The Cardiff Blues’ have been drawn in an highly competative HEC Pool 5 ahead of the 09/10season. The Welsh region will face Toulouse, Sale and Harlequins in what most are calling 'the group of death’.

The draw has been done for the 2009/10 Heineken Cup - Irish return to the fray after a year away and hope to better their 2008 highlight of running Toulouse a very close second in the semi-final.

Nothing to talk about on the coaching front at Kingsholm, but there is some news for the second season running, Gloucester will line up against Biarritz in the group stage of the Heineken Cup, but this time round there should

Georgie Rozario presented her England winners match shirt from the 2009 RBS 6 Nations to Plymouth Albion’s Chairman, Dr Graham Sterling at Brickfields.

Lots going on again this month but a very special event took place Walk4Matt09 - Matt Hampson. Barney Burnham gave us this piece about the best week of his life. We also look back at the England 7s results, England

IRELAND'S O'Brien brothers carried their country past Bangladesh to the Super Eights stage of the World Twenty20, but their surprise victory was upstaged by Sri Lanka

SCOTLAND cricket skipper Gavin Hamilton insists his side deserve respect for their ICC World Twenty20 performance - despite defeats against New Zealand and South Africa sendi

AUSTRALIA have their "backs against the wall" in the World Twenty20 but insist they like it that way. After their seven-wicket defeat against West Indies at The Oval

CAN they hold their nerve? Will their bubbles burst as the weekly pressure intensifies? All eyes are on the Premier League upstarts, newly-promoted West and Aberdeenshire, but

SOUTH Africa, the tournament favourites, delivered an object lesson in the art of wringing hope and pluck out of an underdog yesterday as Scotland became the first team to be

The rift between sections of the Indian media and Mahendra Singh Dhoni escalated on Tuesday when India's captain refused to confirm news about Virender Sehwag being ruled out of the Word Twenty20 on fitness grounds.

Ricky Ponting's side was ruled to be one over short of its target at the end of the Sri Lanka innings when time allowances were taken into consideration.

Abject batting by the Indian women's cricket team saw them go down to New Zealand by 17 runs in a warm-up match ahead of their Twenty20 World Cup at Taunton Vale Sports Club Ground on Tuesday.

Pakistan booked their place in the Super Eight stage of the World Twenty20 tournament, thrashing the Netherlands by 82 runs in a must-win Group B match for both teams at Lord's on Tuesday. Riding on Shahid Afridi's haul of four

Wednesday's match against Ireland is the last chance for Team India to test various combinations and players, but captain M S Dhoni said there will not be much experimentation -- the focus is on winning.

We commence our 30-day countdown to the first Ashes Test by looking at Shane Warne, the Sheik of Tweak who also had a pair of the safest hands in cricket. Most of the time.

England booked their place in the Super Eights of the World Twenty20 with a 48-run win over Pakistan at The Oval.

The Andrew Symonds debacle is a greater mess than people realise, with Symonds and the playing group who started the push to sack him understood to be in a bad head space.

Queensland will adopt a wait-and-see approach to fallen all-rounder Andrew Symonds and will not force him to sign a new contract.

A 79 not out by AB de Villiers provided the platform for South Africa to crush Scotland by 130 runs in the Proteas' opening match of the World Twenty20 at The Oval.