Those big matches are played in the National Cricket Stadium in St George’s, the capital. It was ostensibly a $40m gift from ...

Professional sports look at the promise of the Chinese market as dreamily as any other industry. Yao Ming, the Houston Rockets' star center, has given America's National Basketball Association an in.

Former Australian captain Steve Waugh stated China has taken cricket's inclusion at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics seriously and began their preparations in pursuit of a gold medal. The sport of ...

Cricket Council as it looks to far, far bigger markets -- mighty China and the United States. Tim Anderson, the International Cricket Council's (ICC) global development manager, praised Afghanistan's ...

Cricket's governing body has long dreamed of spreading the game to China, but the latest performance by its women's team is unlikely to inspire many in the world's most populous nation to take up the ...

"Cricket has a history of 300 years, while China only imported the sport officially one year and two days ago," the Chinese Cricket Association (CCA) deputy-director Cui Zhiqiang told Xinhua on ...

March 26, 2007 — -- China has used the Cricket World Cup in the West Indies to try and hit archrival Taiwan out of the stadium. Beijing is widely seen as having financed the building or ...

NEW YORK, NY December 2, 2021: TIME for Kids announced a new partnership with Cricket Media, award-winning publisher and eLearning provider for children in the United States and China. Cricket’s ...

All Stars player Craig McMillan bats against England at the Hong Kong Cricket Sixes, in October 2007. As China laps up the plaudits for its staging of the Beijing Olympics, some within the world's ...

On a late summer day in Beijing while roaming through the narrow alleyways of an old pet market I heard the chirping of insects. It was such a refreshing sound on a stiflingly hot day. At one point, ...

Forget English gents in cream flannels. Cricket's epicenter has moved to Asia. Professional sports looks at a promise of the Chinese market as dreamily as any other industry. Yao Ming, the Houston ...