After the T20I series between England and South Africa was tied at one game apiece, the ODI series promises to be as close if not closer. Of course, the five matches should give out a winner - apart from rained off games obviously - but the games could be a lot closer than what one thought ori

England will face South Africa in the first T20I between the two sides on the tour. This game will the first international game of the long, two moth tour for England, which will have see two T20Is, five ODIs and four test matches played between the two sides. Click for Live Score Card of In

The Royal Challengers Bangalore will play the Cobras in the first game of the Champions League T20 tournament. The match will be played in Bangalore and will be a day night encounter. This is a match for the Group C in the four group tournament. The other side in this group is Otago from New Z

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

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 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

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

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

England will play Netherlands in the first game of the 2009 version of the ICC World T20 at Lord's. This will be a Group B encounter, with Pakistan being the third team in the fray. England's build-up in the tournament has been reasonable, having won both their warm-up games. However, one

Not even their average performances in the practice games must have seen this coming. The West Indies' abysmal performance on overseas tours continued with them losing the 2nd Test of the 2-Test series by an innings margin. They'd earlier lost the 1st Test by 10 wickets and to boot such cricke

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