Teams have started leaving for South Africa for season two of the Indian Premier League. A large chunk of the Mumbai Indians squad was given a pretty traditional send-off on Sunday night. The younger players will spend time under the keen eyes of mentor Shaun Pollock and fielding coach Jonty Rhodes over the next week. [...]
Mohammad Yousuf was left out but three of his Indian Cricket League colleagues were on Monday surprisingly picked by Pakistan selectors among 30 probables for the Twenty20 World Cup to be held in England this June. Abdul Razzaq, Rana Naved-ul-Hasan and Imran Nazir, who featured in the ICL, have been included in Pakistan’s preliminary squad [...]
Rated the greatest batsman ever by legendary all-rounder Richard Hadlee, star Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar said the accolade was a pleasant surprise for him, coming from a player of such unquestionable credentials. Hadlee recently rated Tendulkar even higher than Don Bradman, considering the Indian’s staggering success in both the long and short formats of the [...]
Rahul Dravid became the cricketer with most catches when he held on a Tim McIntosh edge off Zaheer Khan on the fourth day of the third and final cricket Test here. Dravid snapped the catch, his 182nd in 134th Test, at third slip during lunch session in New Zealand second innings to go past former [...]
Reacting to Sunil Gavaskar’s harsh criticism of Kolkata Knight Riders’ head coach John Buchanan’s idea of having multiple captains during a match, team owner Shah Rukh Khan jumped to his rescue, asking the former Indian captain to stay away from his team’s affairs. “I respect Mr Gavaskar – his knowledge about cricket is a billion [...]
Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar has lashed out at Kolkata Knight Riders coach John Buchanan and his multipule captaincy theory. In his coloumn in Sunday’s Hindustan Times, Gavaskar has said that Indian media gives undue importance to Buchanan, who he said is a failed first-class cricketer making a living telling international players to do what [...]
Gautam Gambhir ended the series as the leading Indian batsman with 445 runs at 89.00 with two hundreds and one fifty. Gambhir has now aggregated 2,271 runs from 25 Tests. This is the highest run-aggregate by any Indian batsman after exactly 25 Tests. Gambhir bettered little master Sunil Gavaskar’s record. He has now aggregated 300 [...]
Kings XI Punjab will miss the services of injured West Indies paceman Jerome Taylor during the second edition of the Indian Premier League in South Africa from April 18 to May 24. The Mohali team has decided to replace Taylor, who survived a motor vehicle accident last month, with South African young left-arm pacer Yusuf [...]
Pacers Joginder Sharma, who starred in the 2007 World Twenty20 Championship, and S Sreesanth were left out of the 30 probables announced by the BCCI on Saturday for the second edition of the prestigious event to be held in England in June. Piyush Chawla and Ajit Agarkar were the other prominent names which did not [...]
The Indian selectors on Saturday have included Robin Uthappa of Karnataka and Virat Kohli of Delhi in the 30-member probables’ list for the second edition of the ICC World T20, which will be played in England in June 2009. Other players who have been included in the preliminary list released by the Board of Control [...]
The IPL has already created quite a buzz in South Africa. It took just a couple of hours for the opening game on April 18 to be sold out. Clearly, the tournament is all set to take the Rainbow Nation by storm. The cheerleaders will be there, as will the best players in the world, [...]
Former New Zealand skipper Martin Crowe has apologised for being too “harsh” and “impatient” while criticising Virender Sehwag’s captaincy during the second Test in Napier which ended in a draw. “I often have bad days and so I wish to apologise for being too harsh, too quickly,” Crowe wrote in his column for a cricket [...]
Back in India for the second edition of the Indian Premier League, former Australia opener Matthew Hayden on Friday attributed India’s growing stature in Tests and ODIs to the IPL and the country’s Twenty20 World Cup triumph. “India was focused towards Tests and ODIs but the win in the T20 World Cup has changed all [...]
The IPL in South Africa has got the best possible start as tickets for the opening day extravaganza have been sold out within two hours. IPL chairman and commissioner Lalit Modi said that the unprecedented rush for tickets will result in a full house at Newlands, Cape Town on April 18. “We are expecting a [...]
Michael Hussey has joined his captain Ricky Ponting in withdrawing from this year’s IPL. Hussey is also considering standing down from Australia’s six matches against Pakistan in the UAE later this month. Hussey says he is completely worn out and is desperately trying to find form ahead of the Ashes. He has averaged just 23 [...]
Sachin Tendulkar may not boast a Bradmanesque average but his ability to adjust to all formats of the game makes him the greatest batsman ever, legendary New Zealand all-rounder Richard Hadlee believes. Hadlee, who was inducted into the International Cricket Council’s Hall of Fame on Friday, was in absolute awe of the Indian run-machine and [...]
India in New Zealand, 2009 New Zealand vs India, 3rd Test Basin Reserve, Wellington, April 3-7, 2009 Match Information Umpires: Simon Taufel (Aus) & Daryl Harper (Aus) Third Umpire: Tony Hill (NZ) Match Referee: Alan Hurst (Aus) Toss: New Zealand (Elected to field) Match Status: Match drawn Man of the Match: Gautam Gambhir Batting: India [...]
India and New Zealand go head to head in the third test match of the three test series at Wellington on Friday. The Indians have taken a 1-0 lead in the series and can only either go on to win their first test series win in New Zealand after 1968 or can draw it, they [...]