Bridgetown: West Indian skipper Darren Sammy believes his side had a good chance to win the second Test against India before rain intervened but he is not too disheartened with the draw either. We believe we had a chance. The coach (Ottis Gibson) had outlined the game in stages and with 15 overs remaining, we were right on course, stated Sammy after the match on Saturday. Sammy didn't believe that...
11:28 PM, Feb 08, 2008
Mumbai: Opener Virender Sehwag needs more time to recover from surgery on his shoulder and will miss the first Test against England at Lord's later this month, the Indian cricket board (BCCI) said on Saturday. "Virender Sehwag will join the team a fortnight later," the BCCI said in a statement after the selection committee meeting in Chennai, during which the squad for the four-Test series was picked. Senior cricketers including...
10:49 PM, Feb 08, 2008
Barbados: Bad light had the final say in the second Test between West Indies and India at the Kensington Oval which ended in a draw with India three wickets away from snatching a dramatic victory. Chasing a 281-run target set by India, when they declared their innings at 270/6, West Indies reached 202-7 when umpires decided to call off the match due to bad light. Carlton Baugh (46) and Ravi...
10:10 PM, Feb 08, 2008
Bridgetown: West Indies coach Ottis Gibson insisted that the explosive opener Chris Gayle does not figure in the team talks and that his entire energy was devoted to doing well against India in the second Test. Gayle is out of the national squad due to a row with the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB). "We don't sit down and discuss Chris Gayle. We discuss how to get Dravid and Laxman...
08:18 PM, Feb 08, 2008
Karachi: Pakistan's cricket administrators will hold talks with the government on how to implement a ban by the sport's governing body on political appointments within the game, an official said on Saturday. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), whose chairman Ijaz Butt was appointed by the president of the country, is directly hit by the ruling from the International Cricket Council (ICC) executive board on Thursday. Sri Lanka and Bangladesh will...
08:09 PM, Feb 08, 2008
Leeds: Sri Lanka are contemplating resting Mahela Jayawardene from games in order to prolong the star batsman's career. The only people who appeared to need Jayawardene to take a break at Headingley here on Friday were England's bowlers as the 34-year-old marked his 343rd one-day international with a career-best 144. Jayawardene's innings powered Sri Lanka to 309 for five and laid the platform for a 69-run win in the second...
07:35 PM, Feb 08, 2008
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12:48 PM, Feb 08, 2008
India files formal deportation request.
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12:19 PM, Feb 08, 2008
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11:38 AM, Feb 08, 2008
India will, in all probability, seek access to question him. ...
08:30 AM, Feb 08, 2008
London: Cardiff lost the right to host one of England's Test matches against West Indies next year as Glamorgan were late in paying the fee for staging last month's Test against Sri Lanka, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said on Thursday. The ECB said hosting rights would go out to tender again. Glamorgan would be given extra time to make the payments but they would not be able...
01:45 AM, Feb 08, 2008
Bridgetown: Speedster Ishant Sharma on Thursday scalped his 100th Test wicket on the third day of the second Test against the West Indies here. Ishant scalped the wicket of West Indies captain Darren Sammy in the post-lunch session, his fourth wicket in the home side's first innings, to reach the milestone at the Kensington Oval. Ishant, who achieved the milestone in his 33rd Test, became the third youngest Indian to...
01:26 AM, Feb 08, 2008
Hong Kong: Former captain Sourav Ganguly has welcomed the ICC's decision to make the DRS mandatory for Tests and ODIs but also justified India's initial reluctance to embrace the technology. Ganguly said he has now seen a vast improment in the way DRS works and gradually all the cricketers will get adjusted to techonolgy and there will be improvement in the decision. Ganguly was a part of the Indian team...
01:07 AM, Feb 08, 2008
Barbados: Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni tried putting an end to the discussions about being wrongly given out, stating that he would blame himself rather than anyone else for playing a poor shot. I think I played a wrong shot, Dhoni said informally, criticising himself instead of blaming the broadcasters for showing the wrong replay which led to his dismissal. Dhoni was out playing uppishly to mid-on and had begun...
01:04 AM, Feb 08, 2008
Bridgetown: The unbeaten stand between West Indies' pair of Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Marlon Samuels is a crucial partnership which will determine the future of the hosts in their second cricket Test against India, according to coach Otis Gibson. Chanderpaul was unbeaten on 20 and Samuels 21 and the pair had built up an encouraging 41-run partnership as the West Indies ended a rain-affected second day Wednesday at 98 for five...
11:44 PM, Feb 07, 2008
New Delhi: Defending champions Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians have been drawn in Group A of the 2011 Champions League T20 tournament that will be held from September 23 to October 9, it was announced on Thursday. As many as 13 teams have the chance to go for Champions League T20 glory this season with seven teams already divided into two groups and six more competing for three remaining...
10:35 PM, Feb 07, 2008
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10:15 PM, Feb 07, 2008
Bridgetown, Barbados: The controversy over poor umpiring in the ongoing Test series between India and the West Indies has taken a new twist as it has now emerged that Mahendra Singh Dhoni was given out off a no ball on the first day of the second match here. In what could erupt into a major controversy, the television replays ordered to check if Fidel Edwards had no-balled didn't show that...
09:55 PM, Feb 07, 2008
Sydney: West Indian Chris Gayle will form a dynamic opening partnership with David Warner after signing for Sydney Thunder for Australia's Big Bash Twenty20 tournament, Cricket NSW said on Thursday. Gayle joined Sydney Thunder after the Perth Scorchers rejected his contractual demands, the Western Australia Cricket Association said. Gayle, 31, has an outstanding T20 record and averages 32.46 in T20 internationals for the West Indies with a strike rate of...
09:23 PM, Feb 07, 2008
