London:Pakistani all-rounder Azhar Mahmood will be back at Surrey next season while former Australian Test bowler Matthew Nicholson becomes the English county's second overseas player for 2007.
London: A far from impressive show by Team India discard Zaheer Khan notwithstanding, Worcestershire registered a convincing five-wicket win over Northamptonshire here thus gaining a promotion to Division One of the English County Championship.
London: Zaheer Khan scalped two wickets but Worcestershire still missed an automatic promotion after Surrey beat them by 13 runs in the Pro40 Division Two match at New Road.
Sydney:Cricket Australia played it safe and promoted Andrew Hilditch, a 10-year veteran of its national selectors team, to replace Trevor Hohns as the panel's chairman.
Karachi:The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has started the process of awarding central contracts to players after getting their written confirmations with vice-captain Younis Khan, all-rounder Shahid Afridi, leg-spinner Danish Kaneria and wicket-keeper Kamran Akmal getting one-step promotions in the new contracts.
Kolkata:Sourav Ganguly may be having a tough time on and off the field. But that hasn't detered Tata Steel from promoting him to the post of specialist, marketing and sales administration.
Bangalore: MAX's cricket promotion with Kapil Dev, 'Gully Cricket', will kick off its second round beginning November 16 as a run-up to the International Cricket Council's (ICC) World Cup South Africa in 2003, according to an official press release.
New Delhi: Electronic major Samsung, which has signed up seven top Indian cricketers, six of them members of the current national squad, to endorse its products, on Monday came out in support of the players in the sponsorship row with the International Cricket Council (ICC).
Bangalore: As part of brand-building exercise, pharmaceutical and healthcare company GlaxoSmithKline on Monday announced "Boost World Cup Sip-a-Trip" offer, a consumer promotion initiative.
Melbourne (Australia): Australia captain Ricky Ponting on Thursday defended his decision to drop fast bowler Brett Lee for Wednesday's One-day International seven- wicket win over Pakistan. Only 11,000 fans turned up Wednesday and Australian Cricket Board chief executive James Sutherland admitted
