London: The England cricket team, which arrived in Hyderabad on Tuesday for the five-match one-day international series against India, is yet to know who its opponents for Saturday's warm-up game will be, the British media reported. England have two 50-overs warm-up games scheduled in Hyderabad before the ODI series begins against the World Champions on October 14. England stand-in coach Richard Halsall admitted that they are in the dark about...
03:45 PM, Mar 06, 2008
Chennai: Royal Challengers Bangalore fast bowler Zaheer Khan is all excited to take on Chennai Super Kings in the final after Bangalore thrashed Mumbai Indians by 43 runs in the second qualifier on Friday. Only one thing has remained common in the final and that is Chennai Super Kings, it is going to be a great match. We have won one and lost one and we will see what happens,...
03:31 PM, Jan 30, 2008
New Delhi: The Indian cricket board on Thursday said Gautam Gambhir will be dropped from the tour to the West Indies if he is found unfit. We are looking into his medical report and he will be dropped from the squad if he is found unfit, board secretary N. Srinivasan told IANS. Gambhir was appointed captain for the Twenty20 and ODI fixtures for the West Indies tour in absence of...
10:32 PM, Jan 29, 2008
Wellington: Australian Jamie Siddons, tipped to take over as Wellington coach, is not excited at the prospect of Sri Lakan spin wizard Muttiah Muralitharan joining Wellington Firebirds as their overseas player. Muralitharan was signed on Friday, a day after Siddons was interviewed for the vacant Firebirds coaching job. Asked about Muralitharan's signing, Siddons said: "That's good ... well, I hope it's good. I'll have to think that one through. I...
08:28 AM, Jan 25, 2008
Lahore: The PCB has sorted out its issue with Cricket Australia after CA chief executive James Sutherland had blamed Pakistan for not doing enough to curb the menace of corruption in the game. A PCB official confirmed that the matter was resolved after a discussion between the chief operating officer (COO) of the board, Subhan Ahmed and Sutherland. The PCB directly approached CA after the ICC had turned down its...
07:54 AM, Jan 22, 2008
Jalandhar: He might have achieved hero-status after helping India win the World Cup, but ace off-spinner Harbhajan Singh described the soldiers as the "real heroes" of the country on Tuesday. At a function organised by Border Security Force here to felicitate him for helping India win the World Cup, Harbhajan, paid tribute to the soldiers, saying that they are the "real national heroes". "The real national heroes of the country...
10:22 AM, Jan 12, 2008
Dubai: The number one tag still eludes them but newly-crowned world champions India have closed the gap on top-placed Australia even as the team's in-form players moved up in the individual standings of the latest ICC ODI rankings issued here on Monday. India (121) are now just seven points behind Australia, even though Michael Clarke's men have the chance to increase the lead over the 2011 champions as they have...
12:08 PM, Jan 11, 2008
The World Cup culminates with an India vs Sri Lanka final and CNN-IBN's Kings of Cricket feel India hold a slight edge. ...
04:25 PM, Jan 10, 2008
Whenever the two sub-continent teams meet, it generates great excitement, said the New Zealand skipper. ...
12:32 PM, Jan 09, 2008
Experts talk about whether the Englishmen will challenge the Lions of Emerald Isles. ...
10:20 AM, Jan 08, 2008
Legendary bowler Imran Khan feels that pressure will be on Team India in semis whereas Shahid Afridi thinks Pakistan can go all the way in the tournament. ...
10:16 AM, Jan 07, 2008
Kolkata: Zimbabwe captain Elton Chigumbura won the toss and elected to bat against Kenya in a World Cup Group A clash at Kolkata's Eden Gardens. Steve Tikolo who is playing in his final match for Kenya will captain the side in the absence of Jimmy Kamande. Kenya have also picked Peter Ongondo, a medium-pacer for wicketkeeper Maurice Ouma and David Obuya has been assigned the duty of keeping wickets while...
03:49 PM, Jan 04, 2008
Chennai: England are confident that captain Andrew Strauss and main spinner Graeme Swann will recover in time for Thursday's must-win World Cup Group B game against the West Indies. Top-order batsman Jonathan Trott on Tuesday said both players were expected to recover and would be "hopefully training tomorrow" after missing a morning practice due to stomach upsets. Opener Strauss and off-spinner Swann are crucial players for England, who are fighting...
02:07 PM, Jan 02, 2008
Kolkata: South Africa has identified momentum as the key to its World Cup effort and Ireland is the next target after a last-gasp victory over co-host India propelled the Proteas toward the quarterfinals. While the South Africans are keen to use the India result to get on a roll, according to captain Graeme Smith, following a stop-start Group B campaign, their opposition can't look much further than Tuesday's match at ...
03:59 PM, Jan 01, 2008
CNN-IBN's panel of cricket experts discuss Australia's win over Kenya and New Zealand's thrashing of Canada. ...
02:26 PM, Jan 01, 2008
Mumbai: More than the snapping of India's World Cup unbeaten run, captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni will be worried by the cavalier attitude of his batsman and lack of bowling sting in their defeat by South Africa. While the co-hosts managed to eke out a thrilling tie against England in Bangalore, they finally wilted under pressure on Saturday in Nagpur as South Africa halted their unbeaten run in the World Cup ...
12:51 PM, Jan 01, 2008
Nagpur: India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni lashed out at his batsmen for playing to the gallery and not for their country in the three-wicket World Cup defeat to South Africa. India looked set to post a mammoth total in Saturday's game when they reached 267-1 following Sachin Tendulkar's brilliant 111, but lost their last nine wickets for just 29 runs in nine overs. "In the batting powerplay, it's important that...
06:54 PM, Dec 31, 2007
Mohali: Skipper Darren Sammy finally came to the party for West Indies with a decisive spell of three for 31 and a run out in the match against Ireland on Friday, lifting Windies' hopes of a quarterfinal berth in the World Cup. At 187/4 in the 40th over, Ireland looked to give a scare to West Indies' 275 until Sammy brought himself back into the attack. His medium-pace got the...
08:26 PM, Dec 30, 2007
Bangalore: Brett Lee may be the oldest member of Australia's fast-bowling attack at the World Cup but despite being 34, he is not willing to compromise with his speed and aggression. Last week, Australian captain, Ricky Ponting, described the speed merchant as the glue that held the team's pace attack, which includes Mitchell Johnson and Shaun Tait, together. Lee, while appreciating his skipper's compliment, said he is confident that he...
09:34 PM, Dec 29, 2007
Mohali: Irish cricketer Niall O'Brien's bats, which went missing after his team's World Cup group match against India, have been found. Ireland's media manager Barry Chambers said the bag containing six bats of the player has been found and would be reaching the player soon. "Niall's bag contained six Gary Nicollas bats including one given to him by India's Suresh Raina have been traced in the luggage of the Indian...
01:43 PM, Dec 29, 2007
