wickets at Headingley this afternoon

Robert Croft's all-round efforts for Glamorgan were upstaged by Durham skipper Jon Lewis at Chester-le-Street today

Havant II 142 (3pts) (Mist 48, Ferguson 29, J Taylor 4-34) Winchester K.S

One of the brightest stars of the sporting world continues to shine brilliantly, this time through hundreds of scintillating sparks that promise a brave new world of Indian cricket

Having been grounded by West Indies in the final after a superlative performance in the league matches, Indian captain Saurav Ganguly has advocated the case of having a 'best-ofthree' final in one-day tournaments

Mike Hussey, Northamptonshire's overseas player, has been awarded his county cap

Indian skipper sourav ganguly mooted a case for best of three finals in one-day competitions after losing to the west indies in the cocacola cup final on saturday

Worcestershire wrapped up their second CricInfo Championship win of the season by an innings and three runs but Rob Bailey's first century of the season kept them waiting well into the afternoon session

Leicestershire Foxes crushed Surrey Lions by 128 runs to make it six-wins-in-a row and cement their place at the top of the Norwich Union League First Division at Grace Road

Smarting under the 16-run loss to West Indies in the final of the triangular series in Harare on Saturday, skipper Saurav Ganguly said India would have to think about a strategy for playing better cricket under pressure

It was the 1734th ODI in the cricket history

So says England Women's new Australian coach, John Harmer

Umpire David Shepherd was forced off by injury midway through the second innings of Somerset's Norwich Union League match with Nottinghamshire at Taunton

To compete with Australia, England's best side needed to play to their full potential but with injuries blighting selections, the best of the rest were unable to lift their games and Australia were clinical in completing an innings and 118 run

Under the playing conditions in use for the 2001 ICC Trophy tournament, the teams which finished in the top three places in each of the two groups in Division One automatically qualified for the so-called Super League phase of the event

The Asian Test Championship is approaching and BCB has reduced their number of players to sixteen whom they have selected to be contracted, for this vital tournament of the longer version