‘Sports’ Archives
Delhi crush Mumbai Indians by 37 runs
Delhi Daredevils consolidate their top position in the IPL 2012 standings as the hosts thrashed Mumbai Indians by 37 runs in their return-leg Indian Premier League match at Ferozeshah Kotla stadium on Friday70-9 on a good batting pitch29/3 in 3-21 was the most economical of the lots
Australia complete series victory with 75-run win
Michael Clarke took five wickets as Australia won the third and final Test against West Indies by 75 runs at Windsor Park on Friday as Australia wrapped up a 2-0 series win balls, putting on 49 with hometown hero Shane Shillingford *73 for five West Indies added just seven runs on the day before Narsingh Deonarine was caught and bowled by Clarke [...]
Pujara to lead India ‘A’ on West Indies tour
The All-India Senior Selection Committee met at the Cricket Centre earlier today, to select the India ‘A’ team for the tour of the West Indies Saurashtra batsman Cheteshwar Pujara will lead the team during the Caribbean tour, whereas Wriddhiman Saha named vice captain Indian team would reach the Caribbean shores on May 30 and will depart [...]
England tour: Ramdin and Samuels back for WI
The Selection committee of the West Indies Cricket Board today announced the 15-member West Indies squad for the three-Test series on the tour of England7 May5-man Test squad - batsman Assad Fudadin and seamer Shannon Gabriel Shane Shillingford, who impressed on his recall against Australia, is the only frontline spinner, selected ahead of [...]
IPL 2012: White leads Chargers to first win
The Deccan Chargers finally ended their Indian Premier League 28-run victory over the Pune Warriors77-4 after which Pune were restricted to 159-768th over, caught at the cover boundary off spinner Marlon Samuels-53 balls, before he fell to a good catch from JP Duminy off Rusty Theron 2-37 Ashish Reddy 2-32 was the only other multiple [...]
Australia 5 wickets away from victory
Ten wickets in the match for Shane Shillingford and 10,000 Test runs for Shivnarine Chanderpaul were not enough to take West Indies out of trouble in the third and final match of this series0th wicket of the Test, the other victims2 not out0 overs of play remaining before two late wickets swung momentum Australia's way73 [subscribe2]
Chanderpaul passes 10,000 Test runs landmark
Shivnarine Chanderpaul has become only the second West Indies player to pass 10,000 Test runs4th run in the second innings of the third Test against Australia in Dominica0th batsman in history to pass the 10,000 mark0,000 Test runs is something special for me03 not out in the first Digicel Test in Barbados followed by 94 in the second Digicel Test [...]
Sangakkara fined USD 20,000
Deccan Chargers captain Kumar Sangakkara has been fined after the team maintained a slow over rate during last night’s DLF IPL match against Pune Warriors India in Pune At the end of the match, Deccan Chargers were assessed to be one over behind the required rate after allowances were taken into consideration Since it was his first offence [...]
President approves nomination of Sachin
Sachin Tendulkar, who turned 39 on Tuesday, will now become a Parliamentarian, with the government nominating him to the House of Elders, Rajya Sabha, along with actress of yesteryear Rekha and industrialist Anu Aga2 members to the 250-member Upper House00 international centuries in March this year Earlier in the day, Tendulkar, accompanied by [...]
Ponting, Cowan extend Australia’s lead
Australia closed day three of the third and final Test against the West Indies with a lead of 310 after another day in which they controlled proceedings8 early on Wednesday, the visitors were in trouble at 25-2 in the ninth over of their second innings65-8, just over halfway to Australia's first innings' total, and while Shivnarine Chanderpaul [...]
RCB vs CSK IPL match called off due to rain
The Royal Challenegrs and Chennai Super Kings Indian Premier League 2 match was called off due to downpour in Bangalore on Wednesday night Continuous rains ruled out any possibility of having even a curtailed match Both RCB and CSK shared one point each This brings Chennai to number three and Bangalore to number four on the points [...]
Sachin hails Rayudu, Petersen after stunning win
Sachin Tendulkar acknowledged the brilliant batting effort by the young batsmen of Mumbai Indians as they recorded a stunning four-wicket win over Kings XI Punjab in an IPL match on Wednesday Sachin Tendulkar said that the trio of Rohit Sharma, Ambati Rayudu and Robin Petersen were fabulous and did a commendable job by not throwing their wicket [...]
Rayudu, Rohit steal win from Kings XI Punjab
Ambati Rayudu and Robin Petersen fired Mumbai Indians to an improbable four-wicket win over the Kings XI Punjab at Mohali in Indian Premier League 25 runs off four balls in the 19th over and Ambati Rayudu smashed two sixes to cost Kings XI 27 runs2 balls, to where it became an obvious conclusion with only five runs to get in the last over68-367 [...]
WI vs Aus test: Australia in total command
Matthew Wade kept Australia out of trouble and Nathan Lyon had spun West Indies deep into it by the time the second day of this 3rd and final Digicel Test match had concluded yesterday-0, to a first-innings total of 328 after they had been 169 for seven during the first day2 with Wade and Mitchell Starc at the crease02 for the ninth wicket43 balls [...]
CSA turn down Bangladesh tour
Cricket South Africa CSA has declined with regret the invitation from the Bangladesh Cricket Board BCB to play a series of One-Day International ODI and T20 International matches next month “Unfortunately there are too many practical obstacles that prevent us from accepting this commitment,” commented CSA Acting CEO Jacques Faul “At [...]
Darren Bravo to miss this IPL season
West Indies batsman Darren Bravo may take part in the Indian Premier League 2 after the current Australia series ends in the Caribbean Darren Bravo, signed for the Deccan Chargers earlier this year but opted to play the full Australia series which ends later this week And with the Windies set to leave the Caribbean for the tour of [...]
IPL: KKR-DC match called off due to rain
The Indian Premier League 2 game between the Kolkata Knight Riders KKR and the Deccan Chargers DC was abandoned without a ball being bowled at Eden Gardens The abandonment means Deccan Chargers have picked up their first point of the season having failed to win in the five previous games The heavy rain and wind also brought down a [...]
Sehwag leads Delhi to crushing victory
Virender Sehwag's captain’s knock of 87 has ensured Delhi Daredevils retain top spot in the Indian Premier League 246 with four overs to spare to register their fifth win in seven matches8 off 1445-run partnership for the third wicket took Pune to a fighting total
Royal Challengers Thump Royals
AB de Villiers and Tillakaratne Dilshan guided the Royal Challengers Bangalore to a 46-run in the Indian Premier League 2012 89-39 to restrict the home team's chase to 143-76 off 16 balls and was followed soon after by Mayank Agarwal 72th over3 off 180 off 15 off 2-4 in the 14th over9-4 from his four overs, prompting de Villiers to hand over his [...]
Shillingford puts West Indies on top
Shane Shillingford celebrated becoming the first Dominican to play Test cricket in his home country in style on Monday as the West Indies off-spinner took four Australian wickets on the opening day of the third and final Test at Windsor Park69 for seven in the final session2 for seven, caught by Narsingh Deonarine after top-edging a short ball [...]
