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India v Australia, 3rd Test: Match ends in draw

The third test between India and Australia at Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi ended in a draw as the two sides decided that a result was not probable early in the afternoon session.
Scorecard – India vs Australia – 3rd Test
Earlier in the day, Gambhir and Dravid started their overnight stay at the crease but the [...]

India vs Australia, 1st Test: India bat out the day

The first test between India and Australia ended as a draw with the home team batting out the last day to prevent the visitors from snatching a win.
Scorecard
Set a target of 299, the hosts were never in contention after they lost Sehwag and Dravid early. Sachin and Gambhir batted to put on a fifty partnership [...]

India tottering at Tea, Trio fail again

India were staring down the barrell at tea in the third test against Sri Lanka in Colombo.
Having elected to bat first, all the known batsmen were gone after a short stint at the wicket for each of them. The visitors lost six wickets before tea was taken  and with just 190 runs on the board, [...]

Sri Lanka Board XI vs India: Day 2

Sachin Tendulkar and Dinesh Karthik were the only batsmen to get meaningful practice ahead of the first Test, as the rest of the Indians fell cheaply on the second day of the tour game against Sri Lanka Board XI.
Tendulkar top-scored with 69, while Karthik sealed his spot for the first Test with a patient, unbeaten [...]

Test team for Sri Lanka: Review

The team to play Sri Lanka in the upcoming three test series has been selected. And while some of the usual players do find their usual place in the squad, there are a few names missing, or even included, that raise a few eyebrows and thus are quite debatable at the end of the day.
Gautam [...]

India breaks even at last

Almost thirty years after the ODIs were incepted, India has finally been able to achieve what only a handful of other countries have done so far, and that is to have more victories than losses in its list of ODIs.
After their win over Bangladesh in the Asia Cup, India have more victories than losses in [...]

Seniors still have a chance: Kirsten

Indian coach Gary Kirsten thinks that the senior players are still needed by the team, in order to find the perfect balance in the squad.

Fresh legs and new faces may have given Team India a young look but coach Garry Kirsten believes senior players can still play a role in the side even though they [...]

Mumbai Indians vs Bangalore Royal Challengers

The two teams will face off today in Bangalore today in their last league match of the first edition of IPL. Both teams have been knocked out of the race for the semi-finals, however, Mumbai Indians were involved in a thrilling fight for the same.

Mumbai lost out as Chennai Super Kings beat Deccan Chargers [...]

Bangalore win as Hyderabad jinx remains

It seemed that the jinx would be broken when the Deccan Chargers as their opening pair of Gilchrist and Gibbs scored 100 runs in 69 balls or when their scoreboard read 150 runs in 17 overs. The hosts seemed to be going strong and were on their way of scoring almost 180-200 runs until Vinay [...]

Zaheer’s efforts acknowledged

Zaheer Khan has been felicitated for being named among one of the Five Cricketers of the Year 2007 by Wisden Cricketer’s Almanack.

In a short ceremony in Bangalore before their match with Delhi DareDevils, Rahul Dravid presented Zaheer with a leather-bound copy of the Wisden 2008. Zaheer was recognised by Wisden as “the Indian left-armer [...]

Delhi win keeps them afloat

Delhi Dare Devils registered a five wicket win over the Bangalore Royal Challengers to keep their semi-final’s bid alive.

Sehwag won the toss and normal service resumed with the team electing to bowl first as the Royal Challenges tried another opening combination with Kallis and Chipli. However this didn’t pay off either, as Chipli fell cheaply [...]

A Tense match in the offing…

…as Kolkata Knight Riders take on the Bangalore Royal Challengers in the other match of the day.
The KKR have been off the boil and have lost four successive matches, and would love to resurrect the record, where as the Bangalore RCs have been jolted out of their slumber party by their owner, Dr. Vijay [...]

Kings XI Punjab beat Bangalore RCs

In what turned out to be a totally one sided match, Kings XI Punjab beat the Bangalore Royal Challengers by 6 wickets. Batting first after being put in by Yuvraj Singh, Rahul Dravid’s side lost a couple of wickets in the first over itself which stalled their momentum even before it had begun.
Dravid scored his [...]

A Royal Challenge for Bangalore

With the kind of form Kings XI Punjab has shown to exhibit in the last few matches – four to be more precise, it would be foolhardy not to term them as favorites against the Royal Challnegers in today’s IPL match.
On the other hand, Bangalore RCs finally managed to perform out of their skins to [...]

Bangalore RCs win off the last ball

The match to decide the wooden spoon winners, went down to the wire, and the script could not have been much better.
On a sluggish pitch, Deccan Chargers won the toss and surprisingly, elected to field first. The Bangalore Royal Challengers brought in Bharat Chipli, who opened with Wasim Jaffer. Jaffer played one of his better [...]

Bangalore Royal Challengers face the heat…

…as they take on another bottom placed team, Deccan Chargers in today’s first match of the day. With one wins from five matches each, this is the match that would decide the bottom placed team. The Deccan Chargers looked to be coming to their own in the match against Mumbai Indians, but then easily lost [...]