After suffering an agonizing two run loss against the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) on the opening day of the 2011 Champions League Twenty20 competition, the Auckland Aces will be looking to turn in a stellar performance in their second match in as many days when they clash with Somerset on Tuesday. Earlier on Monday, [...]

  What Cape Cobras take on Trinidad & Tobago in the penultimate Group A encounter of Nokia CLT20 2011. Both teams have played three matches so far; Cape Cobras’ last game, against Mumbai Indians, was rained out after the first innings. T&T, meanwhile, registered their first win of the group stage when they beat Chennai [...]

Chennai, Oct 4: New South Wales Blues opener, David Warner, single-handedly knocked out Chennai Super Kings on a ground which was once called their fortress. While the low-scoring matches have been absolute thrillers in Nokia CLT20 2011, the high scoring ones have been pretty much one-sided affairs. This game was no exception. After Warner’s unbeaten 135 [...]

In the absence of some of their big-ticket players, Kieron Pollard was perhaps, Mumbai Indians’ biggest impact player. His contribution with bat, ball and in the field were vital in the team finally lifting a trophy. With 123 runs, including a half-century, Pollard was MI’s highest run-getter and also their most economical bowler with an [...]

The BCCI is set to elect a new chairman for the cash-rich Indian Premier League at its 82nd Annual General Meeting scheduled here on September 19. The need to elect a new person to head the IPL arose after incumbent Chirayu Amin expressed his desire to step down from the post. Amin took over the [...]

Harbhajan Singh smashed Shakib Al Hasan for a six in the last over of the match as Mumbai Indians won the IPL-4 Eliminator against Kolkata Knight Riders by four wickets at the Wankhede stadium on Wednesday. Mumbai will now lock horns with Royal Challengers Bangalore on Friday in qualifier-II, the winner of which will take [...]

The ICC Test Ranking is a complicated tool based on results, player performances and the strength of the opposition. If you’re struggling to sleep head over to their website for a full shake-down on the exact formula. The important part is the result. India sat pretty as the top ranked Test side on the planet [...]

  There has been a lot of hue and cry in the past few months concerning the need for the infusion of young blood in the Indian side after consecutive and humiliating defeats against Australia exposed India’s ageing stalwarts. Many believed that if India is losing, it makes sense to lose by blooding youngsters with [...]

It was dadagiri of a different kind as Virender Sehwag stood and delivered, the last part of a brilliantly-crafted innings of 175 on virtually one leg, as Team India buried Bangladesh under a deluge of runs in the opening match of the 2011 World Cup at the Shere-e-Bangla National Stadium here on Saturday. Put into bat by Bangladesh [...]

  Former India captain Anil Kumble will submit his analysis on the disastrous tour of England to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) during his visit here for the one-off Twenty20 International between India and England on October 29, it is learnt. India suffered a humiliating 0-4 whitewash in the Test series, [...]

Flashback: A lone fighter Yusuf Pathan 123* innings reborn! Here’s a quick review about the inings which took the game away from the black caps. We will bring some more articles regarding some more cricketing events which will never fade away from our minds. Brilliant all-round effort from Yusuf Pathan first with the ball (3 [...]

Final Match thrill in a Semi-Final Match. India vs Pakistan match to be long-lived in everyone’s memories. India vs. Pakistan World Cup Semi Finals: It was expected  nerve binding fight. Two rivals met  in a very special game in the world cup 2011. Two teams cheered up by the national Prime Ministers with huge expectations. India aimed to [...]

IPLCricketNews takes you to the flashbacks of World Cup 2011 matches which bought you at the edge of your seats. This article gives you the statistical highlights of the match between India Vs South Africa at Nagpur’s VCA stadium.India had won the toss against South Africa, and chose to bat. Piyush Chawla had been replaced [...]

        The series will begins on 5th February. It will be a 15 match one day series where each team plays other four times and then best of 3 finals, at Brisbane and Adelaide (Adelaide again if required). Here’s the series schedule. India v Australia v Sri Lanka Tri-series 2012 5 February [...]

    Australia’s series-levelling triumph over South Africa in Johannesburg has helped India rise a rung up to the second spot in ICC’s latest Test rankings. India, currently leading a three-Test home series against the West Indies 2-0, were pushed up the ladder by Australia’s thrilling two-wicket win in the Johannesburg Test on Monday. Michael [...]

A full-strength Indian cricket team on Friday underwent a strenuous training session under the watchful eyes of coach Duncan Fletcher ahead of their first cricket Test against the West Indies here on Sunday. All the 15 players, led by captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, hit the nets at the Ferozeshah Kotla Stadium after a light workout [...]

England’s middle-order batsman Kevin Pietersen has been traded to Delhi Daredevils from Deccan Chargers for the fifth edition of Indian Premier League. After being signed to Deccan Chargers for one season, Pietersen will now be joining the likes of Virender Sehwag and David Warner for the Delhi outfit. CEO of the Indian Premier League, Rama [...]

Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) newly appointed president N.Srinivasan said that the board will not be using the Decision Review System (DRS) and also terminated the contract of Kochi Tuskers for defaulting a payment.   “We were extremely reluctant to implement the DRS and had no belief in the ball-tracking system. BCCI is not averse totechnology and agreed to a minimum [...]

  It won’t be right to say that Kolkata Knight Riders have revived their CLT20 campaign by beating Royal Challengers Bangalore convincingly on Thursday. It’s just that SRK’s team has kept its glimmer of hope alive while almost dousing Bangalore’s flame. Sitting at two points from three games, KKR is hardly the face of a [...]

  Ruhunu Eleven’s hopes of progressing to the Nokia CLT20 2011 stay alive after they beat the Leicestershire Foxes in a close contest at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium here today. After posting a competitive 160 for six batting first, the Sri Lankan team restricted their opponents to 156 for eight in a topsy-turvy run-chase. [...]

Which will be the first team to book a place in the final? What Local favourites Royal Challengers Bangalore take on inaugural CLT20 champions, New South Wales Blues, in the first semi-final encounter of Nokia CLT20 2011. RCB are coming off a sensational last-ball victory against South Australian Redbacks to qualify for the semis while [...]

Royal Challengers Bangalore opener Chris Gayle hammered Mumbai Indians bowlers all around the park with a swashbuckling 89 as Royal Challengers Bangalore set up the final date with MS Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings. In imperious form this IPL, Gayle crossed the 600-run mark as he punished a hapless Mumbai attack that came into its own [...]

  Opening batsman Gautam Gambhir lashed back at critics blaming VVS Laxman for India’s batting debacle, saying the entire veteran batting lineup must take the responsibility for the letting their nation down. The No.2 ranked India arrived in Australia with high expectations of winning the four-Test series, but now trails 3-0 with the final test [...]

  A last ball six by Arun Karthik off Daniel Christian helped Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) pull off a brilliant victory over South Australia Redbacks by two wickets as RCB chased down a mammoth target of 215 to beat South Australia Redbacks to book their place in the semifinals of the Champions League T20. Needing [...]

  IPL powerhouse Mumbai Indians ended their trophy draught in style here on Sunday as their bowlers rose to the occasion and defended a thin total to beat Royal Challengers Bangalore in the final of the Champions League Twenty20. Spinners Harbhajan Singh (3/20) and Yuzvendra Chahal (2/9) not only strangled the RCB batsmen but also [...]

Just like Group A, where the fate of the teams looking to qualify for the semifinals of the Champions League Twenty20 was decided only on the last day of the group’s round robin matches, Group B’s future will also be decided on Tuesday when the two other semifinalists will be confirmed. In day’s first match, [...]