Join us for a feast of cricket on Sky Sports this Christmas!
The action comes thick and fast this festive time – not least on Christmas Day when we’ll bring you coverage of the opening day of the first Test between New Zealand and Sri Lanka live on Sky Sports 2 from 9.30pm.
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England’s selectors will meet on Friday to decide whether Alastair Cook leads the one-day side at next year’s World Cup.
Defeat over seven games in Sri Lanka took Cook’s record as captain to five defeats in seven series, and it was a lean tour with the bat as the opener scored 119 runs in six innings.
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West Indies batsman Assad Fudadin has been ruled out of the remainder of the Test tour of South Africa after fracturing a finger during fielding practice on Wednesday.
The 29-year-old fractured the little finger on his right hand in the warm-ups on the opening morning of the first Test in Pretoria.
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New Zealand drew level in their five-match ODI series with Pakistan after Kane Williamson’s century helped them to a thrilling seven-run victory in the fourth match in Abu Dhabi.
Skipper Williamson (123) crunched 12 fours in a brutal 105-ball knock as The Black Caps reached 299-5 from their 50 overs, with openers Martin Guptill (58) and Dean Brownlie (42) also chipping in.
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Lord’s has been proposed as the venue for the ICC Cricket World Cup final when the tournament is staged in England and Wales in 2019 – and the ‘home of cricket’ will also host the ICC Women’s World Cup final in 2017.
The England and Wales Cricket Board will also recommend to ICC that the semi-finals in the 2019 World Cup should be allocated to Old Trafford, Manchester and Warwickshire’s home of Edgbaston, with the opening game being staged at The Oval.
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All proceeds from Wednesday’s one-day international between Pakistan and New Zealand in Abu Dhabi will be donated to those affected by the Peshawar school massacre.
The Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for opening fire on the Army Public School in the city on Tuesday, which resulted in the death of at least 140 people, most of them students, while also leaving scores injured.
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Australia will unleash a new-look fast bowling attack with debutant Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc named to take on India in the second Test in Brisbane.
They replace Ryan Harris, who is suffering a quad strain, and Peter Siddle, who is omitted from the team that won the opening Test by 48 runs in Adelaide on Saturday.
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Fast bowler Liam Plunkett and batsman Sam Robson were in impressive form for an England Performance Programme XI in South Africa.
Yorkshire paceman Plunkett took 4-36 against North West Dragons in Potchefstroom while opening batsman Robson contributed an unbeaten half-century as the tourists made 103-1 before the close of play on day one of the two-day match.
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Opener Ahmed Shehzad made a fine century as Pakistan defeated New Zealand by 147 runs in Sharjah to go 2-1 up in the five-match series.
Shehzad contributed 113 and stand-in skipper Shahid Afridi smashed 55 off 26 balls as Pakistan posted a huge total of 364-7 before New Zealand were dismissed for 217.
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David Warner says Australia and India’s verbals on day four of the initial Test in Adelaide were only “cricket”.
Warner exchanged heated words with Varun Aaron and Shikhar Dhawan after he was bowled off a no ball by the previous, while the Australia opener also came face to face with touring skipper Virat Kohli afterwards in the day.
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Jason Gillespie says the loss of Michael Clarke to harm on day among the very first Test against India in Adelaide has spoilt an otherwise successful opening day for hosts Australia.
Australia made an emotional return to playing cricket, the very first time they have played because the departure of Phillip Hughes
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Brad Haddin has requested the Australian people to get behind the team when they take to the field for next week’s first Test against India in Adelaide.
Australia’s players are back in training for Tuesday’s series opener only days after assembly at Macksville in New South Wales for the funeral of the teammate Phillip Hughes.
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Michael Carberry understands how it feels to be on the peripheries of the England one-day international team so is distressed for Alex Hales to catch his opportunity.
Matt Prior and Marcus Trescothick discuss whether Hales ought to be opening the bat in England’s ODI side
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Alastair Cook demonstrated he’s plenty more to offer after placing England on course for an late triumph over Sri Lanka in the third one-day international, says David Lloyd.
Cook contributed 34 to an opening stand of 84 with Moeen Ali (58 off 40 balls) as the tourists successfully chased down a revised Duckworth-Lewis objective of 236 in 35 overs.
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Cricket Australia is not going to make any hurry choice regarding the scheduling of the initial Test with India next week.
Australia’s players met on Friday, less than twenty four hours following the terrible passing of opening batsman Phillip Hughes as well as the national governing body says their care is likely to be the precedence for however long they want.
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County winners Yorkshire will start the defence of the title at New Road against encouraged Worcestershire to the opening day of the 2015 season.
The new effort begins on Sunday, April 12, with eight matches over both divisions. Division Two winners Hampshire host Sussex in Southampton while Somerset take on Durham in Taunton and 2014 runnersup Nottinghamshire journey to Lord’s to confront Middlesex.
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Phillip Hughes will soon be honoured having a state memorial in Sydney next week, New South Wales Premier Mike Baird has declared.
Australia opener Hughes expired on Thursday at age 25, two days after being hit in the neck with a bouncer through the Sheffield Shield match between New South Wales and South Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
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Cricket Australia has pledged to supply Sean Abbott with the maximum amount of support as he wants after the terrible injury which stopped Phillip Hughes’ life.
Hughes died in a Sydney hospital on Thursday, two days after Abbott delivered the bouncer which hit the Australia opener in the neck and left him fighting for his life to the Sydney Cricket Ground pitch.
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Cricket Australia is not going to make any hurry choice regarding the scheduling of the initial Test with India next week.
Australia’s players met on Friday, less than twenty four hours following the terrible passing of opening batsman Phillip Hughes as well as the national governing body says their care is likely to be the precedence for however long they want.
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Moeen Ali’s hard hitting and adaptability impressed Marcus Trescothick during England’s first ODI against Sri Lanka.
The visitors lost the meeting in Colombo by 25 runs but opener Moeen (119) shone, notching a maiden international 50-over hundred off only 72 deliveries.
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