Rajasthan Royals, the inaugural Indian Premier League (IPL) champions Monday joined forces with Hampshire, Cape Cobras, Trinidad and a yet-to-be-confirmed Australia state team for a global alliance here at Lord's. Hampshire will now play as the Hampshire Royals in the Twenty20 Cup next season with Cape Cobras and Trinidad also set to agree to the Royals branding. The partnership is called ...
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has included former skipper Wasim Akram in an inquiry committee formed last week to probe the national team's poor performance in Australia. The six-man committee was dismissed as an eye wash by several former Test greats, because some of the committee members were either on the PCB payroll or had close association with Ijaz Butt, the ...
Intikhab Alam's future as Pakistan coach is doubtful after he was ignored for a brief tour of Dubai where the team will play two Twenty20 Internationals against England later this month. Intikhab, 68, has been excluded from the touring squad apparently because of Pakistan's pathetic showing on the just ended tour of Australia, where the tourists were white-washed. Sources in the Pakistan ...
Melbourne, Jan 7 (IANS) The Indian cricket board is yet to pay the prize money to the inaugural Twenty20 Champions League winners New South Wales (NSW), Cricket NSW chief executive David Gilbert has said. It has been more than two months since NSW Blues were crowned champions of the inaugural Twenty20 Champions League, but they are yet to receive the prize ...
Port-of-Spain, Oct 24(IANS) Faces were seen streaming with tears. The loud noises from the bars throughout Trinidad and Tobago were simmering down as the match progressed. Most government offices and corporate and business staff sat in bars, television rooms and other public places giving moral support and praying as the match was played down to the last wicket. But everyone wore red, ...
Hyderabad, Oct 24 (IANS) New South Wales Blues showed their class as they toppled Trinidad and Tobago by 41 runs to win the inaugural Champions League Twenty20 here Friday. Brett Lee was the performer both with the bat and the ball for the Australian side. Lee (48 runs) was the highest scorer in Blues' total of 159 runs for nine wickets, giving ...
Dubai, Feb 1 (IANS) Australia's Michael Hussey replaced India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni at the top of the International Cricket Council's (ICC) One-day International (ODI) batting rankings released Monday. Hussey had an outstanding series against Pakistan which concluded Sunday where he scored 220 runs in five matches. Hussey had started the series trailing Dhoni by 21 points and he now leads ...
Dhaka, Jan 27 (IANS) Zaheer Khan's seven-wicket burst in the second innings rocked Bangladesh as India won the second cricket Test by 10 wickets, and with it took the series 2-0, on the fourth day at the Sher-e-Bangla national stadium here Wednesday. The resolve shown by the Bangladesh batsmen a day before, when opener Tamim Iqbal struck a defiant 155 and ...
Islamabad, Jan 20 (IANS) A Pakistani parliamentary delegation has cancelled its visit to India after none of the country's cricketers found any takers at an auction for the third edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL). National Assembly Speaker Fehmida Mirza made the announcement in the house Wednesday after opposition members raised the issue, terming it a "planned conspiracy" to prevent ...
The franchisees were more judicious in their bidding at the auction for the third edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) in Mumbai Tuesday. They did their home work and knew exactly what their requirements were. The talking point, however, is the Pakistani players missing from the Twenty20 bash. The corporate and celebrity owners of the teams had $750,000 to ...
Indian cricket board president Shashank Manohar has found a novel way to punish under-performers. He sacked bowling coach Venkatesh Prasad and fielding coach Robin Singh for the Indian team's failure to make the semi-finals of the World Twenty20 Championship and the Champions Trophy. Now, when the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) itself has been brought into disgrace by ...
Just when the Berlin Wall was being broken down 20 years ago, the cricketing world started talking about a boy wonder who would rise to be a cricketing colossus. Two decades in sport is more than a generation and Sachin Tendulkar carries on and on - not wanting to think about the day he would have to stop playing the ...
