Andrew Flintoff has become the first ever international cricketer to have turned down a national contract, to be able to prolong his career as a T20 cricketer, both at the international and the club level. This would mean that Flintoff may also end up missing international tours in order to pl

Four games into the ODI series between Australia and England, and it seems almost certain that the English side has progressively gone from being complacent to being switched off in the series. The series is already lost, but the pride is still at stake. What is also at stake for England is to

The fourth game of the seven ODI series between Australia and England will be again played at Lord's and it assumes proportions of a must-win match for the hosts. With the Aussies leading 3-0 and gunning for a 7-0 whitewash, it remains to be seen whether the England side will look to ring

The Aussies are 2-0 up and would dearly love to wrap up the series before Ricky Ponting even comes back to the side in order to allow him a perfect return gift. But for that, they will need to win two games in a row, including one on Wednesday at Southampton, to go up 4-0 and clinch the series

Australia won the first game of the seven ODI series against England at Oval, but the hosts will look to turn around the scoreline in the second game at Lord's. And for that, they may need to tinker around with their line-up a bit. Click for Live Score Card of England vs Australia The tourist

After the T20I series met with a watery grave, Australia and England will face each other in the first of the seven games at Oval in the ODI series. And with the visitors having won almost nothing on this tour so far, after having lost in the first round of the World T20 and then following it

That the English side was on the back-foot in the first T20I at Manchester can be established without too much doubt. That the rain-gods saved the English side from a major embarrassment can also be seen very evidently. However, the format of the game is such, that England will know

Old Trafford in Manchester will host Australia and England for the first of the two T20Is, a game which will signal the start of the second leg of competition between the two sides. This will include seven ODIs apart from the two T20Is.Click for Live Score Card of England vs AustraliaAs a prel

Even as the Australian fans wonder what went wrong at the Ashes, and some others bay for Ricky Ponting blood, the captain has come out and said that he would be perfectly understanding if the Cricket Australia (CA) decided to split the captaincy of the three formats of the game between him and

England beat Australia in the fifth and the final test match at Oval by 197 runs to regain the Ashes by winning the series 2-1. Chasing 546 for the most improbable of wins, Australia crashed to 348 all out, late on the fourth day to leave the hosts victors. Australia had ended the fourth day

The Indian cricket board has made a huge surprise by offering a compensation package of $5 million to both the sides which had managed to reach the finals of the previous season's IPL's finals; the Chennai Super Kings and the Rajasthan Royals. The two sides had managed to qualify for the inaug

So, it has all boiled down to the fifth and the final test match between Australia and England to decide the fate of this year's Ashes. With the teams tied at one match apiece, the Oval ground in London will see the decider being played. After their abysmal performance at Headingley, England

Despite one of the first good days for Australia in the series, the Australian media has taken the selectors to task for having overlooked the presence of Stuart Clark in the squad. Clark, who did not feature in the team's plans in the first three test matches was finally selected for this fou

Australia will face England in the fourth test match of the Ashes series at Leeds in Headingley, and will know that being down 0-1 in the series, they cannot afford to lose this game. A loss here will end their Ashes campaign for this year, as there will only be one game remaining after this.

The schedule for the Champions League of cricket tournament to be held in India in October has been announced. The 12 teams will play 23 games over a period of 16 days over three different venues in the tournament. The matches will be played in Bangalore, Hyderabad and Delhi, which are also

The third Ashes test match between Australia and England will be played on Thursday at Birmingham and the eyes will be on the selections of both the teams. However, being down 0-1, Australia will need to fight hard to get the momentum back, while England will look to overcome the gaping hole m

With eight days out of the last ten having seen rain in Edgbaston, the head groundsman of the ground, Steve Rouse is worried that the pitch may not be well-prepared in time for England's third Ashes test match against Australia. This is the second successive occasion on which the Edgbaston pit

Andrew Flintoff has called it time to go from the longest format of the game after finding himself injured once again before the start of the Lord's test match in the Ashes. However, it has been reported that Flintoff will be available to play in the shortened formats; the ODIs and the T20 cri

Australia and England will lock horns in the second test match of the 2009 edition of the Ashes series on Thursday, when they meet at Lord's. And with the score-line reading 0-0 after the first test match at Cardiff was drawn, it will be interesting to see which team draws first blood in the g

Former Aussie captain and now commentator and critic, Ian Chappell has slammed the Australian selectors for dishing out a nonsense team for the Ashes. He has gone on to tip England as favourites for the series given a stronger bowling attack that they possess. Chappell also said a lot would

Former Indian great, Sunil Gavaskar has exhorted the Indian youngsters to place more importance to the Indian cap than the lucrative tournaments like the Indian Premier League. Gavaskar has not been the only known face to have spoken about this issue, with former cricketers like Gary Kirstein

The Sophia Gardens in Cardiff will play host to the first Ashes test match this year between England and Australia, and it promises to be one exciting encounter. The previous series between these two countries had ended in a 5-0 whitewash for the Australians, after they had lost the 2005 serie

India will play the West Indies in a four-match ODI series and the first game will be played at Kingston in Jamaica on Friday. India has already reached West Indies, directly from England, where their World T20 campaign ended on an unhappy note as they crashed out before getting to the semi-fi

Pakistan will play South Africa in the first semi-finals of the ICC World T20 on Thursday at Trent Bridge, Nottingham to decide who will feature in the finals of this second edition. South Africa had topped Group E with a 100% win record, after beating England, West Indies and India in the

The Indian cricket coach has said that Team India's exit from the ICC World T20 can be majorly attributed to the fatigue and exhaustion that had been brought about by being continuously on the road. Team India played a five ODI series against Sri Lanka early this year before heading off to

India will play England in an important Super Eights game at Lord's after both the teams have already lost one game each in the second stage. The team that loses this match will, in all probabilities need to pack its bag and leave the competition, while the winners will have another

England will play West Indies in an important Super Eights game of the ICC World T20 and in all probabilities, the winner will be have their chances to enter the semi-finals brightened greatly. A lot would also depend on the India-England game that will be played on Sunday, but for n

The fifth day of the ICC World T20 will see Netherlands play Pakistan at Lords, in the first game of the day. And almost unexpectedly, the future in the tournament of the teams from this group hinges on the result of this game. If Netherland continue with their giant-killing ways and do manag

In a game that could potentially end up seeing one of the top teams getting knocked out of the tournament as early as on the third day, England will play Pakistan at Oval in London. England had a shocking start to the tournament when they were dumped by the wayside by underdogs Holland, an

The second day of the ICC World T20, 2009 will see three games being played - the only such day - and the first of these will be between New Zealand and Scotland. The first game of the tournament had set the tournament alight with a shock win for Netherlands over the English, and this should