
Chennai: Veteran New South Wales pacer Stuart Clark on Saturday said his team's openers David Warner and Shane Watson are due big knocks in the Champions League Twenty20 and is hoping that these innings come in their remaining two group matches. New South Wales are placed fourth in the five-team Group A in the Champions League Twenty20 with two points and have to win their remaining two group games to ...

05:09 PM, Mar 05, 2008

Jaipur: The Parthiv Patel-led Rest of India start as firm favourites against a disjointed Rajasthan outfit as the two teams square up for the Irani Cup match at the Sawai Mansingh stadium starting here on Saturday. The start of India's first-class season is pretty significant with as many as seven players who are likely to feature in the Rest of India's first XI have been selected to play against England...

12:54 PM, Mar 05, 2008

Chester-Le-Street: Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Saturday questioned the third umpire's controversial decision to rule Rahul Dravid out even though television replays did not show any edge off the bat during his side's first ODI against England here. There are quite a few things (about that dismissal). There was no mark on the Hot Spot, no visual deflection and the umpire had given not out. The benefit of doubt...

05:23 PM, Feb 26, 2008

London: Jade Dernbach is not a clean-cut cricketer and is known for his body art, his moniker and studs in his ears, but the English speedster plans to cover his left-arm with tattoos if selected for the upcoming five-match ODI tour to India in October. Dernbach was adjudged man-of-the-match for his four for 22-run spell during England's six wicket win over India in the lone Twenty20 game on Wednesday and...

01:58 PM, Feb 26, 2008

London: Ian Bell's controversial "non-dismissal" during the second Test between England and India subverted the laws of the game and had nothing to do with the Spirit of Cricket, former England captain Michael Atherton said on Monday. Bell was run out in farcical circumstances off the last ball before Tea on the third day of the second Test at Trent Bridge, when the England batsman walked off assuming partner Eoin...

02:25 AM, Feb 17, 2008

Nottingham: England's Graeme Swann was passed fit following an X-ray after being struck on the hand while batting against India on the first day of the second Test at Trent Bridge here on Friday. Swann, on his Nottinghamshire home ground, had made a valuable 28 when he was out after being struck on the left hand by a rising ball from Praveen Kumar he could only glove to Abhinav Mukund...

01:21 PM, Feb 16, 2008

London: The cricketing world is excited to see India and England play the 2000th Test match at Lord's and hopes that the match will live up to the hype. It will also be the 100th Test between India and England and lot of celebrations have been arranged to mark the momentous occasion. Australian captain Michael Clarke said it is good advertisement for the longer version that the two powerhouses of...

01:45 AM, Feb 14, 2008

New Delhi: The absence of hard-hitting Virender Sehwag could affect India's hopes of imposing themselves early in the Test series in England that starts on Thursday, former Australia captain Ian Chappell has warned. Opener Sehwag, known for dominating bowlers with exciting strokeplay, is recovering from a shoulder injury and set to miss the first two Tests of the four-match series. There's no batsman in the world who can disrupt bowling...

10:58 AM, Feb 13, 2008

Dhaka: Bangladesh have included uncapped batsmen Nasir Hossain and Shuvagoto Hom in their 15-man squad for next month's tour of Zimbabwe featuring a test and five one-day internationals. The tour marks Zimbabwe's return to test cricket after five years of voluntary exile because of political problems in the country. The Bangladesh squad announced on Friday had no room for batsman Roqibul Hassan and Alok Kapali or all-rounder Mohammad Sohrawadi, who...

08:27 PM, Feb 12, 2008

Cape Town: South Africa captain Graeme Smith will go under the knife on Friday on the knee he injured in the Indian Premier League. Smith said on Twitter that he was in hospital in Cape Town for the operation. Cricket South Africa confirmed the surgery and said Smith's recovery period will be clear only after the procedure. The 30-year-old opening batsman, who hurt the knee playing for new IPL team...

03:40 PM, Feb 12, 2008