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Cricket in United States of America
United States can boast about the fact that no other nation except England has played cricket for a longer time than itself. The first cricket clubs in the U.S.A. were [...]
The Great History of Cricket
Cricket has been an organized adult game since the seventeenth century when it first took the fancy of English gentlemen lying low in their country estates at the time of [...]
IPL team owners not happy with removal of IMG
The BCCI’s decision to snap all its ties with event management company IMG World, received heavy criticism from various IPL team owners. According to a media report, Mumbai, Kolkata, Jaipur [...]
Sri Lanka eyes the top spot in Test Cricket
Sri Lanka today narrowed the gap with number-one ranked South Africa to just two points in the ICC Test Championship table after winning the two-Test series against New Zealand in [...]
Gary Kirsten’s confident over the team
India may have been outplayed in the Twenty20 World Cup this time but coach Gary Kirsten says they will come back hard in the next edition of the event which [...]
Salman Khan may buy IPL team
Bollywood action hero Salman Khan is the latest cine star to join the Indian Premier League (IPL) gravy train and has expressed interest in buying a team.Salman met IPL chairman [...]
Sachin Tendulkar aim for next World Cup
In a major feature interview in the September issue of The Wisden Cricketer magazine, Tendulkar confirms that he has plenty of ambitions remaining and no thoughts of retirement:’I have given [...]
Who will be Kolkata Knight Riders(KKR) coach?
Former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram, former Indian batsman Pravin Amre and ex-India coach John Wright will make their presentations for the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) coach’s post in Mumbai on [...]
Jason Krejza ready to gain his test spot
One of Australia’s many forgotten spinners, Jason Krejza, has vowed to fight his way back into the Test side after the incumbent Nathan Hauritz was overlooked at The Oval, despite [...]
Bookie’s are back in cricket?
The Australian team management has filed a report with the ICC’s Anti-Corruption and Security Unit after a player was approached by a man suspected of links to illegal bookmaking. Cricinfo [...]
No time for retirement for Ponting
England’s Andrew Flintoff may be about to call time on his Test career but retirement is not on Ricky Ponting’s agenda.This week’s fifth and final Ashes Test, which starts at [...]
Sachin Tendulkar in London
He may not accept it but he loves the English summer and tries to spend some quality time with his family and friends there. It may be his way of [...]
Trescothick not to return to England
Trescothick, 33, retired from international cricket in March 2008 because of a stress-related illness.And he told the Bristol Evening Post: “Of course I thought hard about it. But there will [...]
West Indies coach Dyson dismissed
West Indies cricket lurches from one precipitous state to another, with the news that the board (WICB) has sacked the coach, John Dyson, ahead of the forthcoming Champions Trophy.Dyson departs [...]
Mitchell Johnson and Ben Hilfenhaus shine in 4th Test
Mitchell Johnson and Ben Hilfenhaus claimed five England wickets for 20 runs in the space of 44 balls in a thrilling final hour of the second day at Headingley, as [...]
McGrath advice to Australian team
Australian legend Glenn McGrath has advised skipper Ricky Ponting and his teammates to grin and bear the crowd abuse which is flaring during the Ashes.McGrath insists Australia should try to [...]
Shoaib may be given one more chance says Imran Khan
Shoaib Akhtar does not have too many supporters left in Pakistan cricket but former captain and legendary all-rounder Imran Khan believes the temperamental speedster deserves one final chance in the [...]
Clarke put Australia safe as the match is drawn
Michael Clarke’s unbeaten century guided Australia to a draw against England in the third Ashes Test at Edgbaston here on Monday.The result kept Australia’s defence of the Ashes alive, although [...]
Ricky Ponting to become Australia’s leading run-scorer
Ricky Ponting is 25 runs from becoming Australia’s leading scorer and the third most prolific in Tests, but he has greater team pursuits to achieve this week in Birmingham as [...]
All Star T20 game Warne, McGrath included
Legends Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath and Matthew Hayden will return to the field to launch the 2009-10 season in an All Star Twenty20 match at the Gabba in Brisbane, Cricket [...]
Ganguly to lead the Knight Riders in IPL 3
Sourav Ganguly is almost certain to be reinstated as the captain while John Wright is likely to take over as the coach of Kolkata Knight Riders in the third edition [...]
Bangladesh to keep the winning momentum in ODI’s too
Bangladesh hope to christen international cricket’s newest venue with victories in the first of the three one-dayers against West Indies at Windsor Park here on Sunday.The Tigers would have probably [...]
Brett Lee’s race against time
Australia fast bowler Brett Lee faces a race against time to be fit for next week’s third Ashes Test against England.A side injury has forced Lee to miss the first [...]
West Indies leading players end strike
West Indies’ leading players have ended their strike and made themselves available for international duty following the appointment of an arbitrator to settle their dispute with the West Indies Cricket [...]
USA plans Twenty20 tournament
There was a certain irony that on the day plans for a major Twenty20 tournament in the USA were announced, the USA Cricket Association’s chief executive, Don Lockerbie, was at [...]
Australia’s record at Lord’s is facing a threat
Australia’s 75-year unbeaten record at Lord’s is facing its greatest threat, after England’s seamers scythed through the tourists’ top- and middler-orders on a rain-interrupted second day at Lord’s. James Anderson [...]
Sachin Tendulkar & others not suited to Twenty20 cricket
John Buchanan, the former Australia coach, has said India’s ‘Fab Four” batsmen – Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Sourav Ganguly and VVS Laxman – are not suited to Twenty20 cricket. Buchanan, [...]
Sunil Gavaskar turns 60
Sunil Gavaskar, the legendary opening batsman who is credited with giving Indian cricket a voice, has lamented cricket’s loss of innocence. Speaking on the eve of his 60th birthday, Gavaskar [...]
Clarke and Marcus dug deep for Australia
Michael Clarke and Marcus North both notched half-centuries as Australia built on the hundreds from Ricky Ponting and Simon Katich to take the lead on the third day in Cardiff. [...]
Sarah Taylor warns her England team
Sarah Taylor has warned her England team-mates that their one-day series is not won yet despite convincing wins in the first two matches against Australia. Taylor made 68 in a [...]
T20 World Cup-Overwhelming Success
ICC President David Morgan today hailed the ICC World Twenty20 2009 that has just concluded in England as “an overwhelming success†and has praised the efforts of the large number [...]
An interview with the master blaster
He’s the highest run-scorer in international cricket – and the batsman who has scored more centuries against Australia than any other. In this rare interview, he speaks about the terror [...]
Dhoni says we misread the pitch
India’s poor batting display in their eight-wicket defeat in the second ODI in Kingston owed to a misjudgment on the part of their batsmen about the pitch, MS Dhoni has [...]
Will Ashes swing England’s way?
Kevin Pietersen reckons England’s mastery of reverse-swing will inspire the team to Ashes glory just as it did four years ago on home soil. Pietersen, rejecting Australia great Shane Warne’s [...]
Afridi takes Pakistan to victory
It wasn’t the edge-of-the-seat final that would have signed off the ICC World Twenty20 in style, but that won’t matter to Pakistan who gave their nation a something to savour [...]
Shane Watson’s injury a worry for the Australian team
Shane Watson’s hopes of playing a major role in the Ashes took a significant blow on Tuesday when he missed a second day’s training session in Brighton due to a [...]
England beat Australia to reach Twenty20 women finals
Brilliant batting from Claire Taylor and Beth Morgan saw England produce a stirring fightback to stun Australia in the Women’s World Twenty20 semi-finals. Chasing Australia’s excellent 163-5, England were set [...]
England women the Twenty20 Champions
England’s women added the World Twenty20 title to their World Cup crown with a convincing six-wicket win over New Zealand at Lord’s here on Sunday. England fast bowler Katherine Brunt [...]
Corruption makes Indian manager suspend
Vankenna Chamundeswaranath, India’s manager for the ICC World Twenty20, has been suspended by his state association on allegations of corruption in team selection, according to reports. PTI has reported that [...]
India in West Indies
Two days after their World Twenty20 campaign ended, the Indian team has landed in Jamaica for their next assignment, a four-ODI series against West Indies. India have been in great [...]
The blame game by Kirsten
Gary Kirsten, the India coach, has said players’ fatigue levels and the minor injuries they carried from the IPL to the ICC World Twenty20 contributed to the champions’ early exit. [...]
Sri Lanka enters T20 Semi Final
Sri Lanka 158 for 5 (Dilshan 48, Jayawardene 41*, Sangakkara 35) beat New Zealand 110 (Guptill 43, Mendis 3-9, Udana 2-17) by 48 runs Sri Lanka’s bowlers once again made [...]
Taylor’s best play in England
Claire Taylor made her highest score in Twenty20 internationals to help England women recover from a shaky start and post 140 for seven in the Group B match with Sri [...]
Dhoni has plans for batting
India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni today made it clear that he has no plans to bat at the number three slot throughout the Twenty20 World Cup and claimed it was [...]
Proteas sre the favourites says Collingwood
After being handed a comprehensive seven wicket loss by the South Africans England captain Paul Collingwood has tipped the Proteas as the favourites to win the Twenty20 World Cup. South [...]
Monica now in a new reality show
She showed her last jhalak on the dance reality show Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa and now she is looking forward to another. “I cannot reveal the genre of the reality show [...]
Sachin Tendulkar says age is not a concern in T20 cricket
Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar today rubbished the notion that Twenty20 was a format of cricket suited for the youth. Those who consider Twenty20 a young man’s game don’t know much [...]
India’s T20 team is the best says Tendulkar
Chennai: Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar believes India will retain the Twenty20 World Cup next month, saying skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s team were the world’s best in the most explosive form [...]