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Alastair Cook duly completed a double century as England went into an early lunch on third day at the massive score of 503 for three against India in the third Test match being played at Birmingham. The overnight pair of Cook (206 batting) and Eoin Morgan (66 batting) were unseparated till lunch as the hosts [...]
England enjoyed an excellent opening day in the third Test against India as they pursued a win that would see them replace the tourists at the head of the ICC’s Test Championship table. They closed on 84 without loss in reply to India’s modest first innings 224, a deficit of 140 runs, at Edgbaston in [...]
In an apparent snub to the BCCI, veteran Indian batsman Rahul Dravid announced retirement from One-Day and Twenty20 cricket after the England tour in dramatic circumstances hours after he was named in the squad for the ODI series and one-off T20 International. Dravid, who on Saturday made a surprise comeback into India’s limited-overs squad for [...]
India overcame some anxious moments before suppressing a spirited the Netherlands with a nervy five-wicket victory in a World Cup Group-B match and virtually secure a quarter-final berth in New Delhi on Wednesday. After restricting the minnows to a modest 189, the fancied hosts started off with a flourish but lost wickets in a heap [...]
Electing to bat, The Netherlands were all out for 189 in 46.4 overs against India in their group B World Cup match at Feroz Shah Kotla ground in New Delhi on Wednesday. Brief Scores: The Netherlands: 189 all out in 46.4 overs. (Peter Borren 38, Tom Cooper 29; Zaheer Khan 3/20, Yuvraj Singh 2/43). India [...]
New Zealand crushed Pakistan on Tuesday in a ruthless display dominated by century-maker Ross Taylor as injury-jinxed England lost key paceman Stuart Broad for the rest of the World Cup. Taylor, celebrating his 27th birthday, scored 131 runs off just 124 balls with eight fours and seven sixes, to take New Zealand to 302 for [...]
Bangalore, Mar 3 :- Stunned by Kevin O’Brien’s “brutal” hundred, Englandcaptain Andrew Strauss was “at a loss” to explain the poor fielding by his team that helped minnows Ireland script an upset win in their World Cup group match here. England dropped four catches, including that of O’Brien (113), in the three-wicket loss yesterday which [...]
India and England set alight the World Cup after a record-breaking run-feast ended with a dramatic tie off the last ball in their Group B ICC Cricket World Cup match at the M Chinnaswamy stadium in Bangalore on Sunday. India appeared to have set a daunting 339-run winning target in the Group B match but [...]
AB de Villiers smashed an unbeaten century and debutant Imran Tahir scalped four wickets as South Africa launched their cricket World Cup campaign with a comfortable seven-wicket win over West Indies in a Group-B league match here today. The South Africans first restricted the Caribbeans to 222 all out and then relied on de Villiers’ [...]
Title aspirants India will have revenge on their minds when they launch their 2011 cricket World Cup campaign against co-hosts Bangladesh in the tournament-opener in Mirpur on Saturday, fully aware that any slip-up could prove costly. Minnows Bangladesh had ensured India’s early exit in the first round of the 2007 edition at the Caribbeans and [...]