Australian wicket-keeper Brad Haddin will return back home due to the finger injury he incurred before the third Ashes Test at Edgbaston. This has posed a threat to his involvement in next month's Champions Trophy in South Africa.
 
Haddin did not play for the third Ashes test at Edgbaston ...

England’s all-rounder Andrew Flintoff will not be a part of England's Champions Trophy squad. He will not play the one-day international in Ireland and NatWest Series against Australia.
 
Flintoff will undergo an exploratory arthroscopic surgery on his injured right knee on ...

Even though Bret Lee had not been selected for the completes Ashes series because of his injuries, the Aussie fast bowler is making his comeback as he has been selected to be a part of the 15-member Australian squad for the Champions Trophy in South Africa from Sep 22.
 
According to the ...

Pakistan cricket board has sacked assistant coach Aaqib Javed on Friday. He will not be a part of the Champions Trophy to be played in South Africa. Mohtashim Rasheed, a Karachi-born first-class cricketer will replace Aaqib in the squad.
 
Rasheed has previously served the national team as ...

Mohammad Asif was recalled on Friday to be a part of Champions Trophy in South Africa. He will replace under-performing all-rounder Abdul Razzaq in the squad.
 
Chief selector Iqbal Qasim declared the 15 member team for the eight nation tournament.Shahid Afridi has been named the ...

Muttiah Muralitharan of Srilanka set a new world record of bowling the highest number of maiden overs in Test cricket. He surpassed Australia`s Shane Warne's record of 1751 maiden overs on Thursday.
 
Muralitharan who is currently playing his 128th test against New Zealand bowled his 1752nd ...

Irfan Pathan has been dropped out of the Indian squad for the Sri Lanka tri-series and the Champions Trophy. The Baroda pacer has taken up this challenge to lift his performance and force a recall into the national side.
 
Pathan in a media interview said, “I never run away from ...

BCCI announced the 15-member squad on Sunday for next month's tri-series in Sri Lanka and the Champions Trophy in South Africa. Asexpected, former India captain Rahul Dravid returned to the one-day team while Virender Sehwag, who is recuperating from a shoulder injury, was not considered.
The ...

The Indian cricket board may consider a legal action against the WADA clause. BCCI is planning to take legal advice from Attorney General Goolam Vahanvati and former chief justice of India A.S. Anand on the controversial 'whereabouts' clause of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Code.
 
The ...

Javed Miandad has been appointed as the batting consultant by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Thursday. This step was taken following the national team's disastrous tour of Sri Lanka this summer.
 
Ijaz Butt, PCB chairman said that Miandad has been asked to help Pakistan's struggling ...

The presence of Virendra Sehwag in the team for the Lanka tri-series is still uncertain. With only three days to go for the selection of the Indian cricket squad for the Sri Lanka tri-series, Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni failed to confirm on Thursday whether the injured opener would be ...

The Indian cricket board has given permission to the former Indian Cricket League players, who have been granted amnesty, to play in the Indian Premier League .This was said by the Board on Thursday.
 
The working committee of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) in a meeting at ...

BCCI on Tuesday announced that it would grant the All India Football Federation (AIFF) a sum of Rs. 250 million for the development of Indian football.
 
It seems that AIFF president Praful Patel had approached, Sharad Pawar, his party colleague and former Board of Control for Cricket ...

Former Pakistan Test batsman Saeed Anwar may take over as the new cricket coach of national team.
 
Anwar, a flamboyant left-handed batsman, on Wednesday had a meeting with Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ijaz Butt in Lahore. The development has fuelled speculations that he might be ...

Kevin Pietersen's return to cricket is now unpredictable as the player has developed infection following his Achilles heel surgery last month.
 
Pietersen was clearly not fit during the ongoing Ashes series last month played at Lord’s where England emerged as winners. He was ruled out ...

Dutchman Dirk Nannes revealed that he had been included in Australian squad on Tuesday, for the two Twenty20 matches against England to be played later this month.
 
Nannes, who represented Holland at the recent World Twenty20, is allowed to represent Australia because Holland is an ...

The third edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) will now be played in India. The league's chairman and commissioner Lalit Modi announced on Tuesday that the matches will be played in four new venues in India.
 
The tournament will commence from March 12 .The final match will be played ...

Former Australian opener Matthew Hayden is all set to become a member of the board of Cricket Australia (CA). He will take over the former captain, Allan Border, who has resigned after seven years of service.
 
CA chairman Jack Clarke in a press release on Tuesday said "I am also ...

Cricket Australia (CA) has included Tim Paine in its Twenty20 squad. The young wicketkeeper will play eight ODIs and two Twenty20s to start from August 28 in England. Cricket Australia has also dropped Michel Hussey, Peter Siddle and Nathan Bracken from the team.
 
Andrew Hilditch, National ...

Indian speedster Zaheer Khan will not play in the Champions Trophy in September due to a surgery on his left shoulder.
 
The left-arm pacer had acquired shoulder injury while playing in the Indian Premier League in April-May. He is expected to return back in the international fold by the ...

Aggressive batsman Jonathan Trott and fast bowler Ryan Sidebottom have been included in the England team for the fourth Ashes Test at Edgbaston. They have been included as a cover for struggling Andrew Flintoff in the squad.
 
Chief selector Geof Miller said that it is a waiting game for the ...

Ijaz Butt, chief of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is under immense pressure to quit. His ten-month stint in the board has been very turbulent.
 
The national media is rife with reports that top officials are not very pleased with Butt’s performance and thus PCB chairman’s days are ...

Fast bowler Sreesanth will be guided by bowling coach Allan Donald. He is hoping that a stint with former South African pacer can bring him back to national reckoning.
 
Sreesanth will be leaving on Friday to train with Warwickshire bowling coach Donald.
 
Sreesanth said "I am ...

Younis Khan believes that the poor structure of Pakistan is to blamed for team’s poor performance
 
Younis Khan, captain of Pakistan cricket team has appealed the cricket fans not to blame 'groupism' in his team for its below-par performance in the current tour of Sri ...

According to Union Sports Minister, M S Gill, World Anti-Doping Agency should be adopted by all the sporting bodies.
 
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Sunday had rejected WADA's anti-doping code due to the controversial "whereabouts" clause that mandates players ...

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Sunday rejected the controversial anti-doping clause of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) that makes it mandatory for players to make themselves available for out of competition tests.
BCCI strongly backed the players, saying that the ...

Ahead of the Indian cricket board's meeting with the International Cricket Council (ICC) Sunday to sort out the players' concerns over anti-doping norms, the Federation of International Cricketer's Association (FICA) has made it clear that ICC, as things stand, cannot exempt any country from the ...

Shane Bond has been included in the New Zealand A squad which will participate in the Buchi Babu All India Invitation Tournament next month. The team also comprises of Neil Broom, Nathan McCullum and Kyle Mills. This will be a warm up game for four of them before Black Cap's upcoming limited over ...

Ponting broke  Allan Border's former record of 11,174 runs ,during the first innings in the third Test against England at Edgbaston .He is now third on the all time Test run scorer list behind Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara, with 12,773 and 11,953 Test runs, respectively.
 
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Kevin Pietersen has denied the speculations that he would ignore central contracts and go freelance to lap up the riches of Twenty20 cricket.
 
Pietersen, who is not included in the ongoing Ashes because of achilles injury, dismissed speculation that leading cricketers, including himself, ...