Michael Vaughan has ruled out any possibility of making a return during The Ashes saying he requires more time to recover.

Pakistan went two-nil up in their one-day series against the West Indies today, with a comfortable seven-wicket victory.

Sourav Ganguly and Greg Chapell have no problems between them, according to the Indian coach.

The English batsmen gained some much-needed confidence in their warm-up game against Western Australia as they eased to 356-5.

The controversial run-out of Muttiah Muralitharan is over-shadowing New Zealand’s five wicket victory over Sri Lanka in the first Test.

Despite being bowled out for 142, India managed to win their tour game against Rest of South Africa by 96 runs.

An unbeaten 32 from Habibul Bashar guided Bangladesh to a three-wicket win over Zimbabwe in Dhaka to take the ODI series 5-0.

Hopes for a fast WACA pitch for the third Ashes Test
received a fillip today, when the WACA pitch showed
bounce and movement.

Kumar Sangakkara’s exceptional unbeaten 100 in Sri Lanka’s second innings of 170 was not enough to prevent NZ taking a 1-0 series lead.

The 4th ODI between Bangladesh and Zimbabwe went predictably, with the hosts racking up an 8 wicket win to make the series 4-0