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Indian batsmen fought back against Australian at MCG led by Kohli and Rahane in chase of Australia’s mammoth score of 530. In this succession, the India batsmen allowed in recording of quite few records and stats. Here are the Statistical Highlights during 3rd Day’s play: –> Ajinkya Rahane became first batsman from Asia to score […]

In the era of 1970’s the cricketing world was dominated by the West Indies because of their strong pace bowling and strong batting line-up and from 1999 onwards till 2007 the Aussies dominated the cricket world having the number 1 rank for a long time. In the recent months, a great change is exhibited by […]

2014 witnessed some new players coming and straightaway stamping their authority in the international arena. James Neesham, the all-rounder from New Zealand, made a wonderful century in his Test debut against India at Wellington and also played some invaluable knocks during New Zealand’s tour of West Indies. Yasir Shah, Pakistan leggie, had a tremendous Test […]

On Monday English cricketer Alastair Cook tried to take his mind off his trauma World Cup insult as the overturned England skipper stepped onto the oche at the World Darts Tournament. Two days after the misery of being fired as England’s One Day International skipper and removed from the team for next year’s World Cup championship in Australia and New Zealand, Cook […]

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on December 22nd announced the list of the 32 contracted players for 2014-15. Yuvraj Singh and Gautam Gambhir, who were in the contract list for 2013-14, have been stripped off. Earlier, both of them were also ignored for the 30 probables for the ICC World Cup 2015.  […]

Indian sports have been on the rise for the past 5 to 6 years with players winning medal at the world stage. In August, India’s Women’s Hockey team won the first medal after 38 years, beating England in the Junior World Cup in 2013. Adding to that, teen sensation PV Sindhu also won the bronze […]

Let’s take a look at the Sportzwiki’s Cricket news round-up from 13th December-20th December 2014. The news from India and English Cricket leads the charts.  1. Australia vs India – 2nd Test: Skipper Smith and Johnson take Australia two-nil up in the series  Image Courtesy: manoramaonline Riding on the captain’s knock from Steven Smith and all-round […]

The English Cricket Board (ECB) have sacked Alastair Cook as the England ODI captain. Eoin Morgan will now lead the side in the tri-series and the ICC World Cup 2015. Cook’s sacking has not come as a surprise because his ODI batting form dipped considerably this year and his tactics as a captain also came […]

Kevin Pietersen greeted newly introduced England ODI captain and revealed his desire to play under him. Alastair Cook was to be fired as England captain and Morgan would come in as the new captain for the upcoming tri series in Australia featuring India and possibly for the World Cup as well following the tri-series, reported by the media on Friday evening. Pietersen, who was […]