Close Sri Lanka 382 and 39 for 1 (Jayasuriya 25*, Sangakkara 1*) lead England 294 (Thorpe 57) by 127 runs ScorecardGraham Thorpe trapped leg-before by Muttiah Muralitharan© Getty ImagesSri Lanka finished the third day of…
Steve Waugh meets the local childrenThe Australian cricketers should have been playing the final day of their Test match with Bangladesh today, but instead they spent the day eating buffalo and fishing with Aborigines on…
England have confirmed that they consider Kevin Pietersen an integral part of their future plans by naming him in their provisional 15-man list for this winter's Academy.Pietersen, who was born in Pietermaritzburg, has blazed a…
Cricket-loving people of Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal, voted with their feet today (Monday February 3) when they crammed into the Settlers' Park Cricket Ground for a World Cup lead-up match featuring KwaZulu-Natal and Bangladesh.Cricket officials were so…
Shoaib Akhtar has signed to play for Durham for the remainder of the season, and is due to meet with club officials tomorrow to decide when he will join the county."I need to prove myself…
Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club has announced a profit for the year ended 30 September, 2001 of £136,619. The profit for the previous 12 month period was £27,027.Commenting in the club's Annual Report, Nottinghamshire Chairman Albert…
Shaiza Khan, Captain, Sharmeen Khan, Vice-Captain and Kiran Baluch member of the Pakistan Women's Cricket Control Association have been privileged to be accepted as the Full-Members of Marylebone Cricket Club, (M.C.C.), at Lord's, United Kingdom.…
Sport England, the non-governmental organisation that distributes lottery money to sporting bodies, has the opportunity this week to influence the raging debate surrounding the future of county cricket. The organisation, which distributes £6million per year…
National selector David Boon declared Justin Langer and Stuart MacGill were firmly in World Cup contention after the Test duo racked up runs, wickets and records galore during NSW's five-wicket win over Western Australia in…
It is comparison time again, and, by popular demand, I take up anevaluation of Sourav Ganguly's performance as Indian captain, measuredagainst the standards set by my old Hyderabad seniors. One is MLJaisimha, arguably the most…