Injuries to key players is taking a toll on the best playing XI. There is a fear that Sehwag and Zaheer may not be available for the first part of the tournament. Rohit Sharma, who opened the batting against New Zealand, is among the replacements being considered for Sehwag as the opener. “Viru and Zaheer [...]
The Indian Team for next month’s ICC Twenty20 World Championship in England has been declared today. Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni alongwith vice captain Virender Sehwag will lead a 15-member squad to England next month. The 15 member squad includes Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir , Suresh Raina , Yuvraj Singh , Yusuf [...]
India and Sri Lanka go head to head in the second ODI of the five match series in a day-night game at Colombo. India won the first match by six wickets and took a 1-0 series lead. Sri Lanka will have to tighten up in all departments as their batsmen failed to build on Sanath [...]
India won the 3rd ODI against England by 16 runs on Duckworth Lewis method as bad light stopped play in Kanpur. This means India has won three out of three matches so far in the series. Scorecard – India win 3rd ODI Kevin Pieterson won the toss for England and chose to bat first on [...]
Indian middle-order batsman Rohit ot Sharma thinks that the Indian players will now have no problems playing the mystery spinner Ajantha Mendis in any future series after having played him with relative ease in the recent ODIs against Sri Lanka. “You might have seen what happened in the one-day series (in Sri Lanka). He did [...]
Many would call today’s match a rain affected game that resulted in India losing, others would call it the sheer brilliance of the Lankan bowlers, but the fact of the matter is that the Indian batting order failed miserably once again as they have done several times in the past. The Indians had the upper [...]
India beat Sri Lanka by 46 runs in the fourth ODI at Premdasa stadium in Colombo. With this win, India have taken an unassailable 3-1 lead in the Idea Cup and thus have won their first ever ODI bilateral series in the Emerald Island. Scoreboard Winning the toss and electing to bat first, India made [...]
India beat Sri Lanka in the third ODI at the Premdasa Stadium in Colombo by 33 runs and took a 2-1 lead in the series. Scorecard However it was a far from comfortable win for them, when it should have been so after the good bowling performance given by the Indian bowlers. Chasing 238 for [...]
India beat Sri Lanka in the second ODI of the five match series in Dambulla. After winning the toss, India opted to bowl first and the decision paid off as Zaheer Khan ran through the top order with 4 for 21 from ten overs. At one stage, Sri Lanka were 4 for 11 and 44 [...]
Mahendra Singh Dhoni is back from his award winning rest and will lead India’s 16-man squad for the five-match ODI series against Sri Lanka. Sachin Tendulkar, Harbhajan Singh and Zaheer Khan are back in the side too after their respective hiatuses from the sport, while Yuvraj Singh is back too after missing the bus for [...]
BCCI Vice-President Rajeev Shukla said the press report featuring three Indian players enjoying a midnight beach party before Asia Cup final in Karachi was totally wrong and the Cricket Board would neither enquire nor take any action against them. “The report appeared in a leading Urdu daily Jung was totally wrong,” Shukla told newsmen. “BCCI [...]
The BCCI on Thursday denied that they were probing the incidents leading to India’s Asia Cup defeat, in which three key players performed poorly after having allegedly spent the previous night at a beach party. Ratnakar Shetty, the chief administrative officer of the Board, said the three players in question, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina and [...]
The Indian team had a major final coming up and the fact that they needed to win it to reverse a record of 18 losses in 22 finals didn’t deter three players of the side from going out on the night before the final and party. The team suffered a horrific 100-run loss to Sri [...]
The Indian team announced today for the Sri Lanka tour saw no major surprises as far as expectations are concerned. The non-performers were out, and new young performers are in. Dhoni has been rested, as expected, and Parthiv Patel finds place in the team after a long time to take place as wicket-keeper. Anil Kumble [...]
Soft drinks major Pepsi has dropped master blaster Sachin Tendulkar, whose long-standing contract with the company expired in May. This completes a process of gradually phasing out the ageing cricketers of the Indian team and building a new look face for the global giant. The dropping of Tendulkar comes on the backdrop of Pepsi axing [...]
Sri Lanka has won the Asia Cup 2008. They outperformed India in all departments – Batting, bowling and fielding. Jayasuriya and Mendis will probably remember this night for the rest of their life as both came out and fought for their country when it was in trouble. Ajantha Mendia is ‘Man of the Match’ for [...]
The Asia Cup 2008 saw clash of the two titans India and Pakistan meet in a match that was always meant to be a thriller – it always is. Not only was today’s match a thriller, it was a KNOCKER. Scorecard India started it’s innings with a blast, as Sehwag and Gambhir both fired right [...]
India recovered well after being 132/4 at one stage, to set a target of 309 in 50 overs against Pakistan in the semis league match in the Asia Cup. Scorecard Dhoni and Rohit Sharma scored fifties as they put on a 112 run partnership to take India to safety after the early jolts. The captain [...]
India were neckdeep in trouble by the end of the 20th over, having lost four wickets with just 132 runs on board and four top order wickets gone. Scorecard This must be one of the days when Team India is missing the experience of Sachin Tendulkar, though not initially. The opening duo of Sehwag and [...]
Bangladesh scored a very competitive total by posting 283/6 on the scoreboard thanks to Alok Kapali who score 115 runs of just 96 balls. What surprised everyone most is his 5 huge sixes and 10 fours. India are missing Sehwag today and Uthappa and Gambhir were given the task of opening the innings for India. [...]