MUMBAI - England fast bowler Steven Finn has been ruled out of the remainder of the three-day warm-up match against India A with a right thigh strain, the country's cricket board (ECB) said on Wednesday.
Finn, 23, limped off the field after bowling the first over of his second spell on the...

LONDON - Kevin Pietersen has been added to England's test squad for next month's tour to India after being dropped following a controversial text-message row.

The decision to recall the South African-born batsman was made after he met coach Andy Flower, captain Alastair Cook and...

SINGAPORE - Anyone involved in spot-fixing should be banned for life, former Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan told Reuters, days after six umpires were provisionally suspended for allegedly agreeing to fix matches.

Hindi-language India TV showed footage on Monday of what the...

LONDON - Indian spinners Harbhajan Singh and Piyush Chawla ripped through the England batting to lead their side to a crushing 90-run win in a one-sided Twenty20 World Cup Group A match on Sunday.

Chasing 171 for victory, England crumbled to 80 all out, their lowest Twenty20 total...

SYDNEY - Rankings will mean nothing when play starts at the Twenty20 World Cup and Australia are deadly serious about winning the tournament for the first time over the next few weeks, according to skipper George Bailey.

Australia, who have won the one-day World Cup four times and...

DUBAI - All-rounder Shahid Afridi is a major injury doubt for Pakistan ahead of their Twenty20 series against Australia in Dubai.

"You must have witnessed it yesterday -- Shahid had a thumb injury, where his left thumb was wounded quite badly, the skin tore off and blood was oozing...

LONDON - Hashim Amla emphasised his team came before personal goals on Sunday when he said he was more pleased to have put South Africa in a position to win the first test against England than to score a record 311 not out.

Amla bettered the previous best score by a South African,...

MUMBAI - India will invite Pakistan for a short series later this year to resume bilateral cricket ties with its neighbour, the country's cricket board (BCCI) said on Monday.

Bilateral cricket between the nuclear-armed neighbours were snapped after the 2008 Mumbai attacks in which...

DUBAI - Australia have rested all rounder Shane Watson and quick bowler Ben Hilfenhaus and dropped batsman Peter Forrest from their squad to play a three-match one-day series against Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates starting next month.

Watson was injured while Forrest and...

MELBOURNE - Australian fast bowler Brett Lee retired from international cricket on Friday, just days after he was forced to return home from England after sustaining another injury and a few months before he had pencilled in a possible exit from the game.

The 35-year-old, who first...