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One of the hallmarks of Sri Lanka’s victory over New Zealand in the recently concluded Test series is the precision with which the Island nation has gone about their business on the field and with a precision that is matched by the best in the world. This precision has seen their Test ranking skyrocket to [...]

Trust Englishmen to give it as good as they get. English left-arm speedster Ryan Sidebottom has challenged his team to send Australia home trophyless by adding to their Ashes success with Twenty20 and one-day series wins over their oldest foes. His words came soon after Aussie pacer Brett Lee served notice he could still be [...]

Aah! Pakistan continues to remain in the news for all reasons possible. A day after PCB and ICC resolved their dispute over World Cup 2011 matches, PCB on Friday hoped to get $18 million in compensation for losing its share of World Cup 2011 matches over security fears. Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Ijaz Butt [...]

Ever since Ricky Ponting lost the Ashes to England, his supporters had increased manifold and now his teammates Michael Clarke and Simon Katich insist that the Aussies let him down in the lost Ashes. “I see Ricky as our leader, I don’t think it’s something  we have to worry about at this stage. Punt’s playing fantastic [...]

One of most heartening aspect of a champion side is the consistency that it will show in all formats of the game–be it Test cricket, One-dayers or Twenty20s. That was the reason why cricket pundits hauled the West Indies team of the 70s and 80s to the avantgarde Australian in the last one-and-half decade. England’s [...]

It took a long time coming and when it came, it was like a breath of fresh air for the cricketing circles across the globe. The International Cricket Council and  the Pakistan Cricket Board on Thursday amicably resolved the dispute over staging of the 2011 World Cup matches in the strife-torn nation. As per the [...]

The inaugural Airtel Champions League Twenty20 is set to be the True Tournament of Champions following the naming of the preliminary squads. Of the 234 players nominated by the 12 teams, 110 have already played international cricket for their respective countries. If all of these players then go on to be included in their team’s [...]

Now, the sign of Twenty20′s dominance is too ominous. England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) will abandon their domestic 50-over competition from 2010 as the Twenty20 format continues its rise in popularity. In 2010, English counties will compete in the four-day Championship, a new-look Twenty20 competition and also a 40-over event to be played mainly [...]

Twenty20 has made ODI irrelevant and the 50-over format should be done away with, according to spin great Shane Warne. “I’ll say it again, one-day cricket should go. It has evolved into Twenty20,” wrote Warne in his column for Herald Sun. “Cricket only needs two forms of the game. Something needs to be done about [...]

Days after Ashes 2009 ended, theories refuse to. Now, former Australian opener Justin Langer has come up with a new theory that offers some interest read. He has offered a hypothesis on Australia’s Ashes debacle, saying the visitors came a cropper against England because of their pace bowlers’ lack of height. While this observation might [...]