Their early flight home
Mushtaq Ahmed, Mohammad Wasim and Imran Farhat are the three players who have suffered the axe. The PCB Chairman, addressing a press conference last week, announced: "They are flying back home after the completion of…
Otago turns the tables in tense Cup encounter
After the dominance shown by Wellington in the Shell Tropy match one would have expected them to continue on when it came to the Shell Cup. Having said this the two games are so dissimilar…
Surrey bowlers put Somerset in trouble
If the first two days at The Oval belonged to batsmen, the third was distinctly in favour of bowlers with 15 wickets going down, the last eight of which were Somerset's who finished the day…
Inzamam hit with two-match ban
Pakistan batsman Inzamam-ul-Haq has been handed a two-match ban from One-Day International cricket for showing dissent during Australia's crushing nine-wicket win over his team at Lord's on Saturday.After umpire Peter Willey had upheld a Shane…
Black Cap search successfully completed
Mission Accomplished. New Zealand Cricket has tracked down players to have represented the country in Test matches.Players still living, or their descendants, have been receiving boxed special presentation black caps from NZC in a promotion…
ND Chief criticises England tour venues
Claims that the New Zealand Cricket board's decision to play the Tests against England next summer at Christchurch, Wellington and Auckland were based on "parochial bias" were made yesterday by John Turkington, chief executive of…
News and Views
Is it curtains for Indo-Pak cricket relations?The recent failure of talks between the President of Pakistan and the Prime Minister of India seems to have dampened hopes for revival of bilateral cricket for now. Sadly,…
Sri Lanka aim to break Kandy bogey in second Test
For Sri Lanka this is familiar territory - a thumping victory in Gallefollowed by an opportunity to seal the series in the hills of Kandy.Against England and South Africa, though, they blew that chance indramatic…
Brown trumps Morris' century
A seemingly impressive Notts Outlaws total of 277-7 was made to look very inadequate as a typically explosive knock from Ally Brown lifted an under strength Surrey Lions to an improbable five-wicket win.Brown's 130 enabled…
I'm very proud of the team says Shine
Three days after the end of the most successful season that Somerset has ever enjoyed Coach Kevin Shine told me at The County Ground this morning ,"I'm very proud of the team. It's a fabulous…