
Karachi: Pakistan's limited overs captain Shahid Afridi should return to Test cricket and skipper the national team in all three formats of the sport, former captain Imran Khan said. Afridi pulled out of a Test series against Australia last year in England after losing the first Test at Lord's as captain. Since then he has only captained Pakistan in one-day internationals and T20 matches. Senior batsman Misbah-ul-Haq led Pakistan in...

06:56 PM, Jan 12, 2008
Karachi: Claiming that there are some very big names involved in the match-fixing racket, Pakistan's runaway wicketkeeper Zulqarnain Haider said banning the three Pakistani players, Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir for spot-fixing is just the tip of the iceberg. "There are some very big names involved in these illegal activities, but they are getting away with it as thorough investigations are not being carried out," Haider told a...

06:22 PM, Dec 14, 2007

Rajdeep Sardesai and Ramchandra Guha decide on the best ever ODI eleven. ...

11:12 PM, Dec 13, 2007
Colombo: Ramnaresh Sarwan scored 123 and Andre Russell took 4-43 to give West Indies a morale-boosting 61-run win over Kenya in a World Cup warm-up match on Saturday. West Indies scored 253-8 in 50 overs after being asked to bat first. Sarwan's 125-ball innings included 11 fours and five sixes and he shared a 94-run stand for the fifth wicket with Dwayne Bravo (54) after his team had slumped to...

04:11 PM, Dec 13, 2007

New Delhi: Imagine Kevin Pietersen, Sachin Tendulkar, Chris Gayle, Jacques Kallis and Shahid Afridi batting for the same team. Their captain could relax, but not the bowlers in the opposition. Pietersen's improvisation, Tendulkar's strokeplay, Gayle's power-hitting, Kallis' conventional but highly effective approach and Afridi's unorthodox shots will make bowlers believe they have strayed into wrong territory. With India's Tendulkar opening an innings with West Indies' Gayle, runs are bound to...

10:43 PM, Dec 12, 2007

Former Ausssie skipper Steve Waugh feels key to India's WC success will be if MS Dhoni can keep the team calm and composed under so much hype. ...

09:19 PM, Dec 12, 2007

Nagpur: Ireland may be considered minnows going into the World Cup but their skipper William Porterfield warned the oppositions not to take them lightly, citing any team can perform well on a given day. World Cup cricket is a big game. Any team can do better on a particular day and a particular match as chances are even, Forcefield told reporters here on Thursday. Ireland had shocked Pakistan by three ...

01:45 PM, Dec 12, 2007

Karachi: He has been dropped from Pakistan's World Cup squad due to injury but pacer Sohail Tanvir insists he is fit to play and should have been retained in the side for the quadrennial event starting February 19 in the sub-continent. The Pakistan cricket Board on Wednesday dropped the unorthodox bowler from the 15-member squad on the recommendations of the national team management, a medical panel and the selection committee...

11:55 AM, Dec 12, 2007

Dhaka: India will be under pressure because of its defeat in the last World Cup opener, Bangladesh's opening batsman Tamim Iqbal has said ahead of next week's tournament that his country is co-hosting. India will feel the pinch to beat Bangladesh in the opening match of the forthcoming World Cup because of their past bitter experience, Tamim Iqbal said on Wednesday. India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh are jointly hosting the...

09:50 AM, Dec 12, 2007
London: Floodlights, fireworks and a spectacular Sydney sunset heralded both a triumph for Kerry Packer and his rebel World Series Cricket (WSC) and the birth of the modern one-day game. November 28, 1978, was the day the Australian media mogul gambled and won with his audacious ploy to stage a day-night one-day match illuminated by six freshly erected floodlight towers at the Sydney Cricket Ground and featuring a white ball...

08:17 PM, Dec 11, 2007