Ponting 'angry and disappointed'
Ricky Ponting hopes Australia's CB Series loss will not affect their World Cup preparation © Getty Images Ricky Ponting expects some hard questions from the selectors as they finalise their World Cup squad in the…
ICC approve Mahmood as Razzaq's replacement
Azhar Mahmood will have to fulfill Abdul Razzaq's allrounder duties in the West Indies © Getty Images Azhar Mahmood, the Pakistan allrounder, has been permitted by the technical committee of the ICC to replace the…
Canterbury dominate day two of final
Canterbury dominated day two of the State Championship final after they declared their first innings at 443 and restricted Northern Districts (ND) to 151 for 4 thus retaining a lead of 292 runs at Hamilton's…
Sangakkara, Vaas and Murali to miss Abu Dhabi series
Chaminda Vaas will be playing for Middlesex when Sri Lanka travel to Abu Dhabi © AFP The three-match one-day international series between Sri Lanka and Pakistan will take place in Abu Dhabi between May 18…
'We put our foot down' – Jayawardene
'When we left Sri Lanka these were the targets we set - getting to the semi-finals and looking forward from that' - Jayawardene © Getty Images They may never have threatened to extend their stay…
Return of the <i>doosra</i>
Will Harbhajan Singh performance get the selectors thinking? © Getty Images The Afro-Asia Cup might have been a largely pointless exercise, with not much to play for apart from personal milestones and prize money, but…
ICL hopes to bring innovations in cricket
Subhash Chandra, the head of the Essel Group, intends to make India "the laboratory to innovate new methods of cricket" through the Indian Cricket League (ICL), a report in said."The idea is also to develop…
Government refuses to confirm new BCB committee
Confusion prevails in Bangladesh cricket with television channels announcing a 'probable draft committee' of the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) and the government, which must approve any such committee, not confirming the names announced. This follows…
Hamilton-Brown leads unchanged one-day squad
England have kept faith with the same players who have represented the Under-19s in the two-Test series against Pakistan for the forthcoming five ODIs.Surrey's Rory Hamilton-Brown will lead the side in the one-day series which…
Murali sparks Sussex collapse
ScorecardA day of fluctuating fortunes at Liverpool ended with the match well poised, as Lancashire replied to Sussex's total of 274 with 50 for 2. They included Andrew Flintoff in their team, but the expectation…