The statistical evidence against them is not encouraging.Neither is the daunting proposition of a line-up which includes seveninternationals headed by someone the back-page headline of Thursday'sStabroek News acclaimed as Sir Carl.Neither is the expectation of…
This past week, Chris Rogers the vestibular case has been getting a lot more attention than Chris Rogers the opening batsman.Rogers' meticulous and scene-setting 173 at Lord's has been almost entirely overshadowed. First Steven Smith's…
Mark Footitt, the former Derbyshire left-arm fast bowler who recently joined Surrey on a four-year contract, has been called up to the England Performance Programme (EPP) for a ten-day training camp in Potchefstroom next month.Footitt,…
Saba Ilangaratnam, a fast bowler from Sri Lanka, died of cardiac arrest in Colombo on Monday. He was 59.Sri Lanka's first Test captain Bandula Warnapura under whom Ilangaratnam played most of his cricket for Bloomfield…
Heavy load: Brett Lee was exhausted in Bangladesh at the end of a long season © Getty Images Brett Lee has warmed up for the Ashes series by telling his opponents the best is yet…
Haddin will lead the Australia A side in Pakistan after the Ashes concludes © Getty Images Brad Haddin, the New South Wales wicketkeeper, will lead a 14-man Australia A squad on the forthcoming tour of…
Ian Harvey - the first player to score two Twenty20 hundreds© Getty ImagesAndrew Flintoff and Ian Harvey - two men who could yet meet in the inaugural Ashes Twenty20 fixture next year - lit up…
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has launched a brand new Cricket Roadshow experience sponsored by England Team sponsor, Vodafone. Designed to heighten cricket's appeal and to attract new audiences to county cricket's revolutionary…
Umpiring numbers in cricket have been in serious decline.As workload increases on umpires at the top levels of the game, recruitment is in decline.New Zealand Cricket's annual report noted there was a significant decrease in…
American fielding coach Mike Young, who has been employed in Australia on and off since 2002, says he is eager to start working with players in the USA as he comes back to America later…