With Australia and South Africa raising concerns over touring Pakistan in the wake of an escalation in violence, cricket board Chairman Nasim Ashraf said the situation had not reached such levels where international teams cannot play. Pakistan after playing in the Twenty20 World Cup hosts

Scheduled to visit Pakistan for a Test and ODI series later this year, South Africa has expressed its concern over the brewing political scenario in the country. A six-member security delegation of the United Cricket Board of South Africa (UCBSA) is visiting the country to assess the secur

Captain Rahul Dravid says India has a good chance of India doing well in the upcoming Test series against England as the hosts were most likely to miss the services of their star all rounder Andrew Flintoff. Flintoff, who underwent an ankle surgery, was still recuperating and is doubtful t

Former India coach Greg Chappell has said that only one tour game before the first cricket Test could leave the Indian team under-prepared for the tough tour of Australia later this year. India would get to play only one three-day tour match against Victoria at the Junction Oval from Decem

The annual one-day tri-series in Australia is in doubt next year and it is likely that South Africa and New Zealand could play separate rubbers against the world champions. While India and Sri Lanka have agreed to play the traditional limited-overs tournament this summer, negotiations are

Former Pakistan skipper Javed Miandad has suggested that Pakistan Cricket Board should utilise money for strengthening the grassroots level cricket rather than wasting it on hiring foreign coaches. "If your base is strong. Things will automatically improve in our cricket set-up. There

Cricket Australia has urged home fans to treat Muttiah Muralitharan with respect when the Sri Lankan off-spinner tours Down Under in his bid to become the highest wicket-taker in the longer version of the game. Muralitharan, who needs 25 wickets to equal Aussie legend Shane Warne's record

Fans can look forward to a cricketing extravaganza as ESPN STAR Sports prepares to telecast India's tour of England and Australia and the inaugral Twenty20 World Cup. ESPN-STAR will telecast 157 days of cricket from June 2007 to September 2008 which also includes the Asia Cup 2008 and the

With Australia's blunt refusal to visit South Africa to play Tests on the traditional dates of December 26 and January 2, Cricket South Africa CEO Gerald Majola has said the national team's 2008-09 tour of Down Under would be their last away series in the peak holiday time. Australia a

The Indian Cricket Board wants to make minor changes in the itineraries of the forthcoming tours by Australia in September-October and the subsequent visit by Pakistan in November-December. The changes have been necessitated following the desire of the Haryana Cricket Association to host t

Cricket Australia will quiz Ricky Ponting and his men on whether they use recreational drugs as part of its plans to draw up a tougher drug policy. According to 'The Age', Swimming Australia is about to introduce out-of-competition testing for recreational drugs and cricket and rugby boards

Australian captain Ricky Ponting today diagnosed the ailments of Indian cricket as "mental pressure" and advised the team to learn to cope with it. "India is playing under a lot of mental pressure. They must learn how to cope with it," Ponting said. Ponting, who led Au

Despite his unbeaten 139 in the Afro Asia Cup final in Chennai, Indian wicket-keeper batsman Mahendra Singh Dhoni remained in the fourth place in the latest LG-ICC Player Rankings for ODI batsmen. Dhoni, who hit the highest-ever ODI score by a number seven batsman in Chennai, now trails th

Player contracts and Zee Group's proposed Indian Cricket League would be key items on the agenda of the Cricket Board's Working Committee meeting in Delhi tomorrow. Other important issues to be taken up for discussion by Working Committee include the finalisation of itinerary of the upcomi

Former Team India coach Greg Chappell has been contracted by Cricket Australia (CA) to work as consultant coach at its Centre of Excellence in Brisbane. According to 'Sydney Morning Herald', Chappell, along with his Team India predecessor John Wright and former Australian pacer Bruce Reid,

Former Team India coach John Wright has turned down the offer to take up the head coach's job at Cricket Australia's (CA) Centre of Excellence. Wright said he was keen to take up the Australian offer but eventually withdrew because he wanted to spend time with his kids. "It didn

The Green Park stadium's long drought of international cricket matches may end soon, courtesy the change of guard in Uttar Pradesh in the political sphere. Ther formation of the Bahujan Samaj Party government in the state under Chief Minister Mayawati has raised hopes of once again hosting h

In its efforts to do better on foreign tours regularly, Pakistan Cricket Board has decided to provide challenging surfaces to its batsmen at home by laying as many as 90 bouncy pitches across the country by October this year. A PCB official said the project was aimed at preparing batsmen, wh

Team India's cricket captain Rahul Dravid, who lost the race for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna to cueist Pankaj Advani last year, has been recommended again for country's highest sports honour. BCCI has also recommended middle order batsman Yuvraj Singh and former women's team captain Anjum C

The Cricket Board has expressed its inability to pencil in more than one tour game prior to the four-match Test series in Australia later this year as desired by the players. "There's no chance to add any extra games. The players may want more but where's the time," BCCI secretary

Cricket Australia Chairman Creagh O Connor today mourned the death of International Cricket Council President Percy Sonn and said the South African did his best to make cricket a better game. O'Connor said Australian cricket was saddened by the death of 57-year-old Sonn, who died yeste

Former India cricket coach John Wright is all set to take over as the head coach of Australia's Centre of Excellence. According to a report in the 'Sydney Morning Herald', Wright is set to fill the post left vacant by Tim Nielson, who took over as Australia's coach after the World Cup. The

Dope-tainted Pakistan pacer Shoaib Akhtar was today dropped from the Asian XI team for the Afro Asia Cricket Cup due to lack of fitness. Asian Cricket Council selection committee member Mohsin Khan said the express bowler was dropped as he had not recovered from his knee injury. "The P

Former Australian coach John Buchanan, who joined the world champion team in 1999 with an "error-free" mantra, said the players were still to play a flawless game but were motivated to pursue pefection. Buchanan said the Australians may not have a perfect game but they have a perfe

Unwilling to lose momentum after clinching the series, Indian skipper Rahul David today stressed that his team will stick to the target of making a clean sweep of the three-match series to gear up for tougher challnges in the coming months. "We are very keen [to make it 3-0]. That was o

Cricket South Africa (CSA) said it's ready to be the "neutral host" in case Australia and Zimbabwe agree to go ahead with their controversial one day series. The three-match ODI series runs the risk of being scrapped altogether after the Australian government banned its cricketer

Cricket Australia has shot back at its Sri Lankan counterpart for terming Adam Gilchrist's squash ball tactic as "unethical" and defended their vice-captain as a "highly principled man". CA Spokesman Peter Young refused to admit that Gilchrist gained an unfair advantage

As the Indian cricket team reached here aiming to avenge their World Cup loss, Bangladesh vice captain Mohammad Ashraful said his side had plans to stretch Rahul Dravid's men in the upcoming series. "They will come hard at us as they probably lost out on a Super Eights spot because of u

Sri lankan spin Wizard Muthiah Muralitharan has said he won't be associated with the game in any other form after leaving it as a player. "I am not thinking about it (staying on) because I have played this game since I was six or seven so when I retire I will retire properly," M

Players were not the only ones tired and bored of the long-drawn Cricket World Cup, umpires were left equally exhausted by the tournament's length, said Pakistani umpire Aleem Dar. Dar, who stood in the finals of the mega-event which ended last week, felt the World Cup was pretty well-orga