Bangalore: Chris Gayle smashed eight sixes on his way to a whirlwind innings of 86 from 46 balls, as Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) comprehensively beat Somerset by 51 runs, in a Pool B Champions League Twenty20 match at the M Chinnaswamy stadium on Monday. Chasing a victory target of 207, Somerset could only manage 155/6 as the Daniel Vettori side registered their first win of the competition. RCB thus kept...
01:13 AM, Mar 06, 2008
London: England pace spearhead James Anderson is disappointed to miss out on the upcoming tour of India as he wanted to prove his worth in the sub-continent wickets after his below-par performance in the World Cup earlier this year. Anderson, who was in red-hot form in the just-concluded series between the two sides recently, was rested by the selectors for England's tour of India for a five-match ODI series and...
09:06 PM, Mar 05, 2008
New Delhi: Former Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi has supported his former teammate Shoaib Akhtar's claims that Indian batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar was scared of his pace, by sensationally claiming that he has seen Sachin's feet trembling while facing the fast bowler. Akhtar has written in his autobiography 'Controversially Yours' that Tendulkar was scared of his bowling, a comment that has caused furore across the border, forcing publishers to cancel all...
05:03 PM, Mar 05, 2008
Bangalore: The Mumbai Indians side will have a lot to prove when they take the field against the Cape Cobras in a Champions League T20 encounter on Friday, even as a win will all but assure the Indian Premier League side of a place in the semi-finals. Mumbai skipper Harbhajan Singh will be smarting after being dropped from the India squad for the ODIs against England. In fact, his entire...
10:29 AM, Mar 05, 2008
Karachi: Former Australian batsman Dean Jones and former England all-rounder Dermot Reeve are said to be in the list of five candidates, short listed by the Pakistan Cricket Board for the job of chief coach. Former Pakistan captain Intikhab Alam refused to divulge the names of the short listed candidates but sources in the Jones and Reeve were on the list. I can't give you the names of the people...
04:25 AM, Mar 05, 2008
Karachi: Pakistan's most successful all-rounder in recent times, Mohammad Hafeez will undergo a surgery to remove a cyst on his chest, which forced him to skip the ongoing National T20 Championship, currently underway here. Hafeez, who won four Man-of-the-Match awards and scored two centuries in the clean sweep over Zimbabwe recently, was not part of the Misbah-ul-Haq-led Faisalabad Wolves team that played at the National Stadium on Wednesday. "Hafeez has...
11:08 PM, Mar 04, 2008
Bangalore: Desperate to get off the mark, the two Indian clubs - Royal Challengers Bangalore and Kolkata Knight Riders - will come face to face in their Champions League T20 encounter here on Thursday. The Challengers were outplayed by Warriors in the opening encounter, while KKR are on a losing streak - they have lost three games on the trot. RCB's hopes to register their first win will largely rest...
08:25 PM, Mar 04, 2008
T&T Super Over: After scoring a six and a four in the over bowled by Steve O'Keefe, Lendl Simmons was caught by David Warner at the long-off boundary with four runs required off the last ball. NSW Super Over: Four fours were struck by Henriques off the bowling of Ravi Rampaul as New South Wales scored 18 runs. The last four balls of the over went for boundaries. NSW innings:...
08:09 PM, Mar 04, 2008
New Delhi: Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Twenty20 cricket is a good advertisement for the game since more people are watching the sport with the advent of the slam-bang format. I am more of a Test cricket buff but Twenty20 has brought a new dimension to the game and has made people watch the game, which is great, said Blair, who is in the Indian capital to promote...
07:54 PM, Mar 04, 2008
Sachin Tendulkar moved into his plush new bungalow located in Bandra, Mumbai, on Wednesday. ...
05:51 PM, Mar 04, 2008
Mumbai: Former India skipper and all-rounder Kapil Dev would deliver the annual Dilip Sardesai Memorial Lecture at the Cricket Club of India here on Thursday, in place of the original speaker, former Pakistan captain Imran Khan. Imran is stuck with the political situation in Pakistan. Kapil Dev is now going to deliver the lecture on the future of Indian Cricket, said sources connected with the function. Imran, the 1992 World...
05:45 PM, Mar 04, 2008
Somerset innings Somerset win! A blistering knock by Roelof van der Merwe (73 off 40 balls) helped Somerset beat Kolkata Knight Riders by five wickets in their Champions League T20 encounter at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad on Sunday. Over No. 20: Somerset get to the target with two balls remaining. Nick Compton and Steve Snell remained unbeaten at the end. 164/5. Over No. 19: Somerset on the...
11:59 PM, Mar 03, 2008
Kanpur: Left-handed batsman Suresh Raina was on Saturday named as captain of the Uttar Pradesh Ranji team while paceman R P Singh was appointed his deputy. Former state Ranji cricketer Rizwan Shamshad will be the new batting coach of the side. The decisions were taken at Uttar Pradesh Cricket Association's Annual General Meeting (AGM). UPCA secretary and IPL chairman Rajeev Shukla said if Raina is unavailable while on national duty,...
05:17 PM, Mar 03, 2008
New Delhi: Interest of the players contracted with terminated IPL franchise Kochi Tuskers Kerala will be protected, assured the league's new boss Rajiv Shukla who on Thursday promised to make the cash-rich event more attractive by bringing in 'new ideas and elements.' Shukla said protecting the players affected by Kochi's ouster is primary concern for the IPL authorities and that the Governing Council will meet in the second week of...
12:45 AM, Mar 02, 2008
Pallekele: Batsman Shaun Marsh is expected to make his Test debut for Australia in the second Test against Sri Lanka, replacing former captain Ricky Ponting who has returned home for the birth of his second child. The 28-year-old Marsh has played 35 one-day internationals and has a healthy 37-run average in first-class cricket. Marsh, who is accustomed to playing at the top of the batting order, should fill Ponting's No....
02:12 PM, Feb 27, 2008
Southampton: Architect of England's win in the second ODI against India, captain Alastair Cook had thought of sitting out of the game after rain interruptions almost made it a Twenty20 game, a format in which he hasn't quite made a mark so far. Cook's 63-ball 80 helped England comfortably chase down a stiff 188-run target in the 23-overs-a-side affair on Tuesday. That was mentioned (in the dressing room) but in...
12:30 PM, Feb 27, 2008
New Delhi: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) earned Rs.1,666.84 crore in 2010-11 as compared to Rs.1,387 crore in the previous fiscal, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said on Tuesday. Gross receipt disclosed by BCCI in its tax returns for the assessment years 2007-08 to 2010-11, are Rs.651.82 crore, Rs.1,000.40 crore, Rs.1,387.02 crore and Rs.1,666.84 crore respectively, Mukherjee said in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha. In...
03:56 AM, Feb 26, 2008
