Archive for February, 2009

503 to win

West Indies have been given a mammoth target of 503 runs to win the 3rd Test at the Antigua Recreation Ground. England had a mini collapse towards the end of their 2nd innings losing 4 wickets for about 40 runs. It was a little baffling to see Andrew Strauss not declaring earlier, especially when Andrew [...]

Team for NZ Tour - India Test, ODI and T20 teams for New Zealand announced

The Indian cricket selectors have announced the India teams for the upcoming tour to New Zealand - teams have been announced for all formats - T20 ( one match), One Day (five odi matches) and Test ( 3 test matches).
Laxmipathy Balaji who made a return to the India ODI team in the recently concluded Sri [...]

New Zealand Cheated

Australia retained the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy when the 5th and final ODI between Australia and New Zealand had to be called off due to rain. At that point, New Zealand needed 34 runs at less than run a ball to win the match. Guptill and Diamanti, the two Kiwi batsmen at the crease were striking the [...]

Aus vs NZ

Tomorrow it is - the big game! No, that’s not me talking, but the New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori himself. The spinner-captain ( and my favourite current cricketer) ain’t hyperbolating when he says that “this is the biggest game for New Zealand in many years”. Probably the biggest one after the World Cup 2007 semi-final [...]

IPL in Sector 16

There’s good news for cricket fans in Chandigarh. Unconfirmed reports say that the Punjab King’s XI, the Chandigarh IPL team are interested in organising some of the matches at the Sector 16 stadium in the city. In the last edition of the IPL, all the home matches were played at the PCA stadium at Mohali.
This [...]

Mahela Resigns

Surprising everyone, Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene has offered his resignation as captain after the tour to Pakistan. Jayawardene insisted that he had been toying with the idea for quite a few months now, and the timing will allow the new captain at least a year and a half to be with the team before [...]