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 [...]
Pace spearhead Zaheer Khan, who is recovering from a shoulder injury, is set to leave with the India’s Twenty20 squad for the World Cup in England, BCCI sources said on Thursday. “The team is set to leave tomorrow. If there was anything about it (concerns over Zaheer’s fitness) we would have let it be known [...]
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 had New Zealand on the mat at a precarious 60 for six but allowed the hosts to stage a remarkable recovery through fighting centuries by skipper Daniel Vettori and Jesse Ryder on the first day of the first Test on Wednesday. Put into bat, the Kiwis suffered a dramatic top-order collapse in the first [...]
Team India spearhead Zaheer Khan said the side had a difficult time under former coach Greg Chappell and he had no idea why he was dropped after the 2005 series against Pakistan. Zaheer said he didn’t have much idea about what transpired in the dressing room when Chappell held the coach reins but things were [...]
Young India pacer Ishant Sharma has credited his recent exploits with the red cherry to his senior pace colleague Zaheer Khan. Ishant said it was Zaheer who helped him immensely during the last year which which saw him torment top batsmen around the world with both new and old balls. “No one expected us to [...]
Tamil Nadu Police have lodged a complaint with the Indian team management against pace spearhead Zaheer Khan for breaching security guidelines and getting into an argument with guards at the team hotel. Zaheer was miffed with security officials after one of his friends was denied entry into the hotel on Tuesday, police sources said. The [...]
India beat England by 158 runs in the first ODI at Rajkot to take a 1-0 lead in the seven match series. Scorecard- India thrash England, 1st ODI England won the toss and chose to field first and they were made to regret this decision almost instantly. Sehwag and Gambhir made a great start bringing [...]
Indian paceman Zaheer Khan was on Tuesday fined 80 per cent of his match fee for violating the ICC Code of Conduct by running towards Australian opener Matthew Hayden and shouting at him after his dismissal on the fourth day of the second cricket Test here. Zaheer was found guilty of Level 2 charge under [...]
Zaheer Khan has come out attacking off the pitch against the Aussies after the first test got over. “They know they can’t take 20 wickets and they are on the back foot,” Khan said. “They couldn’t get me or Bhajji out. So we are in with a big chance. They are under pressure and we [...]
Australia were placed in a somewhat strong position at the end of the first day of the first test against India at the Chinnaswamy Stadium. Zaheer dismissed Hayden in the first over of the day and with Ishant Sharma kept the scoring on a tight leash. But Katich and Ponting built a strong foundation with [...]
MS Dhoni hung on to his place atop the ODI batting chart but Australian Nathan Bracken surrendered top slot in bowlers’ rankings to Daniel Vettori after his relatively disappointing series against Bangladesh. In the ICC rankings for ODI batsmen, Australia’s stand-in captain Michael Clarke has dropped one place to 15th after scoring 40 runs at [...]
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 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 captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni heaped praise on his fast bowlers for their fine show in the three wicket win in the second one-dayer against Sri Lanka but warned that they would have to toil harder in the remaining three games. “Most of the times we have played in Sri Lanka it is not a [...]
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 [...]
India made an amazing come back after the let down in the first match of the five match ODI series against Sri Lanka at Dambulla. Scoreboard After winning the toss, MS Dhoni elected to bowl first but that was due to the absence of Gautam Gambhir because of stiffness. However, it proved to be the [...]
Speaking to reporters after the test series was lost 2-1 to Sri Lanka, India captain was looking for responsibility on the part of the senior team members who failed to deliver the goods in the three test matches. “The batsmen did not put up a good show here and that probably cost us the series. [...]
Sri Lanka won the third test against India at the PSS ground in Colombo by eight wickets and that too inside eight days. Scorecard On the fourth day, India started a fight back with Dravid and Laxman at the crease, but Dravid was out once he got his fifty. Laxman though carried on reaching his [...]
Sri Lanka just managed to get a 2 runs lead on India at the end of Day 2 of the third test at Colombo. Riding high on a gritty century by Kumar Sangakkara, who was due a good score after he failed in the last two tests, the hosts reached 251 for 6 when bad [...]