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SYDNEY (Reuters):Australia will play Afghanistan for the first time next month in what is likely to be a one-day international in the United Arab Emirates, Cricket Australia (CA) said on Monday. Full details of the match, including the format, have yet to be finalised, CA said in a news release, but the Australians view the ...
The former England captain called for the IPL to be expanded into an Asian league Former England captain Tony Greig has urged India to accept the “spirit of cricket is more important than generating billions of dollars”. Former England captain Tony Greig India is cricket’s economic powerhouse, driving the finance of the global ...
The International Cricket Council (ICC) said yesterday that more than 100,000 tickets for the ICC World Twenty20 Sri Lanka 2012 to be staged between 18 September and 7 October have already been sold and the majority has gone to the Sri Lankan market. Commenting on the ticket sales, Upekha Nell
COLOMBO: India’s limited-overs tour of Sri Lanka starting next month has been revised with the first one-dayer now scheduled for July 21, Sri Lanka Cricket said. The five-match one-day series, followed by a Twenty20 international, was originally due to start on July 22, but was amended
committee. The fourth edition of the club Twenty20 tournament will ...
Cricket’s chief executives on Monday backed the mandatory use of video umpires in Tests and one-day internationals, a year after they were made optional at the request of powerful India. The International Cricket Council’s (ICC) chief executives’ committee said independent tests had proved the reliability of the Decision Review System (DRS), which incorporates ball-tracking and ....
REUTERS: Former New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori has declared himself available for the Black Caps’ World Twenty20 campaign a year after bowing out of cricket’s shorter formats to prolong his test career. The 33-year-old all rounder played his last Twenty20 international in May 2010
Karachi, (ANI): Former Pakistan coach Mohsin Khan has criticised his current counterpart Dav Whatmore, holding him responsible for “hurting the team’s progress and balance” and added that the team would have yielded better results if he was allowed to continue. Pakistan coach Mohsin Khan “The team’s progress has suffered immensely. It pains me to see ...
Sri Lanka will look to improve their dismal Test record over the past year when they take on a self-destructing Pakistan side in a three-match series from Friday. The Sri Lankans have won just two of their last 14 Tests and lost six, but remain a force on home soil where they drew a two-match ...
West Indies star Chris Gayle has declared himself fit for Tuesday’s second one-day international (ODI) against England at The Oval. But the tourists will be without Darren Bravo after the batsman was ruled out of the remainder of the tour with a groin injury. Gayle had been due to make his long awaited return to ...
MUMBAI: The cash-strapped Sri Lanka Cricket board (SLC) has set a floor price of $3 million for the T20 league franchises, a paltry amount compared to the IPL. When IPL launched in 2008, it had fixed a minimum price of $50 million, which later zoomed to $225 million when two teams were added in 2010. ...
NEW DELHI: The Indian cricket team will be playing five One-day matches and two Twenty20 matches in Sri Lanka from the third week of July. According to sources, the Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) was initially interested in playing a full-fledged series against India, including a short Test series
(ANI): The controversy surrounding the application of the Umpire Decision Review System (UDRS) in the game of cricket at the international level refuses to die down. Though, it is well known that Indian cricketers have expressed serious doubts about the UDRS, and often objected to its use in international fixtures, other countries such as Australia ...
Chris Gayle is set to put more than a year in the international wilderness behind him when West Indies face England in the opening match of their one-day series at Southampton on Saturday. Gayle has an impressive one-day record, with over 8,000 runs in 228 ODIS including 19 hundreds at an average of nearly 40. ...
Test and one-day cricket captain Michael Clarke is demanding his limited-overs team lift and says the tour of England and Ireland represents the start of a two-year campaign to make Australia the top nation in all three forms of the game. Australia head the one-day ratings, but are third in the Test standings and fifth ...
Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat has hit back at suggestions of bias over the ICC’s plan to retain the Duckworth-Lewis method of deciding interrupted matches instead of adopting an alternative system from India. V. Jayadevan, who devised the alternative VJD method, has written to International Cricket Council (ICC) president Sharad Pawar to criticise last week’s decision. ...
DUBAI, (Reuters): Umpire Billy Doctrove, who along with Australian Darrell Hair was at the centre of the controversial Oval test which Pakistan forfeited against England in 2006, has announced his retirement. The West Indian was due to umpire Thursday’s one-dayer between Sri Lanka and Pakistan in Pallekele but withdrew because of a family bereavement and ...
;s best Twenty20 players. Malinga, was selected as the Event ...
PALLEKELE: Sri Lanka will look to improve their recent one-day record against Pakistan when they clash in a five-match series starting in Pallekele on Thursday. The World Cup runners-up have lost five of their last six one-dayers against Pakistan, four in the United Arab Emirates last November and one in the Asia Cup in Dhaka ...
Reuters: Hard-hitting batsman Chris Gayle has been recalled to the West Indies squad for this month’s one-day international series in England after ending a long-running feud with the board. The former captain has not played for the team for more than 14 months but agreed to end his exile after meeting the board and resolving ...
Reuters: Left-arm pace bowler Sohail Tanvir has been retained in the Pakistan squad for the one-day international series in Sri Lanka. Tanvir, 27, was part of the Twenty20 squad that played two matches in Sri Lanka and will stay on for the five one-day internationals this month. “Since Tanvir
KARACHI: Buoyed up after his match-winning show in Pakistan’s Twenty20 clash against Sri Lanka in Hambantota on Sunday night, Shahid Afridi is eyeing similar outings in the five-match One-day International series getting underway in Kandy from June 7. Playing his 50th Twenty20 International
HAMBANTOTA: Pakistan’s tour of Sri Lanka got under way with a 30-run loss, on Friday, as the visitors were unable to chase down a 133-run target in the first Twenty20 match at Hambantota. Electing to bat first, Sri Lanka launched a late comeback to post 132-7, with Thisara Perera leading
Chief minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee (L) holds the IPL Twenty20 champion’s trophy with Kolkata Knight Riders owner Shah Rukh Khan (R) during celebrations in front of the Writers Building in Kolkata on 29 May. Kolkata Knight Riders claimed victory in the annual IPL Twenty20 cricket
Gurgaon (IANS): India’s cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni Thursday said Team India was open to play against arch-rivals Pakistan if the two boards agree to have a bilateral series in India. Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Zaka Ashraf, who was invited to watch the IPL final between the Dhoni-led Chennai Super Kings and Kolkata Knight ...
Reuters: England batsman Kevin Pietersen has retired from all forms of limited over international cricket with immediate effect, the England and Wales Cricket Board said on Thursday. The 31-year-old, who will continue to play tests, cited the increasing demands of international cricket on his body for his decision to quit one-dayers. “After a great deal ...
DUBAI: Hosts Sri Lanka will swing into ICC World Twenty20 mood as they take on Pakistan in a two-match international series with both teams looking to move up the ICC T20 Championship table. Sri Lanka, which will host ICC World Twenty20, will need to win the series, which starts on Friday, 2-0 if it is ...
Sri Lanka fast bowler Lasith Malinga has decided against playing for Middlesex in English county cricket’s Twenty20 competition the county’s managing director Angus Fraser announced on Monday. The 28-year-old paceman, whose unusual ‘slingshot’ action makes him difficult
COLOMBO: Pakistan are hoping to build on their impressive record over the past year when they take the field during the full tour of Sri Lanka starting later this week. “The task here is to win, but the longer goal is to take Pakistan high up in the rankings in all three formats,” Pakistan coach ...
The scandal-prone Indian Premier League (IPL) remains cricket’s most divisive tournament, but some thrilling action in front of packed houses has put immediate doubts over its future to rest. When the gawdy Twenty20 event’s fifth edition started last month, flagging crowds and signs