By Ian RansomMELBOURNE, Jan 13 (Reuters) – Spinner Nathan Lyon will be pinching himself. When he dons the baggy green cap of Australia and joins the 100-test club for the fourth and final match against India at the Gabba on Friday. The 33-year-old will become Australia’s 13th cricketer to play 100 tests. Joining an honour […]
India‘s search for two reliable Test openers continues, followed the 2-0 series win over West Indies in the Caribbean recently. Prithvi Shaw’s absence on account of a doping violation saw KL Rahul retained in India’s Test squad, but he averaged 25.25 in four innings with a best score of 44. Rahul’s opening partner Mayank Agarwal fared […]
When tournaments are finally won, the victors often talk of relief. Relief that they have met, or exceeded, expectations, relief that they have got over the line. Relief, above all, that they will not have to live with the agony of defeat. Amid the happiness and excitement generated by England’s remarkable World Cup victory at […]
India’s world cup squad was announced today. Right after the 2015 world cup, people started predicting the squad for the next world cup. The 15 man squad has 7 players from the past world cup. MSK Prasad, the chief selector of Indian cricket team released the team list in a press conference in Mumbai. Here’s […]
Royal Challengers Bangalore won their last match after six straight losses. Now, the task in hand for Virat Kohli to get some more wins and have a decent ranking on the points table. The bigger picture is the World Cup, whose squad is announced today. Virat Kohli is obviously the skipper and the task in […]
The last time these two teams met at Feroz Shah Kotla, Hyderabad restricted Delhi on 129 and then went on to win the game by 5 wickets. This was 4th game for Hyderabad in the league, Bhubaneswar Kumar, the standing captain of the team in place of Kane Williamson took 2 impressive wickets of Prithvi […]
Saturday brings us two matches first of them is between Mumbai Indians and Rajasthan Royals. The total distance between Mumbai and Jaipur is 1155 km and the difference between Mumbai and Jaipur on the points table of IPL is of 3 positions. While Mumbai Indians is 3rd on the list and Rajasthan Royals is placed […]
MS Dhoni, the epitome of calmness under pressure, stormed to the field from the dugout when confusion arose due to a no-ball. Although Dhoni drew flak from former international players, and also received a subsequent 50% fine on his match fee, an important question needs some debating – do players have a freedom of expression […]
This is the second leg of Kolkata Knight Riders going against Delhi Capitals. Last time these two teams met at the Feroz Shah Kotla. Andre Rusell hammered Delhi Capitals’ bowlers before being dazzled by Kagiso Rabada’s perfect Yorker. This match was the only time we had a super over in this season. Kolkata Knight Riders […]
Mumbai Indians is going against Kings XI Punjab at the Wankhede Stadium. This is the second time both these teams are going against each other. Last time Punjab defeated Mumbai by 8 wickets. Lasith Malinga is available for this match but he probably won’t be playing today because of the way Alzarri Joseph made his […]