19th Over: Tanveer to Gony. He hoicked that down the ground for a single. FOUR! Ntini got a bottom edge and the ball raced away to the fence. The 100 is up for Chennai. FOUR! That was a fine shot by Ntini.WICKET! Tanveer has broken through Ntini’s defence. Six wicekts for Tanveer. Chennai are 109
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Rajasthan Royals’ fast bowler Shoail Tanvir took 6 for 14, the best figures at any level of Twenty20 cricket, to decimate the Chennai Super Kings for 109 at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur. Tanvir was in red hot form from the start, he trapped Parthiv Patel lbw with the first ball of the mach […]
19th Over: WICKET! Asif gets a thick outside edge off Kulkarni and Nehra takes an easy catch at third man. McGrath is the last man in. WICKET! McGrath will be easily caught by Thornely and Mumbai win by 29 runs
18th Over: Nehra into the attack.
WICKET! Sangwan hoicks that in the air and is taken by […]
Ishant Sharma, the Kolkata Knight Riders fast bowler, has been fined 10% of his match fee for kicking the stumps down during the IPL match against Kings XI Punjab in Mohali on Saturday. Clive Lloyd, the match referee, found Ishant guilty of a level 1 offence (clause 2) as per the ICC’s Code of Conduct, […]
A magnificent all-round performance by Shaun Pollock produced the biggest upset of the tournament as Mumbai Indians - languishing with just one win in five games - pipped the fancied Delhi Daredevils by 29 runs in a gripping contest at the DY Patil Sports Academy stadium. Requiring a modest 163 for the fifth win, Delhi’s […]
Samantha Algama, Sri Lanka Cricket’s (SLC) media manger who was sacked recently, said the interim committee chairman Arjuna Ranatunga could have avoided all the unnecessary bad publicity he was bringing to SLC if only he had shown some courtesy in asking him to resign. Ranatunga’s untimely sacking of Algama became an international issue with the […]
Tim Nielsen, the Australia coach, has predicted there will be no changes to the batting and fast-bowling line-ups for the first Test against West Indies unless there are injuries. Australia’s 15-man squad starts its pre-tour camp in Brisbane on Monday and the incumbents, who were part of the 2-1 victory over India, will be boosted […]
It’s hard to imagine a 104-run partnership from just 55 balls being intrinsically worthless, especially in the Twenty20 format where such associations are usually 24-carat gold. It’s also difficult to think of an occasion when the margin, nine runs, masked what was a yawn-inducing mismatch for such long periods. But for David Hussey and Wriddhiman […]
Kings XI Punjab recorded a comfortable victory over the Kolkata Knight Riders on Saturday, winning by nine runs after an early Kolkata collapse.
Having made 178 for six off their 20 overs, Punjab soon began dismantling the Kolkata batting order. Sourav Ganguly went for just five, caught at third man off Sreesanth, and Mohammed Hafeez quickly […]
New Zealand skipper Daniel Vettori needed two stitches to the forefinger on his left hand on day two at Essex.
The spinner hurt his bowling hand backing up as the hosts replied to 355 with 251-9, but x-rays showed no break.
England batsman Alastair Cook, who disclocated a finger while fielding on Friday, was cleared to bat […]
Two of Mumbai’s home IPL matches - on May 14 and 16 - are likely to be shifted from the DY Patil Stadium to the Wankhede Stadium, following speculation that the Mumbai Indians were unhappy with the commute from the team hotel to the venue.
The DY Patil Stadium, located in Navi Mumbai, involves a commute […]
Yorkshire, after threatening to lose to Nottinghamshire at their own headquarters, eventually fought their way through to a draw, thanks to the tenacity of their ninth-wicket pair of Tim Bresnan and Darren Gough, after some feeble batting from their middle order. It was an intriguing final session after a draw had seemed likely for most […]