Bangladeshi opener Tamim Iqbal has identified Pakistani offspinner Saeed Ajmal as the biggest threat to the Bangladeshi batting. Pakistan leave for Bangladesh at the end of this week and the home side is under no illusions about the leading wicket taker of 2011 in test matches. Ajmal has so far taken 41 wickets in 6 [...]
Australian captain Michael Clarke has admitted that senior players like Shane Watson, Ryan Harris, Shaun Marsh and Mitchell Johnson might not play in the first test against regional rivals New Zealand at Brisbane. The quartet are all likely to miss the start of the series for various reasons and Clarke will for the first time [...]
Former Pakistani cricketer Asif Bajwa has slammed the team management for failing to protect the player and has said that Mohammad Amir is a victim of Pakistan’s cricketing culture. The tainted player who plead guilty to spot fixing charges had played in a cricket academy run by Bajwa near Rawalpindi since being 11 years old [...]
Indian Captain MS Dhoni has slammed the behavior of the English team in the ongoing ODI series in India and has questioned the factitious behavior displayed by England amongst themselves and aimed at their opponents, over the last few weeks. England have already lost the series 3-0 and will only be playing for pride and [...]
Former Pakistani captain Shahid Afridi has taken back his conditional retirement and has said he is now available for selection in the limited over formats as Ijaz Butt is no longer the PCB head. Afridi in may had announced a conditional retirement from international cricket after being replaced as captain and had said that he [...]
Trinidad and Tobago close victory over the Cape Cobras has eliminated the Cobras from the Champions League T20. Cobras became the first team to exit from the tournament. T&T place in the semifinal is also not sure and they will have to depend on the result of the second match of the day. The last [...]
AB de Villiers has been ruled out of the ODI and the T20I series against Australia due to a broken finger that he sustained during a practice session for the Royal Challengers Bangalore. He was set to lead the South African side, along with Hashim Amla as his deputy in their forthcoming series against Australia. With [...]
The quarter-final line-up in the Rugby World Cup 2011 has been decided and will see some exciting games to be played in the tournament. The first quarter-final will be played between Ireland and the Wales at the Westpac stadium in Wellington. Ireland had topped the Group C while Wales had been placed second in their [...]
Pakistan fast bowler Umar Gul has said that he did not want the authorities to legalise ball-tampering. This was in total contrast to what Shoaib Akhtar had said in his autobiography, Controversially Yours, that the ball-tampering should be legalised to ensure that there was parity among the teams. However, Gul said that despite the issues [...]
New South Wales Blues won their second game of the tournament when they beat the Mumbai Indians by five wickets in the game at Chennai. It was a low-scoring affair but in the end, the Blues won with an ease. It was not always the case though. Chasing 101 for a win in the 20 [...]
Rahul Sharma and Sreenath Aravind are the two new faces who have been selected for the first two ODIs of the upcoming series against England at home. Both the players are very excited at the prospect of playing for India. The Punjab leg-spinner Sharma said that he do not want to talk big but wants [...]
Indian star opener Gautam Gambhir after having a nightmare tour of England is now looking good to regain his form and fitness after he scored a match-winning half century in Champions League Twenty20 against Royal Challenger Bangalore. Though it was only a T20 match against a slightly feeble bowling attack on a batting friendly pitch [...]
