The wax statue of Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar will be unveiled at Madame Tussauds Museum in April, the first Indian sportsperson to be featured in one of London’s famous tourist attraction. Tendulkar will join the likes of filmstars Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, Aishwarya Rai and Salman Khan and former prime ministers Indira Gandhi, Rajiv [...]
New Zealand players are on a high after their Twenty20 wins over India and opener Jesse Ryder said the team is looking to carry that momentum to the One-Day series. “The boys are on a big high after the games. It turned alright for us. The Indians are world class performers. To come out on [...]
India’s pace sensation Ishant Sharma is likely to miss the first one-day international against New Zealand due to injury. The sinewy fast bowler had hurt his shoulder while fielding in the second Twenty20 international against New Zealand at the Westpac Stadium on Friday night. An MRI scan carried out on his shoulder on Saturday revealed [...]
Fast bowler Ian Buttler’s impressive showing in the just-concluded Twenty20 Internationals has earned him a place in the New Zealand One-Day team after a hiatus of five years for the first three games of the five-match series against India starting March 3. Apart from Buttler, Kyle Mills, who had strained his Achilles tendon, also made [...]
After a nagging hip injury forced him to return home mid-way from the Test series against the West Indies, England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff hinted he may skip the lucrative Indian Premier League to stay fit to take on the Australians in the Ashes series. Flintoff, who was bagged by IPL’s Chennai Super Kings side for [...]
Australian spin legend Shane Warne has suggested that the Indian Premier League should be shortened and restricted to just the month of April so that all the international stars could feature in it. The IPL Season II kicks off on April 10 and will conclude on May 24 with the final slated in Mumbai. “The [...]
New Zealand is to boost ground security for the remainder of the Indian cricket tour following a bottle-throwing incident at the second Twenty20 match, an official said Saturday. Play was briefly halted towards the end of the New Zealand innings here Friday after a plastic bottle was thrown from the crowd and landed near an [...]
India lost the second T20 match against New Zealand at Wellington, thus going down 2-0 in the two match series. But unlike last time, this match was quite close. Put in to bat by New Zealand, India made 149 runs for the loss of six wickets with the help of Yuvraj Singh’s fifty. Iain O’Brien [...]
India in New Zealand, 2009 New Zealand vs India, 2nd T20I Westpac Stadium, Wellington, February 27, 2009 Match Information Umpires: Gary Baxter (NZ) & Tony Hill (NZ) Third Umpire: Evan Watkin (NZ) Match Referee: Ranjan Madugalle (SL) Toss: New Zealand (Elected to field) Match Status: New Zealand won by 5 wkts Batting: New Zealand Innings [...]
Despite losing the first Twenty20 international, India are unlikely to make any changes in the team for the second and final Twenty20 match against New Zealand here on Friday. Both captains Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Daniel Vettori felt that the outcome of the match was irrelevant in getting a psychological advantage for the forthcoming one-day [...]
Batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar and wicketkeeper-batsman Dinesh Karthik will play in Friday’s International Masters Game, the curtain-raiser to the Twenty20 International between India and New Zealand at Westpac Stadium here. The duo, who are not in India’s Twenty20 squad, were drafted into the New Zealand and Australian Masters’ teams respectively after discussions with the New [...]
The Indian board faces an embarrassing situation after letting Sachin Tendulkar appear for a Masters Twenty20 match in Wellington on Friday where he will play alongside Hamish Marshall, the former New Zealand batsman who featured in the unauthorised ICL last year. New Zealand Cricket (NZC) confirmed in a press release that Tendulkar will turn out [...]
Indian Premier League (IPL) chairman Lalit Modi on Thursday said the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) should not stop Andrew Flintoff from playing in the Twenty20 league, beginning from April 10. ECB chairman Giles Clarke on Wednesday had expressed concern over Flintoff, who has a hip injury, playing in the IPL. But Modi said [...]
India and New Zealand go head to head in the 2nd T20 international at Wellington on Friday. India lost the first match at Christchurch by seven wickets after scoring more than 160 runs while batting first. India batted well to reach that total after losing early wickets but their batsmen will have to show more [...]
India lost their tour opener to New Zealand going down by seven wickets in the first T20 match at Christchurch. New Zealand have taken a 1-0 lead in the two match series. New Zealand skipper Daniel Vettori won the toss and decided to bat first. Gambhir and Sehwag fell with the score on 6 and [...]
India begin their tour of New Zealand on Wednesday with a T20 match at Christchurch. They will play two T20 matches, the second on Friday before starting with the five match ODI series. This will be India’s first T20 match in New Zealand. The two teams have met before in the T20 world cup in [...]
India in New Zealand, 2009 New Zealand vs India, 1st T20I AMI Stadium, Christchurch, February 25, 2009 Match Information Umpires: Gary Baxter (NZ) & Evan Watkin (NZ) Third Umpire: Tony Hill (NZ) Match Referee: Ranjan Madugalle (SL) Toss: New Zealand (Elected to field) Match Status: New Zealand won by 7 wkts Batting: New Zealand Innings [...]
India should not lose sleep over the nature of the tracks here and the two Twenty20 Internationals would be enough for them to get used to the bounce, said New Zealand middle-order batsman Ross Taylor. Taylor said things have changed a lot since India toured New Zealand last in 2002-03, when they struggled to make [...]
New Zealand coach Andy Moles and middle-order batsman Ross Taylor consider India above South Africa and Australia and feel Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s team should be rated number one in the world for their consistent performance over a period of time. India defeated Australia in the Test series and followed it up with another triumph against [...]
India’s tour of New Zealand is going to fetch the host country’s cricket board a windfall with more than $25 million expected from a multi-million dollar deal for television rights. New Zealand Cricket is likely to pocket $1 million each for the 22 days the Indians are to take the field, making the deal the [...]