New Zealand asked the sport’s governing body on Saturday to switch their World Cup Group B match against Kenya from Nairobi to South Africa. “The New Zealand board have reconfirmed their decision made on January 31, which is not to allow the New Zealand team to travel to Nairobi for the match on February 21,” [...]

Much has been said about the exposure and economic benefits this Cricket World Cup is going to bring South Africa. However little is said about the people who are exploited in the process of making these benefits materialise. I’m talking, for instance, about the 5 000 people who supposedly volunteered to make the R30 million [...]

With performances falling far short of their ambition, Bangladesh find themselves in a cricketing no man’s land as they approach their second consecutive World Cup. Their dismal record of losing all but one of their 17 tests, many of them innings defeats inside three days, and three wins from 61 one-dayers means their superior opponents [...]

The International Cricket Council (ICC) have issued a fresh warning to the Indian players threatening them with severe action if advertisements involving them and flouting the ambush marketing clause continued. On Friday, lawyers representing the ICC’s commerical arm brought to the Indian team-management’s attention ads being aired by Samsung India Electronics Limited, a rival of [...]

An unconvincing net session by injured Pakistan opener Saeed Anwar increased speculation he will miss his side’s opening World Cup match against Australia at The Wanderers on Tuesday. Anwar, who suffered a severely bruised left elbow when he was hit by a delivery from team mate Shoaib Akhtar last week, batted briefly against a bowling [...]

BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) – New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming says his team’s defeat by Sri Lanka might force a change of mind about boycotting their World Cup Group B match in Kenya. Fleming said the New Zealand players were still confident their cricket board would make the right decision and would not try to [...]

The ICC have promised to give a written response tomorrow to the ECB over their request to move England’s World Cup opener from Zimbabwe. ECB chief executive Tim Lamb said in a press conference that talks had been held with ICC officials on Monday evening. The ECB and the England players want Thursday’s game in [...]

KIMBERLEY – Having been beaten by Australia in the opening game, and to add insult to injury, being considered ‘a topsy turvy team, which is quite beatable on its off-day’ by Namibian coach Douglas Brown, Pakistan enter the De Beers Oval Sunday to put some points on the table and improve their net run rate. [...]

HARARE (Reuters) – Opener Craig Wishart has hit a commanding 172 not out to set up Zimbabwe’s 86-run victory over Namibia in a rain-curtailed World Cup Group A match. Although the match started on time after months of controversy about the six World Cup games scheduled to take place in strife-torn Zimbabwe, rain halted play [...]

New Zealand’s World Cup hopes were left in tatters as they went down by 47 runs in their opening Pool B game against Sri Lanka at Goodyear Park here today. The Black Caps now face a major uphill battle to qualify for the Super Sixes, especially after refusing to honour their fixture against Kenya in [...]