The Indian Premier League (IPL) is not a threat to international cricket, said Australian spin legend Shane Warne as he once again advocated a permanent window for the cash-rich Twenty20 event to keep the players happy and prevent scheduling problems. Warne said the International Cricket Council (ICC) should also come out with its World Test Championship soon to make the five-day version more appealing to the spectators.
Shane Warne and controversy are never far apart and the flamboyant Australian spin legend shocked yet again by using a four-letter word while doing commentary during the drawn Ashes Test at Edgbaston.
A lot of premier players and coaches now feel that the use of external substances should be allowed to shine the ball in order to maintain a balance between the bat and ball.
After Steve Waugh, now Shane Warne begs to differ with Ricky Ponting on the alleged time-wasting tactics of England during the Ashes opener in Cardiff, saying the hosts played within the spirit of the game.
A good bowling line-up has raised Mohammed Yousuf's hopes of beating Australia in a Test series down under, a feat which Pakistan has never achieved.
Australian legend Shane Warne believes England have no chance of regaining the Ashes without Kevin Pietersen, who is a doubtful starter for the series owing to his Achilles heel.
Australia captain Ricky Ponting has used his team's first-round exit from the Twenty20 World Cup for some intensive practice with his rebuilt side before the Ashes series starting next month.
With Australia still struggling to cope with the retirements of their key players, spin legend Shane Warne has called on the selectors to pump in young blood into the team before it is too late.
Australia spin legend Shane Warne feels Test cricket will soon be history if the ICC and major cricketing boards fail to take proactive steps to promote the five-day game and save it from extinction.
The void created by the retirement of spin legend Shane Warne can never be filled in the Australian cricket team, feels chief selector Andrew Hilditch.
5 instances when teams didn't cross the 70 run mark in 13 seasons.
Sitting atop the points table, they might have been the most consistent side in the IPL-II but Delhi Daredevils are not "best" according to Shane Warne, who feels it's Chennai who will probably run away with the title.
The seven-wicket victory over Chennai Super Kings may have lifted some of the gloom in the Kolkata Knight Riders' beleaguered camp but it is not welcome news for Rajasthan Royals, who face the Brendon McCullum-led side in their must-win last league encounter, in Durban on Wednesday. With 13 points, they need victory against the Knight Riders to brighten their prospects of a semi-final berth, though, Rajasthan would still have to depend on other results.
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The seven-wicket victory over Chennai Super Kings may have lifted some of the gloom in the Kolkata Knight Riders' beleaguered camp but is not welcome news for Rajasthan Royals, who face the Brendon McCullum-led side in their must-win last league encounter, in Durban on Wednesday.
Shocked by the footage of horror shown on television, spin legend Shane Warne, stranded in Singapore en route to Mumbai, said no amount of money would make him tour the troubled Indian metropolis for the now-postponed Champions League.
Australian bowling legend Shane Warne has said that the biggest threat to the art of spin bowling comes from coaches and captains who lack the understanding of the art.
He was almost ruled out of rest of the Indian Premier League owing to his hamstring injury but Rajasthan Royals captain Shane Warne made a surprise appearance against Mumbai Indians as he did not want to miss possibly his only chance to play Sachin Tendulkar in the Twenty20 tournament, in Durban. Barry also lauded the efforts of Munaf Patel and Rob Quiney for their role in the victory over Mumbai Indians.
Munaf Patel bowled a brilliant last over while Shane Warne overcame a hamstring injury to win his personal duel with Sachin Tendulkar as Rajasthan Royals edged out Mumbai Indians by two runs in an IPL edge-of-the-seat thriller in Durban on Thursday.
Defending champions Rajasthan Royals were dealt a massive blow as captain-cum-coach Shane Warne was on Tuesday ruled out of the Indian Premier League for the next 10 days owing to a hamstring injury. The Australian was injured while batting against Deccan Chargers on Monday night and will be out of action for the next 10 days, making him unavailable for the rest of the team's campaign unless his side makes the final.
Shane Warne, Shane Watson and Graeme Smith are considering quitting the IPL after the serial blasts in Jaipur.
One of the biggest match-winners in Indian cricket Anil Kumble turned 47 on Tuesday and not surprising that birthday wishes poured in from all quarters for the legendary cricketer.
Australia may have lost the aura of invincibility after the likes of Glenn McGrath and Shane Warne made their exit but captain Ricky Ponting is happy that the youngsters have made a mark in the ICC Champions Trophy.
Delhi Daredevils skipper Virender Sehwag has put Daniel Vettori in the same league as legendary spinners Shane Warne and Anil Kumble and said the New Zealand skipper is the best tweaker in the world at present.
Never an admirer of John Buchanan's style of functioning, spin legend Shane Warne said the Kolkata Knight Riders coach's multiple-captain theory would only confuse the players.
Rohit Sharma, who said images of the former Australia skipper being escorted at Johannesburg airport and his tearful media conference in Sydney 'resonated' with him.
Yorkshire spinner Adil Rashid, who is being trained by former Australian leg spinner and now coach Terry Jenner, hopes he can emulate another Jenner protg Shane Warne.
Rajasthan Royals' stupendous underdog to title-winner performance in the inaugural Indian Premier League has put the Jaipur-based team in line for being nominated as world team of the year 2008 at the Laureus World Sports Awards. Led by Australian leg-spin legend Shane Warne, the Royals began as underdogs but ran away with the top prize in the hugely-successful inaugural IPL Twenty20 tournament last May.
Twenty20 has rendered one-day cricket irrelevant and the 50-over format should be done away with, according to spin great Shane Warne.
New Zealand skipper Daniel Vettori on Wednesday joined the likes of Kapil Dev, Richard Hadlee and Shane Warne when he became only the eighth all-rounder in Test cricket's history to collect 3,000 runs and bag 300 wickets.
Not Stuart Broad but leg-spinner Adil Rashid, who is yet to make his Test debut, is the best bet to fill in England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff's shoes in the five-day format, feels Australian spin legend Shane Warne.
In a rain-hit final Group A league encounter in the Under-19 World Cup, reduced to 23-overs per-side, India scored 115 without loss in 23 overs, with openers Yashasvi Jaiswal (57 not out off 72 balls) and Divyansh Saxena (52 no off 62 balls) hitting half-centuries. New Zealand needed 193 as per DLS method calculations but managed only 147 in 21 overs as India emerged group toppers with six points.
The learned Justices S B Sinha and Cyriac Joseph were strangely silent on how to construe the opposite, that is, if a daughter-in-law were to kick the husband or mother-in-law. Perhaps, that's what prospective daughters-in-law should be trained in, since the law is silent on it.
Steve Waugh on Friday hit back at Shane Warne after the legendary spinner reignited a long-running feud between the two by calling the former Australia captain a selfish cricketer.
The Marylebone Cricket Club, custodians of the laws of cricket, on Tuesday, said Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin was under no obligation to warn Jos Buttler before 'Mankading' him in the Indian Premier League match between Kings XI Punjab and Rajasthan Royals in Jaipur.
Legends Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath and Matthew Hayden will return to the field to launch the 2009-10 season in an All Star Twenty20 match at the Gabba in Brisbane, Cricket Australia and the Australia Cricketers' Association announced on Wednesday.
Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty and her business partner Raj Kundra on Tuesday bought a 12 per cent stake in the Indian Premier League team Rajasthan Royals, the inaugural champions of the Twenty20 event.
The Australia fast bowler announced he is taking an indefinite break due to emotional and physical exhaustion.
Legendary Australian spinner Shane Warne is surely impressed by Mahendra Singh Dhoni-led team's surge in international cricket but believes India could realise their number one dream only if Sachin Tendulkar keeps himself fit. Warne also refused to believe that it is the best-ever Indian team so far despite its recent victories against Australia and England.
Images from Day 5 of the fourth Test between England and India, at The Oval, on Sunday.
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