Bangladesh failed to score two runs in three balls in Hardik Pandya’s last over as Bangladesh lost their World T20 encouner to India by one run. © AFP Highlights Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza has revealed that he and his teammates skipped dinner after their gut-wrenching one-run defeat against India in the recently concluded World T20. (Hardik Pandya Helps India Beat Bangladesh By One Run) Mortaza, who is holidaying in Kashmir,…
IPL 2016, Kings XI Punjab vs Gujarat Lions: Watch Highlights of KXIP vs GL
Dwayne Bravo picked up 4/22 while Aaron Finch smashed 74 to give Gujarat Lions victory over Kings XI Punjab. © BCCI Highlights Gujarat Lions, the second new team in this edition of the Indian Premier League, started their campaign on a high with a wonderful five-wicket victory over Kings XI Punjab in Mohali. Gujarat Lions won the toss and chose to bowl first but Murali Vijay and Manan Vohra stitched…
Shaun Marsh hospitalised for food poisoning
Shaun Marsh is Kings XI Punjab’s leading run-scorer in the IPL with 2054 runs in 56 matches since 2008. © BCCI Australia and Kings XI Punjab batsman Shaun Marsh was hospitalised early Monday morning, as a precautionary measure after he contracted food poisoning. Marsh had trained with his team in Mohali on Sunday, on the eve of their first IPL 2016 match against Gujarat Lions, but was ruled out of…
Indian Premier League 2016: Dwayne Bravo Creates World Record in Twenty20s
Dwayne Bravo became the first bowler in Twenty20 history to take 300 wickets. © BCCI Highlights Dwayne Bravo has shown that he is the true champion of Twenty20s. In his first match of the 2016 Indian Premier League, Bravo picked up 4/22 for Gujarat Lions against Kings XI Punjab. In the process, he became the first bowler in Twenty20 history to go past 300 wickets. (Dwayne Bravo, Aaron Finch Give…
Yorker, slower ball worked well for me – Bravo
Dwayne Bravo pushed Glenn Maxwell on the back foot with a quick bouncer and followed that up with an accurate yorker. © BCCI Dwayne Bravo, who picked up 4 for 22 to help set up Gujarat Lions’ five-wicket win over Kings XI Punjab on Monday, was pleased with how his bowling plans worked, particularly against Glenn Maxwell and David Miller. Bravo’s dismissals of Maxwell and Kings XI captain Miller, in…
Lodha report won't intrude on your operations, SC tells CCI
The Supreme Court reiterated that the objective of the Lodha panel recommendations was to make the BCCI more transparent. © AFP Mumbai’s Cricket Club of India (CCI), one of the founder members of the BCCI, faced tough questions from the Supreme Court on Monday over its resistance to structural reforms recommended by the Lodha panel. The court reiterated that the purpose of reforms was to make the BCCI more transparent…
Yorkers, slower balls worked well for me – Bravo
Dwayne Bravo pushed Glenn Maxwell on the back foot with a quick bouncer and followed that up with an accurate yorker. © BCCI Dwayne Bravo, who picked up 4 for 22 to help set up Gujarat Lions’ five-wicket win over Kings XI Punjab on Monday, was pleased with how his bowling plans worked, particularly against Glenn Maxwell and David Miller. Bravo’s dismissals of Maxwell and Kings XI captain Miller, in…
Why the World T20 should be played every two years
The viewership for the 2016 World T20 indicates how popular the tournament is © IDI/Getty Images In the heady moments after Carlos Brathwaite’s assault sealed the 2016 World T20, Darren Sammy admitted, “I don’t know when I’m going to be playing with these guys again.” He was not only referring to his disagreements with the West Indies Cricket Board but the long wait until the next World T20, in November…
Jennings' two tons in a match set Durham on victory course
Durham 256 and 223 for 4 (Jennings 105*) lead Somerset 179 (Trego 45, Onions 4-62) by 300 runsScorecard Keaton Jennings became the third Durham batsmen to score two hundreds in the same match © PA Photos The second day of this match dawned cool and heavily clouded, conditions which were unlikely to buck up Somerset skipper Chris Rogers as he made his way down to breakfast. Still 226 runs in…
Cook lays down a marker for England contenders
Essex 287 for 6 (Westley 121, Cook 105) lead Gloucestershire 262 by 25 runsScorecard Alastair Cook and Tom Westley log their first hundreds of the season © Getty Images Alastair Cook had issued a rallying cry to England’s unproductive top order to lay down markers ahead of the first Test – not as much expressing an appetite for change as a simple desire to see consistency of run making from…