India beat New Zealand in the first ODI at Napier by 53 runs and took a 1-0 lead in the rain curtailed match. India outshined New Zealand in bowling as well as batting department to clinch the first One-Day International win under D/L method. Solid fifties by Sehwag (77), Dhoni (84) and Raina (66) powered [...]
Sri Lanka made a thumping comeback in the series to salvage some pride and deprive India of a clean sweep as they bundled the visitors for 252, in reply to their 320 runs, in the fifth and final One-Day International at Colombo. After a 68-run loss, India won the five-match ODI series 4-1. Both the [...]
India and Sri Lanka go head to head in the five match ODI series starting on Wednesday with a day game at Dambulla. Sri Lanka have been playing some cricket this year as they started with a test series against Bangladesh and then a tri series against them alongwith Zimbabwe, both of which they won [...]
Following a series of terrorist strikes in Mumbai which begain last night, the balance ODIs between India and England have been called off. Even the status of the Test matches hang in balance and a decision will be taken at a later date after evaluating the security situation in Mumbai. The English players have their [...]
Top Indian players including captain MS Dhoni and Sachin Tendulkar have said that they are unwilling to tour Paksitan in January for their scheduled three-Test and five-ODI series. According to sources Dhoni, Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Virender Sehwag and Harbhajan Singh have all expressed their unwillingness to go to Pakistan. The players believe that in spite [...]
India and England go head to head in the 5th ODI against England at Cuttack with the hosts already having secured a series win with wins in the first four matches of the series. This will be their bid to make it an embarrassing 5-0 over the visitors who will be trying their best to [...]
India’s skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni is aiming at a 7-0 whitewash in the ODI series against England, despite having clinched the series by taking an unassailable 4-0 lead after winning a thriller here. The Indian team for the fifth match in Cuttack is likely to undergo changes in order to rest some senior players, who [...]
India clinched the seven-match cricket series 4-0 against England, edging out the visitors by 19 runs via Duckworth-Lewis method in the rain-curtailed fourth ODI on Sunday at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore. Scorecard – India beat England – 4th ODI – Bangalore Put into bat in what was India’s 700th ODI, the hosts witnessed two [...]
India and England go head to head in the 4th ODI of the seven match Hero Honda cup at Bangalore today. This is the first match of the series which will be played under lights, a decision that will be welcomed by England, given that they felt robbed by the Kanpur game which ended early [...]
Sachin Tendulkar is likely to return to the one-day side when the squad is picked for the last four matches of the England series in Kanpur on Thursday, a selector indicated. Tendulkar had requested the selectors to leave him out of the first three ODIs after a strenuous Test series against Australia. One of the [...]
BCCI President Shashank Manohar has assured the new PCB chairman Ijaz Butt that India will go ahead with their tour of Pakistan in January next year. Manohar has already written to the Indian government for security clearance and expects a reply in 10 to 12 days. Earlier, there were reports that India’s tour to Pakistan [...]
Ishant Sharma, who missed the first two ODIs against England due to an ankle injury, has been assessed match-fit but the team management is yet to take a call on whether he will play the third game on Thursday in Kanpur. Immediately after the Nagpur Test against Australia, Ishant flew to Mumbai to have his [...]
Kris Srikkanth, the chairman of India’s national selectors, has backed Yuvraj Singh to take the Test middle-order spot vacated by Sourav Ganguly, the former captain who has retired. Yuvraj made two consecutive match-winning hundreds (138* and 118) against England in the first two ODIs of the seven-match series over the last five days, and also [...]
Ishant Sharma, the Indian fast bowler, has been ruled out of the first ODI against England in Rajkot on Friday due to an ankle sprain. Ishant, who was Man of the Series in the recent Test series against Australia, has been advised five days’ rest, a BCCI release said. “He is undergoing his rehabilitation at [...]
Andrew Flintoff’s 85-ball 100, with strong support from Owais Shah, set up a comfortable 122-run victory for England over a second-string Mumbai side in their first practice game of the tour. There were more gains for England’s batsmen than their bowlers, who, except for James Anderson, had to toil without much impact. Flintoff was a [...]
Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag, who missed the last ODI series in Sri Lanka, are set to return to the Indian limited overs squad when the national selectors meet here on Wednesday to name the team for the seven-match series against England commencing on November 14 at Rajkot. The selectors are expected to name almost [...]
The senior selection committee of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) will meet in Nagpur on November five to select the One-Day team for the seven-match series against England starting at Rajkot on November 14. “The selectors will meet at Hotel Pride in Nagpur to pick the 14-member team for the One-Day [...]
England’s selectors have named a 15-man squad for the Stanford Super Series and the seven-match one-day tour of India that gets underway in November, with Ryan Sidebottom earning a recall after an injury disrupted season. He comes in to replace Tim Bresnan, although will have to pass a fitness test, in a squad that is [...]
Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni is happy with the fact that he led the side to a historic ODI series win in Sri Lanka in the absence of star players Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag. Talking to reporters after the team returned from a successful ODI series, Dhoni said the team did miss a few [...]
Dilip Vengsarkar, India’s chairman of selectors, has praised captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni for his role in the 3-2 series win in the one-dayers in Sri Lanka. “Dhoni’s return to the team was a boon. Not only did he lead the side superbly but he played a couple of match-winning knocks,” Vengsarkar said. “More importantly, he [...]