The Pakistan Cricket Board on Thursday paved the way for Mohammad Asif's return to the national team for the Champions Trophy later this year after fining the controversial fast bowler Rs 1 million for his involvement in a drug case

Jolted by the humiliating defeat in the last match, a jittery India go into the crucial third one-dayer against the West Indies in St Lucia on Friday with the form of their top order batsmen being a worrying factor.

Security concerns have forced Pakistan to shift another home series, this time against New Zealand, at a neutral venue.

Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar advised young cricketers to aim for the India cap and said playing in the cash-rich Indian Premier League should not be their ultimate goal.

The batting legend said India was were outplayed in the World Twenty20 tournament in England.

ANDREW Flintoff missed the opportunity to make amends for his latest brush with authority as England struggled to impose themselves in their only warm-up match before the Ashe

SCOTLAND'S new cricket captain, Gordon Drummond, will again take the country's latest internationalist, Ewan Chalmers, under his wing when a fresh era gets underway w

HOLDERS Carlton will meet RH Corstorphine in the final of the Masterton twenty:20 knock-out cricket cup at Grange Loan next Thursday.

GORDON Drummond's elevation to the Scotland captaincy today completes a remarkable ascent for a player still new to international cricket and who picked up the rudiments