8th Over: Watson into the attack. Jayssuriya on strike. WICKET! Jayasuriya hit that straight to Pathan at deep square leg. Uthappa is the new man in. FOUR! Takawale played it away fine. Mumbai are 46-1
7th Over: Tanveer comes back with Jayasuriya on strike. The two batsmen are rotating the strike nicely. FOUR! Jayasuriya ponded that […]
Match facts
Thursday, May 8 2008
Start time 11.00 (local), 10.00 (GMT)
The Big Picture
This is the final chance for New Zealand to fine-tune their preparations ahead of the first Test and also a last opportunity for England’s fringe players to give the selectors a headache ahead of the squad announcement on Sunday. It should prove a tough […]
A slew of medium-pacers mixed bouncers, slower balls and cutters to restrict Rajasthan to a paltry 103 on a two-paced pitch at the DY Patil Stadium in Mumbai. Shaun Pollock seemed to have got it just right - and he nipped out the first wicket too - and he was well backed up by a […]
The Bangalore Royal Challengers have named former India batsman Brijesh Patel as their new chief executive to replace Charu Sharma, who left his post on Tuesday.
The Challengers, owned by liquor baron Vijay Mallya, have slipped to the bottom of the table with just two wins from their seven matches.
Disappointed with his team’s mediocre showings, Mallya […]
Adam Gilchrist’s replacement in the Australia team, Brad Haddin, has vowed to play his own game when he makes his Test debut.
The 30-year-old is set to make his first Test appearance against West Indies in Jamaica later this month and will attempt to fill the considerable void left by one of the best wicketkeeper-batsmen in […]
The Chennai Super Kings slumped to their third defeat on the bounce as an Adam Gilchrist-inspired Deccan Chargers eased to a seven-wicket win in their Indian Premier League encounter on Tuesday.
The hosts set the Chargers a victory target of 145 from their 20 overs but that total looked under threat right from the start of […]
The Chennai Super Kings slumped to their third defeat on the bounce as an Adam Gilchrist-inspired Deccan Chargers eased to a seven-wicket win in their Indian Premier League encounter on Tuesday.
The hosts set the Chargers a victory target of 145 from their 20 overs but that total looked under threat right from the start of […]
The MCC is to explore the possibility of Lord’s being used as a neutral venue for Test cricket.
The club is willing to allow overseas teams to use the ground during the English summers, if their national boards are interested in doing so.
However, with the Ashes series and Twenty 20 World Cup next year, such a […]
Cricket Australia will push to increase the attractiveness of cricket to women following a survey showing only 36% of females watch the game “always or occasionally” on television. While cricket was the most popular sport for both sexes in the Roy Morgan poll - 50,000 Australians were surveyed - James Sutherland, the Cricket Australia chief […]
Richard Hadlee, the legendary New Zealand allrounder and current chairman of selectors, believes England’s Ryan Sidebottom is the biggest threat to the touring side ahead of the Test and ODI series. Sidebottom was New Zealand’s nemesis in the preceding series, taking 24 wickets at 17.08 in three Tests, and Hadlee warned of his nagging accuracy […]
Over the next two months Australia will know whether Stuart MacGill has doused the doubts over the status of Australia’s No. 1 slow bowler. MacGill is due to step back into international action in the West Indies after a summer disrupted by injury and questions over his fitness.
However, he returned from surgery in much better […]