Former India pacer T A Sekar said India need to protect Ishant Sharma well to prolong his blooming international career.
Sekar, the former MRF Pace Foundation head coach, said Sharma was a unique talent which needed to be handled cautiously.
“Ishant is a treasure. We need to wrap him in cotton wool and protect him so that […]
Geoff Lawson said England’s decision to abandon the India tour due to security fears, smacked of double standards.
“It’s interesting that England are heading home and certain players don’t want to play the Test series and yet we go back to 2005, bombs went off in London while there was a big series on there and […]
National selector Geoff Miller has admitted England’s players with a “sense of fear” should not resume their tour of India.
Miller has spent the day liaising with officials from the England and Wales Cricket Board, who have been in talks with security advisers both at home and in India to determine whether it is safe for […]
Australian spin legend Shane Warne, in his book, could not camouflage his dislike for former India captain Sourav Ganguly.
Warne found neither the hallmarks of a great batsman nor an extraordinary leader the just-retired former Indian skipper.
“Sourav Ganguly might not be my cup of tea as a bloke, but what he did for Indian cricket has […]
England have been offered a revised schedule for their tour of India but will await a security report before making any decision.
The England and Wales Cricket Board has said players will not be forced to go following the terror attacks in Mumbai.
Indian cricket bosses say the ECB has agreed to the Ahmedabad and Mumbai Tests […]
England will return to India to play their two-match Test series as per schedule, but without several senior players.
Following the terror attack on Mumbai, Flintoff and fast bowler Steve Harmison and perhaps another bowler in the squad of 15, are expected to pull out in the next two days, citing their children and wives as […]
Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ijaz Butt has admitted the terror attacks in Mumbai have made India’s Test tour of Pakistan in January unlikely.
Butt revealed a decision would be made by Tuesday with the Indian board awaiting clearance from its government.
“Before this tragic incident took place we were pretty confident the Indians would tour,” he said. […]
England’s cricketers will not be forced to return to India for the two-Test series, Hugh Morris, the ECB’s managing director for England cricket, said as the squad arrived back in London on Saturday evening.
In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, Morris said the England team was committed to returning to India if it […]
Kevin Pietersen has admitted that he still has a burning desire to succeed in India should they resume their tour.
The England squad have made the decision to temporarily suspend the tour in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, which have killed well over 100 people and injured hundreds more.
The future of the tour […]
The fate of England’s Test tour to India lies in the hands of the players themselves, according to their captain, Kevin Pietersen, as the team prepares to fly home from the country in the wake of the terrorist atrocities that have rocked Mumbai over the past two days.
Officials from both England and India are adamant […]
The BCCI has shifted the second Test between India and England to Chennai, following Wednesday’s terrorist strikes in Mumbai. The Indian board’s announcement is a reiteration of their unequivocal stand of Thursday, when Lalit Modi, a vice-president and head of its fixtures committee, said the series would go ahead.
The ECB has said that it was […]
England have decided to fly home from their tour of India but remain committed to returning for the Test series.
Following a series of meetings at their hotel in Bhubaneswar today the tourists have elected to fly home tomorrow with a view to returning for the first Test in Ahmedabad on December 11.
Hugh Morris, managing director […]