20th Over: Pathan to bowl the last over. WICKET! Kalyan is brilliantly caught by Marsh at backward point. RP Singh on strike. A single brings Sharma on strike. SIX! Sharma goes high and handsome, into the stands. Follows it with a single. RP gets Sharma back on strike. A leg bye. Hyd are 164-8
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On a hard pitch with hardly any moisture and likely to be a batting beauty, Kings XI Punjab chose to bowl with captain Yuvraj Singh explaining his decision by saying that batting was his team’s strength. The other factor influencing the move could be the explosive batting line-up of the Deccan Chargers in which the […]
Canada have joined the Twenty20 bandwagon and will host their first tournament in Toronto on May 17 and 18. Eight teams from British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia will compete. Read more
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Afghanistan will be one of 12 nations dreaming of a place in the 2011 World Cup when the World Cricket League Division Five begins in Jersey later this month.
Germany, Mozambique, Nepal, Norway, USA, Vanuatu, Botswana, Japan, Jersey, Bahamas and Singapore are the 11 other teams who will take part in the event from May 23-31, […]
Tim Nielsen, the Australia coach, is not concerned about Ricky Ponting’s lack of form in the Indian Premier League (IPL) ahead of this month’s Test tour of the West Indies. Ponting struggled in his four appearances for the Kolkata Knight Riders, scoring 20, 19 and a pair of golden ducks.
He returns to Australia this week […]
When he is not actively involved in winning matches for the Super Kings, the Indian ODI skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni is zipping around Chennai on a Harley-Davidson. Wearing a professional motorcycle rider’s jacket and the customary helmet, he is virtually anonymous on the streets of the Tamil Nadu capital, except that the classy bike always […]
6th Over: Trivedi replaces Tanveer. Ganguly on strike. FOUR! Dada heaved that over deep mid wicket. The skipper is coming to his own now. A wide. A single brings the fifty up for Kolktata. Hodge gets off the mark. WICKET!Ganguly hits that straight, Trivedi gets a finger on the ball, which hits the stumps on […]
Sussex’s members looked quizzically at one another when Mushtaq Ahmed’s name was not mentioned in the team to face Surrey at Hove. It was later revealed that Mushtaq, Sussex’s whirling legspinner, underwent keyhole surgery on his right knee on Wednesday.
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James Ormond has signed a one-year contract with Surrey after proving his fitness to the county.
Ormond, who has been dogged by injuries and questions over his general fitness, was out of contract at the end of 2007 but the county agreed he could return for pre-season on the understanding that if he proved his fitness […]
Mohali pacer S Sreesanth may miss the tie against hosts Hyderabad on Thursday owing to flu, according to his captain Yuvraj Singh.
Mohali will also be missing Australian Brett Lee, who has returned home for national duties. The Hyderabad team too would miss out on the services of Andrew Symonds for the same reason.
“Sreesanth is suffering […]
Kolkata skipper Sourav Ganguly has said that his side was going to bounce back after suffering two defeats on the trot.
The Kolkata team, that won the first two matches, slumped to a low-score defeat against Chennai and Mumbai, the latter at home. They take on the Shane Warne-led Jaipur team on Thursday in a bid […]
Delhi captain Virender Sehwag has praised his bowlers and said they have proved that bowlers have a role to play in Twenty20 cricket.
“It is great to see that pace bowlers are performing on Indian pitches. Even in T20 cricket which is regarded as the batsmen’s game my bowlers have shown that bowlers too can perform […]