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India will begin their four-Test series against the West Indies on July 21 after playing a couple of warm-up matches in their 49-day tour of the Caribbean. India will arrive in St.Kitts on July 6 to play a two-day warm-up fixture at Warner Park on July 9 and 10. At the same venue, they will play a three-day game from […]

India will start their 2017 Champions Trophy campaign against Pakistan at Edgbaston, the International Cricket Council announced on Wednesday (June 1). The opening clash of the tournament will see England, the hosts, take on Bangladesh. The tournament will start on June 1, 2017 and the final will be played on June 18 at the Oval. India and Pakistan have been […]

Lydia Greenway, the England Women’s left-hand batsman, has announced her retirement from international cricket with immediate effect, an England and Wales Cricket Board statement declared on Wednesday (June 1). Greenway, regarded as one of the best fielders in women’s cricket, made her international debut in the Ashes of 2003 and since, has played 14 Tests, 126 One-Day Internationals and 85 […]

Nuwan Kulasekara, the Sri Lankan speedster, has announced his Test retirement with immediate effect, a Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) media release stated on Wednesday (June 1). “I would like to retire from playing Test cricket with immediate effect,” a Sri Lanka Cricket release said, quoting Kulasekara. “After much thought I believe it is the right time to retire and I […]

Prabir Mukherjee, the former chief curator of the Cricket Association Bengal (CAB), passed away in Kolkata on Tuesday (May 31) night at the age of 86 after suffering from liver problems. Mukherjee was in charge of the tracks at the Eden Garden for close to 25 years and last worked there till the third Twenty20 International between India and South […]