Category: Cricket

India will look to win its third Champions Trophy title when it plays Pakistan in Sunday’s final at the Oval. Pakistan has had the better of the rivalry overall, with a 72-52 head-to-head record. India won the toss and elected to bowl first. “We are used to this before. It’s a good wicket and will be good throughout the match, […]

The World Twenty20 Championship’s seventh edition next year is all set to be scrapped and pushed to 2020 as the top member nations will be busy with bilateral commitments in 2018. According to highly-placed sources in the International Cricket Council, the next edition of ICC World T2O will only be held in 2020. However, the venue is yet to be […]

Indian captain Virat Kohli on Thursday became the fastest cricketer to score 8000 runs in ODIs during his unbeaten knock of 96 against Bangladesh in the semifinals of the Champions Trophy here. Kohli reached to the 8000-run mark in his 175th innings to go ahead of South African captain A B de Villiers who had taken 182 innings to reach […]

A full-strength Indian team will travel to the Caribbean islands. However, exciting young wicketkeeper batsman Rishabh Pant will replace Rohit, who returned to international cricket during India’s Champions Trophy campaign in England. Rohit was in fine form at the top of the order making 91 against Pakistan before smashing a more confident 78 against Sri Lanka. Pant has been in […]

Anil Kumble will remain India’s coach for the tour of West Indies subject to his acceptance, Committee of Administrators (COA) chairman Vinod Rai said on Monday, insisting that only the Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) will decide the next head coach. “Coach selection has been entrusted to the CAC which selected Anil Kumble last year for a one-year contract. Now the […]

Vijay Mallya was booed by a section of India supporters as he entered the Oval arena to watch India’s crucial ICC Champions Trophy encounter against South Africa, here on Sunday. Mr. Mallya, who caused a lot of embarrassment for the Indian cricket team when he dropped in at Virat Kohli Foundation’s ‘Charity Dinner’, was in for some discomfort when he […]