Cricket Australia remains confident its domestic one-day competition will have a naming-rights sponsor by the time the first match is played next Wednesday. The 45-over split-innings format is being promoted under the generic National One-Day Cup title, after Ford Ranger’s …

“We just talked about it from the start that Michael and Doug wouldn’t be here till a certain stage,” Tim Nielsen, Australia’s coach, said. “When that changed, we pushed it back. Everybody is understanding of that. We just let Bollinger …

Ijaz Butt, the PCB chairman, has issued an apology for the comments he made during the one-day series between England and Pakistan when he claimed the hosts’ players had taken “enormous amounts of money” to lose the third ODI at …

A decision on the structure for county cricket in 2011 has been delayed after the ECB agreed to set up a working party to examine all the options. The ECB management board met on Wednesday to discuss the outcome from …

Clarke was firm that the players needed to be wise while choosing where and when to play in a modern cricketing world full of opportunities. “For me, we all have a choice,” he said. “You don’t have to play IPL. …

Their Australian team-mates have adjusted to the conditions with a warm-up game but Bollinger and Hussey have only two days of net sessions to get themselves up to speed. However, India are in a similar situation, with MS Dhoni, Suresh …

Australia’s first-choice wicketkeeper, Brad Haddin, will make his long-awaited comeback when he captains the New South Wales Second XI on Monday. Haddin has been sidelined by a tendon injury in his elbow and he has not played since the final …

Ijaz Butt, the Pakistan Cricket Board chairman, has refused to apologise for suggestions he made that England fixed a match in the recent one-day series. Speaking on his arrival at Heathrow Airport on Tuesday, he said he thought the matter …

In any case, there is a possibility that the matter might feature at the next ICC meeting, in Dubai, from October 12-13. At that meeting, Butt was reportedly aiming to table his own resolution calling for Lorgat’s removal. The outburst …

England’s cricketers have returned from their top-secret pre-Ashes bonding camp, which took them to Bavaria in southern Germany. The players departed last Thursday for the five-day trip organised by Reg Dickason, the team’s security officer, with only Andy Flower and …