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Only Sachin was worthy of double ton milestone
Feb 25th
A thirteen-year wait ended for me on Wednesday. A wait for the first double hundred in ODIs. I had watched an utterly dehydrated Saeed Anwar of Pakistan get to 194 in the Pepsi Independence Cup match against India at Chennai. And he had a runner. Ever since that day one was wondering who would be the ...
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Loading ...India wins 2nd Test by 10 wickets, clinches series 2-0 against Bangladesh
Jan 27th
India's Zaheer Khan claimed seven wickets and Bangladesh lost its final seven batsmen for just 22 runs as the visitors claimed a 10-wicket victory Wednesday in the second and final Test. Trailing by 311 runs on first innings, Bangladesh started the day at 228-3 in its second innings and with a chance to make a fight ...
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Statistical highlights of India-Sri Lanka ODI
Jan 6th
Following are the statistical highlights of the India-Sri Lanka tri-series match played on Tuesday. # Sri Lanka's match-winning 283 for five is their highest total against India in Bangladesh. # India's total of 279 for nine is also their highest total against Sri Lanka in Bangladesh. # Chanaka Welegedara (5/66) has produced his career-best bowling performance in ODIs. # ...
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...India post record total after Sehwag, Gambhir tons
Nov 24th
Centuries from Gautam Gambhir and Virender Sehwag put India high in the saddle at the end of Day 1 in the second Test against Sri Lanka at the Green Park stadium, in Kanpur, on Tuesday. The day belonged to the Indian batsmen, who amassed 417 for 2 in 90 overs, the hosts' highest tally in a ...
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Pakistan hold nerve to sweep series
Nov 14th
Pakistan 153 for 5 (Umar 56*, Butler 3-28) beat New Zealand 146 for 5 (McCullum 47, Stryris 43) by 7 runs Scorecard and ball-by-ball details How they were out Following the one-sided affair on Thursday, there was little to separate the two sides tonight as Pakistan overcame a spirited New Zealand fightback to sweep the Twenty20s 2-0 ...
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...My husband, Sachin
Nov 14th
Wife Anjali Tendulkar is Sachin’s lifeline; he depends on her for almost everything. Here, for the first time ever, Anjali opens up about the pulls, pressures and delights of living with a legend... TOI: How easy or difficult is it to be Mrs Sachin Tendulkar? How do you cope with the pressures? For me, it's very easy ...
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...The Dirty Dozen
Nov 14th
The rebel tours of South Africa that took place between 1982 and 1989 are events which, almost three decades on, still reflect badly on the game in general and those involved in particular. By the start of the 1980s the world was increasing pressure on South Africa's apartheid regime with sporting, political and commercial boycotts. But ...
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...No practice for Sri Lanka ahead of first Test
Nov 13th
Sri Lanka's practice match against Board President's XI was on Friday called off without a ball being bowled due to unsuitable ground conditions. Two days of play had already been lost after unrelenting rains lashed the city since Wednesday, and the visitors were not willing to take the field on the third and final day as ...
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...‘Sachin, don’t quit till you are convinced’
Nov 13th
The first Test between India and Pakistan in Karachi, which began on November 1989, was memorable for some Indian players. It was Kapil Dev's 100th Test, making him the first bowler to then play so many matches. Mohammad Azharuddin stepped in for Raman Lamba and sealed a near permanent spot in the Test side. On the ...
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Younus unlikely to change his T20 retirement plan
Nov 9th
Pakistan skipper Younus Khan is unlikely to be persuaded to change his retirement plan for the Twenty 20 format of the game. "He is a blue-eyed boy of the PCB chairman Ijaz Butt, who is also likely to be here for the final ODI against New Zealand on Monday, but will not persuade the captain to ...
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Zaheer set to return for Test series against Lanka
Nov 9th
Zaheer Khan is set to return to Test cricket while Ashish Nehra would also fancy a comeback to the longer version after a five-year hiatus when the national selection panel meets here tomorrow to pick the Indian squad for the three-match home series against Sri Lanka. Zaheer, who returned to first class cricket recently after undergoing ...
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Vettori wants one final victory against Pak
Nov 9th
New Zealand cricket captain Daniel Vettori is hoping that his inconsistent team performs consistently just one more time to win the third and final one-day cricket international against Pakistan in Abu Dhabi on Monday. "We look for more improvement and will make sure that we head into this final game with more confidence and looking to ...
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Tendulkar’s career a lesson for all youngsters: Miandad
Nov 7th
Former Pakistan captain Javed Miandad today lavished praise on batting great Sachin Tendulkar and said the young cricketers in the sub-continent should follow his example if they are serious about carving out a career in cricket.Miandad was all praise for the Tendulkar, who completed 17,000 ODI runs in the fifth one-day international against Australia ...
(1 votes, average: 1.00 out of 5) Loading ...New Zealand’s turnaround delights Vettori
Nov 7th
New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori believes his team's conscious effort to improve in key areas helped them beat Pakistan and level their three-match series at 1-1. They may have been beaten by 138-runs in the first match on Tuesday but the Black Caps hit back with a clinical performance in the second on Friday to win ...
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Mithun hat-trick powers Karnataka to victory
Nov 7th
The fourth day of 2009-10 Ranji Trophy season saw three teams, Karnataka, Bengal and Gujarat open their season with victories each. There were some impressive performances both, with the bat and ball and some young talents rouse to the situation. Here’s a round-up of the first set of super-league matches… Group B Karnataka 405 (Pandey 194, Srivastava ...
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Twelve-year-old Sarfaraz breaks Harris record with 439
Nov 5th
Twelve-year-old Sarfaraz Khan was batting on 235 when stumps were drawn in his Harris Shield match on Monday evening. He spent a sleepless night, wondering if he could go past the 346 runs Sachin Tendulkar had scored in Mumbai's inter-school cricket competition 21 years ago. Sarfaraz's father, Naushad Khan, is a local coach who has trained ...
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No respite for walking wounded
Nov 5th
Brett Lee's comment about India being an unpredictable ODI team in the build-up to the seven-match series may have taken quite a few by surprise. After all, unpredictability is not a term generally associated with Team India especially at home and more applicable to sides like Pakistan and West Indies. But whether it has been the ...
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Dhoni backs struggling Harbhajan, second chance for erratic Hilfenhaus
Nov 5th
While only seven members of the injury-hit Australian squad turned up at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium for the optional practice session on Wednesday morning, Team India arrived with their full-strength squad in the afternoon. But even as the rest of his team mates indulged themselves in a friendly game of football on the sidelines, ...
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...BCCI unmoved on Services ban
Nov 5th
The BCCI has said it will stand by its decision to ban Services from this year's Ranji Trophy despite mounting pressure from various sections of the Indian government. The ban was imposed on Tuesday after Services, which is run by the national defence ministry, skipped a Plate League match against Jammu and Kashmir in security-sensitive ...
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Debutant Mithun’s five-for puts Karnataka in command
Nov 5th
Group B Uttar Pradesh 214 for 8 (Amir 50*, Mithun 5-63) trail Karnataka 405 (Pandey 194, Srvastava 4-75) by 191 runs Scorecard After Manish Pandey on day one, it was the turn of another youngster, Abhmanyu Mithun, to shine in the Karnataka-Uttar Pradesh match in Meerut. Pandey failed to add to his overnight 194, kick-starting a collapse that ...
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Australia look to defy odds again
Nov 5th
Big Picture Australia have no business being 2-2 in this series. Seven first-choice men out, followed by two of their replacements (Moises Henriques being the latest). Foreign conditions. Back-to-back matches, spread across the length and breadth of India, suggesting more a sightseeing tour than one of the cricketing variety. Bowlers struggling at the death. Big hitters ...
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New Zealand rolled over by Afridi
Nov 4th
Shahid Afridi shone with bat and ball to steer Pakistan to an emphatic 138-run victory against New Zealand in the first One-day International in Abu Dhabi for a 1-0 lead in the three-match series. Afridi smashed 70 off 50 balls and then claimed two wickets. Pakistan-New Zealand Scorecard Electing to bat first, Pakistan recovered from an awful start ...
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Shah Rukh Khan to play Lalit Modi
Nov 4th
Bollywood Badshah Shah Rukh Khan is all set to essay the role of IPL chairman Lalit Modi in a film titled 'The Commissioner'. Modi on Tuesday gave his nod to Bollywood production house Percept Picture Company (PPC) for a "fictional biopic". Elaborating on the project, PPC Shailendra Singh, joint managing director of PPC, said that film will ...
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Services tenders apology to BCCI
Nov 4th
The Services team tendered apology to BCCI for pulling out from the Ranji Trophy match against Jammu and Kashmir in Srinagar. Services also assured BCCI to play the game on a fresh date. "Services is now ready to play in Srinagar. Services Sports Control Board (SSCB) has apologised to the BCCI for the administrative slip-up in dispatch ...
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Sehwag, Gambhir likely to play Mohali ODI
Nov 2nd
Openers Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir, who sustained injuries during India's third ODI against Australia, are likely to play the fourth ODI in Mohali later in the day. Both Sehwag and Gambhir underwent fitness test at the Sector 16 stadium in Mohali on Monday and the Indian coach Gary Kirsten would likely to allow both ...
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Dhoni, Harbhajan give slip to police
Nov 2nd
Indian cricket captain M S Dhoni and off-spinner Harbhajan Singh gave some anxious moments to the police here when they left the team hotel without informing them. Yuvraj Singh also went out declining an offer to have security personnel with him here last night. Police said they were not amused at the "irresponsible action" of the players ...
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Chandigarh police bust major cricket-betting racket
Nov 2nd
The Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police on Sunday said that it had cracked a major cricket-betting racket and arrested four bookies in the city. Addressing the media in Chandigarh, Superintendent of Police (Crime) of Chandigarh Police, Madhur Verma, said: "The arrested persons were operating from a rented house and they were caught red-handed while laying bets ...
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India vs Australia 3rd ODI live
Oct 31st
New Delhi, October 31: India vs Australia third One Day International (ODI) is set to begin within a few hours from now. Queues are already formed outside Ferozshah Kotla Stadium in New Delhi, as cricket crazy fans want to get hold of the elusive ticket as soon as possible. For cricket crazy Delhiites the 3rd ODI ...
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Ponting cries foul ahead of third ODI against India
Oct 31st
Ahead of Saturday’s third ODI against India, Australia skipper Ricky Ponting on Friday accused the groundsmen at Ferozshah stadium of hampering their morning practice session by watering the pitch. “I was disappointed when I had a look at the practice wicket which was watered this morning. Everyone in the world except the groundsmen knew that we ...
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Ricky ‘excuse’ Ponting’s fresh list
Oct 30th
After Men in Blue bounced back strongly to level the series with a thumping win at Nagpur, Australian skipper Ricky Ponting, who is hit with string of injuries, is making excuses for the team's dismal performance against Dhoni's men. On eve of the third one dayer at Delhi, the Aussie skipper slammed the training facilities available ...
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