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Kolkata, Oct 6 (IANS) Former India captain and presently Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) joint secretary Sourav Ganguly on Tuesday said the pitch at the Eden Gardens which will host the third T20 International between India and South Africa will be “batting friendly.” “It is a good wicket, a batting friendly one,” Ganguly told reporters […]

Kolkata, Oct 6 (IANS) A day after unruly crowd scenes were witnessed during the second game of the ongoing India versus South Africa T20 internationals, security was being intensified at the Eden Gardens, the venue for the upcoming final fixture of the three-match series, to prevent any recurrence, the authorities said on Tuesday. The top […]

South Africa won the toss and decided to bowl first. India had a horrible start and were bowled out for 92 runs. South Africa were on track for a win before crowd started throwing bottles, when South Africa were 64 for 3 and needed just 29 more runs to win. It stopped and then again […]

Cuttack, Oct 5 (IANS) All-rounder Albie Morkel, who was awarded man-of-the-match for his excellent bowling figures which helped South Africa beat India by six wickets on Monday, said that a few months back he thought he would never get the opportunity to play for his country again. South Africa took an unassailable 2-0 lead by […]

Remembering the notorious Monkeygate incident during India’s tour of Australia in 2008 which involved Andrew Symonds and Harbhajan Singh, the former Indian skipper Anil Kumble has said that a lot of problems could have solved if me and the Australian skipper Ricky Ponting talked about the matter. Symonds during the second Test match in Sydney […]

West Indies leg-spinner Devendra Bishoo says he is looking forward to his first taste of Test cricket on the Sri Lankan soil. The 29-year-old toured here last year with West Indies A but says the thrill of playing the longest format had left him highly motivated for the two-Test series, reports CMC. West Indies will […]

India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Friday said he believed some umpiring decision which did not go in favour of his side changed the game as South Africa beat the host by seven wickets in the first T20 international at the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association (HPCA) Stadium here. J.P. Duminy’s 68-run innings proved to be […]

The following is the scoreboard of the first Twenty20 International between India and South Africa played at the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association (HPCA) Stadium here on Friday: India Batting: Rohit Sharma c Morris b Abbott 106 Shikhar Dhawan run out (de Lange/de Villiers) 3 Virat Kohli c Duminy b Abbott 43 Suresh Raina lbw b Morris […]

Rohit Sharma’s 66-ball 106 went in vain, as Jean-Paul Duminy and A.B. de Villiers played a blinder of an innings to steer South Africa to a comfortable seven-wicket win over India in the first Twenty20 International (T20I) at the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association (HPCA) Stadium on Friday. Duminy (68 of 34 balls, 1×4 7×6) and […]

Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi will shift his family’s base from Karachi to Lahore to prepare for 2016 World Cup T20. Pakistan’s Cricket headquarters is in Lahore so that he can fully utilise the facilities at the National Cricket Academy in Lahore. The 35-year-old is originally from Pakistan’s troubled tribal region and lived in Karachi from […]