T-10 Gully Cricket Season 2, Ab Har Koi Khelega’ which kick started its 2nd season has signed Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt as a proud team owner of “Sirsa Gullies,” the Sirsa cricket team of this season. Sanjay Dutt will own this team and will be responsible for marketing and promoting it in India. He will [...]

Alastair Cook has long been touted as a future England captain but whether his appointment for the upcoming tour of Bangladesh has come too soon for his or the team’s good remains an open question. The move was prompted by the selectors’ decision to give regular captain Andrew Strauss, Cook’s fellow opening batsman, a break [...]

Mumbai: Stage is all set for auction of players for third edition of Indian Premier League (IPL). As many as 66 players from all Test playing nations will be up for auction in Mumbai today. However, the IPL franchises will buy only 12 cricketers out of 66, which include cricketers returned from Indian Cricket League [...]

How big an advantage is winning the toss in a Test? What are the figures for wins, losses and draws after winning it? asked Richard Olive from Melbourne As it happens, over the history of Test cricket (1946 Tests to the end of 2009), it seems that winning the toss does not confer as much [...]

Charles Coventry 194* v Bangladesh fourth ODI, Bulawayo In an unglamorous series, Coventry, a man with few international credentials, equalled the record for the highest ODI score. It was a superbly paced innings. Coventry provided the impetus after the early dismissal of Mark Vermeulen, then tempered his aggression when wickets tumbled around him in the [...]

West Indies will be missing a group of key men to injury for their tour to Australia next month, with Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Ramnaresh Sarwan among the major omissions. The experienced batsmen, who were part of the 2-0 Test loss late last year, will be joined at home by Adrian Barath, Daren Bravo, Jerome Taylor [...]

After two big losses, Afghanistan put their names in the right column on the points table with an eight-wicket win over Hong Kong in Christchurch. Noor-ul-Haq’s decision to field was vindicated by his bowlers, in particular five-wicket hero Zakiullah Zaki, and a target of 138 was knocked off with ease thanks to Javed Ahmadi’s unbeaten [...]

Pakistan are hoping that a few fresh faces, a change of outfit and format will lead to a change in fortune on a long tour of Australia that has so far refused to bring any success. Pakistan were whitewashed by Australia for the fourth successive time in ten years after losing by 231 runs at [...]

Ricky Ponting has defended Australia’s schedule of ten one-day internationals and three Twenty20s over the next month despite the growing popularity of the shortest format. Australia begin their limited-overs season on Friday at the Gabba with the first of five ODIs against Pakistan, followed by five against West Indies. Ponting has been a critic of [...]

The ICC remains hopeful that bilateral contests between Pakistan and India can be resumed in the near future. Ties between the two governments have been rocky since the Mumbai terror attacks in November 2008, which the Indian government blamed on elements based within Pakistan. Soon after, an Indian tour to Pakistan was cancelled, bringing yet [...]

The IPL’s third auction has been preceded by hectic activity on Monday with league officials fixing base prices for the 66 overseas players involved and franchises buying out player contracts to free up squad places. There were several surprises during the day, among them the news that Kolkata Knight Riders had bought out Ricky Ponting’s [...]

Offspinner Johan Botha has been named in South Africa’s squad for the two Tests against India next month, marking his return after the 2008 tour of Bangladesh. Another notable inclusion in the 15-man team was left-arm fast bowler Lonwabo Tsotsobe, who was part of the touring party to Australia last year. There was no place [...]

Graeme Smith, the South African captain, and Morne Morkel, one half of his hostile new-ball pair, have climbed to career-best rankings after South Africa’s resounding victory in the fourth Test at the Wanderers. Smith crunched a vital 105 in that Test, and Morkel finished with match figures of 7 for 98 as England fell to [...]

Andrew Strauss has defended his decision to sit out of England’s tour of Bangladesh, saying it is an effort to save himself from burn-out during a busy 18-month period which includes the Ashes series and the World Cup. Alastair Cook is taking charge for the one-day and Test series in a move that had long [...]

Shahid Afridi He was part of the disaster that was the Deccan Chargers’ first season, missed the triumphant second season and in between was involved in a verbal spat with VVS Laxman, the franchise’s first captain. That, though, shouldn’t prevent him from being among the most in-demand players on Tuesday – not after his Man-of-the-Match [...]

Rahul Dravid has called for greater space between games in India’s domestic season in order to enable players to give their best, and increase the possibility of more outright results. Dravid, who is currently in Bangladesh for the two-Test series, said the frequency of matches and consequently, the lack of breathing space, was a reason [...]

Ricky Ponting has declined to enforce the follow-on after Pakistan were dismissed 218 short of Australia’s first-innings total. The final wicket fell when Mohammad Asif (29) skied a catch to mid-on off Nathan Hauritz in the fourth over after tea. Pakistan added only four runs after the break as Asif and Umar Gul (38 not [...]

Mohammad Yousuf has cranked up the tension with Pakistan’s selection committee by questioning its refusal to allow Younis Khan to come and bolster Pakistan’s Test squad in Australia. Yousuf and the on-tour team management had made repeated requests from as early as the first Test in Melbourne to send Younis over, because they were concerned [...]

England had few hassles overhauling Hong Kong’s 185 on the second day of the Under-19 World Cup at the Bert Sutcliffe Oval. A dominant top-order display, led by Joe Root and James Vince, helped England chase their target in 30.1 overs. Root took the attack back to Hong Kong’s bowlers during the first Powerplay, adding [...]

Close on the heels of the Feroze Shah Kotla pitch fiasco during the fifth ODI between India and Sri Lanka in Delhi, curator Daljit Singh has come under criticism for a similar incident in Mohali. Reportedly, the Maharashtra Under-19 team, who were playing Punjab in the Under-19 Cooch Behar Trophy semi-final, staged a walkout on [...]

Shakib Al Hasan, Bangladesh’s captain, is aiming to hold India to a draw in the upcoming first Test starting January 17 in Chittagong. Bangladesh have not played a Test since July and have been fed a steady diet of one-day matches since, but Shakib did not believe the team would be rusty ahead of what [...]

Ricky Ponting’s fifth Test double-century and Michael Clarke’s highest Test score have left Pakistan facing a mountainous task to avoid defeat over the next three days in Hobart. Both men departed during the second session and a lower-order flurry got Australia to 8 for 519 before Ponting declared on the stroke of tea, when Mitchell [...]

MS Dhoni has hit back at the comments of Ian Chappell, who this week said that India do not have the resources to retain their No.1 spot in the ICC Test rankings for a long enough period to emulate Australia and the great West Indies teams of the past. Chappell, the former Australian captain and [...]

Cricket Australia will let players involved in the IPL make their own decisions about whether to take part in the tournament following threats on their safety from India. The Shiv Sena political party has said they would not allow Australians to play in Maharashtra following attacks on Indian students in Melbourne. “At the end of [...]

Michael Clarke reached his highest Test score and combined with Ricky Ponting for a 322-run partnership that continued to grind Pakistan into submission on the second day in Hobart. The pair smashed all sorts of records in their ongoing stand, which will enter a fifth session when they come out after lunch aiming for quick [...]

The following is the scoreboard of the final between India and Sri Lanka in the tri-nation ODI series at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium here Wednesday: Match Highlights [playlist id=306] India: Virender Sehwag c Sangakkara b Kulasekara 42 Gautam Gambhir b Kulasekara 0 Virat Kohli c Sangakkara b Welegedara 2 Yuvraj Singh c Samaraweera b Welegedara [...]

A match Highlights of Birmingham City v Manchester United in the English Premier League on Saturday, January 9, 2010. Part-1 Part-2 Part-3 Part-1 Part-2 Part-3

A match Highlights of Arsenal vs Everton in the English Premier League on Saturday, January 9, 2010. Part-1 Part-2 Part-1 Part-2

Tuncay Sanli headed Stoke into the lead on 12 minutes from close range after Huth had won the initial header. Abdoulaye Faye claimed the second for the hosts, from a terrific whipped free-kick from Matty Etherington just after the half hour. Mamady Sidibe completed a great half for the Potters with the third goal on [...]

Stevenage went top of the Blue Square Premier table courtesy of a convincing win over dire out-of-form Cambridge. Yemi Odubade put Boro ahead, nodding home Stacy Long’s ball from close range but Danny Crow levelled with a deft header from Courtney Pitt’s free-kick. The impressive Odubade then set up goals for Lee Boylan, who finished [...]