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.
Strong rivals India and Australia will resume their cricketing rivalry as they go into the first One-dayer on Sunday with the injury-hit hosts fully aware that a series triumph in the seven-match rubber would catapult them to the number one spot. The Indians will also be keen to make amends for their Champions Trophy debacle [...]
The rights to India’s home international games for four years from April 2010 have been provisionally awarded to Nimbus Communications for Rs. 2000 crore (US$431 million), according to media reports. The condition attached, the reports say, is that Nimbus must furnish a guarantee by January. Till late on Tuesday evening the Indian board had not [...]
India have named a 15-man squad for the first two One-Day Internationals against Australia later this month showing a number of changes from the ICC Champions Trophy squad. Australia-India ODI series Schedule Batsmen Virender Sehwag and Yuvraj Singh return from injury while uncapped fast bowler Sudeep Tyagi is rewarded for good early season form, which [...]
Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium will host the 2011 World Cup final while seven other venues in India will be used for the event, which is being jointly hosted with Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. The Indian cricket board (BCCI) revealed in a statement that Mohali, Ahmedabad, New Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore, Nagpur and Kolkata would be the other [...]
Kolkata’s Eden Gardens is set to host a one-day international after nearly three years when Sri Lanka tour India for in November-December. The Tour Programmes and Fixtures Committee of the Indian board met in Delhi to finalize the dates for the series, which includes three Tests, five ODIs and two Twenty20s, and will announce the [...]
Young spinner Jon Holland was the surprise selection on Friday in an injury-hit Australian squad for their seven one-day match series in India in October-November. Also Read – India announces team for Austalia ODI series The 22-year-old left-arm finger spinner from Victoria impressed playing for Australia A in their recent home series against Pakistan as [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
India ended the ICC Champions Trophy group stage with a comprehensive seven-wicket win over the West Indies although both sides fail to qualify for the semi-finals. India bowled the West Indies out for 129 and and an unbeaten half-century from Virat Kohli guided them to victory with plenty of time to spare. The West Indies [...]
A thunderstorm and persistent heavy rain forced the ICC Champions Trophy Group A match between Australia and India to be abandoned, the no result confirming Pakistan’s passage into the quarter-finals. Half-centuries from Mike Hussey (67), Ricky Ponting (65) and Tim Paine (56) all scored half-centuries as Australia were gearing up for a big push having [...]
Shoaib Malik and Mohammad Yousuf broke their own fourth-wicket partnership record for Pakistan, Malik’s century helping Pakistan hit 302 for nine and India were then bowled out for 248 in reply. Pakistan won the toss and chose to bat first and the ground-record stand of 206 came after they were reduced to 65 for three [...]
After six years, India and Pakistan again play each other at an ICC event and that too at Centurion, where they last met in the 2003 World Cup. This time, like then, there is no favourite going into this crucial Group A clash of the 2009 Champions Trophy. India have been struck badly by injuries. [...]
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Thursday said that opener Gautam Gambhir would figure in India’s Champions Trophy opener against Pakistan on September 26 after having missed the lone warm-up game against New Zealand. “He was cleared by the BCCI experts when he underwent a fitness test in Mumbai before the [...]
Pakistan captain Younis Khan will be available for their Champions Trophy match against India despite a finger injury, the Pakistani board said on Thursday. Younis missed his country’s opening victory over the West Indies in midweek after suffering the injury in a warm-up match. “Younis suffered a minor hairline fracture in his right-hand finger during [...]
The bitter feud in the Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) on Thursday prompted the BCCI to shift the opening ODI in the best-of-seven match series between India and Australia, scheduled at Jaipur on October 25, to Vadodara. “We have shifted the first ODI from Jaipur to Vadodara,” BCCI president Shashank Manohar said after the Board’s 80th [...]
India’s preparations ahead of their ICC Champions Trophy opener against Pakistan on Saturday have been hit by the news that middle-order batsman Yuvraj Singh has suffered a finger injury which rules him out of participating in the tournament. Yuvraj fractured the little finger on his right hand during a training session in Johannesburg and he [...]
India’s bid to win the Champions Trophy got a big blow when Yuvraj Singh was ruled out of the first match against Pakistan due to a finger injury. Yuvraj was enthusiastically taking part in the fielding session at the University Ground. But in the process, he ended up hurting his right finger so badly that [...]