Cricket: The openers we&#39;re heartily sick of seeing
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Justin Langer&#39;s most treasured piece of memorabilia is a photograph of the Hobart scoreboard on one cloudy afternoon in 2001. The archetypal Aussie scrapper, Langer is particularly
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Did India goof their lines by staging the Test series opener at Bangalore? There are very good reasons to believe so, among them being the not so insignificant one that we ended up losers by 217 runs.
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DOZENS of spectators took on stewards in alarming crowd disturbances following yesterdayâs ICC Champions Trophy match between Australia and New Zealand at The Oval.
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Australia&#39;s clash with New Zealand at The Oval today can belatedly bring the Champions Trophy to life. It needs to, because a damaging combination of English impotence and international presumptuousness has so far heaped embarrassment upon the game.
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The International Cricket Council's assertion that greats such as Sir Richard Hadlee, Dennis Lillee and Imran Khan threw the ball is &quot;grossly insulting and degrading to the history of cricket&quot;, former New Zealand wicketkeeper Ian Smith charged.
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Ricky Ponting gave the weary half grin of a fellow who could see the questions coming as readily as a kid&#39;s googly. It must be interminable: whoever Australia play will always be measured against the benchmark
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Sport: Skipper Michael Vaughan is in belligerent mood in advance of the second test, his first in 18 months.
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For England&#39;s Test cricketers, the summer of 2004 will be surpassed only if they win the Ashes next year. Yet two whitewashes, one against a savvy New Zealand team, the other over a West Indies
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Whether they care to admit it or not, this was the contest England had yearned for all summer. It was a measure of the team&#39;s recent advance that they had become tired of pounding West Indies
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England legend Geoff Boycott is unimpressed by Stephen Harmison's performance on day one of the Ashes.
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The first Test in the series billed as the world championship play-off ended in uproar yesterday, with India under fire for their performance and Australia for their sportsmanship.
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Sydney: Australian Test cricketers and former greats blasted moves by the International Cricket Council (ICC) to relax cricket&#39;s chucking laws.
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Sport: Cricket: Needing just one wicket for victory, bad light forced a draw in the first Test.
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The news from Nagpur is not good. And we are not talking just about the on field performance of the Indian cricketers. Reports say there is more than what it meets the eye to the thigh (or is groin?
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India complained about it from day one. The five-letter word &#39;grass&#39; was their bone of contention. Too much grass on the pitch, they feared, would be to the advantage of the Australians in the third Test.
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AUSTRALIA&#39;s fast bowlers are bitterly disappointed at the senseless standoff that may rob them of the chance to work with their exalted mentor Dennis Lillee.
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The Government today rounded on the BBC and terrestrial broadcasters for turning their backs on English cricket. Although Five will show highlights as part of the Â£220million