India in West Indies, 2009 West Indies vs India, 2nd ODI Sabina Park, Kingston, Jamaica, June 28, 2009 Match Information Umpires: Nigel Llong (Eng) & Norman Malcolm (WI) Third Umpire: Clancy Mack (WI) Match Referee: Chris Broad (Eng) Toss: India (Elected to bat) Match Status: West Indies won by 8 wkts Man of the Match: [...]
Yuvraj Singh smacked ten fours and seven sixes as his 131 in 102 deliveries set India on the way to a 20-run win in the opening One Day International against the West Indies at Sabina Park. Yuvraj, who struggled to find any form in the recent ICC World Twenty20 in England, was back to his [...]
India in West Indies, 2009 West Indies vs India, 1st ODI Sabina Park, Kingston, Jamaica, June 26, 2009 Match Information Umpires: Nigel Llong (Eng) & Norman Malcolm (WI) Third Umpire: Clancy Mack (WI) Match Referee: Chris Broad (Eng) Toss: India (Elected to bat) Match Status: India won by 20 runs Batting: West Indies Innings Batsmen [...]
India and West Indies will meet in the first ODI of the four match series at Jamaica on Friday. Both the teams will be looking to go one up on each other after different results in the recently concluded T20 World Cup. For West Indies, it was a tournament to remember as they reached the [...]
Matches in the 2011 World Cup due to be staged in Pakistan will not take place in the United Arab Emirates, International Cricket Council president David Morgan said here on Thursday. Instead the 14 fixtures will, despite the wishes of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), take place in the three Indian sub-continent co-host nations of [...]
West Indies and India go head to head in the four-match series with the latter needing a clean sweep to go into second position in the Reliance Mobile ICC ODI Championship table. India currently sits with Australia on 122 ratings points but behind Ricky Ponting’s men in third place by a fraction of a point. [...]
Kolkata Knight Riders’ hunt for a new coach is likely to end soon. Team bosses are to meet in Mumbai on July 20 to take a final call. Having terminated John Buchanan’s contract earlier this month along with his entire team of support staff, Shah Rukh Khan’s franchise has now picked up the probable names [...]
The ICC has decided to implement the umpire review system in Test cricket from October this year that will give them the powers to decide on bad light calls instead of the present format where light is offered to the batsmen. The scope for a day-night Test in 2010 was also discussed at the ICC’s [...]
Bested in the Twenty20 World Cup, revenge-thirsty India would come down hard on West Indies in the forthcoming ODI series, believes home side captain Chris Gayle. West Indies not only beat India in the Super Eight stage of the Twenty20 World Cup but also laid bare their frailty against rising deliveries which was exploited well [...]
More and more players would dump Test cricket and succumb to the lure of Twenty20 if the Indian Premier League does not get a window in the ICC calendar, warned former Australian stumper Adam Gilchrist. Here to deliver the MCC Spirit of Cricket Cowdrey Lecture, Gilchrist would advice the administrators to embrace the shortest format [...]
Ace Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal continued her dream run and reached the quarter-finals of the Malaysian Open Grand Prix Gold badminton tournament with a gruelling three-game win over Intanon Ratchanok of Thailand on Thursday. Second seed Saina rallied to outlast Intanon 18-21, 21-12, 21-18 in a 46-minute clash to set up a quarter-final with Chinese [...]
Until recently things were looking really good for India. Serious contenders for the mantle of the world’s best team, they were consistently beating other top teams in all formats. Then the disastrous ICC World Twenty20 campaign happened, and questions have begun to be asked. The holders crashed out in the Super Eight stage amid rumours [...]
Indian cricketers have failed to find a place in the World Twenty20 squad released by ICC in London on Monday. The squad consists of four Pakistan, three Sri Lanka, three South Africa and two West Indies players. Member of defending champion Team India, who failed miserably in the T20 world championship, could not find a [...]
The Indian team has landed in Jamaica for their next assignment, a four-ODI series against West Indies. India have been in great form in one-dayers over the past ten months, losing only three dead matches from 18 games. West Indies performed strongly in the World Twenty20 after a forgettable show against England in the Tests [...]
Sania Mirza tamed world number 51 Anna-Lena Groenefeld 6-2, 2-6, 6-2 to advance to the second round of the ladies singles event of the Wimbledon championships on Monday. Sania will next face the winner of an all Romanian match between Edina Gallovits and Sorana Cirster. With this win, Sania, ranked 78, has now taken a [...]
Ace woman shuttler Saina Nehwal on Sunday scripted history by becoming the first Indian to win a Super Series tournament after she clinched the Indonesian Open title with a stunning victory over higher ranked Chinese Lin Wang in Jakarta. Saina clinched her maiden Super Series title beating Wang 12-21, 21-18, 21-9 in an edge-of-the-seat thriller [...]
Left-hand batsman Darren Bravo will be eyeing ODI debut after fine performance in domestic circuit earned him a berth in the 13-member West Indies squad for the first two encounters of the upcoming four-match cricket series against India commencing June 26. Bravo, brother of West Indies all-rounder Dwayne, scored 605 runs with an average of [...]
Shahid Afridi blasted an unbeaten 54 to power Pakistan to a fairytale eight-wicket victory over Sri Lanka to win the ICC World Twenty20 at Lord’s. Scorecard – Pakistan beat Sri Lanka to win World Cup T20 Final Afridi took control of the match batting at number three, thumping two fours and two sixes go guide [...]
ICC World Twenty20, 2009 Pakistan vs Sri Lanka, Final Lords, London, June 21, 2009 Match Information Umpires: Daryl Harper (Aus) & Simon Taufel (Aus) Third Umpire: Stephen Davis (Aus) Match Referee: Chris Broad (Eng) Toss: Sri Lanka (Elected to bat) Match Status: Pakistan won by 8 wkts Batting: Pakistan Innings Batsmen Pakistan (139/2 in 18.4 [...]
Tillakaratne Dilshan scored an unbeaten 96 and Angelo Mathews took three wickets in five balls to set Sri Lanka on the way towards a crushing 57-run win over the West Indies which sealed their place in the ICC World Twenty20 final. Dilshan held Sri Lanka’s innings of 158 for five together and Mathews’ opening over [...]