Graeme Smith, South Africa’s captain, said he would be looking to bring imagination into his captaincy as he directs the hosts’ bid to win the Twenty20 World Championship starting next week.
“When one-day cricket started it was very different to how it was played now, it has developed a lot. And now we are at the […]
Tim Ambrose has been named captain of Warwickshire for the remainder of the county season while Darren Maddy, the incumbent, heads off to South Africa to take part in the Twenty20 World Championship. Read more
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Adam Gilchrist says that the Twenty20 World Championship will be a new experience for players, as they will be competing for a trophy, unlike earlier international matches where entertainment was the key.
“I think there is a little bit of unknown as to what’s going to happen,” Gilchrist said before Australia’s departure to South Africa. “We’ve […]
Staying afloat in the ODI series was the main concern for Team India till Sunday but Headingley’s morale-boosting victory has injected new optimism in the Indian camp with current and former captains– Rahul Dravid [Images] and Sourav Ganguly– believing that India can win the series. Read more
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When Indians are under attack for their poor fielding, Mahendra Singh Dhoni [Images] provided a ray of hope by engineering six dismissals behind the stumps to equal the world record for maximum dismissals by a wicketkeeper in a one-day international.
This was the eight instance of any wicketkeeper lending a hand in six dismissals and the […]
Warwickshire all-rounder Heath Streak will retire from county cricket at the end of the season.
The announcement could bring to an end the first-class career of the former Zimbabwe captain, who took 216 wickets and scored 1,990 runs in 65 Tests.
Streak, who made his Warwickshire debut in 2004, has taken 102 wickets and scored 1,130 runs […]
Skipper Shane Warne is expected to return to Hampshire’s side for the Championship Division One match against Worcestershire, starting on Tuesday.
Warne feared he had broken a rib last week but a new scan suggested he had only suffered a muscle tear.
Hampshire, who have three games left to play, were beaten by Surrey on Sunday and […]
Coach Mickey Arthur believes home advantage could help South Africa win their first major international trophy.
Hosts South Africa open the inaugural ICC World Twenty20 with a match against West Indies on 11 September.
“This is a huge chance for us to get the country behind us and to win a substantial event. It is attainable if […]
Sourav Ganguly came up with a Man-of-the-Match performance in his 300th ODI. He bagged two crucial breakthroughs in his economical spell of 26 runs from seven overs to dent England’s chase, after his 59 and 116-run opening stand with Sachin Tendulkar had set up the platform for a 300-plus total. Ganguly now needs one more […]
Graeme Smith, the South Africa captain, has broken his silence on Andrew Hall’s retirement from international cricket, saying that he plans to speak to Hall soon.
“I haven’t spoken to him [Hall], but I will do so in the next day or two,” Smith told Super Cricket. “He has his reasons, and it’s for him to […]
Sourav Ganguly is confident India can win the remaining two matches of the one-day series against England.
Ganguly’s man-of-the-match display of 59 and 2-26 helped his side to a 38-run win at Headingley on Sunday to leave them 3-2 down with two to play.
“The wicket did seam around a bit and it helped my sort of […]
Paul Collingwood had no complaints about the manner of England’s loss to India under the Duckworth-Lewis system in the fifth one-dayer at Headingley.
The tourists won by 38 runs after England’s innings was curtailed to 45 overs and the target revised to 311, after India had made 324-6.
But captain Collingwood said: “It is the fairest system […]