India and Sri Lanka shared honours on the first day of the second test match at Galle of the three match series in the Idea Cup. After winning the toss, India motored along at a good rate in the first session, as all doubts were dispelled as to how they would counter the threat of [...]
India won the toss against Sri Lanka in the second test match at Galle and on a pitch that is expected to break down and start spinning from the 2nd day onwards, the visitors decided to bat first. Both the teams are unchanged for the game. Live Scorecard For the Indians, the biggest test will [...]
Idea Cup, 2008 Sri Lanka vs India, 2nd Test Galle International Stadium, Galle, July 31-4, 2008 Match Information Umpires: Billy Doctrove (WI) & Rudi Koertzen (SA) Third Umpire: Mark Benson (Eng) Match Referee: Alan Hurst (Aus) Toss: India (Elected to bat) Match Status: India won by 170 runs Virender Sehwag is ‘Man of the Match’ [...]
Indian shooters Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore and Abhinav Bindra will blog during the upcoming Beijing Olympic Games. They are part of the Lenovo blogging programme in which athletes will share their views and feelings before and during their athletic events. The program is a historic shift in the Olympic movement as these are the first Olympic [...]
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has invited English county Middlesex to participate in the inaugural Champions Twenty20 League in India. Lalit Modi said last month that any county that has ICL players will not be invited to play in BCCI’s Champions League. Middlesex, which won the English Twenty20 Cup has no [...]
Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi easily advanced to the quarter-finals of the $2,615,000 Cincinnati Masters tournaments along with their respective partners. The sixth seeded pair of Paes and Lukas Dlouhy of Czech Republic defeated Ivo Karlovic of Croatia and Rogier Wassen of Netherlands 6-4, 6-2 in the second round while Bhupathi and his Bahamian partner [...]
India won their first match in the AFC cup football tournament at Hyderabad. They won 1-0Â against Afghanistan after Climax Lawrence scored the goal in the 92nd minute. Coach Bob Houghton defended the team’s performance saying that the 1-0 win was a fair result against an under-rated team in their first match of the AFC [...]
Sania Mirza had mixed luck on the opening day of the Nordea Nordic Light Open as she advanced to the second round of the singles competition but made a stunning first-round exit from the doubles event here on Wednesday. Seeded sixth in singles, Sania beat Frenchwoman Emilie Loit 6-3 6-2 to set up a clash [...]
A miffed International Cricket Council (ICC) sent a strong second warning to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for starting the Champions League Twenty20 event ICC Champions Trophy in Pakistan. A top BCCI official confirmed that they had received a e-mail from Haroon Lorgat. The newly appointed CEO of ICC, indicated that [...]
Immediately after coming to power, CAB president came straight to the point of making friends as soon as possible among the cricketing fraternity. He extended a “hand of friendship†to his detractors ruling the BCCI, saying that cricket in Bengal needed him and that is why he is back, and that the state should not [...]
The Umpire Review System was first seen by the former India captain Rahul Dravid, as revealed by Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) officials Clare Skinner and Abi Carter and the former India captain was quite impressed by the accuracy of it all. Dravid, who sits on MCC’s World Cricket Committee, saw the technology for himself during [...]
India and Sri Lanka go head to head at the Galle cricket stadium in the 2nd test of the current series, starting tomorrow. It is only the second test match being held at this venue after it was ravaged by the tsunami in 2004. Sri Lanka will look to wrap up the series here itself, [...]
The ICC has indicated its displeasure over the conduct of the Twenty20 Champions League immediately after the Champions Trophy in Pakistan in September and has written about this in an email sent to its member boards. The email said the scheduling of an international event within seven days of an ICC tournament is contrary to [...]
Almost after 18 months of exile, Jagmohan Dalmiya is back with a motive as the newly elected president of Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB). 68 year old Dalmiya had earlier been accused of misappropriating PILCOM accounts for which he was banned and had to relinquish his post as CAB president in December 2006 after 13 [...]
Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi, along with their respective partners, have got first round byes in the doubles event of the $2,615,000 Cincinnati Masters tournament. Paes and his Czech partner Lukas Dlouhy have been seeded sixth while Bhuapthi and Mark Knowles of Bahamas are seeded fourth in the seventh of the ten Master Series tournament. [...]
After the humiliating loss in Colombo, Indian opener Gautam Gambhir on Monday made a statement that the visitors will find a way to tackle the menacing spin duo of Muttiah Muralitharan and Ajantha Mendis in the second Test starting July 31. “We had a bad Test but now we are very positive. We want to [...]
Arjuna Ranatunga, the former Sri Lankan captain, has criticised India’s batsmen for playing in the Twenty20 mode and said they lacked focus. “The way the Indians have played this Test is an eye-opener not just for us but for all cricket-playing countries,” he told news reporters. “They dealt with this like a Twenty20 game. I [...]
After Salil Ankola, Vinod Kambli and Ajay Jadeja, now Sachin Tendulkar will make his debut on the 70mm screen. However, unlike other cricketers who have acted in commercial cinema, Tendulkar will feature in film based on Mumbai’s famous Siddhivinayak temple which will be directed by Yashwanth Ingavale who has assisted Madhur Bhandarkar previously. The film [...]
Sania Mirza’s bad run on the tour took a heavy toll on her singles ranking as she dropped 15 places to plummet to 50 in the latest WTA list issued on Monday. The Hyderabadi girl made a comeback after recovering from a wrist injury but is still struggling to get back to winning mode and [...]
The Sri Lankan media took a leaf out of the Aussie ones and slammed the visiting Indian team for their performance in the first test. They said the visitors did not look a side fit to play Tests cricket. “They did not look a side fit to play at this level of the game. The [...]