Officials from the England & Wales Cricket Board will meet with their Zimbabwean counterparts at Lord's on Tuesday to discuss the prospects of this November's tour of Zimbabwe by England going ahead

After three Tests where, by and large, everything came fairly easily to England's bowlers, they found the going far harder on a pitch devoid of pace and bounce

The crumbling façade of independence and reason the Zimbabwe Cricket Union has tried to maintain against a backdrop of social disintegration in the country finally collapsed on Friday

There are signs that the ECB is prepared to bow to pressure and rethink its objections to playing in Zimbabwe.

Cricket in Zimbabwe is lurching towards a crisis following the resignation of Heath Streak as national captain

The resignation of Heath Streak as Zimbabwe's captain could well signal the start of a mass exodus of the dwindling number of senior players who have stayed loyal to the side

Once upon a time, Bridgetown was a fortress of West Indian cricket

The third day of the third Test at Bridgetown will probably decide the outcome of this match, and much depends on whether Brian Lara can find his touch

Perhaps the most damning indictment of the state of cricket in the Caribbean is that yesterday's defeat in the Trinidad Test has been treated by the region's press with a resigned acceptance

Almost as worrying for the West Indies Cricket Board as the four-day defeat at Sabina Park was the reaction of certain of the team to the humiliation on Sunday

Stuart Carlisle's second Test hundred was the highlight of the final day of the second Test at Bulawayo's Queens Sports Club - but there were no other challengers for the champagne moment on a day where both sides did little more than go through the

The second day of the second Test at Bulawayo showed every sign of going the same way as the first - a complete washout

Have the ZCU fallen victim to 'politicisation and racialisation' ...

With one hand the ECB battles the British government, with the other the ICC

A much-needed hundred from Jacques Rudolph gave South Africa a good start to the third Test at Cape Town

A quite superb hundred from Brian Lara was all that stood between West Indies and South Africa on the third day of the first Test at The Wanderers

Being an umpire is no picnic at the best of times, what with the endless television replays and commentators eager to scrutinise every decision, but the last few days have seen them under attack across the world

The ECB needs to decide early - it simply cannot afford a repeat of the will-they, won't-they farce which preceded England's withdrawal from the World Cup match in Harare

The second ODI between Sri Lanka and England was called off at 6.05pm local time without a ball being bowled due to heavy rain

The heavy rain which left the Premadasa Stadium in Colombo awash on Thursday continued throughout this morning and put pay to the second ODI between Sri Lanka and England, which was called off at 6.05pm local time without a ball being bowled