Category: Cricket

Spin great Erapalli Prasanna feels time has come to make Virat Kohli the India captain in all three formats and M S Dhoni, whose leadership skills are on the wane, can continue playing as a wicketkeeper-batsman in the limited-overs format. Though it has already been announced that Dhoni will lead India in the World T20 in March-April, Prasanna wants the […]

Battered and bruised after four successive hammerings, India will make a last-gasp effort to avoid the embarrassment of being whitewashed by an unrelenting Australia when the two sides clash in the fifth and final cricket one-dayer in Sydney on Saturday. The Indians came a cropper while defending three back-to-back 300-plus totals and in the fourth match in Canberra, they bungled […]

Australia skipper Steven Smith won the toss and opted to bat against India in the fourth cricket One-day International at the Manuka Oval on Wednesday. India have replaced left-arm paceman Barinder Sran with experienced Bhuvneshwar Kumar. Australia have made two changes to their side with David Warner coming back to the side in place of Shaun Marsh and spinner Nathan […]

BCCI secretary Anurag Thakur on Monday said the Indian cricket team will have a full-time coach after the World T20 and the high-profile advisory committee comprising Sachin Tendulkar, V.V.S. Laxman and Sourav Ganguly will have a say in the appointment. Thakur also threw his weight behind under-fire skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, as the team slumped to three successive losses in […]

India’s limited overs skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni was named captain of Rising Pune Supergiants, owned by Sanjiv Goenka, for the upcoming season of the Indian Premier League in Kolkata on Monday. Unveiling the team logo and captain, team owner Sanjiv Goenka said, “I welcome Dhoni as the captain of Rising Pune Supergiants for the 2016 season. “He has always been […]

West Indies batsman Chris Gayle smashed fifty from 12 balls for the Melbourne Renegades in the Big Bash League on Monday to match India’s Yuvraj Singh’s record for the fastest half-century in Twenty20 cricket. Left-hander Yuvraj achieved the feat against England in a group match at the inaugural World Twenty20 in 2007 in South Africa, smashing fast bowler Stuart Broad […]