Mohali: South Africa served up a convincing all-round performance in an emphatic 231-run win over Netherlands in Group B at the World Cup on Thursday. AB de Villiers and Hashim Amla made centuries in South Africa's 351-5 and leg-spinner Iran Tahir took three wickets in a predictably dominant showing from the hotly favored Proteas. Netherlands was dismissed for 120 in 34.5 overs at Punjab Cricket Association Stadium for successive heavy...
09:31 PM, Dec 24, 2007
Ahmedabad: New Zealand are preparing to face a versatile Zimbabwe spin attack led by the experienced Ray Price in a key Group A match for both sides at the World Cup on Friday. Zimbabwe scored an impressive 175-run victory over Canada on Monday, with left-arm spinner Price bagging 3-16 and legspinner Graeme Cremer taking 3-31. New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori is well aware of the stakes in their third match...
09:07 PM, Dec 24, 2007
Colombo: Australian leg-spinner Steve Smith knows the Sri Lankan batsman would come hard at him when the two teams clash in a World Cup match here on Saturday. The 21-year-old Smith said that it would be tough for the Sri Lankan batsmen to score runs off the lively Australian pace battery and they would reserve their power for the spinners. "We've got the firepower up top with the quicks all ...
05:55 PM, Dec 24, 2007
New Delhi: Former captain Kapil Dev on Wednesday came to the rescue of under-fire Indian bowlers' after their poor show in the World Cup, saying these were the same bowlers who won India many matches in the past two years. India's batting was phenomenal in their first two games against Bangladesh and England, but bowling was a big let down with the bowlers getting smashed all over the park. In...
03:29 PM, Dec 24, 2007
Bangalore: Senior players, including Sachin Tendulkar, chose to give training a miss but eight other members of India's World Cup squad had a one-hour training session at the National Cricket Academy here on Wednesday. Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni was among the eight who trained during the optional session ahead of the March 6 Group B clash against Ireland. Those who chose to stay back at the hotel included pace spearhead...
01:05 PM, Dec 24, 2007
Mohali: South Africa take on Netherlands in the World Cup on Thursday with the Dutch side's South African-born batsman Ryan ten Doeschate looking forward to facing his former compatriots in the Group B contest. Thursday's match will be the first of the tournament at the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium in Mohali and Netherlands are unlikely to mark the event with a maiden victory over the Proteas. South Africa have had...
12:37 PM, Dec 24, 2007
Colombo: Skipper Kumar Sangakkara couldn't thank Lasith Malinga enough after the slinger brought Sri Lanka's World Cup campaign back on track with a solid bowling performance in their group A match against Kenya here on Tuesday. Malinga, who missed the side's first two games due to fitness issues, took six wickets including a hat-trick to help the Islanders register an easy nine-wicket win at the Premadasa Stadium, and Sangakkara was...
10:22 AM, Dec 24, 2007
Colombo: Sri Lanka's Lasith Malinga became the first man to pick up two hat-tricks in World Cups when he skittled out three Kenyan tailenders in their Group A match on Tuesday. Malinga, who missed his side's opening two matches with a sore back, fired back with 6-38 including the wickets of Tanmay Mishra (0), Peter Ongondo (0) and Shem Ngoche (0) with successive, full deliveries - the latter two clean...
07:49 AM, Dec 24, 2007
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09:46 PM, Dec 23, 2007
The legendary English batsman also said that the Ind-Eng game was a good advertisement for 50-over cricket. ...
09:36 PM, Dec 23, 2007
New Delhi: Controversial West Indies batsman Marlon Samuels apparently rejected an offer to play in the World Cup as a replacement for injured Dwayne Bravo fearing that police officials might arrest him here over charges of match-fixing. Noted commentator and columnist Tony Cozier wrote in Trinidad Express that the 30-year-old Jamaican, who is coming out of a two-year ban on charges of match fixing, was in good form and was...
09:26 PM, Dec 23, 2007
New Delhi: Dwayne Bravo's injury could well turn out to be a veiled blessing for a West Indies team which had to dump their original strategy for one which recognised spinners' enhanced role in the World Cup. Coach Ottis Gibson has admitted that losing paceman Bravo last week through a knee injury has upset the team's original strategy built around the talismanic player and fellow all-rounders Darren Sammy and Kieron...
09:22 PM, Dec 23, 2007
Sydney: Sri Lankan cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan has pulled out of mentoring Australia's emerging spin bowling talents, after other commitments clashed with his visit Down Under, a report said Tuesday. The world's leading wicket-taker had been set to spend several weeks at Cricket Australia's Centre of Excellence in Brisbane mentoring the nation's young spinners, Sydney's Daily Telegraph newspaper reported. "Unfortunately, Murali will not be able to make it," the cricketer's agent...
09:03 PM, Dec 23, 2007
New Delhi: Indian bowlers, especially off-spinner Harbhajan Singh, need to re-think their strategy for the flat sub-continental pitches or the team's World Cup campaign could be derailed despite a strong batting line-up, feels former batsman Sanjay Manjrekar. "Indian bowlers tend to struggle on flat pitches. They need to re-think their strategy on such surfaces. Harbhajan Singh, especially, needs to find ways to get batsmen out on batting-friendly wickets," the former...
07:51 PM, Dec 23, 2007
Bangalore: England's Ian Bell has hailed the influence of batting coach Graham Gooch, saying he'd wished he'd worked with the former Test opener earlier in his career. Bell, who made a composed 69 during England's thrilling World Cup tie with India here on Sunday before getting out going for a big shot under the influence of cramp, has long been regarded as one of the most technically gifted English batsmen...
07:36 PM, Dec 23, 2007
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