The first match of the ICC World cup 2011 is being placed in Mirpur between India and Bangladesh – both host countries. India have been the clear favourites to win the tournament and hopefully, they will take the revenge for their last world cup outing against Bangladesh. Share and Enjoy:
The first world champion in Test cricket will be crowned in 2013. The International Cricket Council board agreed on Wednesday to set up a Test league along with a one-day international league to try and boost interest. The Test league will start almost immediately and culminate in a four-team playoff in 2013. Test cricket has [...]
Sachin Tendulkar on Wednesday reclaimed the number one position in the Test rankings, following his stupendous show with the bat in the just concluded Test series against Australia. Tendulkar was the highest run-getter with 403 runs in the two-match series, which India won 2-0. Tendulkar also scored his sixth double hundred and was adjudged Man-of-the-series. [...]
With a crushing 2-0 series win, India on Wednesday not only consolidated its position at the top of ICC Test ranking table but also pushed Australia down to number five. India, which came into the two-match series with 127 rating points, are now sitting pretty at 130 points, 11 clear of second-placed South Africa. Australia [...]
The International Cricket Council concluded on Wednesday that there was “no compelling evidence” to suspect anyone of wrongdoing in the third one-day international game between England and Pakistan. The ICC launched an investigation last month into the match at The Oval based on information passed on by British tabloid The Sun, which suggested a scoring [...]
India’s opening batsmen Virender Sewhag and Sachin Tendulkar will miss the upcoming three-match One-Day International series with Australia. The big-hitting pair were absent from a 14-man squad named for the series, which begins in Kochi on 17th October. Off-spinner Harbhajan Singh, fast bowler Zaheer Khan and left-arm spinnner Pragyan Ojha are also missing and the [...]
Sachin Tendulkar hit the winning runs as India sealed a seven-wicket victory over Australia on the final day of the second and final Test in Bangalore. They successfully chased 207 – the highest fourth-innings score to win at the ground – after Australia were bowled out for 223 in their second innings. And although it [...]
In yet another first, India’s all time great Sachin Tendulkar on Sunday became the only person to scale the 14,000 peak in Test cricket during their five-day match against Australia. Needing 27 runs to reach into the landmark, the 37-year-old cut off-spinner Nathan Hauritz through coverpoint for a boundary and accomplish the feat in his [...]
Senior India batsman Sachin Tendulkar on Sunday said playing for the country has been his childhood dream and that he has enjoyed every moment during the last 20 years. “I have always been focused towards my game. When I started playing cricket, I never had any goals but always wanted to perform for my country [...]
India closed day two of the second and final Test in Bangalore 350 runs behind Australia after Marcus North scored a century in Australia’s first innings of 478. He made 128 and India then closed the day on 128 for two as they began their reply, with Sachin Tendulkar becoming the first man to reach [...]
Former IPL chairman Lalit Modi on Sunday hit out against the BCCI’s decision to axe Rajasthan Royals and Kings XI Punjab from the Indian Premier League and said it was “illegal” as the Board had chosen a path of vengeance. “The status of all teams is the same. They were all approved. There is no [...]
The Indian board (BCCI) has terminated the contracts of two Indian Premier League teams – the Kings XI Punjab and 2008 champions the Rajasthan Royals. “It was unanimously decided that the franchise agreements with (Punjab owner) K.P.H. Dream Cricket Pvt. Ltd. and Jaipur IPL Cricket Pvt. Ltd. be terminated forthwith based on the legal opinions [...]
Australian fast bowler James Pattinson has been ruled out of the One-Day International series in India and has been replaced in the squad by Victoria team-mate John Hastings. “During the past week, James has complained of some back stiffness during preparation for the second Test of the VB Tour of India in Bangalore,” physiotherapist Kevin [...]
Master batsman Sachin Tendulkar and rest of the Indian batting need to fire in unison to overcome a slow and deteriorating Chinnaswamy wicket to surpass the first innings huge total of Australia in the last Test of the two-match series on Monday. “We have a lot of work to do. The wicket is deteriorating now [...]
Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar has been named as the Cricketer Of The Year at the ICC’s annual awards ceremony, held in Bangalore. Tendulkar beat off competition from England’s Graeme Swann, his team-mate Virender Sehwag and South Africa’s Hashim Amla for the top award of the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy. He completed a memorable 12 months [...]
Senior Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar moved up a rung to third while VVS Laxman rose four positions to achieve a career-best eighth in the latest ICC Test Rankings on Wednesday. The 37-year-old Tendulkar scored 98 and 38 runs in the first Test against Australia in Mohali which India won by one-wicket on Tuesday. As a [...]
Following a meeting in Bangalore, chaired by International Cricket Council (ICC) President Sharad Pawar, the 2011 World Cup Central Organising Committee (COC) believes that the tournament is on course and set to be delivered successfully. “I can assure everyone who attends the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 that they will be attending an exciting event [...]
An unbeaten half-century from VVS Laxman guided India to a nerve-jangling one-wicket victory over Australia on the final day of the first Test in Mohali. Having been reduced to 124 for eight in pursuit of 216, Australia looked favourites to win but a ninth-wicket partnership of 81 between VVS Laxman (73 not out) and Ishant [...]
Australian captain Ricky Ponting will be urging his side to focus on the positive aspects of the one-wicket defeat suffered at the hands of India in the first Test in Mohali. Ponting maintains that his team of relatively inexperienced international cricketers played well and on another day the honors could have gone to his side. [...]