Lahore, Sep.29 (ANI): Impressed by their brilliant performances against India in the ICC Champions Trophy, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has announced cash award of 500,000 rupees each for Shoaib Malik and Mohammad Yousuf. Malik and Yousuf were involved in a record fourth wicket partnership of 206 runs which helped Pakistan post an imposing total of 303 for India...

London, Sep 19(ANI): England paceman James Anderson has said that the England team would be looking forward to avoid a humiliating 7-0 whitewash against Australia in the NatWest Series. England team has been out of sorts after the historic Ashes series win, and in the absence of experienced players like Andrew Flintoff and Kevin Pietersen they have not been able to prevent...

London, Sep.19 (ANI): With an historic 7-0 whitewash of their one-day series against England firmly within their grasp, Australia’s cricketers head to Durham. No team has ever swept a seven-match series, but Tim Paine, the stand-in wicketkeeper-batsman whose maiden international century led Australia to a 111-run victory and a 6-0 lead at Trent Bridge on Thursday,...

Melbourne, Sep 18 (ANI): Tim Paine’s maiden international century has handed Australia a 111-run victory over England and elevating them to No.1 spot ahead of current world leaders South Africa in ODIs. The tourists are just one win away from claiming a 7-0 sweep of the tournament after Paine scored 111 to steer Australia to 8-296 from 50 overs. England was restricted...

Forget Will Smith, only Ricky Ponting in a vest can save the world from descending into a nightmare When I heard the news on Tuesday a shiver of terror ran down my spine. At the National Performance Centre in Loughborough the England batsman, Luke Wright, had been badly injured in what the newspapers were calling a freak accident. I knew better. “So,” I mumbled...

A couple of good bowling performances in the Ashes cannot disguise the fact that England are a dismal one-day side without Kevin Pietersen Kevin Pietersen has always been capable when things are going badly for England in one-day cricket of communicating in one hurt expression that he is weary of carrying the whole side. By now, with England 6-0 down with one to play,...

Yorkshire 403; Sussex 233-4 Sussex have won the Twenty20 Cup to qualify for next month’s Champions League, reached the final of the Friends Provident Trophy and are on the brink of a successful defence of their Pro40 title. So, they might argue, they have had a successful season. But if the longest survivors in the championship’s first division are relegated,...

• Knee became inflamed after fifth ODI• Jimmy Anderson expected to replace him England all-rounder Stuart Broad has been ruled out of the remainder of the one-day series against Australia with a knee tendon injury. He is expected to play a full part in the Champions Trophy, which starts later this month in South Africa. Broad’s right knee, which has troubled...

Hit refresh for the latest entries or set the page to update automatically using the button below. Email any thoughts, questions or observations over to simon.burnton@guardian.co.uk Simon will be here from 2pm to find out whether England can salvage even a smidgen of pride from this one-day-international series. Or at least to work out who to blame when they don’t. If...

• Martin van Jaarsveld hits single to claim bonus point• Kent secure immediate promotion back to Division One Kent have won the second division of the County Championship after picking up a fifth bonus point against Leicestershire at Canterbury. Rob Key’s team, who last week secured their return to the top flight at the first opportunity, made sure it would...