Compaq Cup is getting ahead to a tough side with India and Sri Lanka facing each other after India knocked out New Zealand from the ongoing Sri Lanka tri-series. Kumar Sangakkara won the toss and chose to bat first in this third ODI at Premadasa Stadium. There is a slightest change in the Sri...
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Ponting retired fron Twenty20
Australia captain Ricky Ponting retired from Twenty20 international cricket to enhance his bid to make the 2013 Ashes. Ponting came to his decision during a fortnight break from the tour of England with one last crack at a Test series over here at the forefront of his mind. Twice he has overseen Ashes defeats...
Rahul Dravid makes a comeback
Former Indian Cricket Captain Rahul Dravid makes a return to India’s ODI team for the tri-series in Sri Lanka and for the Champions Trophy next month. Rahul Dravid replaced Rohit Sharma, who managed 15 runs in three ODI innings in the West Indies and 43 runs in three innings against major opposition in the...
Flintoff to retire from Test Cricket
The England and Wales Cricket Board said on Wednesday said that England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff is to retire from Test cricket at the end of the Ashes series against Australia because of persistent injury problems. The 31-year-old will continue to make himself available for one-day and Twenty20 fixtures, an ECB statement said. “My body...
Dravid among Champions trophy probables
Rahul Dravid finds himself back in the ODI reckoning after the former captain was named in India’s 30-member probables list for the Champions Trophy on Monday. The All-India Senior Selection Committee met to pick the 30 probables for the elite top-eight tournament to be held in South Africa during September 2009, however decided to...
Gayle not underestimating India
West Indies Captain Chris Gayle has said he is not underestimating the Indians despite the visitors fielding an understrength team for the four-match ODI series in Jamaica and St Lucia. The Indians haven’t had the best of fortunes in the Caribbean over the last few years. In 2006, they were comprehensively beaten 4-1 before...
Lee, Symonds back in Team while Ponting rested
Cricket Australia’s National Selection Panel have not included regular skipper Ricky Ponting, Michael Hussey and pacer Mitchel Johnson in the 14-member squad to give them due rest before the Ashes and the ICC World Twenty20 Championship in England in June. Brett Lee and troubled all-rounder Andrew Symonds returned to the Australian team for the...
