Pakistan deployed dozens of police officers including elite commandos as the South African cricket team arrived here Wednesday for a month-long tour of the country.
South Africa are due to play two Tests and five one-day internationals in the violence-hit Islamic republic. They open the tour with a warm-up three-day match in Karachi from Thursday.
Tight security […]
Graeme Smith has voiced concerns about the exodus of leading players from South African cricket. Several cricketers including Jacques Rudolph and Vaughn van Jaarsveld have signed Kolpak contracts while others such as Andrew Hall have recently quit international cricket.
“The main concern is that players who can still mean a lot to the national team are […]
Mohammad Ashraful, Bangladesh’s captain, has called for the appointment of a full-time coach ahead of his side’s tour to New Zealand at the end of the year.
“I feel we desperately need a permanent coach, whoever it may be, Shaun [Williams] or anyone else. There is a big difference between a permanent and temporary coach. You […]
Mike Hussey, the Australia batsman who has been ruled out of their tour of India, is confident he will be fit for the first Test against Sri Lanka on November 8.
Hussey picked up an injury to his left hamstring during Australia’s ICC World Twenty20 campaign last week, forcing him out of Australia’s tour of India […]
Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik said on Wednesday that his young team can transform their Twenty20 form into success in the forthcoming Test series against South Africa.
Pakistan finished runners-up to arch-rivals India in the inaugural Twenty20 tournament in South Africa on Monday, marking a comeback after their disastrous 50-over World Cup campaign earlier this year.
“We have […]
After they had dominated vast tracts of the match, darkness suddenly appeared to be setting on India’s World Twenty20 dream. Matthew Hayden and Andrew Symonds, two of the hardest hitters of a cricket ball ever to swagger on to a field, were making mincemeat of the bowling, and Australia needed just 60 from six overs […]
John Bracewell believes the Twenty20 format could revolutionise cricket in the same way one-day internationals have changed the game over the past few decades. Bracewell returned to Christchurch on Tuesday after New Zealand’s semi-final exit at the ICC World Twenty20 in South Africa and he expressed his satisfaction with the shortest form of the game.
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Shane Watson says there is no chance he would consider giving up bowling this early in his career, although he concedes Test cricket is on the backburner for him after his latest hamstring injury. Watson hopes to be back playing for Queensland within a month but will not rush himself into contention for international selection […]
Police battled to contain surging crowds wildly celebrating the return home Wednesday of the Indian team after lifting the inaugural Twenty20 world title against Pakistan.
Thousands braved monsoon rain to greet the cricketers off a flight from South Africa which landed in the western city of Mumbai on Wednesday morning.
Private security guards were also drafted in […]
Adam Voges is confident that his recent experience in Pakistan has prepared him well for a potential ODI call-up in India next week. Voges was added to the Australian squad for the limited-overs series as cover for Ricky Ponting, who has a hamstring injury.
When Ponting is declared fit Voges is likely to fly home, meaning […]
Bermuda’s national cricket team may have some of their senior players back - but now they have nowhere to train.
Gus Logie’s training squad is currently doing gym work as the BCB tries to find them a home ahead of the tour to Dubai and Kenya. And though he now has the likes of Janeiro Tucker, […]
The sight of a young Indian team lifting the ICC World Twenty20 against all odds will no doubt make a significant impact on another young outfit set to take on South Africa A in the three one-dayers, the first of which is scheduled in Ahmedabad on Wednesday. India A were victorious in the two Tests […]