Bhupathi out of mixed doubles

India’s Mahesh Bhupathi’s lost out in the US Open mixed doubles came to an end when he and Australian Samantha Stosur went down to Swede Robert Lindstedt and Australian Rennae Stubbs 6-2, 3-6, 10-12 in the opening round.
Bhupathi, however, is still in contention in the doubles event where he and Bahamian Mark Knowles advanced to […]

Dhoni hails victory without Sachin, Sehwag

Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni is happy with the fact that he led the side to a historic ODI series win in Sri Lanka in the absence of star players Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag.
Talking to reporters after the team returned from a successful ODI series, Dhoni said the team did miss a few players […]

BCCI to allow foreign players in Ranji

The BCCI Technical Committee led by Sunil Gavaskar on Saturday allowed state associations to add a foreigner in their squads.
Four ‘guest’ players, from outside the state, are allowed in the side from this season onwards.
“One of the four players could be a cricketer from overseas, who has played at least 10 Tests and/or 20 ODIs,” […]

Dhoni was the difference: Vengsarkar

Dilip Vengsarkar, India’s chairman of selectors, has praised captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni for his role in the 3-2 series win in the one-dayers in Sri Lanka.
“Dhoni’s return to the team was a boon. Not only did he lead the side superbly but he played a couple of match-winning knocks,” Vengsarkar said. “More importantly, he handled […]

Fisichella 3rd fastest in Monza testing

Giancarlo Fisichella ran a faultless 114 laps in his Force India car and posted the third fastest time of the day to cap the outfit’s three-day Monza testing for the Italian Grand Prix.
Fisichella continued the evaluation of set-ups and wing levels specifically for his home Grand Prix, and the Belgian grand prix before that, as […]

Dhoni conferred Khel Ratna

Mahendra Singh Dhoni became only the second cricketer after Sachin Tendulkar to receive the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award as he was conferred the country’s highest sporting honour at a glittering function at the Rashtrapati Bhawan on Friday.
The Indian ODI captain himself could not attend the function as he was leading the team in the […]

India vs Sri Lanka, 5th ODI: Review

Sri Lanka won a comfortable win in the 5th match against India at the Premdasa Stadium in Colombo, thus gaining a pride saving victory. They still lost the series though 3-2, but it was a massive win by 112 runs in a rain affected match.
Scorecard
Sri Lanka won the toss for the first time in the […]

India slip to 5th in ODI rankings

Despite their historic 3-2 series-win against Sri Lanka, India has dropped to fifth place in the ICC ODI Championship table, released on Saturday.
England replaced India at the fourth place and has second position within touching distance after winning three consecutive matches against South Africa in the home series.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s side had started in fourth […]

Gilchrist should lead Deccan Chargers, not VVS

Pakistani all-rounder Shahid Afridi feels Adam Gilchrist would make a better skipper for the Deccan Chargers team in the next IPL season as VVS Laxman, who led the team in the inaugural edition, lacks leadership qualities required for the fast paced T20 cricket. Come to think of it, he has a point.
Hyderabad Deccan Chargers was […]

Paes-Bhupathi in US Open 4th round

Indian tennis greats Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes advanced to the pre-quarterfinals of men’s doubles event of the US Open after winning their respective second round matches with their respective partners.
The fourth seeded Bhupathi-Knowles pair dominated their 6-3, 6-3 win over Swiss Yves Allegro and Horia Tecau of Romania.
However, the seventh seeded Leander Paes and […]

Kalmadi defends IOA administration

Reacting to Abhinav Bindra’s potshot at sports administrators in a leading daily, IOA president Suresh Kalmadi responded like any babu in this country would do, defending himself and the system.
“Politicians, bureaucrats or top industrialists should head the sports federations as they can better communicate with the sports ministry,” he said. “The secretary should be from […]

India end Idea Cup series with humiliation

Many would call today’s match a rain affected game that resulted in India losing, others would call it the sheer brilliance of the Lankan bowlers, but the fact of the matter is that the Indian batting order failed miserably once again as they have done several times in the past. The Indians had the upper […]

India vs Sri Lanka, 5th ODI: SL struggling

Sri Lanka chose to bat first after winning the toss against India in the 5th ODI at the Premdasa Stadium in Colombo.
Scorecard
However, their progress came to nought as the Indian bowlers kept a tight leash on things. Jayasuriya departed early to a delivery from Zaheer Khan but then Warnapurna and Udawatte tried to stabilize things […]

India vs Sri Lanka, 5th ODI: SL win toss & bat

Sri Lanka finally won the toss for the first time in the series and chose to bat in the 5th ODI against India at the Premdasa Stadium. India have already wrapped up the series 3-1.
Scorecard
India has gone in with five bowlers with Irfan Pathan coming in at number seven in place of S.Badrinath. Also in […]

Dhoni is no.1 ODI batsman

After having led India to a series win in Sri Lanka, Indian ODI captain MS Dhoni has regained the number one ranking among one-day batsmen in the latest ICC ODI Rankings.
Dhoni who has held the ranking earlier and was ranked number two before the start of this series has displaced South African captain Graeme Smith […]

Bhupathi-Knowles move to second round

Ace Indian pro Mahesh Bhupathi and his partner Mark Knowles scored a comfortable straight sets win to advance to the second round of the US Open. Meanwhile Rohan Bopanna and Pakistani team-mate Aisam-ul-Haq-Qureshi crashed out of the men’s doubles event.
Bhupathi and Knowles defeated the Swedish pair of Johan Brunstrom and Thomas Johansson 6-3, 6-4 in […]

Scorecard - Sri Lanka beat India - 5th ODI - Idea Cup

Idea Cup, 2008

Sri Lanka vs India, 5th ODI

R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo, August 29, 2008

Match Information

Umpires:
Billy Doctrove (WI) & Tyron Wijewardene (SL)

Third Umpire:
MG Silva (SL)

Match Referee:
Chris Broad (Eng)

Toss:
Sri Lanka (Elected to bat)

Match Status:
Sri Lanka won by 112 runs

Match State
Rain reduced game (44 overs)

Batting: Sri Lanka Innings

Batsmen
Sri Lanka (227/6 in 50 ovs)
Runs
Balls
4’s
6’s
SR

Sanath Jayasuriya
c P Ojha […]

Boxing is my identity: Vijender

Bhiwani’s Olympic medal winner Vijender Singh hopes he is rooted to the ground even after so much fame and that the hype around him will never change him.
“I am still the same person what I was before winning the Olympic bronze. I will not allow myself to be affected by all the hype around me. […]

BCCI chief to have final say in selection matters

The BCCI has decided to empower its president to have a final say in choosing the panel of selectors.
It will no longer be mandatory for the BCCI President to accept the nominees put up by the respective zones at the Annual General Meeting.
“The age old system of the zonal representatives holding meetings on the eve […]

Dhoni to get Khel Ratna award today

India captain MS Dhoni will be awarded the Rajiv Khel Ratna award today in a ceremony at the Rashtrapati Bhawan.
However, he will not be present in the capital to collect hisaward as he will be captaining the side in the 5th ODI against Sri Lanka. Victory in the fourth one-dayer has ensured India the series […]