Sri Lanka interim coach Stuart Law is optimistic captain Tillakaratne Dilshan will be fit for next week’s first three one-day internationals against England. Opening batsman Dilshan missed the drawn third Test against England at the Rose Bowl concluded Monday, a result that gave the hosts the series 1-0 after suffering a broken thumb making 193 [...]

Former Australian opener Matthew Hayden feels that the International Cricket Council has taken the right decision in cutting down to 10 the number of participating teams in the next World Cup. Hayden, now a director of Cricket Australia and Queensland Cricket, sympathised with Ireland and other associate members who were left out from the 2015 [...]

England fast bowler Chris Tremlett cannot understand why India are so vehemently opposed to cricket’s Decision Review System (DRS). DRS, which allows teams to make two incorrect challenges to an on-field umpire’s decision before all their referrals for that innings are used up, has been accepted by most of cricket’s leading nations and was in [...]

Former Australian football officials have angrily denied there was any deal to prevent drug testing before the country played Argentina in a 1993 World Cup qualifying play-off, reports said today. Julio Grondona, president of the Argentine Football Association, said this week that doping controls were deliberately overlooked so as to prevent Diego Maradona fouling foul [...]