Cricket

India will organise a major part of cricket’s World Cup in 2011 after Pakistan was stripped of co-hosting rights, the International Cricket Council said on Tuesday. The showpiece event awarded to South Asia was thrown into turmoil earlier this month after the ICC removed Pakistan as a host nation due to security concerns, following the ... Read more

Michael Clarke’s all-round performance helped his team give Pakistan a dose of their own medicine as Australia won the third day-night international by 27 runs at Abu Dhabi Stadium here on Monday. The 28-year-old hit a fighting 66 to anchor an otherwise struggling Australian innings which helped them reach 198-7 in their allotted 50 overs ... Read more

Yusuf Pathan hammered an unconquered 30-ball 62 as Graeme Smith anchored the Rajasthan Royals chase with an unbeaten 44 to romp to a five-wicket win over the Delhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League (IPL) in Pretoria on Tuesday. The brutal innings from Pathan, sedate but no less important knock by Smith and another typically ... Read more

Ray Jennings, the Bangalore Royal Challengers coach, says he has yet to decide who will captain the embattled franchise once Kevin Pietersen departs for England after Wednesday’s match against Kolkata. Jennings’s comments come as a major surprise, given Bangalore had previously nominated South African Jacques Kallis to take over from Pietersen when the England batsman ... Read more

Senior pros Sachin Tendulkar and Sanath Jayasuriya produced vintage strokeplay to give Mumbai Indians a key victory in the Indian Premier League here on Monday. The ageing duo hammered 127 for the first wicket from just 12.2 overs as Mumbai scored 187-6 in 20 overs after electing to take first strike and then bowled out ... Read more

Amid colours, deafening sounds and nonstop flashing of lights, auction of 48 cricketers for the country’s first-ever Twenty20 tournament, the PCL (Port-city Cricket League) 2009, was held yesterday at Chittagong Club auditorium with dashing Tigers opener and local boy Tamim Iqbal stealing the show with a whopping Tk 7.70 lakh price. The nine-day tournament is ... Read more

A new chapter in country’s women’s cricket opened when the Women’s Club Cup tournament kicked off at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur yesterday. The popular Abahani got off a winning start when they handed a five-wicket defeat to BKSP in the opening match as the Dhanmondi based club scored 130 for five in 32.3 ... Read more

The enthusiastic public response for the Indian Premier League parade has convinced the league’s chairman that the tournament’s move to South Africa has already been a success. The second edition of the world’s biggest Twenty20 tournament was moved out of India last month due to security concerns and logical issues surrounding the general elections currently ... Read more

Indian Premier League Tigers eager to make eleven There is little chance to see Bangladesh captain Mohammad Ashraful playing in the opening match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) that kicks off today at Newlands in Cape Town. The Tigers skipper may be seen in the ‘dugout’ (players’ waiting area) just beyond the rope while ... Read more

When the glitz and the glamour of the build-up to the Indian Premier League makes way for cricket action today, past form will not count for much. Defending champions the Rajasthan Royals could find it tough this time around, starting with their opening clash against Bangalore Royal Challengers in the second match of a double ... Read more

Soft-spoken, laid back and a reluctant orator, former Test captain Mohammad Azharuddin hardly fits the image of the archetypal boisterous Indian politician. Yet Azharuddin is the latest entrant in a growing list of former cricketers sucked into the election whirlpool by political parties hoping their star status in cricket-mad India will translate into votes. Other ... Read more

National skipper Mohammad Ashraful finished among the top 10 batsmen in the Dhaka Premier League thanks to his solid performance in the Super League phase, revealed the Bangladesh Cricket Board. Ashraful hammered four successive half-centuries in five matches of the Super League to add 285 runs to his 258 from the 10 games of the ... Read more

Promising batsman Shamsur Rahman caught the eyes of none other than Sri Lankan great Sanath Jayasuriya during the just concluded Premier Division Cricket League. And there was a genuine reason in the eulogies as the elegant Mohammedan right-hander not only finished as the highest run-getter in the country’s most coveted competition with 677 runs in ... Read more

India were on the brink of their first series win in New Zealand since 1968 after the hosts lost four second-innings wickets still needing 450 runs for victory in the third Test in Wellington on Monday. New Zealand were struggling at 167 for four when bad light stopped play almost an hour early on the ... Read more

KARACHI: Pakistan on Monday took a giant stride towards recalling their Indian Cricket League (ICL) rebels by including three of them in a 30-man preliminary squad for the 2009 World Twenty20 Championship to be held in England in June. Seasoned all-rounder Abdul Razzaq, fast bowler Rana Naved-ul-Hasan and opener Imran Nazir are the three ICL ... Read more

Pakistan include controversial pacer in 15-man squad for series against Australia KARACHI: Controversial pacer Shoaib Akhtar made yet another comeback on Monday when he was named in a 15-man squad for the one-day series against Australia in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Chief selector Abdul Qadir said that Shoaib has completely recovered from a knee injury ... Read more

India cricketer and former captain Rahul Dravid has broken the world record for the number of catches in Test matches by an outfielder. When Dravid helped to dismiss the New Zealand batsman Tim McIntosh on Monday it was his 182nd catch in a Test career going back to 1996. Dravid’s landmark was reached on the ... Read more

Sri Lanka rewarded a Pakistani coach driver with 21,800 dollars for his role in protecting the island’s cricket team during last month’s gun and grenade attack in Lahore in a ceremony held at Colombo. Meher Mohammad Khalil was hailed as a hero for driving the team to safety after their coach was attacked by suspected ... Read more

Surjo Torun completed a near fairytale run in the Premier League in dashing style when they handed champions Abahani a four-wicket defeat at the BKSP in Savar yesterday. The victory for the Dhanmondi lightweights against their heavyweight neighbours meant that they finished runners-up, a success they have never achieved before in the coveted domestic club ... Read more

Indian Premier League Ash in Mumbai colours Bangladesh captain Mohammad Ashraful left the capital yesterday with a promise to live up to his billing as a ‘pocket dynamo’ for his star-studded side Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League (IPL) that starts in South Africa from April 18. The exciting right-hander might have scored only ... Read more