Cricket News

Here is a summary of reports for selected telecommunications companies and what they reveal about their own and the industry's prospects: Jan.

Adelaide, Feb 13 : Former captain and star batsman Kumar Sangakkara wants an urgent review of Sri Lankan cricket, and has said first class structure should be overhauled on the lines of Australian cricket.

James Anderson will play his first one-day international for five months after Tim Bresnan failed to prove his full match fitness in time to face Pakistan at the Zayed Stadium.

England could be forgiven perhaps for a secret policy of damage limitation in their one-day international series against Pakistan.

FOUR teenagers have been charged in Cairns after they allegedly attacked a New South Wales man in the early hours of Friday morning.

The BCCI on Sunday decided to take all the "outstanding issues" concerning the aggrieved Sahara Group to its Working Committee meeting on Monday which is expected to give finishing touches to a compromise formula aimed at breaking the week-long stalemate.

Christopher Glenn Gleeson says he bashed his de facto stepfather to death with a cricket bat "to make him suffer" - and then played cricket the next day.

CHANNEL Nine, one of Cricket Australia's key allies, has expressed displeasure at the sport's rotation policy after Sachin Tendulkar and Mike Hussey were rested from yesterday's one-day international in Adelaide.

David Hussey and debutant Peter Forrest struck fine fifties to steer Australia to 269 for eight in the fourth match of the ODI tri-series against India here Sunday.

UPDATED: Captain MS Dhoni delivered India their first win over Australia this summer with a last-gasp four-wicket win in Sunday's one-day international in Adelaide.

A TALENTED cricket player and coach at the centre of a deportation row has won his right to stay in the UK.

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West Indies cricket is one of the few remaining symbols of West Indian unity. This, along with the University of the West Indies, stands as a beacon of the vision that guided our forefathers as they sought to bring together the colonies in the Caribbean that formed part of the British Empire.

Such is the unifying power of cricket in Afghanistan that even the Taliban sent a message of support to the team ahead of their historic ODI against Pakistan in Sharjah on Friday.

New South Wales said it would not block the much needed reforming in Cricket Australia's century-old board structure.

And although it will still be housed in the wonderful old Priory Barn at the County Ground , the inside has changed beyond recognition and it is not too much of an exaggeration to say it will look like a new museum.

AUSTRALIAN cricket allrounder Shane Watson believes he is about a week out from regaining full fitness after returning from a calf injury on Saturday and isn't pushing yet for an international recall.

Jade Dernbach is confident England will prove they have learned some hard lessons this winter once their one-day international series against Pakistan gets under way.

SPINNER Xavier Doherty would love nothing more than to earn another crack at Test cricket, but the talented Tasmanian admits he hasn't done enough to put himself in the selection frame just yet.

West Indies star batsman Chris Gayle struck an unbeaten 44-ball 101 to guide Barisal Burners to a 10-wicket win over Sylhet Royals in a Bangaldesh Premier League match at the Sher-e Bangla National Stadium here Friday.