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Just a few hours are left for the final Ashes 2009 Test to commence at the Oval on Thursday. The Australians will be looking to bolster their pace attack which rattled the Englishmen a couple of weeks back and the defending champions will be wary of the history of the venue in their pursuit to [...]

They say the best always keep it for the last and England’s best known Test all-rounder in the last one decade—Andrew Flintoff will have to be on his toes in his last Test. The good news for English fans will be that he is being chosen by the selectors for the ODIs. However, Flintoff, who [...]

Andrew Flintoff has made himself stay in shape and is on course to make his farewell to Test cricket in next week’s final Ashes match at the Oval, Manchester and was named in a 14-man squad on Sunday along with Jonathan Trott. For the uninitiated, the uncapped Warwickshire batsman Trott has been in the selectors [...]

Not long ago, Australia’s middle-order mainstay Michael Hussey was known the world-over as Mr. Cricket for his batting exploits on the field but with his Test slump prolonging right through the Ashes 2009, legends Steve Waugh and Dean Jones have said that Hussey is no longer ‘Mr. Cricket’ and has become ‘Mr Average’. Waugh and [...]

Aah! Test cricket….how the old raconteurs speak about good old days of Test cricket but many of us are bitten by the Twenty20 bug and refusing to get ourselves sorted. But cricket’s alma mater Marylebone Cricket Club wants a world championship of the five-day version urgently to save the oldest format of the game. It the commencement [...]

 Not often does one see the Indian domestic cricket being discussed a length in any of the cricketing board’s meetings, but BCCI has given two hoots to tradition and embraced Indian domestic cricket like never before. Domestic cricket got a huge leg-up with the Indian cricket control board’s working committee approving a slew of specifically-targeted [...]

Looks like the Indian Premier governing council clearing the way for the induction of the ‘rebel’ Indian Cricket League players, some of the franchises have started to evaluate available players who could make a difference in the third edition of the T20 extravaganza. The Kolkata Knight Riders, who had a sad show in the previous [...]

Looks like England will be betting their money on veteran Englishman Mark Ramprakash for the fifth Ashes 2009 Test against Australia, much more than seven years after his last Test appearance for his side. Selector Geoff Miller in an interview to www.cricinfo.com said on Wednesday that the 39-year-old Surrey star was in contention for the [...]

The Ashes 2009 has brought out an interesting note for all those centres which host the Tests. England’s humiliating loss to Australia at Headingley might cost the local economy to the tune of  ($3.3 million), experts quoted by the Yorkshire Post newspaper have said. A full Test match would have generated about $13.3 million for the economy [...]

One of the greatest joy in watching a game like cricket is the amount of truth being displayed by statistics. For example, if Sachin Tendulkar walks to bat in a Test match, his average which is 50 plus in Test cricket truly represents his skill, timing, technique and not to mention his genius. However, talking [...]