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05:49 PM, Aug 19, 2008
New Delhi: The second round of the 2012-13 Ranji Trophy season gets underway across the country on Friday, after an engaging first round of matches in which there were five outright wins and gripping, hard-fought draws at Indore and Nadaun. Round two sees three additional teams open their campaigns – Goa, Maharashtra and Saurashtra. Here’s a look at the Group A matches starting November 9.
Hyderabad v Madhya Pradesh at...
12:34 AM, Jul 17, 2008
Adelaide: South Australia coach Darren Berry says Australia's Test team are being undermined by the pitches used in domestic cricket which overwhelmingly favor fast bowlers. Berry said he and other state coaches would raise the issue with Cricket Australia this week. He said the production of green-top pitches designed to produce outright results was a factor in Australia's current shortage of spin bowlers and a lack of depth in their...
07:57 PM, Jul 15, 2008
Bridgetown (Barbados): Wily offspinner Sunil Narine has been labelled as a fast learner and a match-winner and is expected to be one of the West Indies' trump cards on the Bangladesh tour this month. Narine's entry to Test cricket against England earlier this year was a tame one but head coach Ottis Gibson said since then, the 24-year-old Trinidadian had improved tremendously to adapt to the more stringent demands of...
02:34 PM, Jul 15, 2008
In group C, three HP batsmen scored hundreds against Kerala, Jharkhand beat J&K. ...
11:09 AM, Jul 15, 2008
Karachi: He is glad that Indo-Pak bilateral cricket is finally set for revival come December, but former Pakistan captain Zaheer Abbas is not particularly pleased with the short duration of the series. While welcoming the BCCI announcement that it had got clearance to host Pakistan for a short one-day series from December 25, Zaheer said he hoped for a full series. While it is a very good thing that finally...
08:25 PM, Jul 14, 2008
Hello and welcome to the live coverage from the first day of the 2012-13 Ranji Trophy season, with most of India Test players making an appearance for their state sides. However, Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir failed to fire against UP, but Umesh Yadav had a day to remember at Lahli where he decimated Haryana with his spell of 5 for 18. ...
04:45 PM, Jul 14, 2008
Ghaziabad: The presence of Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli and Ishant Sharma in the Delhi squad has added extra spice to their opening Ranji Trophy match against Uttar Pradesh, starting on Friday in Ghaziabad. While Sehwag was named the captain of the squad, Gambhir will be his deputy. Both of them, along with Kohli, didn't play any of the matches in Delhi's campaign last season. In fact, Sehwag has...
10:39 AM, Jul 14, 2008
Mumbai: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday issued a showcause notice to the BCCI for alleged foreign exchange violations in acceptance of deposits of Rs. 60 crore for award of contract for conducting the second season of the Indian Premier League. ED sources said investigation has revealed that the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA) contraventions were committed by BCCI in accepting deposits of Rs. 20 crore from Emerging Media Sporting...
03:43 PM, Jun 20, 2008
St. John's: Injured West Indies batsman Darren Bravo failed to recover from a groin injury and had not been named in a 12-man WICB President's XI squad announced on Saturday to face New Zealand in a three-day tour match starting next Friday, reports CMC. The 23-year-old has not played a competitive game since he was ruled out midway through the West Indies recent tour of England. Bravo has been one...
04:09 PM, Jun 09, 2008
Melbourne: The Federation of International Cricketers' Association (FICA) has said it would support the legal action if the players who have not been paid for playing in the inaugural Bangladesh Premier League (BPL), decide to proceed against the franchises and the country's board. Announcing this, FICA chief executive Tim May said all international cricketers would also be warned against competing in the BPL in future. The process of the payment...
02:08 PM, Jun 08, 2008
Lahore: Hailing the decision of the Champions League T20 Organising Committee, which includes BCCI, to invite Pakistan's Sialkot Stallions in the qualifying stage of the tournament, PCB chief operating officer Subhan Ahmed said this could be the first step towards the revival of bilateral ties with India. Pakistan's domestic T20 champions got an official invitation from the organising committee of the Champions League, which includes the boardS of India, South...
08:27 PM, Jun 05, 2008
Dhaka: All-rounder Shakib Al Hasan and paceman Shafiul Islam returned to the Bangladesh side on Monday in a 15-man squad for a tour of Ireland and the Netherlands. Batsman Anamul Haque and allrounder Farhad Reza, who were in the squad for the recent Zimbabwe tour, have been dropped. Bangladesh will play three Twenty20 internationals against Ireland on July 18, 20 and 21 in Belfast before making a brief visit to...
03:53 PM, Jun 05, 2008
Kuala Lumpur: The ICC's annual conference that opens here might see the financially stronger full members - India, England, Australia and South Africa - seek a change in policy with the formal creation of the post of chairman, starting 2014. If that happens, the ICC presidency will turn into a one-year ceremonial position thereby giving the chairman greater executive authority. According to a leading website, the names that are doing...
10:53 AM, Jun 03, 2008
Pakistani pacers Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif have been cleared of doping charges by a PCB tribunal. ...
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