The retirements of Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath after the final Ashes Test last season afforded the Australian team a duality of time for meditation on their immense achievements and on who would take their places in the team.

The entire Cricket Web site will be down for about four hours tomorrow (Monday) morning from 5am AEST.

A hard-fought day of traditional cricket was over-shadowed by the late announcement that Adam Gilchrist is playing his last Test.

South Africa had no trouble in overcoming the West Indies to make it 2-0 in the five match series. Graeme Smith top scored with 86.

An intriguing day of Test cricket saw Sachin Tendulkar notch up his 39th Test century at the fourth Test against Australia in Adelaide.

Cameron White will lead a strong Prime Minister’s XI against Sri Lanka in Canberra next Wednesday.

West Indies captain Chris Gayle is due to return home from South Africa.

South Africa took the First ODI against West Indies, in the end winning by 6 wickets. But they were made to sweat over the run-chase.

Sourav Ganguly has been excluded from India’s one-day squad for the Commonwealth Bank series in Australia.

India deservedly won a pulsating 3rd test by 72 runs in Perth today to end Australia’s winning streak at 16 matches.