Australian skipper Ricky Ponting says leg-spinner Brad Hogg will be a better and more confident bowler in Wednesday’s second cricket Test against India at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
Hogg, singled out as a weakness by the Indian team before the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne, responded with four match wickets, including Sourav Ganguly twice, in Australia’s […]
Mohammad Ashraful demands Bangladesh give it all in the third and final one-day international in Queenstown after an “unacceptable” performance in the second match. Bangladesh have already conceded the best-of-three series 2-0 to New Zealand but Ashraful felt his side could come back hard ahead of the two Tests.
“I believe we can recover from the […]
Captain Anil Kumble says the Indians will have to markedly improve their run-rate in the second Sydney cricket Test if they are to prevent Australia from holding on to the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
Ricky Ponting’s Australians inflicted one of India’s heaviest Test defeats winning the Boxing Day Test by 337 runs on Saturday’s fourth day at the […]
New Zealand are determined to make a clean sweep of Bangladesh when the two sides meet for the third and final one-day international at the Queenstown Events Centre. Inclement summer weather disrupted practice on the eve of the game and more is forecast on game day, but the mood remained upbeat in the home camp.
The […]
A long catalogue of humiliation and dismal memories for West Indies in South Africa were finally and emphatically expunged at St George’s Park yesterday.
By whatever criterion it is judged, their victory in the first of the three Tests, quarter-hour before the close of the fourth day by the irrefutable margin of 128 runs, was as […]
Chris Gayle, the West Indies captain, has said it was tremendous beating South Africa on their home soil, especially so with a relatively young and inexperienced side. “It was really pleasing to see how we operated under pressure,” Gayle told the Caribbean Media Corporation. “We just have to try and keep on improving and maintaining […]
Nothing less than an emphatic win will satisfy New Zealand in their third and final one-day cricket international against Bangladesh on Monday.
Although they despatched cricket minnows Bangladesh with ease in the first two matches, the New Zealanders know lingering doubts persist about their ability ahead of the looming bigger challenge of England in February.
After having […]
New West Indian captain Chris Gayle hailed a “thrilling” win against South Africa as a career highlight and said the challenge for his young team was to continue to improve.
“It’s really thrilling to beat South Africa in four days,” he said after a 128-run triumph in the first Test at St George’s Park on Saturday.
Asked […]
The West Indies gained their most significant Test win away from home in seven years when they beat South Africa by 128 runs on the fourth day of the first Test at St George’s Park on Saturday.
Set 389 to win, South Africa succumbed to consistent pressure from the West Indian fast bowlers and were bowled […]
It’s ironic that a year that began with India celebrating a new opening combination has ended with them grappling over the choice of their top two. An age-old problem appeared to be sorting itself out but now it’s exploded into their faces.
The New Year Test in Cape Town saw Dinesh Karthik open for the first […]
Down but not out. That seems to be the mood in the Indian camp after suffering a 337-run loss in the opening Test at the MCG. In terms of runs it was India’s worst defeat in Australia but the side is giving off vibes of being confident enough to bounce back.
The team chose not to […]
Hamish Marshall and Daryl Tuffey are among six players who might never again represent New Zealand after appearing in the Indian Cricket League (ICL). New Zealand Cricket has told selectors to consider others ahead of the pair, who were still in the international frame, according to the Sunday Star Times.
The other four players, Chris Cairns, […]