Category: Cricket

David Saker, Australia’s fast bowling coach, will be at the helm of affairs with the national side when they travel to India for a One-Day International series later in the year, Cricket Australia announced on Friday (March 10). Saker will take Darren Lehmann’s place for the series, the dates for which, haven’t been announced yet. The moves comes following Lehmann’s […]

Glenn Maxwell has been named captain of Kings XI Punjab for the tenth edition of the Indian Premier League, the franchise confirmed on Friday (March 10). The all-rounder will take over from M Vijay, who was named captain midway through the season last year. Kings XI finished at the bottom of the table last season with just four wins from […]

BCCI, on Thursday (March 9), filed an official complaint with the ICC against Steve Smith and Peter Handscomb in relation to the DRS controversy that has erupted in the aftermath of the Bengaluru Test. BCCI’s action comes in the wake of the governing body of the sport opting against levying any charges against players involved in the DRS fracas under […]

India named a 15-man squad for the final two Test matches against Australia, with all-rounder Hardik Pandya the only absentee from the squad for the first two games. Murali Vijay, who missed the Bengaluru Test with a sore shoulder, has been retained in the squad while the selectors resisted an urge to call up injury prone pacer Mohammed Shami back […]

legend Sunil Gavaskar has slammed the International Cricket Council (ICC) for not penalising Steven Smith after the Australian captain illegally sought the dressing room’s advice on a Umpire Decision Review System (UDRS) or DRS referral during the second Test against India. Gavaskar said he would love to see India captain Virat Kohli take the help of the dressing room for […]

India put in one of their best bowling performances under pressure in recent times to defend a total of 188 in the second India v Australia Test at the Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore on Day 4, beating Australia by 75 runs. Brief Scores : India 189 & 274 beat Australia 276 & 112 (Smith 28; Ashwin 6/41) by 75 runs