Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh, Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma play put colours on each other in the team bus. (Image Credit: BCCI on Twitter) © Twitter Highlights Bengaluru: The Indian team celebrated ‘Holi’ in style on Thursday, hours after their thrilling last-ball win over Bangladesh in the World T20 Super 10s at Bengaluru. (World T20: Virat Kohli Asks Fans to Chant For India, Not Him) The likes of Virat Kohli, Yuvraj…
World T20: Misfiring Australia Face Must-Win Pakistan Showdown
Australia’s Aaron Finch bats during a training session at the Punjab Cricket Stadium Association Stadium in Mohali. © AFP Highlights Mohali: A stumbling Australia will need to raise their game when they take on Pakistan in a must-win group match of the World Twenty20 in Mohali on Friday. (Read More in World T20) The Australians handed Bangladesh a second straight defeat in their previous outing but survived a scare against…
World T20: Virat Kohli Asks Fans to Chant For India, Not Him
Virat Kohli scored 24 runs and took the vital catch to dismiss Soumya Sarkar to help India beat Bangladesh by one run. © AFP Highlights The Indian fans were biting their nails during Wednesday’s World T20 match against Bangladesh, which was won after some heart-stopping moments by the narrow margin of one run. A fan club for Virat Kohli ,who scored 24 of 24 balls, has posted a video that…
World T20: Mahendera Singh Dhoni Reveals He Asked Hardik Pandya Not to go for Yorkers
India’s captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni (centre) talks to bowler Hardik Panday (right) in the last over of the World T20 match against Bangladesh at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore. © AFP Highlights Bengaluru: Mahendra Singh Dhoni was all praise for young Hardik Pandya, who held his nerve during the last few moments and executed the instructions brilliantly by not bowling a yorker to Shuvagato Hom, which could have turned into…
Pakistan in search of one last miracle
Shoaib Malik has said that Shahid Afridi is like a big brother to the team and they want to give him a happy send-off © AFP The Pakistan nets have generally been the least coherent in this World T20. In one of them, Grant Flower and Grant Luden gave throwdowns to batsmen trying to simulate fields and asking batsmen to go for imaginary targets. Towards the end of the session,…
Godleman appointed Derbyshire captain
Godleman scored 1,000 Championship runs in a season for the first time in 2015 © Getty Images Billy Godleman has been appointed captain of Derbyshire’s County Championship side after Wayne Madsen stepped down. Madsen had led Derbyshire in red ball cricket for four seasons, a spell that included winning promotion to Division One. While Derbyshire were relegated the following year, Madsen was named as Championship player of the year for…
World T20: Commanding Pakistan Women Defeat Bangladesh by Nine Wickets
Bismah Maroof scored unbeaten 43 for Pakistan against Bangladesh. © PTI New Delhi: Pakistan produced a commanding performance to beat Bangladesh by nine wickets, to not only register their second consecutive win in the tournament but also keep their semifinal hopes alive in the ICC Women’s World T20 at the Feroz Shah Kotla, here on Thursday. (Read more cricket stories here) After restricting Bangladesh women to 113 for nine, Pakistan…
World T20: England Women Huff And Puff to One-Wicket Win Over West Indies
England women team members celebrate the dismissal of a West Indies player in a World T20 match. © PTI Dharamsala: England overcame a mighty scare due to a batting collapse to eventually eke out a hard-fought one-wicket win over West Indies in a last-ball thriller of the ICC Women’s World T20 here on Thursday. (Read more cricket stories here) England dished out a disciplined bowling performance to restrict West Indies…
Free admission for first day of Leicestershire's season
The opening day of Leicestershire’s 2016 Specsavers County Championship season at the Fischer County Ground, Grace Road, will be free of charge for spectators. The Foxes begin their home Division Two campaign against Kent on Sunday 24 April and will open their doors for fans at 10am. Leicestershire are putting on several activities for kids, including a teasure hunt and bouncy castle between noon and 3pm, while refreshments are also…
'I was living the dream' – Watson
Shane Watson was part of the Australia side that whitewashed England 5-0 in 2013-14 © AFP Shane Watson believes he made the right decision to prolong his international career following the homework controversy during the India tour of 2013. Watson, who was among four Australia players axed for the third Test of that series in Mohali for ignoring team orders, admitted he was not entirely comfortable with his working conditions…