Over the last two years, MS Dhoni’s name has been making the headlines for one reason or the other, be it India’s disastrous overseas tours or his defensive and unimaginative captaincy or the stunning Champions Trophy 2013 victory, or the Indian Premier League spot-fixing scandal. Considering all these, it would not be entirely surprising if he indeed […]
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World T20 2014: Match Preview – Australia eye a win against West Indies
West Indies and Australia, the Defending champions and the pre-tournament favourites and neither team has so got to a good start. West Indies started the tournament with adefeat against India, but made a comeback by defeating hosts Bangladesh which improved their NRR, but in a challenging group with teams like Australia and Pakistan it will be a […]
Yuvraj Singh – Silence before the storm or Storm is now silent forever
Yuvraj Singh is perhaps the biggest match winner India has produced, apart from Tendulkar in limited over formats. It is perhaps because of his single handed efforts that India won the world cups in 2007 and 2011. But it is a sore sight to see the man who once hit six sixes in an over, struggle to put […]
Shashank Manohar calls for suspending IPL
The former BCCI president Shashank Manohar, has called to suspended the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2014. He said IPL must be stopped until the faith of the people in the integrity of the game is restored. Manohar also called for investigation of all IPL matches, and showed his concern over the decision of shifting part of […]
Gary Kirsten refused to be England’s coach in the absence of Kevin Pietersen
Gary Kirsten has declined to be the coach of England national cricket team as he would not be able to pick the recently dismissed batsman Kevin Pietersen, according to a report of Sportsmole. Gary has navigated the Indian team and the South African to the number one ranking in International Test cricket. Hence, England cricket board is […]
Sunil Gavaskar: Indian Bowlers turned out to be the strength of this side
India continues its 2014 ICC World Twenty20 campaigning with the number one berth in the Group Two lists after beating their arch-rival Pakistan and last year’s champion West Indies successively. This is the outcome of their disciplined bowling strategies. The spinners showed an incredibly great performance in their first great match against Pakistan. In the next match the […]
BCCI officials happy with UAE venues for IPL VII
A BCCI venue inspection team visited the three venues in the United Arab Emirates that are scheduled to host the first phase of games of the upcoming Indian Premier League on Saturday and concluded that they were “happy” with the facilities. The BCCI inspection team, consisting of M.V. Sridhar, GM — Cricket Operations, BCCI, and P.R. […]
World T20 2014: Australia vs Pakistan – Match Preview
Match Preview: Australia vs Pakistan, at Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur. March 23, 2014, Start time 15:30 (Local Time), 09:30 (GMT) Preview: This is where it all begins for Australia, the push for that elusive World T20 title. Australian team enter the tournament with five wins out of five games played before this. But all those […]
ICC World T20: Head to Head- Australia batsmen vs Pakistan spinners
Today Pakistan and Australia are failing to face off each other in Mirpur, Bangladesh. Whereas Aussie keeps winning the recent matches, Pakistan is keeping up a mediocre place. They started their 2014 ICC World Twenty20 campaign this Friday with a defeat against India. Although this defeat does not price them huge trouble, but if they would not register […]
World T20 2014: Match Preview – South Africa face Sri Lanka in a battle of evens
One team is recognized as chokers for not winning knock-out matches with respect to their performances in other games. Another team is known as the runner-ups of every tournament for ending as runners-up in all ICC tournaments in the recent past. By this time everyone would have got the point that we are taking about […]