Rajorshi Sanyal joins Manu Shankar and Abhishek Mande as they get talking about the England-Ireland match in the World Cup.
Rajorshi Sanyal joins Manu Shankar and Abhishek Mande as they get talking about the England-Ireland match in the World Cup.
With little over a month to go for the ICC Cricket World Cup, England middle-order batsman Paul Collingwood has predicted that India, South Africa, Australia and his native country will make it to the semi-finals of the mega-event starting February 19 in Dhaka.
Meticulous preparation, thorough professionalism and unprecedented fitness levels underpinned England's 3-1 Ashes triumph in Australia.
Moeen Ali, the England all-rounder, with a batting strike-rate of 82.1 and an economy rate of 4.2, was tops.
For Pakistan's boxer Haroon Iqbal it is more about proving a point than winning, at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi.
The match-fixing scandal continues to get bigger in proportion and Pakistan remains at the centre of it with reports now emerging that the ICC is investigating the team's third one-dayer against England as it might have been rigged by 'illegal betting syndicates in India and Dubai.'
Law enforcement agencies in Karachi are searching for an unidentified bookmaker, who appeared on a television show and claimed that all the Test matches played between Pakistan and England last month were fixed.
Pakistan cricket coach Waqar Younis on Tuesday insisted that his team will perform to the fullest in the upcoming Twenty20 and One-Day series against England despite the 'spot-fixing' controversy surrounding the tour.
The top twenty batsmen and bowlers in 2011, after the Chittagong Test between Bangladesh and West Indies.
PCB chairman Ejaz Butt has not ruled out the possibility of former captains, Mohammad Yousuf and Younis Khan returning to the national team for the Test series against England next month.
A British member of parliament is demanding an inquiry into the state of English soccer, branding the national team's performance at the World Cup "pathetic".
England survived a late assault by the Australian fast bowlers on Sunday to win the third One-day International by one wicket with five balls to spare and clinch the five-match series against the world champions 3-0.
Germany squandered a four-goal lead to draw 4-4 with Sweden while world champions Spain conceded in stoppage time to draw 1-1 with France as both teams lost 100 percent records in World Cup qualifying on Tuesday.
Barely six months before the Ashes, the England and Wales Cricket Board finds itself in a pay dispute with star players, including skipper Andrew Strauss, who are unhappy with the new central contracts tabled last October.
# Michael Lumb and Craig Kieswetter were making their T20 debut. A total of 50 players have now represented England in T20s.
Holders Spain stretched their winning run in qualifiers to 23 as they began the journey to the 2014 World Cup with a 1-0 victory in Georgia on Tuesday but along with Germany and Italy they struggled to take the points.
'KL Rahul in his last 5 Test series - v SA - Avg 7.1, - v Eng - Avg 29, - v WI at home - Avg 18, - v Aus - Avg 10.7, - v WI - Avg 25.4.'
England's cricketers have been advised to skip next month's Indian Premier League by their players' body as it has found the security threats to the Twenty20 event credible in its assessment.
ICC Cricket Committee chief Clive Lloyd and advocate Brent Lockie will investigate the England cricket team's complaint against the Decision Review System fiasco in their fourth and final Test with South Africa in Johannesburg.
The hosts are without the services of all-rounder Jadeja for the first two Tests of the four-match series against England as he is nursing a thumb injury he sustained on the tour of Australia.
India's head coach Ravi Shastri congratulated his players 'for holding up and having a season of a lifetime in toughest of times across all formats and hemispheres against two of the best teams in the world.'
Virat Kohli dropped a position to 11th leaving India with no batsmen in the top 10 of the ICC Player Rankings for Test batsmen, in the latest update of the ICC Player Rankings released by the International Cricket Council on Tuesday.
Murali Vijay and Cheteshwar Pujara eye top 10 places while Ravindra Jadeja jumps to career-best third position among Test all-rounders.
Mayank Markande tops the Paisa Vasool Index at IPL-11. Who are the others?
England players, after spending Wednesday night at Johannesburg airport, hope ICC calls off their tour to Zimbabwe.
The curator has promised a good batting strip for the first One-day international between India and England in Hyderabad on Friday, saying the batsman could go for their shots on a 'sporting wicket'.
Everything you wanted to know about 'Sunny' Gavaskar.
Former England captain Geoff Boycott hit out at the ECB, saying it is "monstrous" even to be thinking of sending players back to the terror-stricken subcontinent and demanded the International Cricket Council's intervention to stop the two-Test series between India and England.
The clash gives Portugal the chance to avenge their 1966 World Cup semi-final defeat in England.
Australian No.11 debutant Ashton Agar, who hit a brilliant 98 to rescue his team on Thursday, received sympathy from Twitter users in the UK for failing to complete his maiden Test century.
Anderson becomes number-one ranked Test bowler
Due to the unavailability of the Keenan Stadium, the proposed one-day international match between India and England, which was scheduled to be played in Jamshedpur, will now be played in Bangalore on November 23.
After the World Cup cold shoulder, Kolkata's historic Eden Gardens is back in the reckoning as it will host as many as three international games during the two home series against England and the West Indies later this year.
Purnendu Maji and Srinivas Bhogle list IPL 2021's 50 Most Valuable Players.
In terms of days, Dale Steyn has spent 2,320 days at the top of the ICC Player Rankings for Test Bowlers, the most by any bowler since World War II.
Indian cricket team will be aiming to pick up pieces while spoiling Alastair Cook's farewell party in the fifth and final Test against England starting Friday.
England's Test cricketers may be re-interviewed by police as the Crown Prosecution Services prepares its case against the three Pakistan players banned for spot-fixing by the ICC early this month, according to a report
