Kanpur: Ending his 16-year-long association with Uttar Pradesh, Mohammed Kaif has decided to lead Andhra Pradesh in the upcoming Ranji season after striking a two-year deal with the state association (ACA). The Allahabad-born player has accumulated 9277 runs, taken 143 catches and picked 20 wickets in his first-class career. “It`s end of the road for …
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England`s century-maker on day two of the second Test versus India here, Gary Ballance said that his side needs to make use of the remaining wickets and try to take a lead in the first innings. Ballance scored 110 runs and added to his century tally at Lord`s, where he got his maiden Test hundred …
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Pakistan`s foreign batting coach Grant Flower has described his new assignment as a “big challenge” and said he was looking forward to convincing Umar Akmal and Shahid Afridi to do away with their habit of throwing away good starts. A day after reaching Pakistan for his two-year assignment, the former Zimbabwe batsman told reporters in …
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Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi is concerned about cricket`s future in the country and believes the upcoming talent pool is not convincing enough for long-term survival in the national team. The outspoken Afridi made these observations on a talk show on Geo Super channel when asked whether it was time for Pakistan to start looking at …
Discarded wicketkeeper-batsman Kamran Akmal has said senior players need to be given more respect in Pakistan cricket. The experienced campaigner, who has been ignored by the cricket board and national selectors since the World T20 in Bangladesh, said that it was not fair for the selectors to judge a player on the basis of two …
Speed bowler Dale Steyn took five wickets as South Africa seized control on the third day of the first Test against Sri Lanka on Friday. Steyn, 31, unleashed some fiery bowling without much help from a dry and flat track to finish with figures of 5-50, his 23rd five-wicket haul in Tests. At stumps, Sri …
JP Duminy scored his fourth Test century and his first in the subcontinent to steer South Africa to a first innings total of 455 for nine wickets declared on the second day of the first Test against Sri Lanka on Thursday. At close, Sri Lanka openers Kaushal Silva (eight) and Upul Tharanga (20) had survived …
Kolkata: Former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly`s much-awaited entry into cricket administration will happen on July 27 when he will be elected Cricket Association of Bengal joint secretary in its 83rd Annual General Meeting (AGM). Ganguly will succeed Sujan Mukherjee whose four-year-term is getting over this month while the rest of the CAB panel will remain …
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India will take sustenance from the fact that they have stared down a sinister Lord’s greentop and pronounced that they are a long way removed from the submissive outfit that lost 4-0 on their last tour to England. That they scrapped throughout was undeniable, but the dominant innings that finally rewarded a day of hard …
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Former India captain Rahul Dravid said that there is no need to replace Mahendra Singh Dhoni as suggested by former Australian skipper Ian Chappell because the team has “progressed” well under the able leadership of the Jharkhand wicketkeeper-batsman. “Dhoni is the right man to take India forward as we have been making progress and going …
