"No faffing about from Du Plessis," said a popular daily. Debutant Du Plessis scored an unbeaten ton to fetch his team a draw against all odds. ...
10:12 AM, Nov 27, 2012
Kallis could bowl just 3.3 overs on the opening day of the Adelaide Test, allowing Australia to plunder runs. ...
03:56 PM, Nov 22, 2012
With their No. 1 ranking on the line this series, South Africa know they have to significantly improve on Brisbane show. ...
10:46 AM, Nov 21, 2012
Watson admitted he is unlikely to be able to bowl, putting his selection for the Adelaide Test against SA in doubt. ...
11:42 AM, Nov 19, 2012
India take on Australia in the fourth and final Test at Adelaide after having lost the first three matches of the series. ...
12:07 AM, Jan 24, 2012
Johannesburg: Nearly a decade after his death, former South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje will be one of the recipients for posthumous honours. Cronje, who died in a plane crash under mysterious circumstances in 2002, precipitated the greatest crisis in world cricket two years earlier when he admitted to involvement in match fixing after Indian authorities began probing phone calls. Minister of Arts and Culture Paul Mashatile will deliver the...
03:23 PM, Jan 26, 2008
Jaipur: They have jumped to the second spot in the points table with sixth consecutive win but the Royal Challengers Bangalore's stand-in skipper Virat Kohli is not ready to take their place in the IPL play-offs for granted. Top four teams will compete in the play-offs to earn a place in the summit clash. Kohli led Bangalore in the absence of injured regular skipper Daniel Vettori against Rajasthan Royals on...
01:02 PM, Jan 24, 2008
Jaipur: Giving a new twist to the controversy over the Sawai Mansingh wicket, Rajasthan Royals skipper Shane Warne on Monday drubbed the "instructions" to make a new strip for the side's remaining home games in the Indian Premier League as "ridiculous". "In the past four years we have never been told to play on any particular wicket. It is ridiculous to have instructions for pitch," a fuming Warne said after...
04:53 PM, Jan 23, 2008
New Delhi: India's newly appointed cricket coach Duncan Fletcher is likely to attend Friday's selection committee meeting in Chennai to pick up the team for the tour to the West Indies. A top official of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) told IANS that Fletcher will be arriving in Chennai Friday and will attend the meeting to pick the squads for three Tests, five ODIs and a...
01:37 PM, Jan 23, 2008
Karachi: Pakistan's cricket board chief Ijaz Butt on Thursday said that differences between the board and its chief selector Mohsin Khan have been resolved. Mohsin had reservations over the 15-man squad announced for this month's Test series against the West Indies and threatened to resign. Butt summoned Mohsin to the board's headquarters in Lahore on Thursday for a meeting and later stated that they have sorted out things. "Mohsin and...
01:25 PM, Jan 22, 2008
Georgetown: Pacer Ravi Rampaul claimed 4-45 and Lendl Simmons followed with an unbeaten 77 as West Indies strode to a 10-wicket victory over Pakistan in the cricket one-day international series finale at National Stadium on Thursday. Rampaul's feats, supported well by skipper Darren Sammy's 3-30, sunk Pakistan for 139 all out off 41.2 overs. Mohammad Hafeez, the eventual man of the five-match series, offered the only real resistance with 55...
01:14 PM, Jan 22, 2008
New Delhi: Delhi Daredevils' play-off hopes suffered a jolt as Kochi Tuskers Kerala snapped their three-match losing streak by thrashing the hosts by seven wickets in their Indian Premier League match here on Monday. Daredevils' middle-order let them down yet again as the hosts just about managed to score a modest 140 for six after being invited to bat at Feroz Shah Kotla ground. In reply, Tuskers avenged their Saturday's...
05:53 PM, Jan 21, 2008
