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Hussey not reluctant to Big Bash rule changes
Michael Hussey has given a vigilant thumbs-up to some of the planned new rules for next season's Big Bash League. The eight-team competition might comprise features such as a super-over in which the batting team has its runs double, and the opportunity that spectators could keep balls hit into the crowd.
Cricket Australia asked fans to voice their opinion on the ideas via an online survey last week, seven months before the event is expected to...
Pakistan just border past Ireland
Opener Paul Stirling's century was not sufficient as Pakistan did just enough to strike Ireland by five wickets and claim a 2-0 one-day international series win in Belfast.
Stirling hit a striking 109 to lead a vastly-improved Irish batting exhibit after they had been bowled out for just 96 in Saturday's opener. Ireland this time manage 238 for eight, a total that might have been bigger but for some clever bowling from Saeed Ajmal (four for 35)...
Dilshan taken aback by Sri Lanka collapse
Sri Lanka captain Tillakaratne Dilshan was at a loss to give details how his side had drooping to beat in the first Test against England at Cardiff.
Sri Lanka was skittle out for just 82 on the final afternoon to misplace by an innings and 14 runs. There had appear to be little prospect of a result at the SWALEC Stadium, particularly when rain washed out the morning session for the fourth time in five days.
When play got under way at 3pm, with...
Gayle left out of squad to face India
Kieron Pollard is back in the West Indies side for the first two ODIs against India, but Chris Gayle remains out of favour after his controversial radio interview last month. Gayle has not been chosen in either the ODI squad or the 12-man group for Saturday's Twenty20 match against India in Trinidad, while the fast bowler Kemar Roach has been rested for the Trinidad leg of the series due to his heavy workload.
The uncapped left-arm seamer Krishmar...
Sri Lanka not exaggerated by Tharanga talk
Sri Lanka seamer Farveez Maharoof says the tourist have not been unfocused by a report that Upul Tharanga failed a drugs test during the ICC World Cup.
A Colombo newspaper made the accusation on Sunday and said that Tharanga, who made an winning century in the severe 10-wicket win over England in the World Cup quarter-finals, had already selected a lawyer to represent him at an International Cricket Council hearing.
But the ICC would not remark...
Zaheer: Windies tour chances for Youngest people
India pacer Zaheer Khan told the upcoming tour to West Indies would be a good opportunity for the young people to cement their place in the national squad. "It is a very good chance for young players to showcase their ability. It's a big tour and if they perform well, they can cement their place in the team," Zaheer said.
India will play three tests, five ODIs and a lone T20 game during their tour to the Caribbean in June-July.
Senior players...
Waqar Younis promise full-strength Pakistan
Pakistan coach Waqar Younis has warn Ireland that his side will be leaving all out to secure a 2-0 sweep of their short ODI series in Belfast on Monday. Pakistan claims a thrashing seven-wicket victory in yesterday's opener at Stormont after bowling Ireland out for just 96.
It was a suddenly wide-margin success in a game that had loomed as a possible banana skin for the tourists. Waqar had admit to being wary of an ever-improving Irish side in...
IPL: A glorious mix of spice and steel
After recording a drop in percentage of television viewers for the better part of the fourth edition of the Indian Premier League, the TRP rating for impressive finish between Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore was more compare to the rating of last year's final.
According to aMap, a TV viewership measurement agency, the IPL--IV final between CSK and RCB scored a rating of 5.8, better than 5.6 which were rating for last year's...
IPL Final Preview: Chennai vs Bangalore
Chennai are living up to their team name with an undefeated home run in IPL and it would Bangalore take quite an effort to breach their fortress in the finale today
Teams:
Chennai Super Kings (From): MS Dhoni(w/c), Srikkanth Anirudha, Ravichandran Ashwin, Subramaniam Badrinath, George Bailey, Doug Bollinger, Dwayne Bravo, Faf du Plessis, Ben Hilfenhaus, Michael Hussey, Shadab Jakati, Joginder Sharma, Suraj Randiv, Nuwan Kulasekara, Vijaykumar...
PCB panic over security to Afghan team
The Pakistan Cricket Board has asked the government to give sufficient security for the visiting Afghanistan side.
After a television channel showed the Afghanistan team travelling in a bus in Rawalpindi with only a police mobile escort it with three officers on board, the PCB has requested that security be enlarged for the visiting team.
In March 2009, militants attack the Sri Lankan team bus in Lahore and killed six Pakistani policemen and a...
Broad: A hard day for England
England 47 for 1 (Cook 24*, Anderson 1*) follow Sri Lanka 400 (P Jayawardene 112, Paranavitana 66, Samaraweera 58, Anderson 3-62) by 353 runs
Stuart Broad became the second-youngest England bowler to accept up 100 Test match wickets but he insists the team effort is more important.
England will resume on Saturday on 47 for one but they lost skipper Andrew Strauss for 20 in the evening session after Sri Lanka had earlier been bowled out for 400,...
Bangalore hardback IPL final spot
Royal Challengers Bangalore set up an all southern final against the Chennai Super Kings after a 43-run IPL play-off win over Mumbai Indians.
Chris Gayle was the star yet again, smash 89 off 46 balls in a 113-run opening stand with Mayank Agarwal (41) to lead Bangalore to 185 for four.
In reply, Mumbai unsuccessful to get going in spite of a valiant 40 from skipper Sachin Tendulkar, as his complement Daniel Vettori picked up figures of three for...
India squads for West Indies Tour
Suresh Raina has been named captain for India’s ODI series next to the West Indies, while Sachin Tendulkar will miss the whole tour.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announce a 16-man squad for the three-Test series which follows a one-off Twenty20 fixture and five one-day internationals - with Sachin Tendulkar opts out to use time with his family before a vital tour of England.
Left-handed opener Gambhir was set to captain the...
Supreme Court quash land allocation to Saurav Ganguly
In a hold up to former Indian cricket team captain Sourav Ganguly, the Supreme Court on Thursday quashes the land portion to him by the West Bengal Government in 2000.
Quashing the share of 63.04 ‘katha’ land in the posh Salt Lake city, a bench headed by Justice A K Ganguly heading for the cricketer to submit the land within two weeks.
The court agreed the order on an appeal filed by a West Bengal-based NGO, Humanity and others, demanding the Calcutta...
'Mumbai players have be fully fit'
Mumbai Indians players have not played throughout injury in the IPL, Coach Robin Singh said on Thursday.
"As far as I know, in our team, no one has completed that. I can't actually answer that question," Singh said.
Despite moving injury, Kolkata Knight Riders captain Gambhir played the eliminator next to Mumbai Indians on Wednesday and the move has now snowball into a major argument, sparking a discuss on whether players are more keen to play...
Fleming: complicated to say 'No' to IPL
Chennai coach Stephen Fleming doesn't sense that it is up to the cricket boards to make a decision whether there should be a requirement on the number of matches each player should play.
"It is upto the person boards to decide about bring conditions on the number of matches. I don't think there should be club vs. country here. If the boards are not happy with the quantity of cricket being played they should put circumstances on it," Fleming told...
Gambhir will be drop if he is unfit: BCCI
The BCCI is in the procedure of analyzing Gautam Gambhir’s medical reports and will fall the stand-in captain from the tour of the West Indies if he is establish to be unfit.
BCCI Secretary N Srinivasan said the Board had established the reports submit by Kolkata Knight Riders’ physio Andrew Leipus on Gambhir’s shoulder damage and a decision will be taken very quickly.
“We have established the statement from Leipus and we are analyzing it. We will...
Gambhir advise 4-6 weeks' relax over shoulder injury
Gautam Gambhir could miss the limited-overs leg of India's tour of the West Indies next month following the stress of a shoulder injury that was continued during the World Cup final. Gambhir, named India's captain for that part of the tour, has been advise four to six weeks' rest by Andrew Leipus, the Kolkata Knight Riders trainer, and could even miss the following tour of England.
If it comes to pass, Gambhir's nonappearance will leave India...
Dilshan won't go to Pakistan
Cardiff, (AFP): Sri Lanka captain Tillakaratne Dilshan said Wednesday he would not play cricket in Pakistan again after an invite for his side to return to the anxious nation, two years after they were attacked there, was discarded.
Dilshan was on the Sri Lanka team bus shot at by militant in Lahore in March 2009 during an attack which kill eight people and wounded seven membrs of the tour party.
Asked if he would ever go back to Pakistan with...
Mumbai Indians Won by 4 wickets
Mumbai Indians 148 for 6 (Blizzard 51, Tendulkar 36, Kallis 2-18, Shakib 2-24) strike Kolkata Knight Riders 147 for 7 (ten Doeschate 70*, Munaf 3-27) by four wickets
Harbhajan Singh broken a last-over six as Mumbai Indians post a four-wicket victory over Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League on Wednesday.
Mumbai required seven runs in the final over to attain a 148-run goal, but New Zealander James Franklin take a single of the first...
Sri Lanka rejected Pakistan tour
Sri Lanka Cricket on Tuesday long-established they had discarded a present to tour Pakistan due to security concerns.
Pakistan has not hosted international cricket inside its own borders since an attack on Sri Lanka's team bus in Lahore left seven players and a supporter coach wounded in 2009.
Six Pakistani policemen and two civilians were killed in the attack, which occur when gunmen ambush the bus and opened fire.
The Pakistan Cricket Board...
Pakistan level series with simplistic win
Saeed Ajmal take three final-day wickets as Pakistan wrapped up a 196-run win in the second Test next to the West Indies in St Kitts to sketch the series 1-1.
Ajmal dismiss Brendan Nash, Darren Sammy and Ravi Rampaul as the hosts, who started the day on 130 for five, were dismiss for 230.
Captain Sammy briefly aggravated the tourists with an innings of 41, which incorporated six fours, but he was merely delay the inevitable.
The West Indies resume...
Chasing win Chennai Super Kings by 6 wickets
Chennai Super Kings 177 for 4 (Raina 73*) strike Royal Challengers Bangalore 175 (Kohli 70*, Bollinger 1-20) by six wickets
Chennai Super Kings captain MS Dhoni said he had the certainty that his team might win the IPL play-off match next to Royal Challengers Bangalore.
"It was a hard target, but we have been in comparable situations, and we have the conviction that we can win these games. We kept believe that we could do it, but you...
IPL Preview: Bangalore vs. Chennai
Shielding champions Chennai Super Kings get on Royal Challengers Bangalore in what assure to be an absorbing first IPL playoff match in Mumbai on Tuesday.
Chennai vs. Bangalore
IPL Overall
Chennai Super Kings contain won 35 and lost 24 out of 60 played - success % 59.16 (Tied 1).
Bangalore has won 30 and lost 29 out of 59 contests - success % 50.84.
IPL - Chennai vs. Bangalore - Head to Head
Bangalore has won 5 and lost 4 out of nine played...
Afridi probable to Miss Ireland series
Former Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi is allowing for skipping the ODI series next to Ireland afterward this month due to his father's illness.
The flamboyant all-rounder wants to use more time with his ill father, who is getting treatment in the United States.
"His brother is in the USA but Afridi needs to spend time with his father and might seek consent from the PCB in next few days," a source said.
Pakistan will be travelling to face Ireland...
PCB mull release Zulqarnain's dues
The Pakistan cricket Board is allowing for releasing the hovering payment of contentious wicketkeeper Zulqarnain Haider. Well-placed source said that the wicketkeeper had request the inner minister Rehman Malik to help him in his case.
The PCB had detained up all payments of Zulqarnain last year following he fled the Pakistan team hotel in Dubai last November throughout the one-day series next to South Africa.
Haider land up in London seeking...
‘Topping IPL table show our quality’
Royal Challengers Bangalore franchisee director Siddharth Mallya on Monday said the information that the team top the points table after creature written off, shows its character.
"After our first win, we unluckily lost our three next games. The comments team wrote us off, the reporters wrote us off, the critic wrote us off. They said we had chosen a incorrect team. Where is (Rahul) Dravid? Where is (Robin) Uthappa? They asked," he told reporters...
Mumbai edging past Kolkata in last-ball end
Mumbai Indians 178 for 5 (Franklin 45*, Tendulkar 38, Bhatia 3-22) hit Kolkata Knight Riders 175 for 7 (Kallis 59, Yusuf 36, Tiwary 35) by five wickets
Kolkata Knight Riders had their Champions League first appearance all but book when they begin the last over with 21 to protect. Three edge boundaries off L Balaji and two miss yorkers later, James Franklin and Ambati Rayudu had see Mumbai Indians to a highly improbable win, breach their three-match...
Bangalore come to an ending on top of table
Royal Challengers Bangalore 129 for 2 (Gayle 75*) strike Chennai Super Kings 128 for 8 (Dhoni 70*, Vettori 2-15) by eight wickets
Chris Gayle indulges himself after his bowlers controlled Chennai Super Kings to a below-par 128 to ensure Royal Challengers Bangalore will completed top of the points table. The result also protected their berth in this year's Champions League.
Chennai were always opposite inevitable beat once their top order crumbles...
Vettori: Gayle did the circle
The player who twisted belongings approximately for the team is the in-form Chris Gayle, said Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Daniel Vettori.
Bangalore thrashes defensive champions Chennai Super Kings to take the top place with 19 points in the Indian Premier League.
Gayle shattered an unbeaten 70 to pave the way for his side's simple win and also claim the Orange Cap with a tally of 511 runs from nine games.
"Gayle has been in charge for...
Oram: I feel disengaged with IPL
New Zealand player Jacob Oram says he felt detached with the IPL as the "after-match parties, Bollywood stars and manner parades" seem far detached from actuality.
"Being at this point for six weeks, not playing much, preparation firm but not in fact getting on the ground has been kind of strange. In a way I feel like I haven't in fact got concerned in the event," Oram, who play for Rajasthan Royals as an injury replacement for Paul Collingwood,...
Pakistan trio's date through London Court
Three Pakistan cricketers and a sports agent at the centre of spot-fixing allegation are due to become visible in a London Court today.
Former Pakistan captain Salman Butt, 26, and fast bowlers Mohammad Asif, 28, and Mohammad Amir, 18, are emotional with cheating and plot to obtain and accept corrupt payments.
Agent Mazhar Majeed, 35, of Oaks Road, Croydon, south London, is accused of accepting £150,000 to arrange for the players to bowl "no balls"...
PCB update Abbottabad competition moved
Pakistan has shifted the venue of the third and final one-day international between their 'A' team and Afghanistan from Abbottabad to Faisalabad.
This was announcing on Thursday evening. The Pakistan Cricket Board announce on May 9, just a week after American armed forces killed Al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, the idyllic garrison town would host the May 29 match.
But that conclusion was upturned, with no bureaucrat reason given...
Modi says Srinivasan serving Chennai
Sacked Indian Premier League officer Lalit Modi has once yet again accuse the BCCI secretary N Srinivasan of departing out of his way to favor his franchise Chennai.
Modi said the Chennai Super Kings are such a good side that they can succeed the IPL without Srinivasan prop them up.
"It's a disappointment Srinivasan is resorting to all that. Chennai are a powerful team and can win exclusive of any such help," Modi wrote on Twitter.
Modi, who...
Warne ranks Tendulkar on top of all
Australia spin fable Shane Warne has praise long-time tormentor Sachin Tendulkar, declaring the iconic India batsman as the most cricketer he has ever played next to. Rajasthan Royals skipper Warne, who will play his last Indian Premier League match next to the Mumbai Indians on Friday, said it was only suitable to end his IPL stint as a player alongside Tendulkar.
"Sachin is the most players I have played against. It's suitable that my last game...
Win keeps Kolkata in chase for semi final
Kolkata Knight Riders 119 for 3 (Gambhir 54*) strike Pune Warriors 118 for 7 (Yuvraj 24, Balaji 2-7, Shakib 2-16) by seven wickets
Kolkata Knight Riders reserved up their shove for an Indian Premier League top mark with a seven-wicket succeed over Pune Warriors in Mumbai.
Playing their last but one group game, the Knight Riders knock off the necessary total of 119 in 16.4 overs. Captain Gautam Gambhir led them home with 54 off 46 balls, with Manoj...
Modi blast BCCI over Warne problem
Former IPL official Lalit Modi termed the BCCI "money mind" and said the board's decision to impose a fine of US $50,000 on Rajasthan Royals skipper Shane Warne was uncalled for.
Warne runaway a ban but was fine heavily by the IPL's corrective commission in Mumbai on Wednesday for calling RCA secretary Sanjay Dixit a "liar and selfish" after an IPL match in Jaipur, forcing RR owner Shilpa Shetty to intercede and apologise for the incident.
"BCCI...
Stuart Clark quits full-time cricket
Aussie pacer Stuart Clark on Wednesday quit full-time cricket to focus on his new role as the general director of the Sydney Sixers Big Bash League franchise. Clark will, however, carry on playing cricket for Sydney University.
"I am going to carry on playing club cricket as I immobile love playing the game, but more highly I consider I can still help expand Australia's future talent," Clark was quoted as saying by 'The Age'.
Insisting that his...
Shah Rukh confident about KKR's probability
Bollywood superstar and chief owner of Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), Shah Rukh Khan is confident of his team creation it to the play-offs of the ongoing IPL.
"It is a big match on Thursday. We don't play independently, we play as a team. I am not anxious but I am concerned. Earlier at Bangalore, our match was shortened due to rains so I felt bad. If we get a possibility to play a full game then we will optimistically win. I hope we will be in the...
Chennai Super Kings won by 12 Runs
Chennai Super Kings 152 for 5 (Saha 46, Hussey 32) hit Kochi Tuskers Kerala 141 for 5 (Hodge 51*, McCullum 33) by 12 runs
Chennai Super Kings gunshot back to the top of the Indian Premier League table with an 11-run be successful over Kochi Tuskers Kerala.
Batting first at home, Chennai necessary a middle-order recover act from Michael Hussey (32 off 37 balls) and Wriddhiman Saha (46 off 33 balls) to get to a warfare 152 for five.
The Tuskers...
