Sachin Tendulkar will once again step out in white flannels on the hallowed Lord's turf leading the Marylebone Cricket Club XI against Shane Warne-led Rest of World XI in a bi-centenary celebrations match in London, on Saturday.
A belligerent 76 not out by Shane Watson helped Rajasthan Royals score their first win in the Indian Premier League match in Jaipur on Monday night.
After condemning Steve Smith's conduct during the Cape Town Test on Sunday, Shane Warne struck a more supportive tone on Wednesday.
England's James Anderson became the leading fast bowler in Test history as he bowled Mohammed Shami to seal victory for England over India at the Oval on Tuesday.
Malika Haydon will make her debut in the new thriller.
Images from the Indian Premier League match between Deccan Chargers and Rajasthan Royals in Nagpur, on Monday.
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The clamour for Shane Warne's return to international cricket notwithstanding, Australia coach Tim Nielsen feels it would be difficult for the former leg-spinner to make a comeback.
The returning Steve Smith has called his Rajasthan Royals teammate Jos Buttler one of the 'most destructive batters' in international cricket, heaping rich praise on the England wicketkeeper.
Cricket Australia have appointed fast bowling great Dennis Lillee as an advisor, days after spinner Shane Warne panned the board and said cricket people needed to be running the team rather than 'muppets'. Lillee will provide coaching services, guidance and mentoring to Australia's emerging fast bowlers as well as the national team, Cricket Australia (CA) said on their website (www.cricket.com.au) on Wednesday.
800 gets so lost in celebrating its grand subject that it forgets something pretty elementary: Cricket is a team sport!, notes Sreehari Nair.
The serial blasts in Jaipur may have left Shane Warne and Shane Watson in absolute panic but fellow Australian Adam Gilchrist refrains from any knee-jerk reaction and hopes the show --the Indian Premier League-- will go on.
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.
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Being the third highest wicket-taker in history of Test cricket is no mean achievement but former India captain Anil Kumble wishes he had the skills of his two greatest contemporaries -- Shane Warne and Muttiah Muralitharan.
Australian fast bowler Glenn McGrath was keeping a low-profile on Thursday amid growing speculation he was about to follow Shane Warne into retirement.
Rain and bad light have combined to limit action in the second Test between England and Pakistan in Southampton, frustrating players and television viewers hoping for live cricket amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
'We are looking at one session at a time'
Former Australian spinners, including the legendary Shane Warne, have raised a unanimous alarm against coaching the controversial 'doosra' in the country, with Ashley Mallett terming it nothing but 'chucking'. Ever since its inception in international cricket, the 'doosra', an unorthodox finger delivery that moves away from a right-hander as opposed to a conventional off-spinner, has raised a lot of debate over its legitimacy.
Shoaib Akhtar has requested Indian batting legend Sachin Tendulkar to hold the All-Stars Cricket event in Pakistan as well.
Mahela Jayawardena pays a heartfelt tribute to newly inducted ICC Hall of Famer Aravinda de Silva.
Sachin's Blasters has Lara, Sehwag, Mahela, Murali and, of course, Tendulkar! Warne's Warriers has Ponting, Kallis, Sanga, Akram and Donald...
England will look to leave Australia in a spin and retain the Ashes by taking a 3-0 series lead at Old Trafford from Thursday with team selection seen as key on the famously dusty track.
Ricky Ponting's over-rate woes after spin wizard Shane Warne's retirement have cost the Australian cricket team a hefty 130,000 dollars in fines so far.
The India captain said absence of a quality spinner like Shane Warne makes the Australian spin-attack vulnerable.
"The whole idea of Cricket All Stars is that, to try to get as many nations together to celebrate this'
Muttiah Muralitharan will have to wait for next month's series against England to break Shane Warne's world record for most Test wickets.
Rahul Dravid has taken a bit of a cue from Shane Warne's leadership and says Rajasthan Royals can beat any side on a given day, including a strong Royal Challengers Bangalore, with whom they lock horns in an Indian Premier League match in Bangalore on Sunday.
Graeme Swann completed 200 wickets in Test cricket on Saturday when he trapped Harbhajan Singh LBW. Swann became the 14th Englishman and 60th bowler overall to accomplish this feat. Rajneesh Gupta presents a list of the highest wicket-taking off-spinners in Test cricket and lists bowlers who took the least time to get to the 200-wicket mark.
Melbourne-based Surrey Hills cricket club invited him to play for them as a guest
Harbhajan Singh became 11th bowler in Test cricket and only the third Indian bowler to take 400 wickets, when he bowled Carlton Baugh on the second day of Roseau Test. He is also the fourth spinner and only the second off-spinner after Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan (800) to reach 400-wicket mark. Here are the detailed statistics of Harbhajan's Test career:
The former Australian spin great also urged the ICC to impose itself on countries like India who have refused to accept the Decision Review System (DRS), and make it compulsory for all nations.
All-rounder Andrew Symonds has urged Australian crowds to applaud Muttiah Muralitharan if the controversial off-spinner breaks Shane Warne's test wickets record when Sri Lanka tour Down Under in November.
'I started watching videos of Shane Warne sir, and that's where I realised what leg-spin is. He was my idol, and I wanted to be like him, bowl like him.'
The Deccan Chargers meet the Rajasthan Royals in a IPL match in Kimberley on Monday, in a head-to-head joust between the two Australian captains in the tournament, Adam Gilchrist and Shane Warne. Rajasthan have a 60 percent win record from their last five matches, whereas the Deccan Chargers have only a 20 percent success rate in their last five outings.
'I think it is great opportunity for every single country look into its own backyards and think the way they want to play cricket and for what we stand for, including the Australians. Otherwise this opportunity would go'
Pruning the Rajasthan Royals squad from 27 to 18, which meant leaving out players like Mohd Kaif, was a 'horrible job', says the defending Indian Premier League champions' captain-cum-coach Shane Warne. 'Some of the guys were pretty emotional when I broke the bad news. You have to be straight and I told those who didn't make the cut that they could still have good careers,' Warne wrote in his column for The Times.
Shane Warne feels that former India captain doesn't need to "prove anything to anyone".
Legendary leg-spinner Shane Warne threw his weight behind Australia coach Mickey Arthur, saying it would be unfair to make the South African the scapegoat for the team's poor showing on the ongoing tour of India.
Wisden, regarded as the Bible of cricket, has named Indian batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar as the leading cricketer in the world for the year 2010. The iconic batsman is the seventh recipient of the Wisden award after teammate Virender Sehwag, Australians Ricky Ponting and Shane Warne, England's Andrew Flintoff, Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan and South African Jacques Kallis.
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