New Delhi: The contest between the two hottest teams in international cricket at the home of cricket will not just go down as a colossal clash. The first Test beginning from July 21 at Lord's will be the 2000th Test in the history of the game and will mark a century of clashes between India and England.
After the thrilling drawn game in the ICC World Cup against India, England will be eager to set the record straight after inflicting a 1-0 Test series defeat on Sri Lanka, sounding a loud and clear warning to India that they will have to grind out the results against a buoyant English team.
Over the years, tours to England have brought fond memories to Indians. They recorded their first ever Test-series win over the 'Three' Lions in 1971. Yet another unique record will be made as the second Test will be the 50th face-off between India and England on English soil.
It has been about four months since the world has been waiting for the mother of all records to be made by the best batsman ever to play the game of cricket. If Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar reaches the magical three-figure mark at Lord's, that would be the 100th time in his international career he would have done so. His last effort that took him to the 99th came in a losing cause against South Africa in the 2011 ICC World Cup....
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12:37 PM, Feb 13, 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
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12:48 PM, 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
London: England fast bowler James Anderson has said his team's target of getting to the top of the Test rankings is a realistic one and they will stake their claim for it by beating Sri Lanka and India at home this summer. Anderson, who played a key role in England's Ashes triumph in Australia, said winning against the number one side and World Champion India and Sri Lanka will take...
09:37 PM, Jan 28, 2008
Kolkata: Kolkata Knight Riders' skipper Gautam Gambhir said they have positives to take away from their final round-robin game of the IPL that the home team lost to Mumbai Indians in an unlikely fashion at the Eden Gardens on Sunday. After setting Mumbai Indians a tall 177-run target, the Knight Riders lost the match in the last over when, needing 21 runs, Laxmipathy Balaji conceded 23 including four fours and...
08:34 PM, Jan 28, 2008
