After a grueling stint in Indian Premier League (IPL), the national cricket team on Tuesday left for the West Indies to take part in the Twenty20 World Cup scheduled to be held there from April 30-May 16. The Mahendra Singh Dhoni-led team boarded an Emirates Airlines flight at the international airport this evening and will [...]
Zimbabwe beat Australia by one run in an ICC World Twenty20 warm-up match in Saint Lucia, the African side prevailing over the 2007 World Cup champions for the second time in the shortest form of the game. Australia closed on 172 for seven having made a good start to their pursuit of 174 to win [...]
Jesse Ryder made an impressive return from injury to blast New Zealand to a 40-run win over Ireland in an ICC World Twenty20 warm-up match in Guyana. Left-hander Ryder, who last appeared for the Black Caps in the Champions Trophy last year, hit 64 as New Zealand scored 187 for five before restricting Ireland to [...]
Bangladesh began their warm-up programme for the ICC World Twenty20 with a 36-run win over Barbados in Bridgetown. Batting first, Bangladesh posted 166 for five before Barbados were held to 130 for three in reply. Opener Imrul Kayes led the way for Bangladesh, thumping 57 in 59 balls and sharing an opening stand of 77 [...]
Mohammad Hafeez scored a half-century and took a wicket as reigning ICC World Twenty20 champions Pakistan began their preparations for the 2010 tournament with a 68-run win over a Windward Islands XI in Saint Lucia. Hafeez top scored with 57 as Pakistan made 160 for seven and in reply, the Windward Islands team was restricted [...]
Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Tuesday predicted a keen contest during the upcoming World Twenty20, saying the race for the title was too close to call. “Anything can happen in T20 cricket,” Dhoni said ahead of the team’s departure for the Caribbean where the 12-nation tournament starts on April 30. “The format of the [...]
Newly-wed star couple Shoaib Malik and Sania Mirza, hounded by fans and the media since their arrival in Pakistan last week, have appealed to journalists looking for “masala” to respect their privacy and lessen the hype about their marriage. In an apparent bid to address the Pakistani media’s contention that the couple were not making [...]
Indian Premier League’s interim chief Chirayu Amin on Tuesday said efforts are on to clean up the scandal-hit Twenty20 event and promised a “bigger, better and transparent” IPL next year. “The job has just started and I am getting involved in it. Over a period of time, we will get into the details,” Amin said [...]
Baroda Cricket Association President Chirayu Amin was appointed the interim Chairman of the Indian Premier League in place of the high-flying Lalit Modi, who came in for a scathing attack from BCCI President Shashank Manohar on Monday. The decision to appoint Amin was taken at the crucial meeting of the IPL Governing Council, which lasted [...]
Suresh Raina scored a half-century, took a wicket and a superb catch as the Chennai Super Kings were crowned the 2010 Indian Premier League champions in Mumbai. Raina scored 57 as the Super Kings, runners-up in 2008 and beaten semi-finalists last year, reached 168 for five and in reply the Mumbai Indians closed on 146 [...]
IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi was suspended possibly in a bid to keep him away from Monday’s Governing Council meeting which he surprisingly decided to attend. The embattled Commissioner, who is slated to chair the meeting, made an announcement that he was changing his boycott decision but seek written charges for him to reply, a move [...]
Mumbai Indians captain Sachin Tendulkar was named best batsman while Deccan Chargers’ Pragyan Ojha bagged the best bowler honour at a glitzy IPL Awards Night on Friday. Tournament’s most prolific batsman, Tendulkar, who turns 37 on April 24, has 570 runs in his kitty from 14 matches with five fifties. He beat competitions from Royal [...]
South Africa will host the 2010 Champions League Twenty20 from 10th to 26th September, the organizing committee has confirmed. “The Governing Council has accepted Cricket South Africa’s offer to host the tournament, with the venues and competing teams for the second edition of the world’s premier domestic Twenty20 competition to be finalized in the coming [...]
Ireland took a morale-boosting nine-wicket win over Trinidad & Tobago as they continued their preparations for the ICC World Twenty20 in Port of Spain. After Trinidad & Tobago, finalists in the 2009 Champions League Twenty20, were dismissed for 104, Ireland raced home in inside 16 overs. Left-arm spinner George Dockrell opened the bowling for Ireland [...]
The Royal Challengers booked their second appearance at the Twenty20 Champions League courtesy of a thumping nine-wicket win over the Deccan Chargers in the 2010 Indian Premier League third/fourth place play-off in Mumbai. Captain Anil Kumble took four for 16 as reigning champions Deccan Chargers were bowled out for just 82 in 18.3 overs and [...]
Chennai Super Kings beat the 2009 champions Deccan Chargers by 38 runs to book their place in the final against the Mumbai Indians. Batting first, the Super Kings posted 142 for seven and then bowled the Chargers out for 104. The match got off to a frenetic start as after Chennai chose to bat first, [...]
IPL chairman Lalit Modi has decided to move to court against the IPL governing council meeting scheduled to be held on Monday, April 26. Modi is understood to be considering the option of moving to Bombay High Court on Friday for an injunction on the IPL governing council meeting. Modi’s case will be represented by [...]
Mumbai Indians heaved a sigh of relief after key all-rounder Kieron Pollard was found fit for Sunday’s Indian Premier League final even though there remains a cloud of doubt over captain Sachin Tendulkar’s availability. “There is no problem with Pollard. He’s fit,” team sources said on Thursday. In that match, Pollard was seen limping during [...]
The Mumbai Indians reached their first Indian Premier League final with a comprehensive 35-run win over 2009 runners-up the Royal Challengers Bangalore. The Indians hammered 77 runs in the final five overs of their innings to post 184 for six and in reply, the Challengers closed on 149 for nine. Mumbai were rocked by the [...]
Tamil Nadu and Chennai Super Kings opening batsman Murali Vijay will replace Virender Sehwag in India’s ICC World Twenty20 squad, the International Cricket Council has confirmed. Sehwag was declared as unfit by the Indian board (BCCI) and as is usual with requests for replacements after a squad has been confirmed, the BCCI were required to [...]