Johannesburg: Indians have traditionally struggled to adapt to hard, bouncy wickets of South Africa and coach Gary Kirsten wants his top batsmen at least 3,000 hits at the nets to be battle-ready before the Test series starting at Centurion on December 16. “There are two vital aspects to winning in South Africa — first, the …
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Melbourne: Ricky Ponting has dropped out of the top 20 in the International Cricket Council (ICC) Test batting rankings for the first time since 2001 after Australia’s crushing defeat by England in Adelaide. Ashes holders England won the second Test at the Adelaide Oval by the huge margin of an innings and 71 runs to …
Melbourne, Dec. 8 : A confident England has sent fast bowler James Anderson back home to attend the birth of his second child. Anderson is expected to return in time for next week”s Perth Test. According to Fox Sports, England will use their three-day game against Victoria starting on Friday at the MCG as an …
Pakistan’s ODI captain Shahid Afridi has backed Wasim Akram’s views that the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) must announce the 2011 World Cup squad as soon as possible. “We need to start working soon with the bunch of players who make the World Cup, as it is a very important tournament and I don’t want the …
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Former Australia captain Steve Waugh says national selectors are “in a quandary” over their team’s form slump and may be best to give incumbent players the chance to redeem themselves the Ashes series against England. Waugh was a member of the last Australian team to lose an Ashes series on home soil, 23 years ago, …
Mumbai: Nine members of the Indian cricket team, including skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni and senior batsman Sachin Tendulkar, left for South Africa in the wee hours here on Wednesday. Apart from Dhoni and Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Harbhajan Singh, Pragyan Ojha, S Sreesanth, Wriddhiman Saha, Suresh Raina, Ishant Sharma and Team manager Ranjib Biswal also departed …
Bangalore: He single-handedly engineered India’s five-wicket win over New Zealand in the fourth ODI and all-rounder Yusuf Pathan said his blistering innings could be the turning point of his career. The Baroda batsman scalped three crucial wickets and slammed an unbeaten 96-ball 123 down the order as India zoomed past New Zealand’s victory target of …
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Yusuf Pathan finally brought to international cricket the brutal hitting and useful off-spin he’s known for in domestic cricket. Figures of 3-49 were followed by a 79-ball hundred — in the end an unbeaten 123 off 96 — as India comfortably chased down New Zealand’s 315-7 at the Chinnaswamy Stadium. Parthiv Patel’s 52 set the …
Australian cricket legend Ian Chappell and Englishmen Sir Ian Botham renewed a 30-year-old grudge, when they had to be separated after having a dispute in the car park outside the Adelaide Oval after the fourth day’s play of the second Ashes Test. According to the Daily News, their Sky and Channel 9 colleagues intervened after …
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Former Pakistan cricket captain Wasim Akram has urged players, fans and the media to move on from the recent problems plaguing Pakistan cricket, and back the country to win the World Cup 2011, though he tipped India as favourites to win the mega event. “Let”s forget what problems we”ve been going through recently and with …
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