10th Over: Ganguly brings himself on. FOUR! Watson plays it deftly. WICKET! Dada gets it to nip back and the off stump is shattered. Watson is gone. Pathan comes to the crease. Jaipur are 69-4
9th Over: Watson on strike to Agarkar. Every dot ball will add to the presure here. There have been two on […]
When Ravi Shastri emulated Garry Sobers by hitting six sixes in an over in first-class cricket, the pundits nodded sagely, and in the manner of pundits declared that it was inevitable. You didn’t need to be a genius like Sobers to hit like that – if you were technically sound, everything else followed in cricket. […]
In a match that Kolkata must win to have realistic semi-final hopes, their batsmen were restricted to 148 by a disciplined performance from Rajasthan Royals’ medium-pacers at Eden Gardens. The pitch assisted the fast bowlers and a regular stream of wickets ensured that Kolkata’s innings failed to gather the momentum until the final overs.
Shane Warne […]
The weather ruined any chance of a result in the first Test at Lord’s but with home advantage, and on paper at least, a superior team, England are odds-on to win the second Test, starting at Old Trafford on Friday.
Bet365 make them 4/6 to take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series, while New Zealand […]
Shane Warne has revealed he would come out of Test retirement to play in next year’s Ashes series if asked by Australia captain Ricky Ponting.
Warne announced his retirement from Test cricket in December 2006, but made the stunning revelation in Tuesday’s edition of the Herald Sun.
However, Warne, who has starred as captain of the Rajasthan […]
New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori was delighted with the resolve shown by his team as the tourists earned a draw in the opening Test against England.
Jacob Oram’s 106 denied England’s hopes of a final day win and Vettori said: “He’s the first pick in our team, when he bats like that he’s as good as […]
West Indian international batsman Wavell Hinds will extend his stay at Derbyshire until the end of the season after being granted Kolpak status.
The England and Wales Cricket Board had refused the 31-year-old Kolpak registration because he had played in the rebel Indian Cricket League. Read more
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Nottinghamshire fast bowler Charlie Shreck has committed his immediate future to the Trent Bridge club.
Shreck, 30, has signed a new two-year deal with the Championship leaders, keeping him in Nottingham until 2010. Read more
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The annual tri-series has been cancelled but the calendar will still be filled with limited-overs matches in January and February after Cricket Australia released its 2008-09 schedule. Five head-to-head ODI contests will be played by Australia against each of South Africa and New Zealand as well as three Twenty20 matches, an increase of one on […]
While Shane Warne wonders if Ricky Ponting will call him into action for the Ashes, the captain has revealed his faith in Stuart MacGill is so strong he expects him to tour England next year. On Thursday MacGill, 37, will re-start his Test career after wrist surgery and Ponting is confident he will solve Australia’s […]
Tom Moody, the Kings XI Punjab coach, has said Wednesday’s clash against the Mumbai Indians his team’s “biggest” test in the Indian Premier League.
Punjab have seven wins out of 10 games so far, which puts them second in the points table, but Moody felt the job was far from over as far as entry into […]
England’s centrally-contracted players are negotiating over their share of any future Twenty20 winner-takes-all jackpot with Sir Allen Stanford.
The deal with the England and Wales Cricket Board is believed to include five one-off encounters in Antigua with the winners receiving £10m each time.
But captain Michael Vaughan, Matthew Hoggard and Steve Harmison do not feature in current […]