Archive for October 8th, 2007
India hold their nerve to beat Australia
India held their nerve in the final moments to snatch a dramatic eight-run victory over Australia in the fourth One-Day International in Chandighar on Monday.
The victory cut Australia’s lead to 2-1 and kept the Indians afloat in the seven-match series.
India’s batsmen came good, after Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and elected to bat, and rattled [...]
Inzamam set to play last Test
When Pakistan and South Africa take the field at Lahore’s Gaddafi Stadium on Monday, it will bring down the curtains on a man who has without a doubt been Pakistan’s greatest batsman in the last decade.
Inzamam-ul-Haq, whose career was in limbo after his county’s first round exit at the World Cup, seems have been given [...]
Andhra Bank googly stumps ICL cricketers
HYDERABAD: Four Hyderabadi cricketers appear to be paying the penalty for signing with the Indian Cricket League (ICL) run by the Essel Group as a parallel set up to the BCCI. They have been served with transfer orders as they were not eligible anymore to compete in the local leagues for their employers.
The cricketers – [...]
Age no criterion for selection: Ganguly
Even as Chief Selector Dilip Vengsarkar laid down the law that seniors in the Indian cricket team had to perform or perish, Sourav Ganguly on Saturday countered that age should not be a criterion for selection and the Big Three still had a lot of fire left in them.
“Performance and not seniority or juniority should [...]
A madness called cricket
First, a confession! I started writing this column last Saturday and then, discretion being the better part of valour, chickened out. I didn’t want to be pelted with rotten eggs, if not beaten black and blue when I stepped out of my house.
But now that a week has gone by and sanity has (largely) returned, [...]
Pakistan speedster Akhtar to join Indian league
LAHORE, Pakistan (AFP) — Under-fire Pakistani paceman Shoaib Akhtar is set to play for a recognised Indian league next year, saying he has sought permission from Pakistan’s cricket authorities.
“I have been approached by the Indian Premier League (IPL) and I have applied for permission from the Pakistan Cricket Board to sign the contract,” Akhtar told [...]
Has Twenty20 cricket slammed the 50-over game out of sight?
The vultures are circling, the hatchets are out, yes, the doom merchants are proclaiming the days of the 50-over one-day international are over. It is true, as evidenced by the number of people who have said it, that the recent ICC Twenty20 championship was everything the long and drawn out 50-over version wasn’t earlier in [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Team India: Uthappa admits let up in intensity
“The momentum we returned with (from South Africa), was for Twenty20 cricket and it was not easy to immediately change the mode. All of us were a bit knackered up after the (T20) World Cup. We had little time to shift gears and the intensity level dropped,” Uthappa said.
Admitting there was let up in intensity [...]
T-20 – Express Cricket…Unplugged
In a year that saw easily the worst world cup played thus far, it took a rather unlikely hero to redeem some lost pride for cricket. Cricket puritans (me included) might write off Twenty-20 as a marketing gimmick aimed at making the bucks that is nowhere near either the One-Day format of the game or [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )New Zealand all-rounder Cairns to play in Indian Cricket League
WELLINGTON, New Zealand: Former New Zealand all-rounder Chris Cairns is coming out of retirement to play in the breakaway Indian Cricket League, he said Tuesday.
Cairns, 37, who retired from international cricket last year, told the Christchurch Press newspaper he had accepted a “lucrative” offer to play in the inaugural Twenty20 competition, due to start in [...]
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