New Zealand allrounder Grant Elliott has expressed his keenness to make a bigger contribution with the ball in the second Test against Pakistan in Wellington. Elliott bowled just two overs in New Zealand’s 32-run win in Dunedin due to his knee injury, leaving Shane Bond, Daniel Vettori, Iain O’Brien and Chris Martin with an additional [...]
Andrew Strauss has saluted his bowlers after England’s clinical seven-wicket victory over South Africa, just two days after a 112-run mauling in Cape Town. The architect of the turnaround was James Anderson, who took a career-best 5 for 23 to rip through South Africa.
Anderson started with a wild delivery down the leg side, and had [...]
Out-of-favour seamer Irfan Pathan finds inspiration in S Sreesanth’s spectacular return to international cricket.
And, Irfan believes he too can claw his way back to the Indian team with some solid performance in domestic cricket.
Back in action for the ongoing Ranji Trophy, Irfan said he would leave no stone unturned in his efforts to impress the [...]
India will reach the top spot in the ICC Test Championship table if it beats Sri Lanka in the third and final Test match in Mumbai.
The Mumbai Test starts from Wednesday.
India lead the series 1-0 and are currently placed third in the Test rankings with 119 points.
If India can beat Sri Lanka in the Mumbai [...]
A team effort from Pakistan Under-19s helped them make a winning start to the tri-series in Sri Lanka by convincingly beating Bangladesh Under-19s in a low-scoring encounter. There were no standout performances from Pakistan, but several players made 30s with the bat, and the wickets were shared around by the bowlers.
After choosing to bat, Pakistan [...]
South Africa’s batsmen veered from the sublime to the ridiculous in the space of three days, as England demonstrated the staggering extent of their inconsistency in one-day cricket by following one of their heaviest thumpings with arguably their most dominant display of the year.
Led by James Anderson, who overcame a knee complaint to produce the [...]
Iain O’Brien has said he and the rest of New Zealand’s bowling attack are “pretty sore but very happy” a day after dismissing Pakistan during a tense run-chase in Dunedin to take a 1-0 lead in the three-Test series.
New Zealand went into the first match with a four-man bowling attack and, because part-timer Grant Elliott [...]
Gautam Gambhir regained the number one spot but veterans Sachin Tendulkar and VVS Laxman lost ground in the ICC’s Test Rankings, issued today.
Gambhir returned to the number one spot after his eighth career century helped India record an innings and 144 runs victory over Sri Lanka in the second Test in Kanpur.
Gambhir, the ICC Test [...]
Muttiah Muralitharan says he is no longer the dreaded bowler he uesd to be and might even retire before the 2011 World Cup.
Murali said he was frustrated with his failure to provide Sri Lanka the breakthroughs in the ongoing Test series against India.
Muralitharan, who has already announced his Test retirement after next year’s series against [...]
James Anderson bowled with great skill to capture his first five-wicket haul as England crushed South Africa for a 2-1 series lead with one match to come.
South Africa opted to bat first in the fourth one-dayer but lost Graeme Smith to Stuart Broad in the second over and were bundled out for a feeble 119.
Anderson [...]
Since the conclusion of The Oval Test in August, the Australian rumour mill has been abuzz with theories as to the motives behind Nathan Hauritz’s omission from the starting XI. The move to play an all-pace attack on a parched pitch that turned early and substantially played a sizable role in Australia’s eventual 197-run defeat, [...]
Match facts
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Start time 10.00 (08.00GMT)
Big picture
The scoreline says the series is all-square, but after such a convincing 112-run victory at Cape Town South Africa are now the side with the momentum. It shows how quickly situations can change in one-day cricket and, following their crushing win in the second Twenty20 international, [...]