Zimbabwe's coach, Alan Butcher, thinks it's unlikely his team will beat the defending champions on Monday. The captain of Australia, Ricky Ponting, is not expecting a surprise loss. The bookmakers have Australia as almost unbackable…
Lord MacLaurin, the former chairman of the ECB, has laid into the "crazy" schedule that England's cricketers have been subjected to in Australia this winter, but believes that their 6-1 thrashing in the one-day leg…
The Pakistan Cricket Board had refused to meet Danish Kaneria's lawyer, in another setback to the legspinner's attempts to seek clarification on his continued exclusion from the Pakistan team. "We have received another email from…
Third time lucky There is one statistic in this series in which Australia's bowlers have completely trounced their English counterparts. Unfortunately the statistic in question is their no-ball count. Two further oversteps from Shane Watson…
The historic win of Anil Kumble's group - including Javagal Srinath, Venkatesh Prasad and Roger Binny - in the Karnataka State Cricket Association elections on Sunday will help the sport in the state, feel former…
England captain Andrew Strauss has warned against the danger of complacency with England progressing successfully through the opening stages of their Ashes tour. England started their trip with a six-wicket win against Western Australia, and…
Tamil NaduR Ashwin will lead Tamil Nadu's attack this season•Sivaraman Kitta/K SivaramanTamil Nadu's emergence as a consistent domestic force has been undermined by their inability to bring home the biggest prize; the last time they…
Former England spinner Robert Croft has taken on a new player-coach role at Glamorgan after signing a two-year extension to his county contract.Croft, 40, made his county debut in 1989, and in July, he underlined…
Pakistan's high commissioner to the UK, Wajid Shamsul Hasan, has provided a new twist to the spot-fixing saga after suggesting in an interview with the BBC that Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir, the…
Having emphatically completed a 354-run victory against Pakistan in the first Test, England have stuck with the men who delivered the job and named an unchanged squad for the second match, which begins on Friday…