SYDNEY, Australia (Reuters) – Australia captain Ricky Ponting has called on the national governing body to examine the entire structure of the game throughout the country and not just

… Messi wins Player-of-the-Year award again; Mourinho named Coach-of-the-YearZURICH, (Reuters) – Argentina’s Lionel Messi won the World Player-of-the-Year for the second time in a row yesterday and Jose Mourinho

HIGHLY-rated leg-spinner Imran Tahir has been added to South Africa’s preliminary World Cup squad, making him almost a certainty to be picked for the tournament on the sub-continent. Jonathan

FIFTY-five players have been sold on the second and final day of the auction for the Indian Premier League (IPL), the world’s richest cricket tournament.Teams spent a total of

THE coincidence of the Indian Premier League (IPL) player auction with New Zealand’s 10-wicket loss to Pakistan in the first cricket Test raises new questions whether lucrative Twenty20 contracts

… Bynum ejected in fourth quarter (REUTERS) – The Los Angeles Lakers shut down the high-energy New York Knicks to power to their fourth straight victory in a 109-87

IAN Bell provided a convincing audition for a regular place in England’s limited-overs team as he struck an unbeaten century to help the tourists to a seven-wicket win over

Spot-fixing controversy …GROWING differences between Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif in the spot-fixing hearings in Doha, Qatar, appear to have given rise to the acknowledgment that wrongdoing was committed