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Bollywood hottie Salman Khan is on his path to don a new hat. Yes, if all goes well then the Bollywood superstar could well be joining the ranks of his peers such as Shilpa Shetty, Preity Zinta and Shahrukh Khan to join the Indian Premier League bandwagon with the Khan keenly putting forth his desire [...]

Stuart Broad‘s performance could have been exemplary in the just concluded Ashes 2009 but spin legend Shane Warne named Adil Rashid–who is yet to make his Test debut, as the best bet to fill in England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff’s shoes in the five-day format. Quite a few names were doing the rounds as Flintoff’s probable [...]

The just concluded Ashes has witnessed top class cricket and will surely would have gone either way had it not been for the moments that I am mentioning in this entry. So, here we are: the top five moments of Ashes 2009. FIFTH BIGGEST MOMENT OF ASHES To me, Kevin Pietersen being ruled out because of [...]

He surely is a big thorn in the flesh of the Aussies,  Harbhajan Singh offered no sympathy to Ricky Ponting and his men on their Ashes debacle and said they are still missing Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath. ”Congratulations,” was his spontaneous response when he was told about Australia’s defeat and was asked to comment on. “Honestly [...]

England pacer Stuart Broad’s hostile spell coupled with their own blunder of leaving out off-spinner Nathan Hauritz cost the Aussies their Ashes title wrote spin legend Shane Warne. Broad wrecked havoc with his five-wicket burst and was the chief architect of  Australia’s collapse in the fifth Test. Warne said Broad’s spell was similar to all-rounder [...]

The clock struck 2.48 am in Australia when Mike Hussey was caught and the Australians handed over the Ashes on a platter to the Englishmen. Within minutes of the loss, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Web site put up a headline which read “Australia surrenders the Ashes.” “England has repeated the euphoric scenes of four [...]

Here is how the 2009 Ashes unfolded: Jul 08-12: First Test, Cardiff: Result: Draw England 435 (K. Pietersen 69, P Collingwood 64, M Prior 56; M Johnson 3-87) and 252-9 (P Collingwood 74, B Hilfenhaus 3-47) Australia 674-6 dec (R Ponting 150, M North 125 no, S Katich 122, B Haddin 121, M Clarke 83) [...]

And it finally happened folks.  Australia were deposed as the world’s top Test team after losing the Ashes to England on Sunday. Ricky Ponting’s side have now slipped to fourth place in the ICC rankings with South Africa assuming the top spot. One look at the rankings for all the uninitiated: Rankings: 1. South Africa [...]

England regained the Ashes with a 197-run win over Australia in the fifth and final Test at the Oval here on Sunday. Victory, achieved with more than a day to spare, saw England take the five-match series 2-1. Australia, set what would have been a record fourth innings victory total of 546, were bowled out [...]

Even as his side is inching towards regaining the Ashes, former captain Michael Vaughan wrote in his column in ‘The Daily Telegraph’. said the next target for Andrew Strauss should be to become the world number one Test side. Praising Strauss Vaughan wrote, “I now hope England can build a team capable of beating Australia [...]