As the IPL auction 2017, witnessed several exciting but a Hyderabad boy surprised everyone by bagging a deal of Rs 2.60 crore. Interestingly, cricketers like Irfan Pathan, Ishant Sharma and Cheteshwar Pujara didn’t have any takers at the auction. Mohammed Siraj was sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 2.6 crore,[Read More…]
In a historic moment, Parthiv Patel led his team Gujarat to a maiden Ranji Trophy after beating Mumbai by five wickets in Indore. Gujarat beat defending champions who have 41 titles to their name. Needing 312 runs to win, Gujarat started their innings on the final day at 47/0 with[Read More…]
Addressing the media for the first time since he stepped down as Indian captain, Mahendra Singh Dhoni said he was always of the opinion that split captaincy does not work for the Indian team setting and that is the reason why he finally decided to give up the captaincy. “For[Read More…]
Australia on Saturday clinched a clean sweep with an emphatic 220-run win over Pakistan in the third Test in Sydney on Saturday. Pakistan were all out shortly before tea on the final day for 244 chasing 465 runs with paceman Josh Hazlewood and spinner Steve O’Keefe both snaring three wickets.[Read More…]
Heaping praises on his predeccesor, Virat Kohli on Saturday said that Mahendra Singh Dhoni was a saviour for him. Kohli also revealed that the talismanic former skipper prevented his ouster from the Indian team many a times. Kohli has played his entire international cricket under Dhoni’s captaincy since his ODI[Read More…]
Former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly has emerged as the front-runner to take over as BCCI president after former president Anurag Thakur and secretary Ajay Shirke were sacked from their respective posts by the Supreme Court on Monday. Ganguly is currently president of the Cricket Association of Bengal; one of the[Read More…]
Indian cricketer Mohammed Shami was lectured on morality by trolls because his wife was seen wearing a sleeveless gown in the photograph after he posted pictures with his wife and daughter. The Indian fast bowler, however, gave a fitting reply to the trolls on both Twitter and Facebook. “Very good[Read More…]
In yet another feather on his cap, Ravichandran Ashwin on Thursday was named the ICC Cricketer of the Year award after becoming the only Indian in ICC’s Test Team of the Year. Virat Kohli was named captain of the ICC ODI Team of the Year. Misbah-Ul-Haq won the ICC Spirit of Cricket[Read More…]
Ravichandran Ashwin completed his ten-wicket haul as India beat England by an innings and 36 runs in the fourth Test at Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium. On the fifth morning of the Mumbai Test, the hosts took no time to end England’s second innings with Ashwin wrapping up the visitor’s tail early.[Read More…]
The Supreme Court allowed the BCCI to incur expenses of Rs 1.33 crore for holding the remaining two cricket Test matches between India and England scheduled at Mumbai and Chennai respectively, reports PTI. The court also approved expenses of Rs 25 lakh for the six matches (three ODIs and three[Read More…]
Cricket umpires at all levels of the sport will soon be given the power to eject players from the field of play for threats or acts of violence as part of a raft of recommendations announced by the MCC World Cricket Committee on Wednesday that also included a restriction on[Read More…]
Kerala wicketkeeper Sanju Samson is in trouble. The youngster is facing disciplinary action from the state cricket association for allegedly violating the code of conduct during the team’s recent Ranji Trophy against Goa. The KCA is likely to serve Sanju with the show-cause notice on Thursday itself. The 22-year-old wicketkeeper-batsman[Read More…]
England have called up two uncapped players to their squad for the remainder of the Test series in India with Keaton Jennings, the Durham left-hander, replacing Haseeb Hameed and Hampshire’s Liam Dawson in for his fellow left-armer Zafar Ansari. England is 2-0 down in the series with two matches to[Read More…]
India have completely outplayed England in Mohali to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the five-match Test series. Parthiv Patel was the hero for India in the fourth innings, with the wicketkeeper scoring an unbeaten 67 in his comeback Test to lead India to an 8-wicket victory against the visitors.[Read More…]
India took firm control of the third Test against England in Mohali by reducing the visitors to 78 for the loss of four wickets. England is still 56 runs away from India lead of 134 in the first innings. Ravichandran Ashwin once again dominated with both bat and ball. Thanks[Read More…]
Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja put India back on track after the hosts lost quick wickets post tea as the duo propelled the team to 271 for 6 at stumps on Day 2 in Mohali on Sunday. Ashwin (57*), who notched up his ninth Test fifty, and Jadeja (31*) added[Read More…]
In its latest report, the Lodha Committee has reiterated that BCCI officials should be sacked and as a replacement has suggested former home secretary GK Pillai be appointed, reports NDTV. The panel said Pillai should conduct the crucial task of appointing auditors for awarding BCCI contracts like that for media[Read More…]
India took five wickets in the morning session to inch closer to victory against England in the second test on Monday. At lunch on the fifth and final day, England was reeling at 142 for seven in the second innings after resuming on 87-2. The tourists required another 263 runs[Read More…]
Virat Kohli and Cheteshwar Pujara made centuries and shared a stand of 226 to put India on course for a big first-innings total against England on the first day of the second test on Thursday in Visakhapatnam. Kohli was unbeaten on 151 and Ravichandran Ashwin on 1 as India reached[Read More…]
England’s bowlers toiled hard as conceded 257 runs in 85.3 overs while taking just four wickets, the last two coming in the last two overs. For six hours England had toiled under a cloudless sky for two wickets and their first innings total of 537 no longer possessed monumental proportions.[Read More…]
England’s brilliant start to this tough tour of India continued on the second day in Rajkot. Moeen Ali and Ben Stokes scored centuries as England piled on 537 before the hosts reached 63 for no loss at the close. England continued to dominate the sloppy hosts who added two drops,[Read More…]
Delhi batsman Rishabh Pant scored the fastest century in the history of India’s first class cricket. Batting against Jharkhand, Pant achieved his century off just 48 balls and broke the previous record of 56 balls held by two cricketers. He had scored 117 off 106 balls in the first innings.[Read More…]
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Wednesday announced the Test squad for the five-match series against England, starting November 9. The meeting, which was held in Mumbai, was attended by five national selectors, board secretary Ajay Shirke and physio Patrick Farhart while, Test captain Virat Kohli[Read More…]
Spinner Mehedi Hasan took six wickets as Bangladesh secured their first ever Test win over England with an 108-run victory on Sunday. England had won all previous nine matches against their South Asian rivals but were all out for 164 in their second innings while chasing 273 for victory on[Read More…]