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ICC announces 2011 World Cup Groups

By thedarknight ⋅ October 8, 2009 ⋅ 18 comments

India have been placed in Group B — along with England and South Africa — for the 2011 World Cup in the sub-continent, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced on Wednesday after a Board meeting. ICC World Cup 2011 Schedule “In Group A there will be Australia, Pakistan, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Canada and [...]

ICC rubbishes match fixing allegations

By thedarknight ⋅ October 8, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

The International Cricket Council on Wednesday rubbished match-fixing allegations against the Pakistan cricket team in the just-concluded Champions Trophy in South Africa. ICC Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat also gave a clean chit to Australian umpire Simon Taufel who was officiating the semi-final match between Pakistan and New Zealand. “It is not worthy of spending any [...]

Australia fined for slow over rate against England

By thedarknight ⋅ October 5, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Australia have been fined for maintaining a slow over-rate during their ICC Champions Trophy semi-final victory over England at Centurion. International Cricket Council (ICC) match referee Jeff Crowe ruled that Ricky Ponting’s team, which went on to win the match by nine wickets, were two overs short of their target when time allowances were taken [...]

Mitchell Johnson is ICC Cricketer of the Year

By thedarknight ⋅ October 3, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Mitchell Johnson became the sixth player to win the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy after being named as the 2009 ICC Cricketer of the Year at the ICC Awards ceremony in Johannesburg. Johnson fought off stiff competition to take the award from fellow short-list nominees Gautam Gambhir and MS Dhoni, as well as England captain Andrew [...]

Gambhir wins Test Player of the Year Award

By thedarknight ⋅ October 3, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

India opener Gautam Gambhir has been named Test Player of the Year at the ICC awards ceremony in Johannesburg. Gambhir, who claimed his first ICC award of his career, was picked ahead of Australian fast bowler Mitchell Johnson, Sri Lanka’s Thilan Samaraweera and England captain Andrew Strauss. During the 12-month voting period, Gambhir put in [...]

Dhoni named ODI Player of the Year

By thedarknight ⋅ October 3, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has won the ODI Player of the Year award for the second year in a row at the ICC Awards in Johannesburg. Dhoni beat off tough competition from team-mates Yuvraj Singh and Virender Sehwag as well as West Indies’ Shivnarine Chanderpaul to take the award. During the voting period, Dhoni [...]

Dhoni leads Test Team of the Year

By thedarknight ⋅ October 3, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Indian skipper MS Dhoni has been named as captain of the Test Team of the Year, as he was for the ODI team of the year. Twelve players from six countries were included in the line-up, chosen by a specially appointed selection panel chaired by former West Indies captain Clive Lloyd. South African fast bowler [...]

Dhoni leads World ODI Team of the Year

By thedarknight ⋅ October 3, 2009 ⋅ One comment

MS Dhoni was named captain of the World ODI Team of the Year at the ICC Awards in Johannesburg. The team was chosen by a specially appointed selection panel chaired by former West Indies captain Clive Lloyd. Six countries are represented in the 12-man line-up and just one Indian player – Dhoni – appeared in [...]

Dilshan wins T20 Performance of the Year Award

By thedarknight ⋅ October 3, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Sri Lankan batsman Tillakaratne Dilshan has won the Twenty20 International Performance of the Year award in recognition of his breezy 96 off 57 balls against West Indies in the semi-final of the 2009 World Twenty20 in England. Dilshan’s performance at The Oval included two sixes and 12 fours and helped steer his side into the [...]

Siddle named Emerging Player of the Year

By thedarknight ⋅ October 3, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Australian fast bowler Peter Siddle has won the Emerging Player of the Year award at the ICC Awards ceremony in Johannesburg. The 24-year-old, who played in 12 Test matches in the voting period, took 49 wickets with an average of 28.93 and made an impact playing for Australia side with his charging run-up and powerful [...]

Aleem Dar named Umpire of the Year

By thedarknight ⋅ October 3, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Pakistan’s Aleem Dar was named Umpire of the Year at the ICC Awards in Johannesburg. Dar, 41, was voted for this award by the 10 Full-Member captains as well as the eight-man Elite Panel of match referees, based on his decision statistics over the last 12 months. It was the first time he had received [...]

Champions League T20 names umpires

By thedarknight ⋅ October 1, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Three men on the International Cricket Council (ICC) Elite Panel of umpires will officiate at the Champions League Twenty20, which begins in India on 8th October. Daryl Harper, Billy Bowden and Billy Doctrove will lead a team of umpires which also includes ICC International Panel members Russell Tiffin, Brian Jerling and Amish Saheba. ICC match [...]

India rise to top spot in ICC ODI Rankings

By thedarknight ⋅ September 23, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

South Africa’s defeat in their Champions Trophy opener has propelled second-placed India to the top of the International Cricket Council’s One-day rankings. India, scheduled to play their opening match of the Champions Trophy on September 26 against Pakistan, have 126 ratings points. South Africa slumped to the third spot after losing last night to Sri [...]

2009 Champions Trophy Warm-UP: Sri Lanka beat West Indies

By thedarknight ⋅ September 21, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Mahela Jayawardene stroked a half-century to guide Sri Lanka to a comfortable five-wicket win over the West Indies in their final warm-up match ahead of the ICC Champions Trophy in Pretoria. Jayawardene made 67 and Thilina Kandamby an unbeaten 44 to help Sri Lanka reach a target of 202 in 41.1 overs following three wickets [...]

2009 Champions Trophy Warm-Up: South Africa beat West Indies

By thedarknight ⋅ September 19, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

South Africa underlined their strength going into the ICC Champions Trophy with a dominant 188-run win over a West Indies side which could be one of the worst to play in the tournament in recent years. Four South Africans reached half-centuries with embarrassing ease as they racked up 388 for four before the West Indies [...]

2009 Champions Trophy Warm-Up: Pakistan beat Sri Lanka

By thedarknight ⋅ September 19, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Pakistan gave themselves an enormous boost ahead of the ICC Champions Trophy with a convincing 108-run warm-up win over Sri Lanka. Pakistan posted an imposing 306 for eight and Sri Lanka were then bowled out for 198, never recovering from losing five wickets before 100 runs were on the board. Rana Naved-ul-Hasan picked up five [...]

2009 Champions Trophy Warm-Up: Warriors beat New Zealand

By thedarknight ⋅ September 19, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

New Zealand minus three of its major stars was defeated by South African domestic franchise Chevrolet Warriors as they got their preparations for the ICC Champions Trophy off to the worst possible start in Pretoria. Batting first, a New Zealand side lacking the firepower of Jesse Ryder, Daniel Vettori and Shane Bond, was bowled out [...]

ICC to try Tendulkar’s idea about ODIs

By thedarknight ⋅ September 12, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

International Cricket Council is now planning to split one day matches into two innings of 25 overs each, an idea mooted by the Indian batting great Sachin Tendulkar earlier this month. In order to spice up the one-day format, Tendulkar had proposed that every team should play two innings of 25 overs each and ICC [...]

ICC to seek cricket specific WADA code

By thedarknight ⋅ September 4, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

The International Cricket Council will ask the World Anti-Doping Agency to consider a cricket-specific code for its controversial “whereabouts” rule, ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat told Indian media. The influential Indian cricket board rejected the WADA directive last month, backing its players’ refusal to sign up over security and privacy issues. The ICC became a [...]

India to host Pakistan’s 8 World Cup games

By thedarknight ⋅ July 15, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

The Central Organising Committee (COC) of the 2011 World Cup Tuesday recommended that India should host eight of the 14 cricket matches that were scheduled to take place in Pakistan. The COC met here to provide the ICC Board with a recommendation as to where, within Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka, the 14 matches originally [...]

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