England will be hoping for Kevin Pietersen to get his team off to rollicking start against Scotland before they come up against a tougher test in the form of South Africa in the upcoming five match England South Africa one-day series. England have blown hot and cold big time in recent months

England will be hoping to continue their fine run in the test arena when they come up against a South African side in the first test of the three match England South Africa series this coming Thursday 10th July 2008 at the Lords in England. South Africa and England both have proved to be stron

England will be hoping to counter back and avoid consecutive ODI series losses to New Zealand when the final One Dayer of the five match England New Zealand Nat West Series gets underway this coming Saturday 28th June 2008 at the hollowed grounds of Lord's in England. New Zealand cur

England will be hoping to secure the three match England New Zealand cricket test series when they host New Zealand in the final test match in a few days time. The English have been in dominant form all throughout the series and with the Kiwis looking jaded and short of ideas, this upcom

England travel to new Zealand fresh from a long cricketing break after five years and will be looking to begin proceedings on a high note with a victory over the Black caps in the two twenty twenty matches to be played in New Zealand on the first week of February. Despite having a strong

England travel to new Zealand fresh from a long cricketing break after five years and will be looking to begin proceedings on a high note with a victory over the Black caps in the first of the two twenty twenty matches to be played in New Zealand on the first week of February. Despite ha

Australian skipper Ricky Ponting's two unbeaten centuries in the Chappell-Hadlee Series gave him his career best rating points of 832 even as he continued his domination at the top of the ICC rankings for the ODI batsmen, released today. Ponting not only ensured his team's 2-0 vi

The hype around them notwithstanding, none of the 'Men in Blue' could make it to the shortlist for ICC annual awards, which has the lone Indian representation in Jhulan Goswami, nominated for the 'Women's Cricketer of the Year' category. The long list for the ICC awards included Zaheer Khan

Anil Kumble, India's lone century-maker in the three-Test cricket series against England, emerged with the highest batting average for the victorious visiting team. Kumble averaged 54 to top the batting averages chart after scoring an unbeaten 110 in the first innings of the third and fina

A fighting half century from Kevin Pietersen kept England afloat and they were seemingly on course to save the final cricket Test against India on the final day reaching 232 for 3 at tea in their second innings. India now have another 34 overs to dismiss England for an outright win. At t

England cricketers have drawn sharp criticism for their jelly bean prank in the second Test against India with former players describing the incident as "juvenile rubbish" and calling for stern action against such gamesmanship. The players deplored the England team for behaving in s

Zaheer Khan's two-wicket burst helped India make early inroads into the England batting and reduce the hosts to 94 for three at tea after overnight rain forced a four-hour delay on day one of the second cricket Test here today. At the break, opener Alastair Cook on 35 (112m,70b,5x4) and Paul

Sourav Ganguly feels England cricket team was vulnerable against India in the upcoming Test series in the absence of its star all rounder Andrew Flintoff, who makes a "huge difference" to the home side. "England are a good side. But we're lucky that Flintoff is not fit. I thin

Wicketkeeper-batsman Mahendra Singh Dhoni continued his progress up the rating charts to be fifth in the latest LG-ICC Player Rankings for ODI batsmen today. The wicketkeeper-batsman, who turned 26 yesterday, has moved one spot up in the rankings issued today. England's Kevin Pietersen s

Sri Lankan Kumar Sangakkara has risen to a career-high third position in the latest LG ICC Player Rankings for Test batsmen after hitting an unbeaten 200 against Bangladesh. The stylish left-hander, playing as a batting specialist after starting as a wicketkeeper-batsman, scored his fifth

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

Indian cricketers continued their free fall in the ICC ODI Rankings with stumper Mahendra Singh Dhoni dropping two places to eighth and skipper Rahul Dravid slipping one spot to 14th in the latest list. The other Indians in the list also dropped down with Yuvraj Singh barely maintaining h

England's Mr reliable Kevin Pietersen soured Brian Lara's last international match as England survived an edge-of-the-seat thriller to beat West Indies by one wicket in the final Super Eight match of the Cricket World Cup here. According to the sources, Kevin Pietersen's superb 100 help

England opener Ed Joyce scored 75 runs to help England move into the Super Eights with a seven-wicket win over Kenya in a rain-affected World Cup match. Joyce, who made 66 against Canada last Sunday, combined with Kevin Pietersen (56 not out) to eliminate the Africans with 10 overs

England survived middle order collapse to beat Canada by 51 runs here. England posted 279 for six after being sent into bat by Canada at the Beausejour Cricket Ground. After an early wobble, Canada rallied to post the competitive total of 228 for seven, highlighted by Ashif Mulla's 58, as

New Zealand beat England comfortably enough in their opening match of the World Cup. The kiwis overcame some hiccups against the new ball to win by six wickets with nine overs to spare. Scott Styris sparked England's batting collapse and then rescued New Zealand from one of its own

New Zealand pacer James Franklin and Jacob Oram ripped through the English batting order as England were two down at 30 in the 9th overs. Earlier, New Zealand won the toss put England in to bat in the crucial Group C match at the Beausejour Stadium in St. Lucia on Friday. The match was b

England captain Michael Vaughan has vowed a "little hamstring injury" won't stop him leading the side when the World Cup gets underway in the Caribbean next month. The 32-year-old Yorkshire batsman has spent much of the past year sidelined from international action with a longs

Swashbuckling Indian wicketkeeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni jumped one place to occupy the third position in the ICC ODI player rankings. Dhoni, who blazed a 20-ball 40 against West Indies in Vadodara, has 762 points and has Mike Hussey (848) and Kevin Pietersen (778) above him in the lates

With the World Cup just around the corner, the master blaster Sachin Tendulkar sounded warning to his opponents by moving back into the list of top-20 ODI batsmen on the LG-ICC Player ranking released today. Tendulkar, who hit his 41st hundred in the fourth and final match of the one-day

Sourav Ganguly, who led India to the 2003 World Cup final, believes England are one of five teams with a chance of winning the World Cup this time around. Ganguly, recalled to Indias one-day squad after 16 months on the sidelines, told BBC Sport there was enough talent in the Engla

Australia set a new record Twenty20 international score as England began the limited-overs section of their tour down under. Ricky Ponting's Australians, looking to inflict further misery after the Ashes whitewash, surpassed their previous best by seven runs to post 221 for five at the

The mighty Australians beat England by a huge margin to win the third cricket Test and regain the Ashes after taking an unassailable 3-0 lead in the series on Monday. Australia wrapped up another convincing victory with the second ball after lunch on the final day when Shane Warne bowled

England batsman Kevin Pietersen has admitted he "didn't actually" stick to the plan which was sent out to him while he was at the crease trying to marshal the tailenders through the final throes of their first innings in Perth. The Hampshire star top-scored with 70 in a total of 21