Category: Cricket

Disciplined bowling from Jasprit Bumrah, Hardik Pandya and Kuldeep Yadav helped India defeat Sri Lanka by 168 runs at R Premadasa Stadium on Friday to go 4-0 up in their five-match One-Day International series. Bumrah, Pandya and Yadav picked up two wickets each as the hosts lost men at regular intervals to be bundled out for 207 runs in 42.4 […]

Virat Kohli slammed his 29th one-day international hundred as India took a firm grip of the fourth game of a five-match series against Sri Lanka at the Premadas in Colombo.

Sri Lanka limited-overs captain Upul Tharanga was Friday handed a two-match ban for a slow over-rate offence during his side’s second straight loss to India in the ongoing one-day series. Middle-order batsman Chamara Kapugedara will lead the hosts in the absence of Tharanga, according to a Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) release. Test captain Dinesh Chandimal and batsman Lahiru Thirimanne have […]

Chief of Dera Sacha Sauda Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh is a convict in a rape case. Quite expectedly, his followers have unleashed violence in Panchkula to protest against the verdict leaving several dead and many injured. Now, one is inquisitive to get a reaction from Team India skipper Virat Kohli, who is currently busy in national duties in Sri Lanka. […]

Sri Lanka is launching an investigation into the woeful state of cricket on the island, the sports minister said on Thursday, amid a string of humiliating losses and calls for an administrative overhaul. Dayasiri Jayasekera said he was inviting former administrators, players, sports experts and journalists to brainstorm ideas about how to revive the game, beloved in Sri Lanka. “I […]

Batsman AB de Villiers has stepped down as captain of South Africa’s one-day international team but has said he is ready to play all three formats of the game after a self-imposed exile from Test cricket. De Villiers sat out South Africa’s recent 3-1 Test series defeat to England amid speculation that he was ready to ditch the five-day game […]