LONDON - Hosts England cruised into the Champions Trophy final with a seven-wicket win on Wednesday after South Africa once again underlined their reputation as cricket's 'chokers'. Alastair's Cook men outplayed the Proteas after electing to bowl on an overcast day at the Oval where England had ...

LONDON - England and South Africa will hope lady luck does not desert them when they clash in the Champions Trophy semi-final at the Oval in London on Wednesday. Both sides, aiming to end a frustrating wait for a major one-day title, are fortunate to make the last four in the eight-nation ...

CARDIFF - England defied the rain and a late New Zealand rally to book their place in the semi-finals of the Champions Trophy with a tense 10-run win at Cardiff.A target of 170 in a game reduced to 24 overs per side appeared well within the Kiwis' reach after England lost their last seven wickets ...

CARDIFF -England have found themselves at the centre of a tampering row after former captain Bob Willis accused them of scratching the ball. The alleged incident took place during England's seven-wicket Champions Trophy one-day international defeat by Sri Lanka at The Oval on Thursday when ...

LONDON - Kumar Sangakkara smashed an unbeaten 134 off 135 balls as Sri Lanka stunned England by seven wickets in a high-scoring thriller on Thursday to stay afloat in the Champions Trophy. The Islanders, chasing England's seemingly impregnable 293-7, launched a spirited chase in the day-night game ...

BIRMINGHAM - Australia batsman David Warner has been dropped for the country's Champions Trophy match against New Zealand on Wednesday, Cricket Australia said, amid England complaints of an "unprovoked physical attack" on Joe Root. Cricket Australia said in an emailed statement that the player had ...

LONDON - A buoyant England would eye the semifinal slot but it would be a battle of survival for Sri Lanka, after a narrow opening loss, when the two sides clash in their second Group A match of the ICC Champions Trophy on Thursday.The two teams have made contrasting starts to their campaign in the ...

LONDON - England have named three uncapped players in their squad for the women's one-day and Twenty20 series against Pakistan. Natasha Farrant, a 17-year-old left-arm seamer from Kent, Surrey's allrounder Natalie Sciver and Yorkshire's Lauren Winfield, a wicketkeeper, have received their first ...

EDGBASTON:-The Australian team has been fined for maintaining a slow over-rate during its Group A match in the ICC Champions Trophy 2013 against England at Edgbaston on Saturday.  Javagal Srinath of the Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Match Referees imposed the fines after George Bailey's side was ...

BIRMINGHAM - Ian Bell starred as England drew first blood in a marathon sequence of matches against Australia with a 48-run victory over the title-holders in their Champions Trophy opener at Edgbaston on Saturday.Bell made 91 on his Warwickshire home ground, to the delight of a capacity 25,000 ...

LONDON - New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum hopes a change of format and the introduction of several new players will revive his side from the depths of a Test whitewash when they face England in a three-match one-day series starting at Lord's on Friday.For both teams, this series will serve as a ...

LEEDS - Graeme Swann took four wickets as England established a commanding position on the third day of the second Test against New Zealand at Headingley on Sunday. At the close, England were 116 for one in their second innings -- a lead of 296 runs -- after Swann starred in New Zealand's second ...

LEEDS- Joe Root's maiden Test century, on his Yorkshire home ground, left England well-placed in the second and final Test against New Zealand at Headingley on Saturday. England were 337 for seven at stumps on the second day after Root made 104, having come in with England in trouble on 67 for ...

LEEDS - Daniel Vettori's hopes of making a return to Test cricket in New Zealand's series finale with England in Leeds ultimately came to nothing after he was ruled out on Thursday. Former captain Vettori hasn't played a Test for nearly a year, mainly because of Achilles trouble, and was only ...

SYDNEY - Captain Michael Clarke and his deputy Brad Haddin Wednesday insisted Australia's disastrous series in India was history with the team fired up to win back the Ashes from England. Australia play five Tests against their arch-rivals starting in Nottingham on July 10, and several of the team ...

LONDON -Stuart Broad bowled England to victory in the first Test as New Zealand suffered a dramatic fourth-day collapse at Lord's on Sunday. New Zealand, chasing 239 for victory, were dismissed for just 68 with Broad taking seven wickets for 44 runs in a mere 11 overs.South Africa born duo BJ ...

LONDON - New Zealand took charge of the first Test at Lord's on Thursday, reducing England to 160 for four when rain forced an early close to the first day. England captain Alastair Cook won the toss and batted but his side rarely got out of first gear in the face of some accurate bowling by the ...

LONDON : The Bank of England forecast on Wednesday that British economy would grow faster than expected in the coming months, but stressed the weak nature of the recovery.Growth in GDP was expected to strengthen to about 0.5 percent in the second quarter of 2013, but the recovery would be uneven, ...

LONDON - It will be a case of familiarity having bred respect when England face New Zealand in the first of a two-Test series at Lord's on Thursday. England could have been forgiven for thinking they had completed the hard part of their most recent tour programme when they wrapped up an ...

  LONDON     New Zealandseamer Tim Southee has been passed fit to play in the first Test againstEnglandat Lord's on Thursday. The 24-year-old paceman limped out of action during last week's drawn match with the second-string England Lions in Leicester, the tourists' final match ...

LONDON:-Joe Root maintained his case for inclusion in the England team to play New Zealand in the first Test at Lord's next week by scoring 179 for the second-string England Lions in a draw against the tourists at Grace Road on Sunday. Root, the Lions captain, was named Saturday in a 12-man squad ...

LONDON - Graeme Swann and Tim Bresnan were both recalled by England in a 12-man squad announced Saturday for next week's first Test against New Zealand at Lord's following their respective recoveries from elbow surgery. Off-spinner Swann and seamer Bresnan both last played Test cricket in the ...

LONDON - Despite an indifferent conclusion to England's overseas winter in New Zealand, the selectors are unlikely to see the need for significant changes for the start of the home summer that will be dominated by the Ashes but firstly includes the return series against Australia's close ...

LONDON - The Bank of England on Thursday voted to keep its main lending rate at its record-low level of 0.50 percent, deciding against mirroring a number of central banks who have cut borrowing costs in the past week. The BoE also opted against pumping out more new stimulus cash to boost economic ...

LONDONRavi Bopara's England exile came to an end Friday when the Essex all-rounder was named in the hosts' 15-man squad for next month's ICC Champions Trophy and the preceding one-day series with New Zealand. Bopara has not played a 50-overs-a-side international since September and the stylish ...

London (Nawa-i-Waqt): Law Society of England’s (LSE) council elections 2013 are being conducting from May 23 to June 20.LSE has cleared renowned Pakistani law expert Muhammad Aslam Sheikh to contest the elections. A 60-member council will be elected for four years in the poll, in which ...

LONDON (Reuters): A scheme to get more credit flowing in Britain's stagnant economy will be expanded to include specialist lenders and will run for a year longer than planned. The BoE and the Treasury have been working on plans to extend Funding for Lending  scheme, and the newspaper said an ...

LONDON - England named four uncapped players on Thursday in a provisional 30-man squad for the ICC Champions Trophy in England and Wales in June. The selectors included uncapped Yorkshire batsman Gary Ballance, Warwickshire opener Varun Chopra and seamers James Harris and Chris Wright in the squad ...

WELLINGTON - Alastair Cook expects England will have to work hard to exert their predicted superiority against New Zealand, but opposing captain Brendon McCullum has labelled the visiting side 'giants' of Test cricket as he laid down the challenge to his team.In their Test history New Zealand have ...

LONDON - England seamer Tim Bresnan will hope to revive his international career on home soil later this year after undergoing surgery in the United States on a longstanding elbow problem. The 27-year-old Yorkshireman was left out of England's ongoing limited overs and Test tour of New Zealand in ...