Virender Sehwag’s cavalier strokeplay masks a shrewd cricketing brain. It’s an asset better revealed when he’s bowling, where his offbreaks are superior to those expected of a regular part-timer. He has a classical action, gets the ball to turn, and can bowl the straighter one, but hitherto has made only guest appearances with the ball.
Sehwag’s […]
In the lead-up to the third Test Matthew Hayden spoke about the need to impose himself on India and his musings on positive intent didn’t seem to make sense. With 42 runs in the first two games, he was Australia’s most out-of-form batsman and in Mohali had tried to blast his way into the minds […]
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Just before play started, Matthew Hayden kept Zaheer Khan waiting. For two minutes, he gardened on the pitch, on the non-strikers’ end too, and then when Zaheer was getting ready to run in, Hayden squatted and made Zaheer wait again. Then he got what he asked for. A fired up Zaheer delivered a […]
THIRD TEST, Delhi (close, day three):
India 613-7d v Australia 338-4
DAY THREE CLOSE: AUSTRALIA 338-4
1130: Australia 338-4
Michael Clarke faces the last over of the day, although his record in this Test at this stage isn’t the greatest having been dismissed twice, once in Bangalore and once in Mohali. And it could have been dismissal number three […]
English players’ chief Sean Morris has likened the organisation of the Stanford Super Series to that of “a garden party”.
Morris, chief executive of the Professional Cricketers’ Association, is in Antigua for Saturday’s showpiece ‘Twenty20 for 20′ match between England and the Stanford Superstars and has revealed he is concerned by a lack of professionalism in […]
Queensland finished the first day in Perth on a high after their batting line-up again struggled to post a decent total. On a day when 13 wickets fell, Western Australia finished at 3 for 33 following a pair of late strikes to Ryan Harris, which left Luke Pomersbach yet to score as the only not-out […]
Lalit Modi, the IPL chairman, has ruled out the possibility of official sanction to the rebel Indian Cricket League (ICL) as it fails to meet the norms of ‘authorised unofficial cricket’. Modi added that it wouldn’t be possible to sanction the ICL because there is no window in the international calendar to accommodate the tournament.
Modi, […]
Australia women’s young fast bowlers had India on the mat in the first ODI that the hosts won comfortably by eight wickets at Hurstville Oval in Sydney. Alex Blackwell and Lisa Sthalekar scored half-centuries in chasing the modest 184.
Ellyse Perry, Delissa Kimmince and Emma Sampson - all right-arm bowlers - had played 33 ODIs and […]
Half-centuries from Simon Katich and Matthew Hayden helped get Australia off to a determined start on the third day of the third Test of the Border-Gavaskar series against India.
Resuming on 50 without loss in pursuit of India’s mammoth first innings score of 613 for seven declared, Hayden and Katich put on 123 runs for the […]
Gautam Gambhir, the India opener, was banned for one Test on Friday for not conducting play “within the spirit of the game as well as within the laws of cricket”. Gambhir was involved in a verbal altercation with Shane Watson, the Australian bowler, and elbowed him in the process.
Gambhir, who pleaded guilty to the Level […]
Matthew Hayden and Simon Katich gave Australia an excellent platform as they replied to India’s enormous 613 on the third day in Delhi. Australia looked like they might enjoy a full session of batting without losing a wicket for the first time in the series, until Amit Mishra stopped Katich’s run on 64.
There were a […]
Arjuna Ranatunga, the chairman of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC), has reiterated his opposition to the IPL and said it was “unfair” that the national board does not gain any money for releasing its players for the BCCI-backed Twenty20 league. SLC will now ensure it becomes the sole representative of its players and earns revenue from […]