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04:05 AM, Aug 01, 2008
Mumbai: England batsman Jonathan Trott on Wednesday said that the visitors are determined to level four-match series against India in the second Test in Mumbai starting Friday after losing the opener by nine wickets in Ahmedabad. "I think it will be good to strike early and go to Kolkata 1-1. It is very important that we have that mindset. I think the conditions are bit different here but it will...
02:25 AM, Jul 22, 2008
Mirpur: Tino Best's maiden five-wicket haul bundled out Bangladesh for 167 in their second innings, thereby helping West Indies to a 77-run win in the first Test at Mirpur. Chasing a target of 245 to win on the final day, the hosts succumbed under pressure of chasing at home. Best returned figures of 5 for 24 in the second innings, breaking the back of the Bangladesh middle order. Five batsmen...
01:03 AM, Jul 20, 2008
Bridgetown (Barbados: Captain Darren Sammy has cautioned against complacency as the West Indies prepare to face Bangladesh in a Test and one-day series they are expected to win easily. Bangladesh prop up the nine-nation Test rankings where the West Indies lie seventh and are also ninth of 13 teams in the one-day table, with the Windies again seventh, reports CMC. We've just got to stay hungry. We can't keep thinking...
02:53 PM, Jul 15, 2008
Wellington: Australia have suffered another injury scare ahead of the first Test against top ranked South Africa after all-rounder Shane Watson appeared to pick up a calf strain in a first class match on Saturday. The 31-year-old, whose career has been blighted by back and leg injuries, left the field during New South Wales' Sheffield Shield game against Queensland in Brisbane after bowling just one over, local media reported. Watson...
01:32 AM, Jul 15, 2008
While announcing the new ruling, the ICC said that the home and visiting boards will decide on the hours of play which will be six hours of scheduled play per day apart from deciding on the precise brand, type and colour of ball to be used for the match. Sutherland believed that the shorter formats of the game had shown that batsmen could make big scores under lights. He also ...
06:49 PM, Jul 12, 2008
Mumbai: Australian women whipped their Indian counterparts by a massive margin of 221 runs in the second ODI on Wednesday to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-game bilateral series here. The visitors, who had won the first game at Ahmedabad two days ago by a narrower margin of 30 runs, proved too good for the hosts at the Wankhede Stadium here as they rattled up an imposing 300...
02:42 AM, May 03, 2008
If the recently-concluded CB Series is anything to go by, then the second match of the Asia Cup between India and Sri Lanka should keep the supporters of both sides on their tenterhooks. However, the frame of mind that the two teams find themselves in could not be more contrasting. While the Indians have been on the receiving end of some serious flak as a result of their tour of...
06:48 PM, May 02, 2008
And so, after 15 matches spanning 33 days, we have a winner of the CB Series. The three-team ODI tournament, which was a fixture in the Australian summer until it was abandoned three years ago, has huffed and puffed its way across Australia and ended after three engaging finals. The victors, Australia, weren't the best team in the tournament but they held their nerve when it mattered most and added...
04:13 PM, May 01, 2008
Mumbai: The Indian cricket board (BCCI) is under investigation for violating the country's foreign exchange laws, sports minister Ajay Maken said on Tuesday. The government was looking into alleged violations of the Foreign Exchange Management Act amounting to some 10.77 billion rupees ($206.7 million), Maken told parliament. He said the investigation covered the ownership of franchises and fund transfers without the permission of the Reserve Bank of India and the...
10:23 PM, Mar 25, 2008
London: English cricket's ruling body is aiming to boost its national team and revive its flagging domestic competitions with an overhaul that includes trimming the county championship, scrapping 40-over matches and introducing a Twenty20 league. The England and Wales Cricket Board says its board has endorsed a report by former chairman David Morgan that recommends simplifying the calendar from 2014 to attract bigger crowds and only play formats that prepare ...
12:21 PM, Mar 24, 2008
Sharjah: The Guinness Book of Records acknowledged the achievement of Sharjah cricket stadium for hosting the most number of one-day matches during the Pakistan and Sri Lanka encounter here on Sunday. Sharjah stadium, built in the early 1980s, was the hub of one-day cricket between 1984 to 2003 and had hosted 200 one-day internationals - a world record for a limited-overs matches venue. The Pakistan-Sri Lanka match on Sunday was...
02:33 PM, Mar 22, 2008
Karachi: Afghan captain Mohammad Nabi said on Friday his fast-rising cricket team were batting for a fresh berth in the World Twenty20, hoping that competing in Pakistan had helped to mature young talent. The 26-year-old led a young Afghan team in Pakistan's Twenty20 domestic tournament and although they lost all three matches, the stand-in captain said they had learnt a lot. "We are preparing for the World Twenty20 qualifiers next...
03:24 PM, Mar 05, 2008
London: Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Wednesday said if a 4-0 whitewash against England is to be prevented, his batsmen will have to fire in the fourth and final Test starting here on Thursday. First and foremost, we are a side known for our batting. Our priority would be to put runs on the board and thus apply pressure on the opposition line-up, said Dhoni while reflecting on his...
02:18 AM, Feb 22, 2008
Harare: Zimbabwe aim to make their successful return to Test cricket even sweeter as they take on Bangladesh in the third ODI at the Harare Sports Club on Tuesday to take a series-clinching 3-0 lead, which will be their first ODI triumph in five years. The hosts followed up their win in the one-off Test by winning the first two ODIs and now stand at ending their drought of five...
04:31 PM, Feb 21, 2008
London: Former England cricketer David Lloyd feels that India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni's tired wicketkeeping typifies the character of the Indian team which is either too tired from too much of cricket or unwilling to fight. For three years or more, everything that Mahendra Singh Dhoni touched turned to gold. These days, everything he tries to touch seems to end up on the floor. Bit harsh? Perhaps, but these are...
03:50 PM, Feb 20, 2008
Colombo: Sri Lanka's cash-strapped cricket governing body is likely to scale down its inaugural Twenty20 league and go ahead without foreign players, a source close to the process said on Tuesday. The Sri Lanka Premier League (SLPL) was scheduled to kick off on July 19 with players from Australia, India, New Zealand, Pakistan and the West Indies, but foreigners demanding hefty fees are now unlikely to be included. "The thinking...
09:16 PM, Feb 09, 2008
Chennai; Tired of being tagged chokers, South African wicketkeeper AB de Villiers on Friday said the Proteas are set to prove their detractors wrong by handling big match situations calmly at the World Cup starting from February 19. "We've shown recently that we can play in big situations and under pressure," the big-hitting batsman said at the team's open media session here. "We do not need psychologists and we are ...
01:47 AM, Dec 13, 2007
New Delhi: Sachin Tendulkar has achieved just about every individual accolade in cricket and holds an almost divine status in India, where the TV audience soars every time he goes out to bat. However, his 21-year international career is missing one notable achievement: a World Cup title. That adds to the pressure on India, which is co-hosting the tournament with Bangladesh and Sri Lanka and will stage the April 2...
02:54 AM, Dec 12, 2007
Maan Gaye Mughal-e-Azam is Sanjay Chhel's tribute to the blockbuster. ...
01:27 AM, Dec 02, 2007
