Sri Lanka all-rounder Thisara Perera will continue to play limited-overs cricket. © AFP Colombo: Sri Lanka’s all rounder Thisara Perera will retire from Test cricket, but will continue playing one-day international and Twenty20 games, officials said Monday. (Click here for latest Cricket stories) The 26-year-old sent his retirement letter to Sri Lanka Cricket confirming the end of his Test career, an official from the board said, asking not to be…
Chris Gayle blasts 12-ball fifty
Chris Gayle needed only 12 balls to get his half-century against Adelaide Strikers, equalling the record for fastest T20 fifty set by Yuvraj Singh in 2007. Here’s how our ball-by-ball commentators described the carnage Chris Gayle hit four sixes in the opening over © Cricket Australia/Getty Images 0.1 West to Gayle, 2 runs, full and straight on middle, tucked to deep midwicket for a couple. Gayle 2 (1) 0.2 West…
Akshay Karnewar, Vidarbha's Ambidextrous Spinner, Weaves Magic With Rare Ability
Akshay Karnewar began as a right-arm offspinner, when he started playing cricket as the age of 13. © NDTV Ambidextrous bowlers are a rarity in the world of cricket. Akshay Karnewar of Vidarbha has that talent and he put that to good effect in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy Twenty tournament. (Click here for latest Cricket stories) Karnewar can bowl off-spin and he can bowl left-arm spin with equal efficiency….
ICC WT20 tickets yet to go on sale
World T20 2016 January 18, 2016 Sidharth Monga and Nagraj Gollapudi © BCCI The tickets for the World Twenty20 are likely to go up for sale by the end of this week, with the BCCI saying it doesn’t think it is too late for the tickets to be made available. The first qualifier starts on March 8, but the Indian board is happy to have the tickets up for grabs…
India Skipper Mithali Raj Wants Women's IPL to Happen Soon
Mithali Raj said Australia’s Big Bash League franchise Adelaide Strikers had approached her. © PTI Mumbai: Following the success of the cash-rich Indian Premier League (IPL), India women’s team skipper Mithali Raj on Monday expressed her desire to see the female version of the massively popular Twenty20 extravaganza soon in the country. (Click here for latest Cricket stories) The national women’s team is scheduled to play Australia in three One-Day…
Bumrah replaces Shami in T20 squad
India in Australia 2015-16 January 18, 2016 ESPNcricinfo staff Jasprit Bumrah has been named as Mohammed Shami‘s replacement for the three Twenty20 Internationals in Australia starting January 26. More to follow… © ESPN Sports Media Ltd. Source: ESPN Crickinfo
Mukul Mudgal Submits Stinging Report Against Delhi and District Cricket Association
Mukul Mudgal said Delhi and District Cricket Association’s management and accounts department did not act on the issues raised by internal audit. © PTI New Delhi: Delhi High Court-appointed observer Justice (Retd) Mukul Mudgal, for the fourth India versus South Africa Test at Feroz Shah Kotla from December 3-7, has submitted a stinging report on the corruption-hit Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA). (Justice Mudgal to Submit Report on Delhi…
Shaun Tait Recalled To Australian Side After Five Years, Nathan Lyon Included in Twenty20 Squad
Shaun Tait, who last played for Australia in 2011, has been plying his Twenty20 skills with Rajasthan Royals in the IPL and Adelaide Strikers in the Big Bash League. © AFP Fast bowler Shaun Tait has been recalled by Australia after an absence of almost five years for the three-match Twenty20 series against India later this month. (Virat Kohli’s Ton Goes in Vain, Glenn Maxwell Helps Australia Take Unbeatable 3-0…
Chandila banned for life, Hiken Shah for five years
Former Rajasthan Royals offspinner Ajit Chandila has been banned for life from all official cricketing activities for his role in the IPL 2013 spot-fixing case. Former Mumbai batsman Hiken Shah, who had been suspended by the BCCI in July 2015 for making an “illegal approach” to a player, was handed a five-year ban. A release from the BCCI said Chandila was “held guilty of misconduct and corruption”, having breached seven…
India vs Australia: Under-Pressure Mahendra Singh Dhoni Gets BCCI's Backing
Pundits believe Test captain Virat Kohli should take over the limited-overs duties as well from Mahendra Singh Dhoni. © AFP New Delhi: Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s job as India’s limited-overs captain is safe despite the team’s third successive one-day series defeat, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) said on Monday. Speculation has been swirling over the future of the 34-year-old who quit Tests in late 2014 but remains…