Rohit Sharma’s average in Australia is highest among all batsmen. © AFP Rohit Sharma showed the way for India by slamming a brilliant ton against Australia in the first ODI in Perth on Tuesday. His century came in 122 balls. (Scorecard / Blog) Rohit, who has always been criticised for not doing justice to his talent, looked sure of himself in the first of the five ODIs. The India opener…
Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif Should Get Second Chance Like Mohammad Amir: Waqar Younis
Salman Butt scored a hundred in his first competitive match in five and half years on Sunday in the national one-day championship. © AFP Karachi: Pakistan’s national cricket coach Waqar Younis has backed an international comeback for convicted spot-fixers Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif, saying that they should not be treated any differently from the rehabilitated Mohammad Amir. “The way I see it if Butt and Asif perform well in…
Shanaka sets Sri Lankan record in Colombo sixathon
Dasun Shanaka set a Sri Lankan record for most number of sixes in a T20 innings, hitting 16 of them, for Sinhalese Sports Club in a clash against Saracens Sports Club in Colombo on Tuesday. Along the way, Shanaka waltzed to 123 off 46 balls and took his team to a massive 251 for 6 in 20 overs. It proved to be 66 too many for the opponents. Shanaka, who…
Smith and Bailey brush off India's 309
Australia 5 for 310 (Smith 149, Bailey 112, Sran 3-55) beat India 3 for 309 (Rohit 171*, Kohli 91, Faulkner 2-60) by five wicketsScorecard and ball-by-ball details Australia’s chase may have panned out differently had George Bailey fallen to Barinder Sran in the fifth over © Getty Images If this is summer’s main course, then Steven Smith and George Bailey wasted no time at all tucking in. A batsmen’s battle…
Hong Kong Player Irfan Ahmed Charged Over Fixing Approach
Irfan Ahmed has represented Hong Kong in six ODIs and eight T20 internationals. © AFP Hong Kong: Hong Kong international Irfan Ahmed has been charged and provisionally suspended for failing to report an alleged fixing approach, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said. (Read more cricket stories here) The 26-year-old all-rounder, who was slated as part of Hong Kong’s squad for the World Twenty20 championship in India in March, faces a…
Zaidi leaves Sussex to join Essex
Ashar Zaidi was making his Sussex debut © Getty Images Ashar Zaidi, the former Sussex allrounder, has joined Essex on a one-year deal, and will be available in all three formats after impressing in the recent Bangladesh Premier League. Zaidi, 34, a left-handed batsmand and a slow left-arm bowler, was named as Player of the Tournament after scoring 215 runs at 53.75 and taking 17 wickets at 10.41. His first-class…
Smith leads from the front to down India
Steven Smith led by example as Australia won the first one-day international against India by five wickets in Perth. Skipper Smith fired 149 from 135 balls and his third-wicket stand of 242 alongside fellow centurion George Bailey was the catalyst for victory at the WACA. India made 309 for three, with Rohit Sharma’s magnificent 171 not out the highest ODI score against Australia on their own soil, but their total…
Anurag Thakur Rules Out India-Pakistan Bilateral Series in 2016
India and Pakistan were slated to meet in a series in December 2015 but it was called off. © AFP Board of Control for Cricket in India secretary Anurag Thakur ruled out the possibility of an Indo-Pak bilateral series stating that no such series is scheduled in Futures Tours & Programme (FTP) calendar. (Pakistan Give Up on India Bilateral Series) “In the FTP, we had a series planned in 2015…
India in Australia: Mahendra Singh Dhoni Opts to Bat in Perth ODI
India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni leads his team to the WACA ground against Australia. © AFP Perth: India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and chose to bat in the first One-Day International against Australia at the WACA in Perth on Tuesday. (Scorecard / Updates) India handed a debut to left-arm seamer Barinder Sran, while for Australia, pacemen Scott Boland and Joel Paris will be playing their first international…
Australia Replace Adam Warner With Usman Khawaja for ODIs vs India
Usman Khawaja is set to make a comeback into the ODI circuit after David Warner went home. © AP Melbourne: Australia on Tuesday named Queensland batsman Usman Khawaja as a replacement for David Warner who is taking paternity leave and will miss the rest of the One-Day International (ODI) Series against India.(All the Latest From India vs Australia) Left-handed opening batsman Warner leaves the squad to be with wife Candice…