South Africa registered triumph over India by an innings and six runs on the day four of the first cricket test on Tuesday. After the follow on was imposed on India, the home team were wrapped up at 319 runs with Sachin Tendulkar cracking his 46th ton.
 
The other players who made useful ...

Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar was dismissed after he hit his 46th ton in the fourth day of first test between India and South Africa being played at VCA stadium in Nagpur on Tuesday.
 
Tendulkar cracked the ton post lunch when he played a Wayne Parnell delivery to point for a single. ...

Dale Steyn recorded his career-best figures during the third day's play of the first cricket Test between India and South Africa on Monday. The South African paceman Steyn (7-51) surpassed his previous best of 6 for 49 against New Zealand at Centurion in 2007-08.
 
He had also claimed 6 ...

Rajasthan Royals, the inaugural Indian Premier League (IPL) champions on Monday joined forces with Hampshire, Cape Cobras, Trinidad and a yet-to-be-confirmed Australia state team for a global alliance at Lord's.
 
Hampshire will now play as the Hampshire Royals in the Twenty20 Cup next ...

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has included former skipper Wasim Akram in the probe panel set up last week to investigate on Pakistan’s poor performance in Australia tour.
  
The six-man committee was dismissed as an eye wash by several former Test greats, because some of the ...

South Africa bundled out India for 233 with skipper Graeme Smith enforcing follow-on on the third day of Nagpur test on Monday. Dale Steyn was at his career best with 7/51.South Africans had declared their first innings at 558/6.
 
India was down by six wickets after tea. India trailed by ...

Pakistan coach Intikhab Alam will not assist the Pakistan squad for two Twenty20 internationals against England to be played in Dubai later this month.
 
The former skipper faces an investigation after the poor performance of the side during Australia tour. Alam holds a 2 year contract with ...

South African pacemen stunned Indian batsmen at the third day of the first Test between India and South Africa on Monday. Dale Steyn pocketed two wickets to wreck the Indian innings. Steyn dismissed Sachin Tendulkar and Murali Vijay while Morne Morkel pocketed Gautam Gambhir’s wicket to limit ...

Umpire Mark Benson took retirement from ICC`s Emirates Elite Panel on health ground. He will be taking a contract with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) to officiate in county circuit.
 
Benson has in his umpiring stint 27 Tests, 72 ODIs and 19 T20Is .He earned nominations for ...

Yusuf Pathan with his heroic 210 guided West Zone to a thrilling win in Duleep Trophy. West Zone crushed South Zone by 3 wickets to clinch the Duleep Trophy in Hyderabad.
 
This is the highest successful run chase in the history of first-class cricket.
 
Yusuf helped West to reach the ...

Jacques Kallis and Hashim Amla gave stability to the South African innings on the first day of the first cricket Test being played at Nagpur. Zaheer Khan gave India a stirring start, removing South African openers in a ferocious opening spell, before the visitors recovered through Jacques Kallis ...

South Africa won the toss and decided to bat in the first of the two-Test cricket series against India at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium on Saturday.
 
India was forced to make four changes, three of these owing to injuries, from the side that played in the second Test against ...

Gautam Gambhir’s has just played 29 test matches and already has built a brilliant reputation of a consistent second-innings scorer. The statistics say it for themselves as the left batsman has been found scoring five hundreds in 23 innings at averages of 62.52.
 
Often the second ...

Starting Saturday the injury prone Indian cricket team take on Proteas to protect their number one Test Team’s status. The two teams are expected to play a two test match test series.
 
A series win should confirm India’s position on the top of the ICC Test ranking or ...

Morne Morkel is all set to bowl well in the upcoming series. After being dropped out last year for not performing well, he is back again with new zeal as a new ball partner for Dale Steyn.
 
He is prepared for new challenges after his heightened performance against England. "Against the ...

The first test between India and South Africa scheduled to start on Saturday in Nagpur now includes middle-order batsman Rohit Sharma. The selectors called Sharma as cover for VVS Laxman
 
Rohit had spearheaded the Board President's XI in the two-day warm-up match against the South Africans ...

Former Australian umpire Darrell Hair has labelled Pakistani all-rounder Shahid Afridi as a ‘cheat’. Hair made the comment after Afridi’s ball-tampering act and is sure that the Pakistan all-rounder will be up to it again in future.
 
Hair speaking about Afridi said, ...

South Zone took an overall lead of 191 runs on the second day of their Duleep Trophy final against West. South Zone captain Dinesh Karthik sustained his good play beginning at his overnight 161 but his partners could not support him.Karthik was the ninth man out for 183 .South Zone ended up at 400, ...

Pakistan Sports Minister Aijaz Hussein Jakhrani has asked Cricket Australia (CA) to tighten ground security and ban alcohol. He has asked CA to set up barriers at grounds following the Khalid Latif incident.
 
Latif was tackled by a spectator in the fifth and last One-day International (ODI) ...

Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) will most probably not host the season's first ODI next summer. According to media reports next summer's first One-day international will take place at ANZ Stadium
 
The move has apparently been approved by Cricket New South Wales and will be put to the board of ...

The Indian cricket board plans to extend the contract of coach Gary Kirsten till 2011 World Cup. BCCI had signed a 2 year deal with former South African opener Gary Kristen in March 2008.
 
Reports had claimed that Kristen would return back home at the end of his tenure in March this year. ...

Twenty20 paceman Dirk Nannes does not agree with Shahid Afridi's claims on ball tampering. He said that bowlers can be equally effective without it.
 
The Pakistani skipper has been banned from two T20 matches after he was caught in the camera biting the seam off the ball and tampering with ...

Ottis Gibson has been appointed as the head coach of West Indies cricket team for their upcoming series against Zimbabwe. The former West Indies all-rounder, who played two Tests and 15 One-day internationals, has been England's bowling coach since late 2007.
 
West Indies Cricket Board ...

Australian captain Ricky Ponting said he would have led a walk-off had any of his players been tackled by a gate crashing fan, the way it happened with Pakistan's Khalid Latif, at Perth.
 
Latif was fielding at deep square leg in the fifth and last One-Day International Sunday, motioning to ...

Dinesh Karthik was the star player in the opening day of South Zone's Duleep Trophy final against West Zone scoring an unbeaten 161 on Tuesday.
 
The Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium had packed spectators and the South Zone captain decided to opt for batting after winning the toss .He took ...

It was yet another shock for the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Tuesday as the director general Javed Miandad threatened to resign from the post general because of his differences with board chairman Ijaz Butt.
 
Miandad, Pakistan's former captain and legendary Test batsman, said that he ...

South African skipper Graeme Smith has said that playing cricket in India is a pleasure and challenge for them. He also said that number one rank does not really matter for the team.
 
Smith said in a news conference,"We know India are the number one team in the world. We would focus on ...

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) formed an inquiry committee on Monday to evaluate the team’s poor performance in Australia.
 
Pakistan lost the three-match Test series by 0-3 and later suffered a similar fate in the One-day series in which the Aussies imposed a 5-0 victory in Perth on ...

Shahid Afridi charged of ball tampering says in his defence that he was just trying to smell the ball. The Pakistani all-rounder has been banned for two T20 Internationals on Sunday after he was caught tampering the ball at fifth and final ODI against Australia in Perth.
 
Coach ...

Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Monday assured "full security" to Australian and Pakistani players in India following the Shiv Sena's threats to them.
 
Chidambaram addressing the media said, “Let Australian players come to India. Let Pakistani players come to India. ...