A stomach ailment has forced Dermot Reeve, the former England allrounder, to be replaced as Maharashtra's senior coach for the rest of the season. Reeve, who was unable to make it to New Delhi for Maharashtra's Ranji Trophy Group B tie against Delhi that ended on Tuesday, has been replaced by the former Maharashtra captain Surendra Bhave. The team has slumped since Reeve took over from the Australian...
India seek to build on T20 boost
Match facts December 22, 2012Start time 1900 (1330 GMT) Big Picture One-off or two-match Twenty20 series are usually lacking in context, and that's even more the case on this England tour which is taking place a couple of months after the premier, global T20 tournament has ended. But, for a side beaten in a home Test series for the first time in eight years, the positives have been few, and...
IPL player auction on February 3
The player auction ahead of the Indian Premier League's sixth season will be held on February 3, it was announced on Friday. The decision was conveyed to all nine franchise representatives during a workshop in Jodhpur. Later in the day, IPL chief executive Sundar Raman tweeted the news. Though the venue for the auction is yet to be finalised, the representatives were told it would be held "in a metro"....
South Africa hammer woeful New Zealand
South Africa 87 for 2 (du Plessis 38*) beat New Zealand 86 (Kleinveldt 3-18, Peterson 2-8) by eight wicketsScorecard and ball-by-ball details It is early days for New Zealand in South Africa, but in the opening Twenty20 at Kingsmead there was a gulf between the teams that does not bode well for the tour. New Zealand crumbled for 86, only just avoiding a new record low in the format, before the...
Dec
21
BPL yet to finalise contract with franchises
The Bangladesh Premier League continues to face issues, with the players' auction on Thursday happening with only a verbal agreement in place for the tournament, rather than any proper paperwork; there is still no official agreement signed between the BPL, Game On Sports (the event management firm) and the franchises. Apart from this, the players' salaries issue hung dimly above the auction floor...
USACA might split with T20 investor, league in doubt
A proposed Twenty20 league in the USA, headed by the USA Cricket Association and New Zealand Cricket, may be on the verge of collapse after USACA president Gladstone Dainty allegedly informed stakeholders at the annual general meeting on December 15 in New York that the board's partnership with Rajiv Podar, the primary investor supplying funding to USACA through Cricket Holdings America LLC, might...
Dhoni delighted with fielding effort
MS Dhoni praised the efforts of his team in the field after India comfortably won the opening Twenty20 in Pune by five wickets. England began well with the bat, through Alex Hales and Luke Wright, before Yuvraj Singh took three wickets to knock the stuffing out of the innings. India's fielding, which was often shoddy during the Test series, also improved considerably with Ajinkya Rahane claiming...
Cri-zelda Brits returns for South Africa
Cri-zelda Brits, the former South Africa women's captain, will return to the international stage for the tour to West Indies later this month which is part of the team's preparation for the Women's World Cup in India. Brits, 29, took an indefinite break from international cricket last year to focus on her off-field profession after she was promoted to a manger with her company. Now, with the World...
Dec
20
Morgan ready for T20 captaincy challenge
Eoin Morgan, England's stand-in T20 captain, has said the two T20 internationals with India before Christmas will provide a young squad with the chance to begin formulating their plans for the 2014 World Twenty20 in Bangladesh. England, the 2010 World T20 champions, were knocked out of this year's tournament in Sri Lanka at the Super Eights stage, a performance Morgan said didn't meet the team's...
ODI recall for Afridi a possibility - Misbah
Shahid Afridi, the Pakistan allrounder, could be considered for the ODI squad for the tour of India, days after he was dropped from the same, according to ODI captain Misbah-ul-Haq. Afridi looked in good form during the ongoing practice matches at the conditioning training camp ahead of the India tour, scoring two back-to-back half-centuries to press his case for a recall. He was, however, named in...
IPL could attract more England players - Dhoni
MS Dhoni, India's captain, has suggested that a lack of availability rather than talent will continue to be a barrier for England players wishing to participate in the IPL. Although England's Test series win in India has raised the profiles of several members of the squad, Dhoni said the limited window permitted by the ECB for IPL participation was a "big concern" for franchises. IPL commissioner...
Ramprakash returns as Middlesex batting coach
Mark Ramprakash will return to Middlesex as the county's batting coach, 12 years after crossing the river as a player to join Surrey. Ramprakash, 43, retired last season after a 25-year playing career, in which he made more than 50,000 runs and scored 131 centuries. Ramprakash has agreed a two-year contract and replaces Mark O'Neill who will be returning to Australia on a permanent basis after three...
Dec
19
Stuart sacked as coach of New South Wales
Anthony Stuart has been sacked as coach of New South Wales after a board meeting in Sydney on Tuesday night. Stuart took over as head coach in May 2011 and his two-year contract was due to expire at the end of this season, but Cricket New South Wales has confirmed in a statement that Stuart has finished his coaching duties with the state "with immediate effect". Chandika Hathurusingha, the former...
Thakor to captain England U-19s
Shiv Thakor, the Leicestershire allrounder, has been named captain of an inexperienced England Under-19 squad to tour South Africa next year. Thakor, 19, is one of the most highly-rated young players in the county game and already has a first-class average of 51.41 having played nine matches. With his medium pace he has also claimed seven wickets. The emphasis of the trip, which includes two four-day...
Gloucs bring in Klinger as captain
Gloucestershire have ended their search for a new captain by agreeing terms with Michael Klinger, the experienced Australian top-order batsman, who will be available for the entire 2013 season. Last season Gloucestershire finished bottom of the County Championship for the ninth time in their history, prompting Alex Gidman to step down. With very little experience on their playing staff, the county...
Bird hopes for more Melbourne success
If Mitchell Johnson was a horses-for-courses selection against South Africa at the WACA, Jackson Bird must be a dead cert for Boxing Day at the MCG. An accurate seamer whose game revolves around making the batsmen play, Bird has had remarkable success in his only two first-class appearances at the MCG. To be fair, there's hardly a venue within Australia where his record is not outstanding. At 26,...
Dec
18
Ubarhande leads Vidarbha's strong reply
Vidarbha 302 for 2 (Ubarhande 129*, S Shrivastava 84*, SS Das 53) trail Karnataka 619 for 8 dec by 317 runsScorecard Amol Ubarhande hit his maiden first-class hundred to lead Vidarbha's strong reply to Karnataka's huge total. The Vidarbha openers Faiz Fazal (22) and Shiv Sunder Das (53) could not go on to make big scores but Ubarhande and Shalabh Shrivastava had put on 209 runs by stumps. Ubarhande...
Kohli ready for Test captaincy - Gavaskar
Virat Kohli, the 24-year-old batsman, is ready to take over the India Test captaincy from MS Dhoni, according to former India captain Sunil Gavaskar. Gavaskar's comments came in wake of India's 2-1 Test series loss to England, their first at home in eight years. Kohli's dogged century in Nagpur, which helped lift a wobbling India to within four runs of England's first-innings total, showed he was...
Sangakkara fights with half-century
Lunch Sri Lanka 336 and 3 for 144 (Sangakkara 58*, Samaraweera 17*) need another 249 runs to beat Australia 5 for 450 dec and 278Live scorecard and ball-by-ball details Just as he did at the same ground five years ago, Kumar Sangakkara was frustrating the Australians in their push for victory on the final day. At lunch, Sri Lanka were 3 for 144 in their chase of 393 and having lost only one...
Sri Lanka raise ball-tampering question
Sri Lanka's team management has expressed concerns over footage that it believes shows Peter Siddle tampering with the ball in Sri Lanka's first innings. Management believes broadcast cameras may have captured Siddle using his fingernails to raise the seam of the ball in the 88th over of Sri Lanka's innings, while bowling to Prasanna Jayawardene. Sri Lanka team manager Charith Senanayake said their...
Dec
16
Kohli takes pride in 'learning innings'
Early this year, Virat Kohli scored a scarcely believable 133 off 86 to help India chase 321 in 36.4 overs. In his last Test innings of the year, Kohli showed the other side of his batting by scoring 103 off 295 balls. These two completely different innings have proved he is India's player of the year and their impact has been similar. The first innings - a blazing century in Hobart which kept India...
Pakistan must play aggressively against India - Inzamam
Inzamam-ul-Haq, Pakistan's former captain and newly-appointed batting consultant, has advised his batsmen to be 'aggressive' against India. The team that handles pressure better, he said, could control how the matches go in the upcoming limited-overs series'. Pakistan are preparing for the India series with a conditioning camp at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore, and Inzamam will spend the week with...
Dilshan ton drives Sri Lanka
Lunch Sri Lanka 4 for 187 (Dilshan 103*, Mathews 45*) trail Australia 5 for 450 dec by 263 runsLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Tillakaratne Dilshan's third century from his past four Tests steered Sri Lanka safely through until lunch on the third day in Hobart as Australia's bowlers failed to make a breakthrough in the morning session. Rain arrived half an hour before the scheduled lunch...
Hilfenhaus side injury exposes Australia again
Australia face the grim prospect of trying to win a Test with only three specialist bowlers for the second time in three matches after Ben Hilfenhaus shuffled off Bellerive Oval with a suspected left side strain. After bowling the second ball of his 13th over to Sri Lanka's vice-captain Angelo Mathews, Hilfenhaus grimaced, felt for his hip or side, spoke briefly to his captain Michael Clarke and...
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