Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni has topped the list of world’s 10 top earning cricketers compiled by Forbes, which also features four other players from the sub-continent — Sachin Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh, Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly. Raking in USD 10 million, Dhoni is at the top of the chart followed by Tendulkar at the [...]
Suresh Raina smashed a sparkling unbeaten 92 to power Air India Red to a thumping seven-wicket victory over India Cements in their last Group D match and book a semifinal berth in the inaugural Sahara BCCI Corporate Trophy limited overs tournament here on Thursday. Raina sent the India Cements bowlers for a leather hunt in [...]
Rahul Dravid became the cricketer with most catches when he held on a Tim McIntosh edge off Zaheer Khan on the fourth day of the third and final cricket Test here. Dravid snapped the catch, his 182nd in 134th Test, at third slip during lunch session in New Zealand second innings to go past former [...]
Team Owner: Vijay Mallya 2008 Record: Seventh Coach: Ray Jennings Squad: Kevin Pietersen (captain), Jacques Kallis (vice-captain), Rahul Dravid (ICON), Shivnaraine Chanderpaul, Ross Taylor, Wasim Jaffer, Gaurav Dhiman, Robin Uthappa, Mark Boucher (wicket-keeper), Shreevats Goswami, Dillon du Preez, Jesse Ryder, Cameron White, Virat Kohli, Praveen Kumar, Balachandra Akhil, Ranganath Vijay Kumar, Dale Steyn, Nathan Bracken, [...]
Former India captain Rahul Dravid on Wednesday equalled Mark Waugh’s world record of 181 Test catches when he caught Martin Guptill (14)at third slip off Zaheer Khan’s bowling on the opening day of the first Test against New Zealand at Seddon Park. Dravid reached the landmark in 132 Test matches, four more than former Australian [...]
Rahul Dravid began his third tour of New Zealand on a bright note, scoring a dignified 102 for Canterbury Wizards against Central Stags in a NZC first-class match at the Mainpower Oval, Rangiora on Friday. Given the opportunity to warm up ahead of the first Test at Hamilton on March 18, Dravid struck 13 boundaries [...]
Middle-order mainstays Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman, along with four other members of India’s Test squad, left for New Zealand from here early on Monday for the three-match Test series starting March 18. The duo, along with Amit Mishra, L Balaji, Dhawal Kulkarni and Murali Vijay, would be reaching Auckland on Tuesday morning. The players [...]
Bangalore Royal Challengers owner Vijay Mallya on Sunday made it clear that he had not yet finalised Rahul Dravid as captain of his Indian Premier League outfit. Reacting to media reports claiming Dravid had been retained as skipper of the side, a not-too-amused Mallya said, “Who said so? After all, I’m the boss of the [...]
Saurashtra’s middle order batting mainstay Cheteshwar Pujara wants to utilise the chance when he plays against Rahul Dravid’s Karnataka team in the Ranji Trophy quarter final here from December 26 to pick the batting great’s brains and get useful tips. “I am looking forward to have a chat with Rahul Dravid whenever I get the [...]
Rahul Dravid on Saturday said that the century he scored against England here would rank among the most significant knocks of his career. “It’s a quite significant knock, considering the form I was in coming into the match. It’s one of the most significant hundreds I scored and I now just hope we go on [...]
Rahul Dravid’s prolonged lean patch seems to have become a national obsession but the Karnataka middle-order batsman found an ally in former India skipper Sourav Ganguly who rubbished claims that the ‘Wall’ is showing signs of vulnerability. “Dravid is a great cricketer with lot of maturity. It will be wrong to say that it’s over [...]
Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who feels the former skipper will break free from the prolonged bad patch in the Test series against England. “As of now, he has been shaping up well and he had time to go home in between. Talent wise we all know Dravid’s capabilities and he needs to focus now. He is [...]
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 has not lost at the Kotla in the last six Tests and Dravid said he was confident that the hosts would maintain the unbeaten streak. “It’s a great venue for us. I haven’t played in a Test that we have lost here. So, it’s always nice to come back here. Hopefully we will wrap [...]
Bangalore Royal Challengers, which finished seventh of eight teams in the inaugural IPL season, have appointed Ray Jennings as their new coach. Jennings, the former South African coach, replaces Martin Crowe, who was the team’s chief cricket officer. Brijesh Patel, the Challengers’ chief executive, told Cricinfo Jennings would also help the Karnataka state team on [...]
Australia finally declared early in the morning session of the fifth day of the first test against India at the Chinnaswamy stadium in Bangalore. This means that the Aussies set India a target of 299 from a minimum of 80 overs to win or save the match, or even lose it if the visitors can [...]
Sourav Ganguly came out in strong defence of senior players in the Indian team, saying that they had always given their best for the country throughout their career. “We have been performing ever since we have been in the team. We don’t look at current form. We had given our best on the field,” Ganguly, [...]
Test skipper Anil Kumble came out strongly in defense of the fabulous four of the Indian middle-order who failed against the Sri Lankan spin duo of Ajantha Mendis and Muthiah Muralitharan in the recently concluded three-match series in the Emerald Isle which the visitors lost 2-1. “I don’t know who gave this tag – Fab [...]
India’s master batsman Sachin Tendulkar has dropped to his lowest ranking in 15 years in the ICC rankings for Test batsmen after a disappointing series against Sri Lanka. Tendulkar, who started the series in the 13th position, finished in 23rd place after scoring 95 runs at 15.83. He drops six places after scores of six [...]
India could not have asked for a better beginning on day one of the third test match at Colombo when they won the toss on a placid wicket with a chance to fight the Lankan spinners and put up a huge total. And they started off well again with Sehwag and Gambhir putting up 51 [...]