AUSTRALIA'S cricketers will have to decide whether to boycott the Champions Trophy after strife-torn Pakistan claimed it would host the September tournament.

MALINDA Warnapura hit his third Test half-century today as Sri Lanka reached 2-85 at close of a rain-shortened opening day of the first cricket Test against India.

A SCHOOL'S plans to raise funds by charging kids $50 to have their photo taken with Michael Clarke and wearing his baggy green cap has drawn flak.

SOUTH Africa has thrashed England by 10 wickets as they won the second cricket Test with more than a day to spare at Headingley.

MATTHEW Hayden has earmarked a "transitional period" where he will step away from one-day cricket - but insists he isn't ready to give up the limited overs game just yet.

SOUTH Africa's Makhaya Ntini took two key wickets after AB de Villiers's hundred put the Proteas into a commanding position in the second Test at Headingley.

ENGLAND'S decision to choose Australian Darren Pattinson for the second test against South Africa has been questioned by Ashes-winning strike bowler Steve Harmison.

ASHWELL Prince's second hundred in as many matches against England helped give South Africa a significant first innings lead in the second Test after the second day's play.

THE cricket community has been caught by surprise at Australian-raised paceman Darren Pattinson's bolt from obscurity to the England Test team.

ANDREW Flintoff's goal to terrorise the Aussies in next year's Ashes has received a boost, with the all-rounder named in the England Test team to play South Africa.