Category: Cricket

Former New Zealand skipper Stephen Fleming was on Monday named chief coach of the new Pune franchise of the Indian Premier League Twenty20 cricket tournament. With this the former Chennai Super Kings coach will renew his long and most successful partnership with his former captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni who was picked in the December draft. “I warmly welcome Stephen Fleming […]

India will need to win at least a game in the upcoming one-dayer series against Australia to retain their current second position in the ICC ODI Team Championships, even as second-placed Virat Kohli looks to close in on AB de Villiers in the batting chart. World champions Australia go head to head with former winner India in a five-match series […]

Rohit Sharma and Manish Pandey sparkled with half-centuries but rest of India’s batsmen put up a lacklustre performance before the bowlers came good to hand the team a 64-run win over a second string Western Australia XI in the warm-up one-day cricket match in Perth on Saturday. Having won the first practice Twenty20, the Indians once managed to hit the […]

Rohit Sharma and Manish Pandey sparkled with half-centuries but rest of India’s batsmen put up a lacklustre performance before the bowlers came good to hand the team a 64-run win over a second string Western Australia XI in the warm-up one-day cricket match in Perth. Having won the first practice Twenty20, the Indians once managed to hit the right notes […]

Mohammed Shami has been ruled out of India’s limited-overs assignment in Australia after sustaining a hamstring injury while training ahead of the first tour game against Western Australia XI on Friday (January 8). Scans after the game revealed a Grade II injury to the pacer’s left hamstring, which will require up to six weeks of recovery and rehabilitation. Bhuvneshwar Kumar […]

The Asian Cricket Council on Saturday awarded the sponsorship rights of Asia Cup to sports marketing and management company Twenty First Century Media in a four-year deal. The partnership from 2016 to 2019 will cover 10 key Asia Cup Tournaments including Men’s Asia Cup, Women’s Asia Cup, Asia Cup Qualifier, Emerging Asia Cup and U19 Asia Cup, the ACC said […]