Australian left-hander Mike Hussey and spinner Nathan Hauritz will not be fit to play any part in the Cricket World Cup later this month. Click here for full story plus other cricket news.
Andrew Strauss has refuted any notion that England’s woeful 6-1 defeat to Australia in the ODI series has tainted their Ashes triumph – and former ECB Chairman Lord MacLaurin has backed him up. Full story here.
A despondent Mohammad Amir has spoken of his intention to appeal against the five-year playing ban handed to him by the ICC, and make a return to professional cricket. Full story here.
The International Cricket Council will publish details of the bans imposed on the Pakistani trio found guilty of corruption, but not in Britain according to The Times. Read full story here.
After the high of an Ashes series victory, England face up to the impending World Cup with both a demoralising one-day international series defeat to Australia and a rapidly depleted pool of players to call from. To read more.
This was a good idea on paper. And perhaps that is where is should have stayed.
The debate over the last 30 years is whether limited-overs cricket is a means to the end of propping up the grand old lady of Test cricket or has become a separate entity in its own right. Either way there is strong evidence to support the view that this one-day international series, that reached its conclusion in Perth, should have been put on a far stricter diet. To read more.
The International Cricket Council has banned three Pakistan Test cricketers at the conclusion of the anti-corruption tribunal in Doha. To read more.
It was too little and too late but New Zealand at least managed to salvage some pride from their one-day international series.
The Black Caps won the fifth match, in Auckland, by 57 runs but it was rather academic and merely meant that they lost the series by the slightly more respectable-looking margin of 3-2. To read more.
The wisdom of sandwiching a seven-match ODI series between Australia and England between the Ashes and the World Cup can rightly be questioned, but here we are at the finish line. Read the preview.
Pakistan cricketers Mohammad Amir, Mohammad Asif, Salman Butt and player agent Mazhar Majeed are to face charges of conspiracy to obtain and accept corrupt payments and conspiracy to cheat. Read the full article.