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 [...]
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 [...]
Jaidev Unadkat (4/41) and Piyush Chawla (3/70) shared the spoils as for Rest of India piled on the agony of Mumbai by taking a huge 394 first innings lead on the third day of the Irani Trophy cricket match at the Sawai Man Singh Stadium here on Sunday. In reply to RoI’s mammoth total of [...]
Memorabilia belonging to 25 top sportspersons from India and overseas, including tennis star Roger Federer, batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar and chess ace Viswanathan Anand, will go under the auctioneer’s hammer on October 29. Six of the precious memorabilia, including the gold medal won by Anand after beating Vladimir Kramnik in a World Championship match in [...]
Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag of India, Hashim Amla of South Africa and England’s Graeme Swann have all been short-listed for the top honour at the LG ICC Awards 2010. The votes have now been cast by the independent 25-person academy and these four men are the ones in the running to receive the Sir [...]
he Australian cricketers, who arrived on Monday for a two Test series against India, have been provided with more than 100 security guards in military-style uniforms, who will be guarding them round the clock. The corridors of hotel where the players checked in were filled with security guards and patrols were being conducted throughout the [...]
Pakistan cricket team sent more shockwaves to world cricket after it was disclosed on Saturday that the scoring patterns in its innings during Friday’s ODI match against England were fixed, prompting the ICC to launch an immediate probe. The ICC action followed diclosures by British tabloid ‘The Sun’ that an individual in the Pakistani team [...]
Virender Sehwag was unbeaten on 99 as India beat Sri Lanka by six wickets in the third match of the One-Day International tri-series in Dambulla. Having produced a creditable bowling performance to bowl the home side out for 170, India reached their target with more than 15 overs to spare to take their first win [...]
Indian spin legend Anil Kumble will share his skills with some of South Africa’s leading and young spinners in a coaching clinic here next week. Kumble will be joined by Proteas spinners Paul Harris and Johan Botha as a host of franchise and upcoming spinners receive first-hand coaching from the Indian wizard. “Anil Kumble is [...]
Injury-plagued England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff has been left out of IPL champions Chennai Super Kings’ final 15-member squad for next month’s Champions League Twenty20 in South Africa. Flintoff has had two knee operations in the last 12 months and will be out of action for the entire season. Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who led Super Kings [...]
Tournament rules may suggest otherwise but South African Twenty20 champions Warriors chief Dave Emslie says Jaques Kallis had no option but to play for Indian Premier League side Royal Challengers Bangalore in next month’s Champions League Twenty20. Emslie said Kallis’ IPL contract obligated him to play for RCB in the CLT20 which begins in Johannesburg [...]
Controversy and corruption-plagued they might be but Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Sunday hoped that the Delhi Commonwealth Games in October will earn “goodwill” for the country. The build-up to the October 3 to 14 event has been marred by allegations of widescale corruption and construction delays, which on Saturday prompted Prime Minister [...]
Sri Lanka produced a good all-round performance to beat New Zealand by three wickets in the the second game of the One-Day International tri-series in Dambulla. Three wickets apiece from Lasith Malinga and Angelo Mathews helped them dismiss New Zealand for 192 before Upul Tharanga’s half-century set up a victory chasing under lights – an [...]
The second edition of the multi-million dollar Champions League Twenty20 was on Tuesday launched here in a glittering function attended by top officials of Cricket South Africa and star players including retired spin wizard Muttiah Muralitharan. CSA president Dr Nyoka, secretary Gerald Majola and CL T20 CEO Sundar Raman unveiled the glittering trophy of the [...]
Captain Sachin Tendulkar has an uncanny ability to inspire his team-mates to perform several notches up and that will make a huge impact on Mumbai Indians’ campaign in next month’s Champions League Twenty20 in South Africa, feels batsman Jean-Pual Duminy. Duminy believes that if Tendulkar continues with his menacing form of this year’s Indian Premier [...]