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Hindustan Times (HT) on Friday claimed that BCCI has approached former England team director Andy Flower to assume the role of the coach of national cricket team from his countrymen Duncan Fletcher. HT further claims that BCCI has made up its mind over Fletcher and decided to not renew the contract of Fletcher and will also show […]

One doesn’t need statistics to prove the fact that India have relied on their batsmen in One-Day Internationals (ODIs). In its 43-year history in the format, Indian team are the top run scoring team just above Australia.  But, how much of the burden of these runs has rested on a few shoulders? Let us have a […]

Sachin Tendulkar, on receiving the Bharat Ratna earlier this week, said “I will continue to bat for India …” and while the master-blaster‘s international career may be over, Sachin is set to lead a team representing Marylebone Cricket Club(MCC) against a Shane Warne-led Rest of the World team in an exhibition match to celebrate the […]

In Part I, we covered an interesting significance of the numbers 1-10 in IPL VI. Continuing with our numberplay, we take a look at the significance of the numbers 11-20 in the statistics of IPL VI in out Part II of ’20 interesting facts about IPL VI’. 11. Most leg-bye runs : Royals Challengers Bangalore conceded […]

MS Dhoni, 32 has been ruled out from Indian team for Asia Cup due to his left-side strain which he got during the second test against New Zealand. According to the cricketing world Dhoni should be taken over by some aggerssive captain at this moment as under his captaincy team India could not able to register a […]

SPORTZWIKI continues its trip down memory lane and digs deep into the history books to unearth some of the most amazing facts about Indian cricket in our Part II of ’24 amazing facts about Indian cricket’ 13. To honor the great Rahul Dravid‘s contribution to Indian cricket, a wall has been erected at the Chinnaswamy […]

  As MS Dhoni‘s Team India lost yet another test match on foreign soil, Sourav Ganguly launched an attack on skipper MS Dhoni for not promoting himself higher up the order in the absence of senior pros like Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid. Shikhar Dhawan and Virat Kohli gave India the ideal platform to chase down a difficult target […]

Former Indian skipper and opener Sunil Gavaskar got annoyed and outraged with team India’s recent overseas performances. The cricket stalwart had been recognized for his calm characteristics on the field and off the field too. But team India’s back to back losses in foreign soils made his heart blood-lifting. He got enormously disappointed and thwarted and […]

Sourav Ganguly has written in a book by Cricinfo as a tribute to Legendary Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar for all his contribution to Indian Cricket. Former Indian skipper Sourav Ganguly thinks that Sachin Tendulkar was a better captain than he had showed as the circumstances were not so much in favor of him. Ganguly writes in an […]

1. Sri Lanka have beaten Australia only once in the Test Cricket. That single win came in 1999 Australia’s tour to Sri Lanka, where Sri Lanka won the first Test by Six wickets and managed to draw the next two tests to win the Series too. 2. Sri Lankan All-Rounder Sanath Jayasuriya has more wickets in ODI than […]