Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Anil Kumble held his batting colleagues responsible for the team's crushing seven-wicket defeat against Victoria Bushrangers, saying they just did not give the bowlers enough runs to defend in the Champions League Twenty20 League match. Kumble felt 127 for six on a nice batting track was just not enough and the meagreness of the total completely handicapped the bowlers.
As they gear up for the inaugural Champions League Twenty20, Sussex Sharks are banking on Indian import, leg-spinner Piyush Chawla, to help them adapt to the conditions in this country. The English side has two sub-continent players in Chawla and Pakistan all-rounder Yasir Arafat.
The winning momentum back after their three successive wins, India would seek to maintain their supremacy over Sri Lanka and start the season on a positive note when they take on the islanders in the final of the cricket tri-series in Mirpur on Wednesday.
Their campaign is back on track after the win over Bangladesh but India will have to address top-order batting woes and inconsistent bowling to upstage a rampaging Sri Lanka in their third match of the tri-series in Mirpur on Sunday.
Pride dented after the loss to Sri Lanka, India need an improved showing in all departments when they take on Bangladesh in their second outing of the tri-series on Thursday.
Nineteen candidates each fielded by the BJP and Congress for the upcoming Delhi assembly polls have criminal cases pending against them, including serious offences like murder, attempt to murder and kidnapping. Over 90 candidates out of the total 875 contesting the elections have criminal cases filed against them, with three candidates, including one from the BJP, facing murder charges.
Indian bowlers will find it more difficult than the batsmen to make the switch from the longest to the shortest format of the game, according to Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
Relieved after the series-levelling 24-run win, Australian captain Ricky Ponting said he was afraid that 250-run may not be enough but his bowlers made it possible.
Australia captain Ricky Ponting praised the Indians after they took a well-deserved 2-1 lead in the seven-match series in Delhi on Saturday.
Pasumpon Films' Tamil film Kalaippani (Morning Dew), directed by Rajesh Shelva, is the kind of venture that you'd think would be a sappy love fest. It's anything but that. It has got all the ingredients of a good thriller.
Waiting for capitulation in commodity markets is the better route to profits, says Sonali Ranade.
Play is likely to begin at 09.30 IST as groundsmen are carrying out mopping up work.
Colonel Anil Athale (retd) lists a few military tactics that may help team India win the World Cup.
Having recorded a second successive victory over India in as many Twenty20 matches, New Zealand skipper Daniel Vettori heaped praise on his bowlers for restricting the visitors to 160 in Wednesday's match in Christchurch. New Zealand, who had beaten India by 10 runs at the Twenty20 World Cup in South Africa, inflicted a seven-wicket defeat on Mahendra Singh Dhoni's team in the opening match of the 47-day tour.
If a day-night format is the future of Test cricket going forward, then coloured balls will certainly have a role to play, believe the guardians of the sport -- the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). The ball was tried and tested for the first time in the country in a charity match in Mumbai on Tuesday in which India's international players like Suresh Raina, Ishant Sharma, Praveen Kumar, Ishant Sharma and Gautam Gambhir took part and tried the coloured balls.
Medium pacer Rajat Bhatia and leg spinner Chaitanya Nanda shared eight wickets to help Delhi bundle out Maharashtra for a meagre 219 runs on the first day of their Ranji Trophy Elite Division Group A tie.
Left-arm spinner Murali Kartik is to take Harbhajan's place while Praveen Kumar looks certain to win his maiden one-day cap.
"In case he (Dhoni) wins the toss, there should not be any second thought on inserting Pakistan. The pitch would have something for the pacers in the early hour and that would be the best time to make inroads," pitch curator Shiv Kumar said.
Mahela Jayawardene (108) and Upul Tharanga (118 not out) hit sparkling centuries as Sri Lanka crushed Bangladesh by nine wickets to storm into the final of the tri-series in Mirpur, Bangladesh, on Friday.
He may be a relieved man after India beat Bangladesh by six wickets in the tri-series on Thursday night, but captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni was miffed with the performance of his frontline bowlers after they allowed the home side to pile 296 for six from their 50 overs.
Paras Jain, who exports textiles to US retail chains like Linens-N-Things and Laura Ashley, is one of the many exporters planning to grow organic cotton as the growing 'green conscience' in the west leads to a rise in the demand for the product.
Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene hopes Bangladesh's bowlers will pose fewer problems to his batsmen than Pakistan did in winning Monday's Twenty20 World Cup Super Eights match.
Pune Warriors beat Kochi Tuskers Kerala by four wickets in the battle of debutantes in an Indian Premier League clash at the DY Patil Stadium in Nerul on Wednesday.
Beverages giant PepsiCo on Tuesday launched 250-ml Pepsi cans at Rs 15, a price point that's 40 per cent lower than the existing 330-ml cans available at Rs 25.
Australia coach Tim Nielsen said the cramped schedule is hurting his team with injuries to key players but stayed short of criticizing the administrators for introducing new formats of domestic Twenty20 tournaments.
The inaugural edition of Champions League Twenty20 cricket tournament, involving eight teams from five countries, will be hosted by three metro cities -- Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai, between December 3 and 10.
India's opening batsman Virender Sehwag was ruled out of the match against Sri Lanka because of a fever and throat infection. Yuvraj Singh took his place.
S Sreesanth replaced Munaf Patel, who is down with a stiff back, for the deciding fourth ODI against Sri Lanka.
India dropped opener Robin Uthappa and middle-order batsman Yuvraj Singh, who missed the previous two games with a back injury, returned to the side.
Andhra Pradesh were 170 for 4 on the opening day of their four-day Super League Ranji Trophy Group 'A' match against former champions Baroda.
Sri Lanka's failure to qualify for the semi-finals gave rise to fierce criticism in the local media, with several commentators pointing the finger at team selection.
Sri Lanka's captain says his part-time spinners can adjust to different conditions.
The Kerala government on Wednesday banned the production and sale of Coca-Cola and Pepsi in the state.
Shoaib Malik's uninspiring captaincy during the one-day series against India came under a scathing attack from former Pakistan cricketers with Javed Miandad even demanding his ouster, saying a senior player should be given the responsibility.
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