While watching the second day’s play between India and West Indies, an interesting statistic popped up on the telly. Rahul Dravid’s career graph was shown but the one that caught eye was that of the number of Tests he has played at home to those played abroad. Of the 158 in total that he had [...]
Australia’s Defense Minister, Stephen Smith has come out strongly making a barbed attack on the Australian selectors for dropping Simon Katich from the 25 member central contract list. Simon Katich who was axed from the central contract, had a few things to say himself and went all-out criticizing the selection team’s decision at a press conference [...]
England’s Ashes winning captain, Andrew Strauss and coach Andy Flower have both been awarded the titles OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire). England opener Alastair Cook has been conferred the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire). The names of the three cricketers appeared in the Queen’s birthday honours list released today. [...]
England won their first ever Ashes in Australia in 24 years when they beat Australia on the fourth day of the fourth Test match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. England beat Australia by an innings and 157 runs to win the MCG Test match. Australia v England 4th Test at Melbourne Live Score and Highlights [...]
Australia went on top on the third day of third Ashes Test Match having extended its lead to 292 runs and 6 wickets still remaining. Australia v England 3rd Ashes Test Live Score The only wicket to fall was that of Shane Watson who missed out on century. He got out on 95 runs to [...]
Australia were jolted early on a pace and bounce-filled track at the WACA in Perth as both the opening English bowlers took a wicket each. Australia were 17/2 after Phil Hughes and Ricky Ponting were dismissed. It was Paul Collingwood who picked up a ripper of a catch to get rid of Ponting. England won [...]
Australian skipper Ricky Ponting readily agreed to the fact that Australia weren’t in the best of their form over the past few weeks owing to which they had failed to deliver and thus completely deserved to be criticised. Ponting also said that it is the characteristic of the game of cricket to turn around so [...]
by Aniket Khasgiwale, a cricket obsessed management student from IIM-A who thinks Shane Warne is the greatest cricketer ever Before the Ashes began, most cricket fans would have expected England to put in a strong performance – after all this was a team that was very high on confidence and seemed to be prepared for [...]
Having grown up an English cricket fan, I have become accustomed to my side suffering batting collapses in Australia. Glenn McGrath, Brett Lee, Shane Warne and the likes, constantly made me feel that when England were batting down under, the next wicket was just moments away. Now, I can not believe what I am about [...]
Ricky Ponting has lost his place in the world’s top 20 Test match batsmen according to the ICC rankings. This has happened for the first time since 2001. The failure in both the innings of the Adelaide Test proved to be the final nail in the coffin for Ponting. Ponting’s golden duck in Adelaide proved [...]
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