After IPL- 2 was shifted out of India to South Africa because of security concerns, the new schedule of the cricket extravaganza has been released by the organizers. As per the new schedule, IPL 2009 will kick off at the Newlands Stadium in Cape Town on April 18. The summit clash of the event will ...

International Cricket Council’s (ICC) Test Championship mace has been awarded to Ricky Ponting, the Australian captain. He has received the mace as Australia finished at the top in the table, for the 2008-09 calendar year. Along with the mace, Australia was awarded $175,000. On the same date, ...

England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is believed to have shortlisted Mickey Arthur, the present South African coach, as one of the candidates for the post of England Cricket Coach. As per the reports in the British media, Arthur is now one of the four contenders for the top England coaching job. ...

South Africa was on Tuesday (24th March) named as the host for the second edition of the Indian Premier League Twenty20 tournament.  Earlier, BCCI announced shifting the event out of India because of government's inability to provide adequate security cover. IPL commissioner Lalit ...

Indian women’s cricket team captain Jhulan Goswami climbed up two places to regain the No. 1 spot in the bowling in the latest ICC ODI Rankings issued on Monday (23rd March). She got a total of 713 points in the ranking. Jhulan, was the top-ranked bowler when the women’s rankings were ...

England clinched their third World Cup title after beating New Zealand by four wickets in a low scoring final of the ICC Women’s World Cup 2009 at the North Oval, Sydney on Sunday. England's all-rounder Nicky Shaw dominated the final match with superb bowling (4 wickets for 34 runs) and ...

Putting down the curtain of suspense revolving IPL 2, BCCI president Shashank Manohar announced on Sunday (22nd March) that the T20 event will be held outside India. He held the state governments responsible for the decision to shift IPL overseas. The BCCI took the decision in an emergency meeting ...

India finished third in the ICC Women's World Cup after defeating defending champions Australia by three wickets in a third place play-off match at the Bankstown Oval, Sydney on Saturday (21st March). India's Rumeli Dhar was adjudged as the Player of the Match for her all-round display which ...

After a gap of 33 years, Team India scripted history in New Zealand by winning the Hamilton Test comprehensively by ten wickets. With this win, India leads the three Test match series by 1-0. In their second innings the Indians were chasing a mere total of 39 runs to win this match. Opening duo of ...

In the ICC Women's World Cup super-six stage on Thursday (19th March), India defeated West Indies comprehensively by eight-wickets in Sydney. But the result was not good enough to ensure them a place in Sunday's summit-clash. After being defeated by New Zealand on Tuesday (17th March) the Indians, ...

New Delhi, Jaipur and Visakhapatanam have been dropped as venues in the latest schedule of the T20 Indian Premier League (IPL) tournament. After recent modifications in the previously declared schedule, the second edition of IPL is awaiting the green signal from the Home Ministry. The revised ...

India’s hope of making to the final of the ICC's women cricket World Cup suffered a huge setback on Tuesday (17th March) after they lost to New Zealand by five wickets in the Super Six stage at the Sydney North Oval. The match was dominated by the all round performance of New Zealand 's ...

India kicked up its Super Six campaign in style, by beating the defending champion Australia by 16 runs in the ICC Women's World Cup in Sydney on Saturday (14th March). Australian skipper Karen Rolton's decision to field first proved to be a wrong one as Indian openers Anagha Despandhe (45) and ...

With the help of two brilliant half-centuries by Jesse Ryder (63) and Martin Guptill (57) New Zealand defeated India by 8 wickets in the 5th and last ODI at Auckland. Earlier in the match, Ryder also contributed with the bowl by taking three crucial wickets of Yuvraj Singh, MS Dhoni and ...

On 13 Mar'09, Ashok Maneria of Rajasthan was chosen as captain of the Indian Under-19 cricket team, which will visit Australia to play three one-day internationals and two three-day games in April. To pick the 16-member squad, the Junior Selection Committee met at TNCA (Tamil Nadu Cricket ...

Indian origin West Indian cricketer Denesh Ramdin has been named the captain of the West Indies team for the upcoming ODI series against England starting on Sunday (15th March) in Port of Spain. Ramdin, a Trinidadian whose forefathers came from India between 1845 and 1917 to work on sugar and cocoa ...

On Thursday (12th March) Mithali Raj stood tall among rubble, as India edged out Sri Lanka by 35 runs in a ICC women’s World Cup match in Sydney. With this win India has booked a place in the Super Six stage of the World Cup. Batting first India slumped to 78 for seven. Then there was an ...

The chief executive committee of International Cricket Council (ICC) on Wednesday (11th March) recommended South Africa to host the Champions Trophy later this year. Thus, South Africa will replace Pakistan, which was slated to host the tournament last year. But the tournament was postponed after ...

In the latest ICC Test bowling rankings, Australian pacer Mitchell Johnson and South Africa's fast bowler Dale Steyn share the second spot. Johnson has climbed up one place to share the second spot with Steyn. Due to his 12-wicket haul in the two Test matches against South Africa, Johnson moved up ...

Lalit Modi IPL Chairman today announced that two new venues — Ahmedabad and Vishakhapatnam — have been added to the eight cities which hosted IPL matches last year. There are chances that Dharamshala might also stage some games. The IPL -2 tournament will be played ...

The company responsible for the safety of the South African cricketers told the media that, players would not be allowed to go to India to play in the Indian Primer League T20 matches, if the security conditions there are deemed insufficient. Robert Nicholls, director of Nicholls, Steyn and ...

Indian eves won the first match of the Women's World Cup cricket defeating Pakistan by 10 wickets at the Bradman Oval ground in Australia on Saturday (March 7). India won the toss and elected to field first. Indian bowlers displayed brilliant performance to wrap up the Pakistani team for 57 runs in ...

The second one-day international between India and New Zealand at Wellington was called off due to torrential rain on Friday (March 6). After winning the toss, India elected to bat first. The opening pair of Sachin Tendulkar (61) and Virender Sehwag (54) gave India a solid start but their efforts ...

The New Zealand's tour to Pakistan has been called off in the wake of yesterday's (March 3) attack on Sri Lankan team in Lahore. However, New Zealand have agreed to play against Pakistan in a neutral venue. The Kiwis were supposed to come to Pakistan by the end of this year but the recent attack on ...

India defeated New Zealand by 53 runs to win the first ODI under D/L method at Napier on Tuesday (March 3). Earlier electing to bat first in a rain-reduced 38-over match, India scored a challenging total of 273. Indian skipper MS Dhoni led the team from the front by scoring 84 runs.
 
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The chief commissioner of the cash-rich Indian Premier League (IPL), Lalit Modi has lost the election for the post of Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) president. The election which would have re-elected Modi as president was won by a senior bureaucrat Sanjay Dixit by five votes. The ...

Australian fast bowler Mitchell Johnson has broken Adam Gilchrist's previous national record of maximum runs in an over. He blasted 26 runs in an over bowled by South African spinner Paul Harris on the second day of the first Test at the Wanderers in Johannesburg. Two years ago Gilchrist blasted 24 ...

Team India's pace star Ishant Sharma is likely to miss the first one-day international of the upcoming India-New Zealand ODI series due to injury. The lanky fast bowler had hurt his shoulder while fielding in the second Twenty20 match against New Zealand at the Westpac Stadium in Wellington last ...

New Zealand won the second and final Twenty20 international by beating India by 5 wickets in a nail-biting encounter at Wellington on Friday (February 27). The Kiwis were able to win the match especially because of Brendon McCullum's unbeaten knock of 69 runs. The match reached a thrilling ...

The skipper of Pakistan cricket team, Younis Khan topped the list of ICC's player rankings for Test batsmen by the virtue of his triple hundred in the drawn Karachi Test against Sri Lanka. In the recently concluded Test match against Sri Lanka, Younis Khan played a marathon innings to become the ...