| Pakistan Cricket fraternity welcomed Afridi’s appointment as captain Posted: 04 Feb 2011 11:30 AM PST 
PCB Chairman Ijaz Butt is happy that the cricket fraternity of the country has welcomed the appointment of Shahid Afridi as captain for the World Cup. “I am happy to know that this decision by the board to confirm Afridi as captain has gone down well with everyone,” Butt told ...  |
| Pakistan shocked after charges against the tainted trio Posted: 04 Feb 2011 11:05 AM PST 
Pakistan cricket fraternity is shocked after Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) charged Mohammad Amir, Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and their agent Mazhar Majeed with conspiracy to obtain and accept corrupt payments, and conspiracy to cheat. All three players were questioned by Scotland Yard detectives over claims made in the News ...  |
| Confident Sehwag ready to deliver in upcoming World Cup Posted: 04 Feb 2011 10:40 AM PST 
Virender Sehwag who was ruled out of India’s recent one-day series against South Africa due to a shoulder injury, feels that his side is fully prepared to win the title in front of the home crowd. “I was feeling some pain in my shoulder,” Sehwag told news channel CNN-IBN. “So ...  |
| IPL bans Manish Pandey for four matches Posted: 04 Feb 2011 10:15 AM PST 
The Indian Premier League (IPL) today punished a four-match ban on young Karnataka batsman Manish Pandey, who has been signed up by Sahara Pune Warriors for the fourth season of the T20 league, for breaching its guidelines. Speaking to reporters after a marathon meeting of the T20 League’s governing council, ...  |
| BCCI turned down Kochi’s request to buy Sourav Ganguly Posted: 04 Feb 2011 09:50 AM PST 
Sourav Ganguly's chances of playing in the fourth edition of the IPL seem to get slimmer by the day. The IPL governing council, after its meeting today, turned down Kochi's request to buy Sourav Ganguly. As per the existing IPL rules, unsold players cannot be signed after the auction. However, ...  |
| Ganguly and Harbhajan acute cases of ‘greentrackitis’: Hayden Posted: 04 Feb 2011 09:25 AM PST 
Former Australian opener Matthew Hayden in his autobiography ‘Standing My Ground’, has re-opened a seven-year-old controversy by claiming that ex-Indian captain Sourav Ganguly and off-spinner Harbhajan Singh backed off of the series-deciding 2004 Nagpur Test due to a fear of the green-top pitch there. Hayden writes that the Australians felt ...  |
| I am ready for the World Cup: Yuvraj Posted: 04 Feb 2011 08:50 AM PST 
Indian aggressive middle-order batman Yuvraj Singh on Friday talked about his toughest phase of his carrer and revealed that he almost thought of quitting international cricket when he was dropped from both the Test and ODI teams last year. Yuvraj said it was the toughest phase in his 10-year-long career ...  |
| Pakistan vs New Zealand 6th ODI (2011) LIVE Streaming – Auckland Posted: 04 Feb 2011 08:25 AM PST 
Watch Pakistan vs New Zealand 6th ODI of Pakistan tour New Zealand (2010/11) (to be) played at Eden Park, Auckland LIVE STREAMING on WWW.THECRICKET-TV.COM The Last and 6th ODI match of Pakistan vs New Zealand will be played on 6th February. After winning the Test Series, Pakistan won the ODI ...  |
| Match Today: Pakistan v New Zealand, 6th ODI, 2011, Auckland Posted: 04 Feb 2011 08:03 AM PST 
The sixth and the final ODI between New Zealand and Pakistan will be played at the Eden Park in Auckland on Saturday. This is the last match of the series but will have no bearing on it given that Pakistan have already won the series. Pakistan will look to experiment ...  |
| Pak coach Waqar wants to end series on winning note Posted: 04 Feb 2011 06:15 AM PST 
The Pakistan coach Waqar Younis is keen to end the one-day series against New Zealand on a winning note after his team wrapped up the series on Thursday in Hamilton. Waqar told Pakistani reporters in Hamilton that the series win was a great boost for the team ahead of the ...  |
| Sachin’s presence will lift team’s morale: Dhoni Posted: 04 Feb 2011 06:03 AM PST 
Sachin Tendulkar’s mere presence in the dressing room is enough to lift the morale of the players, feels India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Dhoni also urged the other players in the team to perform and take the pressure off the champion batsman. “When Sachin is with the team, the morale ...  |
| Pakistan cricket trio charged with spot-fixing in UK Posted: 04 Feb 2011 03:54 AM PST 
British prosecutors on Friday charged three Pakistan cricketers, Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir, with taking bribes to fix incidents in an international match in England last year. Butt, Asif and Amir are accused of fixing certain incidents, such as the bowling of no-balls at pre-agreed times, during the ...  |
| We are prepared for the worst: Butt, Aamer Posted: 04 Feb 2011 01:53 AM PST 
Pakistan’s suspended Test captain Salman Butt and pacer Mohammad Aamer are “prepared for the worst” when the ICC’s anti-corruption tribunal announces a decision on the spot-fixing allegations against them and Muhammad Asif on Saturday. The two players, who left for Doha for the verdict, told the media they knew the ...  |
| Shahid Afridi to captain Pakistan in World Cup Posted: 04 Feb 2011 12:45 AM PST 
Pakistan has decided to retain one-day captain Shahid Afridi to lead the team in the coming World Cup after seriously mulling the option of giving the job to Test skipper Misbah-ul-Haq. Intikhab Alam, Pakistan team manager, on Friday confirmed that Afridi had been chosen as Pakistan’s World Cup captain. A ...  |
| ‘India needs left-arm spinner but stand best chance to win WC’: Roger Binny Posted: 04 Feb 2011 12:30 AM PST 
The Indian cricket team should have included a left-arm spinner in the World Cup squad to exploit the home conditions better but the co-hosts still stand the best chance to win the trophy, feels former all-rounder Roger Binny. Binny, who was an aggressive batsman and a useful medium fast bowler, ...  |
| ICC warns against fraud World Cup emails Posted: 04 Feb 2011 12:15 AM PST 
Cricket’s governing body on Friday warned the public to beware of fraudulent emails that seek personal details to give away non-existent cash rewards ahead of the World Cup. The International Cricket Council said tricksters have been sending out emails to announce prizes supposedly won in sweepstakes and other competitions organised ...  |
| ‘Should have handled Sachin differently in 2007 WC’: Chappell Posted: 04 Feb 2011 12:00 AM PST 
The clock has turned full circle. Now that another World Cup beckons after four long years, the bitterness of the famous spat of the World Cup in the West Indies seems to have subsided. Two characters were involved in that drama Greg Chappell and Sachin Tendulkar. At the end of ...  |
| Spinning allrounders give India an edge: Dravid Posted: 03 Feb 2011 11:30 PM PST 
Rahul Dravid says the number of batsmen in the Indian team who can bowl part-time spin gives the Mahendra Singh Dhoni-led team an advantage in the ICC World Cup 2011 commencing on February 19. “India are obviously one of the favourites. They have been playing well for a number of ...  |
| Infatuated Aussies bought copies of Sachin’s bat: Hayden Posted: 03 Feb 2011 11:15 PM PST 
“Bat-obsessed” Australian cricketers were so infatuated with Sachin Tendulkar’s 1998 blade which gave Shane Warne nightmares that they bought the copies of the willow to produce its versions Down Under, former opener Matthew Hayden has revealed. In his autobiography ‘Standing My Ground’, Hayden writes that Australians “have massive love affairs ...  |
| We’ll overcome injuries, poor form in World Cup: Sehwag Posted: 03 Feb 2011 11:00 PM PST 
Virender Sehwag is not concerned of the injuries and dip in form to some of India’s key players ahead of ICC World Cup 2011 and feels that his side is primed to win the title in front of the home crowd Sehwag himself is coming out of a shoulder injury, ...  |
| Paul Collingwood to return home due to injury Posted: 03 Feb 2011 10:45 PM PST 
England’s arduous tour of Australia has claimed another victim, with all-rounder Paul Collingwood to return home with a back spasm. Collingwood suffered the injury during England’s loss to Australia in the sixth one-day international at the Sydney Cricket Ground Sydney on Wednesday. Captain Andrew Strauss later lamented that the tourists ...  |
| English prosecutor to announce decision on Pakistan trio Posted: 03 Feb 2011 10:30 PM PST 
The three Pakistan players at the centre of spot-fixing allegations that could end their cricket careers are set to discover Friday if they will be prosecuted by English legal authorities. Salman Butt, who was Pakistan’s Test captain, and seamers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamer have been accused of conspiring in ...  |
| Pakistan trio brace for bombshell decision Posted: 03 Feb 2011 10:16 PM PST 
Former Pakistan Test captain Salman Butt has dismissed claims he will receive a life ban for his role in cricket’s alleged spot-fixing scandal. Butt and pace bowlers Mohammad Asif and teenage quick Mohammad Aamer are all accused of conspiring in the bowling of deliberate no-balls on last year’s tour of ...  |
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