The Srilankan Squad for the T20 worldcup in West Indies does not have too many surprises and Sanath Jayasuriya at 40 and contesting the elections and still playing cricket is the all too surprising story to tell. Kumar Sangakkara (Capt), Muttiah Muralitharan, Mahela Jayawardene, Sanath Jayasuriya, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Angelo Mathews, Thissera Perera, Suraj Randiv,...
Pakistan team have a great track record in the two T20 worldcups held so far in South Africa and in England.They were the runners up in the 2007 Edition and worthy champions in the 2009 Edition. The Pakistan T20 Squad captained by Shahid Afridi is as follows Muhammad Hafeez, Salman Butt, Khalid Latif, Misbah-ul-Haq,...
Australia suffered a stunning one-run loss to outsiders Zimbabwe in their opening World Twenty20 warm-up match in St Lucia on Tuesday. Zimbabwe made 173 for seven, featuring a dashing 76 from Elton Chigumbura, in their 20 overs before holding Australia to 172 for seven. Opener David Warner top-scored for Australia with 72 and Twenty20...
IPL interim chairman Shirayu Amin has promised that the whole mess surrounding the IPL brand would be cleared at the earliest possible and a much bigger,cleaner and transparent IPL 4 would commence from Next year. Two teams are added to IPL 2011 and there is going to a whole revamp of player selections with...
Brett Lee miss the Twenty20 World Cup in the Caribbean after injuring his arm in Australia’s one-run loss to Zimbabwe in a warmup match, according to a news report. According to some reports on Wednesday Cricket Australia had asked the International Cricket Council for permission to name a replacement, likely either Doug Bollinger or...
Ms Dhoni and his men leave for westindies from Mumbai yesterday with high hopes of reversing the fortunes of last year.India went into the 2009 T20 world cup in England last year at the finish of IPL in SouthAfrica and went through a bad world cup where they lost all the three super six...
As the Dramatic finishing touches was happening at the DY Patil stadium between Chennai and Mumbai before a packed audience.BCCI Members were staying at a five star sub urban Mumbai hotel planning for the today’s IPL Governing Council Meeting.Not waiting for the Meeting to happen,Lalit Modi has been suspended as IPL chairman. The BCCI...
The underdogs are the winners yet again as that has been the trend of this IPL season.Chennai beat Mumbai in their own den by 22 runs to win the third edition of the IPL 2010 trophy.Chennai are the only team to have the best record in the Knockout stages of the IPL competition as...
South Africa would host this year’s Champions League which would run from September 10 to 26.The tournament chairman Lalit Modi confirmed the decision, following a board meeting in Mumbai where it was formally agreed to accept Cricket South Africa’s invitation to stage the event. However Modi, under immense scrutiny over the ongoing IPL mess,...
The IPL Awards Night sponsored by Sahara happened in a Mumbai hotel on Friday evening with several senior BCCI officials missing, in another sign of the deepening rift between IPL commissioner Lalit Modi and his colleagues in the BCCI.It was well attended by Team owners,Bollywood personalities as well as players. The awards ceremony went...
