Delhi and Kolkata coaches have exuded confidence ahead of the crucial clash between the two teams at the Eden Gardens on Tuesday.
Delhi coach Greg Shipperd said his boys were eager to put on a good show after they went down to Jaipur on Sunday.
“It was a close match but fielding lapses and poor bowling cost […]
New Zealand are intent on learning the lessons of defeat as they attempt to match the achievements of their 1999 counterparts by winning a series in England.
The tourists will start this week’s opening Test as massive underdogs for the series despite running England close during the winter, when they won the first Test and were […]
Kevin Pietersen has admitted England need to raise their level of performance if they are to compete with the tough challenge of taking on South Africa.
The Hampshire player and England’s star batsman believes the four-Test series later this summer against his former compatriots will be the perfect yardstick to measure their progression.
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Ryan Sidebottom’s impressive return to international cricket has seen him named Vodafone player of the year.
The 30-year-old Nottinghamshire seamer has enjoyed an outstanding run of form since his recall to the England squad in May 2007 after a six-year absence. Read more
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It seems hard to recall right now, but there was a time barely two months ago when Andrew Strauss’s Test career was hanging by the slenderest of threads. A run of 25 innings without a century had led to his omission from the tour to Sri Lanka before Christmas, and when he was contentiously recalled […]
Shaun Marsh hit 74 not out to guide Kings XI Punjab to a comfortable nine-wicket victory over the Bangalore Royal Challengers on Monday.
The Australian had the highest batting average in the IPL before the clash and he cemented his position as the competition’s best batsman with another swashbuckling performance in Mohali.
He smashed nine fours and […]
New Zealand coach John Bracewell says he is certain captain Daniel Vettori will be fit to lead the tourists in Thursday’s first Test against England.
Vettori had been a slight doubt after having stitches in a finger wound on 3 May, but he bowled five overs in the nets on Monday without discomfort.
Media manager John Durning […]
The forgotten war
No, we’re not talking about Afghanistan or ME Waugh. The Royal Challengers’ song has the line, Khel nahin, yeh jang hai [It’s not a game, it’s war]. Presumably, they took a leaf out of the Mike Marquesee book, War Minus the Shooting, because their top stars have been firing nothing but blanks all […]
Mithali Raj, who led India to their fourth successive Asia Cup title, has said the squad, which includes four Under-21 players, was picked keeping in mind the World Cup in Australia next year.
“I am happy to say that we have a good pool of players with whom we will work over the next nine months […]
Paul Collingwood will take the field at Lord’s on Thursday for his 30th consecutive Test appearance, after reporting no ill-effects from the cortisone injection that he received in his right shoulder on Friday night. However, he is aware that the injury - which he sustained in Sri Lanka before Christmas and aggravated again ahead of […]
The troubles don’t seem to abate for the Bangalore Royal Challengers; off-field controversies plagued the bottom-placed side going into the match against Kings XI Punjab, and a nine-wicket mauling in Mohali leaves the second-most expensive franchise in the IPL all but out of the semi-finals.
On a hard deck suited for strokeplay, Bangalore’s batsmen once again […]
Australia vice-captain Michael Clarke may miss the first Test against West Indies next week following the death of his fiance’s father on the weekend.
The right-hander was given compassionate leave from an Australian pre-tour training camp last week to return to Sydney and be with his recently-engaged partner Lara Bingle and her family.
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