Brett Lee starred with bat and ball before Stuart Clark applied the finishing touches as New South Wales were crowned the inaugural Champions League Twenty20 winners courtesy of a 41-run win over Trinidad & Tobago in Hyderabad. Lee rescued his side with an innings of 48 in 31 balls that included five sixes and their score [...]
India have named a 15-man squad for the first two One-Day Internationals against Australia later this month showing a number of changes from the ICC Champions Trophy squad. Australia-India ODI series Schedule Batsmen Virender Sehwag and Yuvraj Singh return from injury while uncapped fast bowler Sudeep Tyagi is rewarded for good early season form, which culminated in [...]
India have been placed in Group B — along with England and South Africa — for the 2011 World Cup in the sub-continent, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced on Wednesday after a Board meeting. “In Group A there will be Australia, Pakistan, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Canada and Kenya. In Group B there will [...]
Shane Watson scored his second century in as many matches to guide Australia to the six-wicket win over New Zealand that saw them retain their ICC Champions Trophy crown in a low-scoring final to the 2009 tournament at Centurion. Australia recovered from six for two to finish on 206 for four, Watson unbeaten on 105 [...]
India opener Gautam Gambhir has been named Test Player of the Year at the ICC awards ceremony in Johannesburg. Gambhir, who claimed his first ICC award of his career, was picked ahead of Australian fast bowler Mitchell Johnson, Sri Lanka’s Thilan Samaraweera and England captain Andrew Strauss. During the 12-month voting period, Gambhir put in some [...]