Cricket News

Two of Victoria's star Twenty20 batsmen, Brad Hodge and David Hussey, are expected to line up against each other during the Big Bash League this summer

Perth Scorchers might have missed out on Chris Gayle but they have secured another international star after signing the South Africa batsman Herschelle Gibbs for the Big Bash League

Simon Katich has become the first player to sign up with a Big Bash League team outside his current state after it was confirmed he would join the Perth Scorchers this summer

Chris Gayle and David Warner will form a dream opening partnership for the Sydney Thunder in the Big Bash League after Gayle knocked back a $250,000 offer from the Perth Scorchers

The eight new teams in Australia's Big Bash League will each have a $1 million salary cap to spend on their 18 players

Hundreds of Australian cricketers will be chasing lucrative Twenty20 contracts over the next month as the Big Bash League teams begin to sign up players

Mickey Arthur says Australia has its priorities "the wrong way round" by squeezing state contracts to fund the Big Bash League.

Sri Lanka fast bowler Lasith Malinga has turned down offers to play Twenty20 cricket in South Africa and Australia to focus on his national assignments

Australia's selectors agree that communications between the national panel and the players it chooses, for national contracts and teams, are not what they should be.

Stuart Clark, the Sydney Sixers general manager, has said it will be difficult for some Test players to take part in the expanded Twenty20 Big Bash League

Trevor Bayliss has been snapped up by the Sydney Sixers after being overlooked for the job as coach of New South Wales

Australian cricket's playing and marketing imperatives are colliding over the matter of Test players taking part in the early rounds of the expanded Big Bash League.

Mike McKenna, project owner of the Big Bash League, insists that Twenty20's popularity has not yet peaked,

Stuart Clark, the former Australia pace bowler, has been named the general manager of the Sydney Sixers, one of two New South Wales-based teams in the forthcoming Twenty20 Big Bash League

India's players will not feature in the Big Bash, Australia's domestic Twenty20 competition

The Australian domestic Twenty20 competition, the Big Bash League, moved a step closer to its new and revamped avatar, with eight new sides announcing fresh and innovative team names and colours

Private investors will be allowed to buy a 33% stake in eight city-based franchises that will form Australia's Big Bash League in 2011-12