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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Russel Arnold told Sky Sports that Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene will be a “massive loss” for Sri Lanka when they retire.
Sangakkara and Jayawardene played their final one-day internationals on home turf on Tuesday as Sri Lanka defeated England by 87 runs to win the seven-match series 5-2.
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The 2014-15 Big Bash League starts on Thursday December 18 and you can watch it all live on Sky Sports. Here we take a look at the rest of the teams vying to win: Melbourne Stars, Perth Scorchers, Sydney Sixers and Sydney Thunder.
Click here for part one of our 2014-15 Big Bash League preview
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The 2014-15 Big Bash League starts on Thursday December 18 and you can watch it all live on Sky Sports. Here we take a look at some of the teams vying to win, starting with the Adelaide Strikers, Brisbane Heat, Hobart Hurricanes and Melbourne Renegades.
For all cricket fans this Christmas, Sky Sports is the only place to be.
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Sky Sports News HQ’s Tim Abraham is back on the road in Sri Lanka after illness and a run-in with the local wildlife…
The long and windy road to Kandy from Colombo is a spectacular four-hour drive heading north through the hills of Sri Lanka but I’m afraid it all passed me by as I was slumped on the back seat of our van, not feeling the best.
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Australia will feel confident of wrapping up victory over India in the initial Test on Saturday – and it is possible to see if that self-confidence is warranted with exclusive coverage live on Sky Sports.
David Warner’s two hundreds, coupled with centuries for skipper Michael Clarke and Steven Smith and a few superb spin bowling by Nathan Lyon, have set the Baggy Greens 363 runs ahead of India heading into day five at Adelaide.
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Australia’s four-Test series will go ahead on Sky Sports but using a revised program after the departure of Phillip Hughes.
The disaster will likely be in the vanguard of players’ and enthusiasts’ heads equally through the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series, which starts in Adelaide.
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Sky Sports News HQ’s Tim Abraham reflects in the catastrophe of Phillip Hughes’ departure and the way that it’s brought the cricket family together…
England’s cricketers felt the terrible loss of Phillip Hughes closely.
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England will soon be looking to claw their way back to the ODI series with Sri Lanka when match three takes place, live on Sky Sports 2, on Wednesday.
Alastair Cook’s side slipped 2-0 down in the seven-match series following defeats in Colombo by 26 runs and eight wickets respectively.
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Brian Lara expects there isn’t going to be any broader consequences for the future of fast bowling in the aftermath of Phillip Hughes’ harm.
Hughes stays in a critical state in a Sydney hospital after being hit in the head by way of a quick ball from Sean Abbott during South Australia’s Sheffield Shield clash with New South Wales at the SCG.
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Cricket Australia will do everything they are able to in order to support quick bowler Sean Abbott after Phillip Hughes’ freak harm.
A short-pitched delivery from Abbott caught the Australia batsman in the rear of the head through the Sheffield Shield match between South Australia and New South Wales and left Hughes fighting for his life.
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Brian Lara expects there isn’t going to be any broader consequences for the future of fast bowling in the aftermath of Phillip Hughes’ harm.
Hughes stays in a critical state in a Sydney hospital after being hit in the head by way of a quick ball from Sean Abbott during South Australia’s Sheffield Shield clash with New South Wales at the SCG.
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Cricket Australia will do everything they are able to in order to support quick bowler Sean Abbott after Phillip Hughes’ freak harm.
A short-pitched delivery from Abbott caught the Australia batsman in the rear of the head through the Sheffield Shield match between South Australia and New South Wales and left Hughes fighting for his life.
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Brian Lara expects there isn’t going to be any broader consequences for the future of fast bowling in the aftermath of Phil Hughes’ harm.
Hughes stays in critical state in a Sydney hospital after being hit in the head by way of a quick ball from Sean Abbott in South Australia’s Sheffield Shield clash with New South Wales at the SCG.
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Ian Bell insists England would like to play a “favorable, competitive” brand of cricket as they get prepared for the start of one day series against Sri Lanka.
The tourists head to the opening match on Wednesday, live on Sky Sports, having recorded a comfortable victory in the sole warm up match they have managed to play in between extended spans of rain.
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Sky Sports News HQ’s Tim Abraham absorbs the sights and sounds of Sri Lanka as England’s intensive tour gets off to a wet beginning…
England’s cricketers had just about got away with until now!
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Mitchell Johnson’s ICC Cricketer of the Year accolade is just reward for turning his career around, says Dominic Cork.
Australian left-arm quick Johnson, who was also named Test Cricketer of the Year, pipped Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara and Angelo Mathews as well as South Africa’s AB de Villiers to scoop the gong for a second time, having first won it in 2009.
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Communications between the on-field and television umpires will be broadcast during Australia’s upcoming one-day series against South Africa, which starts on Friday, live on Sky Sports.
The trial has been approved by the International Cricket Council and will allow television viewers to hear the umpires discussing referrals, consultations and DRS (Decision Review System) player reviews.
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England Women fast bowler Katherine Brunt says the 2015 Women’s Ashes could be the most exciting yet thanks to the new points system.
The multi-format series, which you’ll be able to watch live in its entirety on Sky Sports for the first time next summer, will again consist of three ODIs, three Twenty20s and one Test, to be played from August 11-14 at Canterbury.
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Sky Sports will show live coverage of every ball of the new-look Women’s Ashes for the first time next summer.
The 2015 Series will be the third time that the Women’s Ashes have been contested across all three formats of the game – England winning 12-4 on home soil in 2013 and 10-8 Down Under at the start of this year.
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