Two days after announcing that they had signed Shahid Afridi, South Australia have scored another coup by adding the West Indies allrounder Kieron Pollard to their Twenty20 line-up for this summer. Pollard and Afridi will…
The last thing New Zealand ever need, given the relatively limited size of their cricket-playing pool, is an injury crisis. It is somehow in keeping with the way the cookie often crumbles for underdogs, though…
Division Two2nd dayJames Foster, the stand-in captain, stole the limelight for Essex at Chelmsford, scoring an unbeaten 103 against Leicestershire, before the hosts declared on 517 for 9. Foster's first century of the season followed…
Andrew Symonds has decided to return to competitive cricket by turning out for Queensland in Twenty20s, three months after his Cricket Australia contract was canceled for an off-field misdemeanour .Symonds, 34, held talks with Queensland…
Pakistan's president and PCB chief patron Asif Ali Zardari will be given a comprehensive briefing on the audit report of the last four years by the sports ministry, the daily has reported."President Asif Ali Zardari…
Muttiah Muralitharan will not play the second Test against Pakistan in Colombo starting on Sunday even though his minor knee injury has improved considerably.Murali was ruled out of the series opener in Galle after he…
India's squad to West IndiesMS Dhoni (capt/wk), Yuvraj Singh, Gautam Gambhir, Rohit Sharma, Harbhajan Singh, Pragyan Ojha, Yusuf Pathan, M Vijay, S Badrinath, RP Singh, Praveen Kumar, Ishant Sharma, Abhishek Nayar, Ashish Nehra, Ravindra Jadeja,…
ScorecardAfter a low-scoring game swung from one side to the other, it was Kamran Akmal's cool cameo and Lahore Lions' depth in batting that steered them to the final. Needing 24 off the final two…
In-form batsman Angelo Mathews and allrounder Muthumudalige Pushpakumara fashioned a comprehensive three-day victory for Basnahira North in the four-day final against Wayamba played at the R Premadasa Stadium.The performances of these two promising stars proved…
Victoria 510 (White 135, Hussey 113, Rogers 105, Wade 70, Symonds 4-48) and 1 for 82 (Rogers 42) lead Queensland 200 (Love 41, Nannes 4-65) by 392 runs Scorecard and ball-by-ball details Dirk Nannes finished…