Former Australia captain Steve Waugh has welcomed the International Cricket Council's (ICC) plan to allow the players to challenge umpiring decisions in Test...

The International Cricket Council (ICC) signed Getty Images as its official photo agency for the next four years, ICC announced here...

Melbourne, May 9 : Australian cricket vice-captain Michael Clarke is believed to have pulled out of West Indies tour for personal...

Ahmedabad, May 9 : Three days after watching the footage of Sreesanth-Harbhajan row, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)-appointed Commissioner Sudhir Nanavati will hear Sreesanth-Harbhajan spat today. ...

Ashley Noffke has one thing on his mind on the eve of Australia's tour to the West Indies, and that's finding a way of sneaking into the star-studded Test line-up.Noffke has been on the cusp of Test...

Cricket South Africa has confirmed the dates of Australia's tour of the Republic which will commence in February 2009 and will almost immediately follow the Proteas' tour of Australia which ends in...

Australian pace bowler Shaun Tait says he is determined to return to the top of Test cricket after taking a lengthy hiatus from the game, but quashed rumours he was diagnosed with depression. Tait...

John Bracewell will step down from his position as New Zealand head coach when his contract expires next April. The 50-year-old former Gloucestershire coach, who has led the Black Caps since 2003,...

New Zealand Cricket has started its search for a new coach after John Bracewell's decision to step down when his contract expires next April. Bracewell, who started his term in 2003, stayed in the...

He's struggling with his batting, there are bound to be questions about his dodgy left ankle, and he hasn't played a Test match for 16 months. But if Andrew Flintoff is named in England's Test squad...

MARK Boucher's frantic unbeaten fifty proved in vain as Bangalore Royal Challengers slipped to a five-run defeat against Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League. The South African...

CRICKET Australia (CA) said it would seek clarification on whether the new iSixes World Series in Singapore was officially sanctioned by the sport's governing body. India's Anil Kumble and retired...

May 8 2008 Media Wales ANDREW Flintoff flopped with the bat and shone with the ball as 20 wickets tumbled on the opening day of Lancashire’s LV County Championship Division One clash with...

Matthew Maynard GLAMORGAN boss Matthew Maynard has admitted he will be an envious man when he watches his side run out at the newly-revamped £9.4m Swalec Stadium today (2.30pm start). The...

May 9 2008 by Our Correspondent, Western Mail ENGLAND legend Sir Ian Botham does not believe all-rounder Andrew Flintoff should be rushed back into action for next week’s first Test against...

New Zealand cricket coach John Bracewell will step down when his contract expires in April next year, New Zealand Cricket said. "John has informed me that he will not be looking to extend his...

HARBHAJAN Singh has written a letter begging for mercy from the Board of Control for Cricket in India amid revelations there was more than just a "slap" involved in his altercation with team-mate...

NEW Queensland coach Trevor Barsby will insist the Bulls break the shackles and emulate the aggressive approach that made him one of the state's most successful opening batsmen. In a leadership...

It was a tale of two England bowlers yesterday as advantage in this match see-sawed from one side to the other then back again. Ryan Sidebottom and Stuart Broad could not have enjoyed more...

Luke Wright brought cheer to the England selectors for the second time in a week yesterday when he struck a sparkling hundred for the England Lions against New Zealand in Southampton. On Wednesday...

John Bracewell The Black Caps will have a new coach at the helm for the 2011 cricket World Cup.That became a certainty today when New Zealand Cricket (NZC) announced that current coach John Bracewell...

Former Black Cap Craig McMillan is the first New Zealander to sign up for a new lucrative cricket series being launched in July.The iSixes World Series competition will be a six-a-side affair,...

England legend Sir Ian Botham does not believe all-rounder Andrew Flintoff should be rushed back into action for next week's first Test against New Zealand.Flintoff missed the winter series in Sri...

WELLINGTON, May 9 - National cricket coach John Bracewell will not seek reappointment when his contract expires next April, New Zealand Cricket said on Friday."John has informed me that he will not...

A lucrative new cricket tournament, the iSixes World Series, has been unveiled featuring teams from all nine Test playing nations, with $US1 million going to the winners. Singapore will host the...

Chennai broke a run of three straight defeats with a thrilling four-wicket win over Delhi in the Indian Premier League overnight. The tournament's leading run-scorer Gautam Gambhir smashed 80 off...

Usman Afzaal smashed a superb unbeaten 126 to help Surrey beat Sussex by 67 runs in their floodlit Friends Provident Trophy match at Hove. Afzaal put on 153 with Mark Ramprakash (63) and 87 with...

Canada's cricket championship has been changed from a week-long marathon to a two-day sprint. That's good news for fans, the new boss of the national association hopes, as he and his group get ready...

A blistering unbeaten half-century from Mark Boucher has proved in vain as the Bangalore Royal Challengers slipped to a five-run defeat against Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League.The...

Chris Martin Chris Martin, Tim Southee and Jacob Oram shone as New Zealand bowled out England A for 280 runs on the opening day of their four-day cricket match at The Rose Bowl in Southampton this...

The 12th man is Numero Uno: On Wednesday night, almost all the Mumbai Indians replica shirts at the DY Patil Stadium in Nerul had the No. 10 and Tendulkar printed on the back. So when you arrived...

The Chennai Super Kings have claimed 15 off the final over to seal a nailbiting four-wicket win over the Delhi Daredevils on the last ball of the innings.Contributions from Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan,...

Kent were grateful to Ryan McLaren and Yasir Arafat as they battled back from a sorry position on the second day of their game against Nottinghamshire. The visitors were reeling on 109-7, 93...

Ian Bell again failed to make the most of a good start for Warwickshire on the second day of their closely-fought Division Two contest at Derby. Bell fell in the forties for the third time this...

Marcus Trescothick led Somerset's fightback on the second day of their Division One match against Hampshire. After bowling out Hampshire for 359 in their first innings to concede a lead of 233,...

Andre Nel unleashed a devastating burst with the new ball as Essex finally showed some spirit late on day two of Division Two match against Middlesex. After the visitors had established a first...

http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/347517.html Therefore it would be churlish to measure the IPL's success through spectator figures alone. It's entirely different to, say, the...

Compared with yesterday, this could almost be a different game: after 20 wickets on the opening day, today has yielded three, with Lancashire building handsomely on their slim first innings lead...

Ryan McLaren led a dogged Kent fightback with a fine fifty to help his team overhaul Nottinghamshire before tea on another sweltering day in the East Midlands. The South African shared...

New Delhi: Chennai Super Kings defeated Delhi Daredevils by four wickets in a thrilling last-ball finish in the Indian Premier League (IPL) at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium here Thursday. Chasing 188...

Six, six, six: Chennai, chasing 188, had lost two wickets in the space of five balls and the required rate was hovering near nine an over. Sixteen deliveries with a boundary wasn't helping their...

Shane Warne and Anil Kumble will take part in a lucrative new six-a-side tournament, the iSixes World Series, which will take place in Singapore, Shanghai and Dubai. All nine Test playing nations...

DUBAI : Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar, who was asked to choose between his media commitments and role as the Chairman of ICC Cricket Committee, has relinquished his job with the game's...

Barry was good enough to answer my first question about this unfamiliar, but intriguing, world. Would it be possible, for example, for sabermetrics to answer whether it is better to pick a...

The Queensland Bulls have reshuffled their coaching structure with its coach of the past six seasons Terry Oliver being promoted to the role of high performance coaching manager while Trevor Barsby...

Derek Underwood, the former England spinner, is set to become the next president of MCC and will take over from Mike Brearley on October 1. Underwood steps into the role 40 years after he first...

Geoff Boycott has not been approached to take up a coaching role with England's leading batsmen, according to the ECB. Some English newspapers reported on Thursday that Boycott was being lined up for...

Geoffrey Boycott will not be joining the England coaching set-up to help Andrew Flintoff with his batting. Reports had linked the 67-year-old former England opener with a part-time coaching role...

AUSTRALIA skipper Ricky Ponting has turned to high-tech plasma screen gadgetry in a private batting tutorial to help snap his form slump before Australia's tour of the West Indies this month. In...

SHANE Warne is among the stars to have signed up to a lucrative new tournament, the iSixes World Series, that will feature teams from all nine Test playing nations and offer $US1 million ($1.06m) to...