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Kochi Tuskers Kerala players to be re-auctioned?

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With the IPL governing council meeting scheduled for next month, there might be some ray of hope for the players allied with the sacked IPL franchise, Kochi Tuskers Kerala. According to the media reports, Kochi players can be put on auction once again and the IPL governing council is deliberating various ideas to allow the other franchises to spend some extra bucks on them in the IPL-5 auctions. The players are yet to receive a small part of their...

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England and Wales Cricket Board chief executive David Collier has praised the work of England team director Andy Flower after he claimed two awards last night at the 2011 UK Coaching Awards. Flower won the prize of UK Coach of the Year and High Performance Coach of the Year at a ceremony in London, having led England to their first Ashes triumph in Australia since the winter of 1986-87 at the start of this year and then taking the team to number...

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Virender Sehwag has hope that Ravichandran Ashwin, India's best cricketer in the Test series next to the West Indies, will carry on to present well and get more awards in future. The BCCI had announced Ashwin's name for Dilip Sardesai Award after his series winning presentation next to the Windies. Appreciating the Indian Cricket Board's choice to award Ashwin with Rs 5 lakh prize money, India's stand-in-skipper Sehwag said Ashwin was going in...

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Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting has back Cricket Australia's new renovate process saying "it was past due for last ten years". Under force to hold his place in Australia's batting order, 36-year old Ponting said cricket was taking a more qualified track under the new regime led by chairman selectors John Inveracity and existing head coach Mickey Arthur. Cricket Australia has announce series of sweeping changes in which turning round policy...

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The world has suffer from fewer films being made on cricket, Australian film great Phil Noyce says, adding that he`s keen to make an India-Pakistan-Australia co-produced cricket film, if the money permit. Noyce, who has been honored with a display at the 42nd International Film Festival of India (IFFI), was speaking to journalists Sunday at the festival venue. "We need to make more movies on cricket. The world suffers from fewer films on...

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In the past, a player's seriousness was measured by his performance adjacent to the powerful Caribbean teams. A lot has distorted in the cricketing hierarchy over the last two decades and yet India can draw huge cheer from its 2-0 victory next to Darren Sammy's men in the three-Test series that finished with a exciting draw in the final match at the Wankhede Stadium here on Saturday. The West Indies may no longer be the force it once was but during...

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New Zealand opener Brendon McCullum has marked to a century next to Australia A in a warm up match of their Australian tour in Brisbane. McCullum cut a four throughout point to the boundary to bring up his triple figures innings, smash 15 fours and five sixes off 85 balls on the opening day of the 4 day match. The visitors raced to 106 runs without loss by lunch and were cruise after the interval before the opening partnership of Brendan Guptill...

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While there are quite a few in the race to grasp the No. 6 spot in India's Test squad, Tamil Nadu's middle-order basis Subramaniam Badrinath, on Wednesday, claim that he was the best bet for that position. "I have been to come in the sidelines. Honestly, there is just one spot left (in the middle-order). To be truthful, I do not want to be that one guy who is only in the squad and not playing. I want to play in the eleven and that is my biggest...

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West Indies cricket is on a downslide for a couple of decades now, and the Caribbean’s' winning something now comes crosswise as a surprise more often than not. For the record, the West Indies have won just five Test matches in the last five years! Not much was, therefore, probable from them when they landed in India for the three-Test series. Two matches later, they have expectedly lost the Test series and are staring at a first whitewash next...

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Pakistan paceman Wahab Riaz has been unnoticed for the squad touring Bangladesh after his name was mention in the spot-fixing trial in London at the start of November. Chief selector Mohammad Illyas said Wahab had been drop for the tour after consultations between the selectors and team management. "We have picked the best probable team," Illyas told a news meeting in Lahore on Monday. Wahab was part of the teams that played a test series next...

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Yuvraj Singh's test career stammers again on Thursday when the left-hander, a usual match-winner in one-day cricket, was drop from the Indian team for the third and final test next to West Indies. The 24-year-old right-hander Rohit Sharma will return Yuvraj in the Mumbai test starting on Nov. 22, Indian cricket board (BCCI) secretary Sanjay Jagdale said in a statement. India clinches the three-test series by winning in Delhi and Kolkata. Yuvraj,...

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The Indian sightless cricket team at home in Lahore yesterday in front of their three-match T20 series against Pakistan, which starts here today. India captain Shekhar Naik said that holding the series indicate relations between the two countries were improving. “It’s actually nice to tour Pakistan,” Naik told reporters. “I hope this will help get better relations between the two countries.” Naik added that his team was using the series to get...

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Pragyan Ojha dismiss Darren Bravo after lunch to activate a West Indies fall down as India claim an innings and 15-run victory in the second test today to take a important 2-0 lead in the three game series. India dismisses the West Indies for 463 in its second innings eight minutes before tea on the fourth day after the visitors resume the day at 195-3. India, which had a huge 478-run first innings lead, faced stiff struggle from Bravo (136) and...

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West Indies Cricket has long-established details of Australia's tour of the Caribbean next year. Australia will play five one-day matches, two Twenty20s and three Tests during the six-week tour. The Test series, which decide the Frank Worrell Trophy, starts on April 7 in Barbados with follow-up matches in Trinidad (April 15 to 19) and Guyana (April 23 to 27). It continues a heavy workload for the Australians, who begin in August with the tour...

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A dominant India put themselves on course for a series-clinching victory even as West Indies fought resolutely in their second innings to delay the inevitable after conceding a huge 478-run lead in the second cricket Test here today. West Indies were 195 for three at stumps on day three, still 283 runs behind, after India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni enforced the follow-on after bowling the visitors out for a paltry 153 runs in their first innings....

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Bangladesh can tour Pakistan in April next year but they need security authorization from the game’s governing body, a top official from Bangladesh Cricket Board told AFP on Wednesday. International cricket has been balanced in Pakistan since March 2009 after an attack on the Sri Lankan team bus in Lahore which left eight people dead and seven visiting players and their assistant coach wounded. Sri Lanka turned down an invitation to tour Pakistan...

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South African captain Graeme Smith thought on Wednesday he was dissatisfied that the International Cricket Council had determined not to bring in a world Test championship before 2017. "It's a bit unsatisfactory," said Smith. "I personally felt it wasn't the right decision for cricket." ICC chief administrative Haroon Lorgat announces on Monday that the foreword of a championship had been pressed out from 2013 because of commitment to broadcaster...

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Brian Lara feel if not the Caribbean cricket infrastructure is better just talent can't pull the side out of the slump. "(We) still a very long way to go. I would not have been astonished if we won this game because I know what we are able of - sporadic, good sporadic performance - one here, one next year, but in terms of steadiness, Trinidad, West Indies lack that, and that is not something that you recover overnight," he told the Caribbean Tourism...

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India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and opt to bat first in the second test next to West Indies at Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Monday. West Indies bring in paceman Kemar Roach for Ravi Rampaul, who has been admitting in a hospital with a distress stomach, while opener Adrian Barath replaces Kieran Powell. India retains the same side than won the first test in Delhi to take a 1-0 lead in the three-match series. Teams: India: Gautam...

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Former Test star and existing supporter coach Justin Langer admits Australian cricket, in many compliments, has reach rock bottom. The team's batting counselor has struggle to sleep since the disgrace of considering Australia bowled out for 47 in the loss to South Africa in the first Test at Cape Town. An exceptional opening batsman throughout the golden era of Australian cricket in the 1990s and 2000s, Langer said there were a number of factors...

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Australia were bowled out for 47 in the second innings of the first test against South Africa at Cape Town. At one point they were 21 for 9 and their last pair helped them avoid the lowest ever test score. 23 wickets fell on the enthralling second day of the first test match.Debutant Vernon Philander had a wonderful day with a 5 wicket haul. Aussies second innings was over in just 18 overs and last man Nathan Lyon was the top scorer with 14.Earlier...

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India hit West Indies by five wickets in the first test to take a 1-0 go ahead in the three-match series on Wednesday. Sachin Tendulkar cut down short of his 100th international ton but his luminous 76 helped India beat West Indies by five wickets in the first test on Wednesday. Tendulkar, who reach 15,000 test runs on Tuesday, together his 62nd test half-century as India chase down the 276-run victory aim just after the lunch smash with the loss...

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Sachin Tendulkar slam a solid 76 to help India score a at ease five-wicket victory over the West Indies on Wednesday in the first test, taking a 1-0 lead in the three-game series. Sachin Tendulkar miss out on a potential 100th international century, but his innings put India in a winning place on the fourth day at the Ferozeshah Kotla Stadium. He added 67 for the third wicket with Rahul Dravid (31) and 71 for the next with V.V.S. Laxman (58 not...

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Auckland all-rounder Andre Adams has hit out at New Zealand cricket saying it's in a "worse state than it's been for some time". The former Black Caps yesterday led Auckland to a 19-run victory over Northern Districts in the opening round of the Plunked guard, final the match with figures 11-123. The 36-year-old, who has been playing in England since 2007, lashed out at the New Zealand Cricket board today saying it has too lots of "old people". "I...

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Shane Warne is bringing his short departure to an end and recurring to cricket in Australia's Twenty20 Big Bash opposition next month, the leg-spinning huge said on Tuesday. Less than six months after reserved from all cricket, the 42-year-old said he would play in the revamp league for the Melbourne Stars this season and has not ruled out ongoing beyond that. "I'm a young 42 at the moment, so I'll see how it goes this year," he told a news meeting...

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Pakistan claim a morale-boosting Test series win over Sri Lanka today after the third and final match between the sides in Sharjah finished in a draw. The Pakistani game has be rocked by the custodial sentences hand to former captain Salman Butt and bowlers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir in the UK last week for their role in a spot-fixing plan, but today's effect meant Pakistan's nine-wicket win in the opening Test in Dubai was sufficient for...

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So the long wait continues. A Sachin Tendulkar ton on this hard batting track would have made India's day in more ways than one, but maybe Delhi's audience knew something we didn't. One would have predictable the stands to be satisfied on a public holiday in expectation of watching Tendulkar bat. But only a handful of spectators cheer the man as he walked in. It all seems worlds away from the normal thunderous ovation Tendulkar are used to. Would...

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India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Sunday done another milestone as he piped Syed Kirmani to become the Indian wicketkeeper with the highest number of dismissal in his kitty. Dhoni confused Kraigg Brathwaite off Pragyan Ojha's bowling to bag his 199th victim in his 62nd Test match - one more than Kirmani who represent India in 88 Tests. Among Dhoni's 199 victims, 173 are wedged behind and 26 are stampings. Apart from Dhoni and Kirmani, only...

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West Indies 256 for 5 (Chanderpaul 111*, Brathwaite 63, Ojha 3-58) Vs India India will look to enclose up the West Indies first innings when they take the field on the second day of the first test at the Feroz Shah Kotla.. On the first day, Shivnarine Chanderpaul scored a winning century to help the West Indies reach 256 for five at stump in New Delhi. The duo had put on 108 for the fourth wicket before Brathwaite became the third wounded of...

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Sri Lanka 413 and 164 for 5 (Paranavitana 66*, Sangakkara 51) lead Pakistan 340 (Younis Khan 122, Misbah 89, Azhar 53, Welegedara 5-87) by 237 runs Sri Lanka retain hope of salvage a series draw next to Pakistan after final day four with a 237-run lead in spite of the loss of several late wickets. The tourists head into the final day on 164 for five in their second innings after a middle-order fall down, but will hope to push their guide out towards...

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Pakistan's senior judges, who conduct match-fixing investigation in the past, on Sunday said their recommendations to check dishonesty in cricket were ignored and that led to the latest betting disgrace. A British judge on Thursday sentence former captain Salman Butt to 30 months, fast bowler Mohammad Asif to one year and Mohammad Amir to six months of jail for their roles in spot-fixing last year's Lord's Test next to England.Their agent Mazhar...

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Sachin Tendulkar's offer for his 100th international century will be the focus of concentration when India hosts West Indies in the first Test at Delhi's Feroz Shah Kotla on Sunday. Tendulkar has been on the brink of the extraordinary and historic highlight since March when he hit a century in an ICC World Cup win over South Africa. The 38-year-old has, however, been forced to wait to reach the landmark due to poor form and injury after an unmemorable...

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Series next to Windies will help India pick the right arrangement for the Australia series, says former Pakistan captain. Wasim Akram believes the West Indies bowlers would find it very difficult to send away India double at home in the Test matches. Speaking entirely to Mobile ESPN from Karachi on Friday evening, the Sultan of Swing said, "West Indies have won against Bangladesh, but the serious challenge starts now next to the big boys." The...

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He is dismayed by the conviction of three Pakistan cricketers in the spot-fixing scam but former head coach Waqar Younis hopes it would prove helpful to the game in the long run. "I hope that the outcome of the trial would prove helpful to cricket in the future and also serve as prevention to other players," Waqar said from Dubai. The former Test captain, who submissive as coach in September after the Zimbabwe tour due to individual and health...

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ANDREW STRAUSS and his England players will be secluded by increased security when they play Pakistan in January. In the wake up of the Pakistan spot-fixing disgrace, the safety of the England team is to be reassessed. They play three Tests, four one-day internationals and three Twenty20 matches next to Pakistan in the Arabian Desert in January and February. The matches are organism played in Dubai and Abu Dhabi since Pakistan is out of bounds...

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An apologetic Mohammad Amir has answerable PCB for not calming him enough against corruption and vowed to make known "more" about the case. Amir was sent to young offender custody centre for six months while Butt and Asif were sent to jail for 30 months and 12 months correspondingly after being found guilty of spot-fixing during last year's Lord's Test against England. The young bowler held the Pakistan cricket establishment for not doing sufficient...

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England skipper Andrew Strauss is strong-minded to see that his players do not harbor any ill-feeling against Pakistan in the wake of spot-fixing scandal. Several British players such as Stuart Broad and Graeme Swann have made their resentment public in the background of the spot-fixing scandal, in which three Pakistani cricketers were found guilty and sentence for varied terms. Off-spinner Swann has exposed in his life story that England players...

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Australia vice captain Shane Watson feels life bans should be handed out to dishonest cricketers to send out a strong signal to others. Watson's explanation came after three Pakistani cricketers-- Salman Butt, Mohhamed Asif and Mohammad Amir -- were sentence to jail after being found guilty in a spot-fixing scandal. Former captain Butt was sentence to two-and-a-half years while fast bowlers Asif and Amir received 12 and six-month terms respectively. "In...

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