In the final of the ICL 20s championship, Lahore Badshahs take on Hyderabad Heroes in the first final. Both teams are geared up with back-to-back wins against two of the frontrunners in the league stage. Lahore beat the Chennai Superstars and Hyderabad saw off the Royal Bengal Tigers. The only game they played against each other this season, the .. more »

The England cricket team is, or 'are', facing enormous problems ahead of the One-Day Series against India, as, for the second time in 10 days, it was, or 'they were', depending on your grammar, skittled-out for less than, or 'fewer than', 100 runs in Mumbai.Chasing the Mumbai President's XI's rather modest total of 222 for 7, England collapsed to .. more »

Bhajji became the third Indian and 22nd cricketer in the world to claim 300 wickets in Test cricket. Harbhajan is now the fifth spinner in the world to join this club and the third Indian after Anil Kumble and Kapil Dev... more »

New Zealand skipper Daniel Vettori welcomes the huge workload he's facing on the two-Test tour to Australia.The Black Caps will rely heavily on Vettori for leadership and for wickets as their sole spin bowler in the squad chosen for the first Test at the Gabba starting on November 20.But they're also looking to him to score runs moving up the .. more »

Arsenal slipped to their third Premier League defeat of the season as goals as Stoke City prevailed 2-1 at the Britannia Stadium.Amazing win for stoke as they took all 3 points from arsenal! Delap, whose deadly delivery from the touchline has already proved crucial to the Potters hopes of survival, found .. more »

India V Australia Cricket Score India 1st innings R M B 4s 6s SR G Gambhir b Watson 206 550 380 26 1 54.21 V Sehwag lbw b Lee 1 10 2 0 0 50.00 R Dravid c Hayden b Johnson 11 36 31 1 0 35.48 SR Tendulkar c wicketkeeperHaddin b Johnson 68 188 126 11 0 53.96 VVS Laxman not out 2002 Vote(s) .. more »

Thanks to the exploits of Amr Zaki, the Abu Dhabi United Group and Huwar Mullah Mohammed this season, the influence of the Middle East in European football is becoming greater. So, James Montagues book When Friday Comes (the title is a clever play on the name of the British football magazine When Saturday Comes) is timely as .. more »

Australia is planning to stage its own version of the Indian Premier League, which will include franchises from South Africa and New Zealand and market it as the southern hemisphere’s Twenty20 championship. The inaugural ACL Twenty20 League is expected to kick off in 2011, The Australian reports. Via Sify .. more »

Adam Gilchrist's autobiography, "True Colours: My Life", is to be released next week. As is to be expected, and as we've seen with cricketer autobiographies (Trescothick, Pietersen, Wright.. more »

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The umpire decision review system which was first used in the India-Sri Lanka Test series received a positive feedback in the three-day International  .. more »

Pakistan’s anger over Australia’s decision to proceed with its Indian tour despite the serial blasts in New Delhi were so seething that a PCB official called the Aussies “lily-livered cowards”, according to a report. “To talk simply of double-standards would be to understate what we feel. My personal view is that your .. more »

As you may all know by this time, Bangladeshis have opted to participate in the Indian Cricket League (ICL). Talking about the ICL sounds strange...it has been a very long time indeed.Well, you may well ask, "why not BDis choose IPL instead of ICL....you know there are taboos and things like that?"I'll leave you to ponder that...Young .. more »

Wahabuddin khan reportWEST INDIES CRICKET BOARD will agree to Pakistan's request for a two-Test series in November only after receiving the approval of the players' association.Said WICB chief executive Donald Peters."The Pakistan Cricket Board made a formal request for West Indies to play two Test matches in November."We now have to .. more »

Mahendra Singh Dhoni remained in line for twin honours at the LG ICC Awards 2008 while his Team India colleagues Sachin Tendulkar, Yuvraj Singh and Ishant Sharma were also nominated in various categories for cricket’s version of Oscar to be given away in Dubai on Wednesday. Though none of the Indians could make it to the shortlist for the .. more »

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Michael Vaughan failed to press his claims for an England tour place as Yorkshire struggled at Scarborough.2 Vote(s).. more »

IPL commissioner Lalit Modi has made it clear that Andrew Symonds should keep playing international cricket because he is not interested in retired ta  .. more »

Though Bradman only played Test cricket abroad in England during his 20-year career, the Australians would traditionally make a stopover in Colombo.7 Vote(s).. more »

India v Sri Lanka Fourth One Day Match Has Been Postponed To Tomorrow.. more »