Pakistan 176 for 4 (Akmal 64, Steyn 2-29) beat South Africa 170 for 4 (Amla 48, Afridi 3-28) by six runsScorecard and ball-by-ball details A 102-run stand between Mohammad Hafeez and Umar Akmal allowed Pakistan to put on their most competitive batting display in limited-overs matches against South Africa in the last month and break a six-match winless streak. With both batsmen enjoying their...
Farhat, Masood fifties set up Habib Bank win
Fifties from Imran Farhat and Shan Masood powered Habib Bank to 294 before a comprehensive bowling performance helped the side defeat United Bank by 94 runs in the President's One Day Cup Tournament. Farhat and Masood shared an opening stand of 129 in a little under 21 overs after the side were put into bat. Masood was dismissed for 65-ball 50, while Farhat scored a pacy 87 off 78 balls with 11 fours...
Judge defers Rajasthan Cricket Association elections
Justice NM Kasliwal, the judge appointed by Supreme Court as principal observer for the Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) elections, has deferred the poll dates decided on by the two main factions. CP Joshi, the current RCA president, had announced November 24 as the election date after his rival Sanjay Dixit, the RCA secretary who has teamed up with banned BCCI administrator Lalit Modi, notified...
Warner and Clarke build Australia's advantage
Australia 295 and 2 for 145 (Warner 83*, Clarke 34*) lead England 136 (Carberry 40 by 304 runsLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Michael Clarke survived a none too torried examination against the short ball to enter lunch unscathed as Australia reached lunch on the third day in a dominant position at the Gabba. England's aggressive tactics against Australia's captain, not short of initial...
Nov
22
Unbeaten Rawalpindi maintain top place
Group I Rawalpindi Rams registered their fourth successive win and cemented their place at the top of the Group I battle with a narrow two-wicket victory over Sialkot Stallions. Rawalpindi were comfortable in a chase of 220 at 124 for 3 but a few quick wickets pegged them back. However, they went past the target in the 43rd over. Babar Naeem, top-scored for the side with 68 off 74 balls, including...
Laxmi Shukla 155 in Bengal 303
Saurashtra 0 for 0 trail Bengal 303 (L Shukla 155) by 303 runsScorecard Bengal captain Laxmi Shukla scored more than half his team's runs on day one in Kolkata, hitting 155 as Saurashtra bowled the hosts out for 303. Saurashtra had to bat one over before stumps, and their openers safely negotiated that. The visitors had chosen to bowl and enjoyed early success, reducing Bengal to 20 for 2 within...
CSA likely to hold 'festival of cricket' at Newlands
Cricket South Africa is planning a festival of cricket to replace the New Year's Test in Cape Town in the first week of 2014. The festival is likely to feature Twenty20 matches spread over three days between January 3 and January 6, 2014, and may include some of the country's best known sportspeople. One idea being proposed is to start the festival with a T20 game between the national rugby team,...
Johnson, Australia rattle England
Lunch England 2 for 55 (Carberry 31*) trail Australia 295 (Haddin 94, Johnson 64, Broad 6-81) by 240 runsLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Australia made productive use of their first sight of England's batsmen in the opening Ashes Test at the Gabba, as they dismissed Alastair Cook and Jonathan Trott within 17 overs to strike back impressively at the Gabba. Cook built his Ashes reputation...
Nov
21
Rare clear forecast for SL-NZ finale
Match facts Thursday, November 21, 2013Start time 1900 local (1330 GMT) Big Picture Fans who have followed this series so far may want to sit down before reading the following sentence: rain is not expected to affect the second Twenty20. By even Sri Lankan monsoon standards, New Zealand's tour has been a miserably soggy one. Fewer than half the scheduled overs have been played, and two of...
TN batsmen face UP bowling test
Meerut may have a reputation as a crowded industrial place, but the sprawling Victoria Park adds a much-needed expanse of green to the town. It houses the Bhamashah Stadium, which is surrounded by more open spaces for Meerut's young cricketers to train in, much like the city's two most famous cricketers, Praveen Kumar and Bhuvneshwar Kumar, did over the past few years. Several knots of cricketers...
Leadership curbing Chandimal's spirit
While Dinesh Chandimal has shown the aptitude to captain Sri Lanka, he seems to be shackled by it, and this has badly affected in his limited-overs batting of lateWhen Sri Lanka appointed Tillakaratne Dilshan captain in 2011, he rushed back mid-IPL to accept the post. The man that appeared before the press shortly after was unlike any Dilshan that had been seen before. The designer beard had been...
Broad silences early boos
Lunch Australia 71 for 2 (Warner 42*, Clarke 0*) v EnglandLive scorecard and ball-by-ball details Stuart Broad received the hostile welcome he knew was inevitable at the Gabba but, at lunch on the first morning of the Ashes series, he left the field with an air of satisfaction. He carried England's challenge with wickets at both ends of the session, Chris Rogers in his second over and Shane Watson...
Nov
20
Injured Neesham out of final T20
New Zealand allrounder James Neesham has been ruled out of the second T20 against Sri Lanka to be held on November 21 in Pallekele. The injury that ruled him out was a result of a sprain he sustained on the little finger of his left hand in the third ODI in Dambulla. Neesham had injured the finger while fielding a return hit by Nuwan Kulasekara off his own bowling. The following day, an x-ray revealed...
RCA poll glitch stalls Modi comeback
Lalit Modi's plan of returning as a cricket administrator in India, via the Rajasthan Cricket Association (RCA) elections, has been put on hold because of confusion over the election dates. The association is split into two factions, each of which has announced an election date, and the dispute over who controls the RCA is now being contested in various courts across Rajasthan. Modi had been banned...
Batsmen set for easier ride
It does not have the cult following of the English county circuit or the scale and speed of the Indian system but South Africa's first-class competition is a competitive breeding ground that continues to supply the No. 1 Test team with players ready to make the step up. Last summer was a bowler's tournament. The top three wicket-takers claimed 134 scalps between them, the most in the last four seasons,...
Australia all talk, but can they back it up?
Match facts November 21-25, Gabba, BrisbaneStart time 1000 (0000 GMT) Big Picture Three months ago - is that all? - England stood on a dais at The Oval and were presented with the Ashes urn amid fading light and fireworks. Under normal circumstances, they would have had 18 months to revel in their success before defending the prize, but 2013 is anything but a typical Ashes year. The presence...
Nov
19
New Zealand bank on familiarity with Pallekele
New Zealand acting captain Kyle Mills has banked on his side's batting form, and their experience in Pallekele ahead of New Zealand's first T20 against Sri Lanka. New Zealand have been the most frequent international visitors to the venue, having played four ODIs and six T20s there since the stadium debuted in 2010. They have never beaten Sri Lanka in any format in Pallekele, but Mills suggested...
Victoria appeal Wade suspension
Victoria will appeal the suspension of captain Matthew Wade after he was banned for one Sheffield Shield match and fined half of his match fee for pitch tampering. Wade was reported by the umpires during last week's Shield match against Tasmania in Hobart, where he was alleged to have altered the state of the pitch while scoring 119 in his side's first innings. Wade denied the charge of unfair play...
Real-time Snicko set for Ashes use
Real-time Snicko technology is expected to be used in conjunction with Hot Spot to detect edges as part of the DRS for the upcoming Ashes series. In October, it appeared that Channel Nine had cut Hot Spot from its list of tools for this summer's coverage but the network's executive producer of cricket, Brad McNamara, has confirmed that Hot Spot and Real-time Snicko will be used after a deal was reached...
'Sri Lanka on track for World T20' - Ford
Having been bridesmaids in two of the last three World Twenty20s, Sri Lanka have already set their sights on the next edition in Bangladesh in March. Coach Graham Ford will no longer be with the team when that tournament arrives, but he said Sri Lanka have begun down the path to success, ahead of the first Twenty20 against New Zealand. The match in Pallekele is the first of six scheduled T20s for...
Nov
18
Netherlands cruise to win after Myburgh fifty
Netherlands 145 for 2 (Myburgh 78*) beat Bermuda (Tucker 51, Malik 2-15)Scorecard Opener Stephan Myburgh's rapid half-century steered Netherlands to an emphatic eight-wicket win over Bermuda in Dubai. Bermuda endured an early wicket and a middle-order stumble but captain Janeiro Tucker blitzed 51 off 25 balls, seven fours and two sixes in his counterattack that took the total to 144. Seamer Ahsan...
Sachin Chaudhari called for suspect action
Sachin Chaudhari, the Maharashtra fast bowler, has been called for an illegal action during a Ranji Trophy match against Hyderabad. This means Chaudhari will be unable to feature in a competitive fixture till his action is cleared by the BCCI. Umpires Nitin Pandit and Virender Sharma called Chaudhari twice on the penultimate day of the match, which ended in a dull draw at the Rajiv Gandhi International...
IPL council mulls reduction in evening matches
The first meeting of the revamped IPL governing council, headed by former India under-19 captain, Ranjib Biswal, took stock of the controversy-marred last edition and kicked off preparations for the franchises' workshop to be held in Singapore on November 28-29. The governing council, which met at the BCCI headquarters on Sunday evening, discussed last year's accounts and TV ratings and compared...
'This was the right time to stop'
The full transcript of Sachin Tendulkar's press conference, a day after retiring from international cricket following the second Test against West Indies in his hometown of Mumbai You have played international cricket for 24 years. Does it feel like a dream?To have played cricket for the country was the most important thing for me. In those 24 years, different challenges presented themselves,...
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