Out-of-favour Indian left-arm spinner Murali Kartik returned with magical figures of six for 61 to help his side Somerset beat Warwickshire by nine wickets in the County Division Championship at Taunton.
Out-of-favour Indian left-arm spinner Murali Kartik returned with magical figures of six for 61 to help his side Somerset beat Warwickshire by nine wickets in the County Division Championship at Taunton.
The only improvement India's fielding coach R Sridhar has targeted is greater accuracy with direct throws.
Pakistan succumbed to a 41-run loss to Australia on Wednesday and are now in an increasingly precarious position in eighth place in the standings.
West Indies have failed to understand English conditions and paid the price for their one-dimensional tactics of trying to bounce out opposition
After the lone Twenty20 match between India and England was washed out at Taunton, the fourth ODI in Arundel was truncated to a 23-overs-a-side affair, which saw the visitors hurtling to a seven-wicket defeat.
The 35-year-old will only play ODIs (as India don't play Test cricket), in which format she is the world's highest wicket-taker with 200 scalps from 169 games.
Leg-spinner Priyanka Roy's five-wicket haul and Anjum Chopra's gutsy, unbeaten 52-ball 37 helped India beat Pakistan in a Pool B match by five wickets and bounce back into contention in the women's World Twenty20 in Taunton on Saturday. India skittled out Pakistan for a paltry 75 in 19.5 overs, thanks to a clinical display by Roy and pacer Rumeli Dhar (3-13), and then overhauled the target with 14 balls to spare.
Student Holly Colvin came away with top marks as England easily accounted for title rival India by 10 wickets on the opening day of the ICC Women's World Twenty20 2009 tournament in Taunton on Thursday. The 19-year-old Colvin, bowling slow left arm, took 3-20 as the World Cup holders restricted India to 112-8 before captain Charlotte Edwards (61 off 53 balls) and fellow-opener Sarah Taylor (50 off 41) cruised home with 26 balls to spare in Group B.
Abject batting by the Indian women's cricket team saw them go down to New Zealand by 17 runs in a warm-up match ahead of their Twenty20 World Cup at Taunton Vale Sports Club Ground on Tuesday.
Rishabh Pant excelled with a counter-attacking 71-ball 67 as India 'A' scored a five-wicket victory over West Indies 'A' in the second unofficial Test, coming back from a precarious position to clinch the series 1-0, in Taunton, on Friday.
Jason Holder insists Andre Russell's fitness is a gamble worth taking, after the all-rounder pulled up with another injury in their eight-wicket defeat by England.
An abject batting capitulation followed by some inept bowling completed the Indian women's cricket team's cup of woes as England spanked them by 10 wickets to take a 2-0 lead in the five-match ODI series.
Captain Sarfaraz Ahmed is adamant that his side will pick up next week where they brilliantly left off before heavy rain held up their charge.
India booked a semi-final berth in the women's Twenty20 World Cup after humbling Sri Lanka by five wickets in a rain-marred Pool B match, in Taunton, on Monday. Punam Raut scored a patient 30 off 40 balls and Mithali Raj an unbeaten 22-ball 32 as India romped home after restricting the Lankans to a paltry 94 for six in a rain-reduced 18 overs-a-side match at County Ground.
In a three part series, Rajneesh Gupta highlights all the important numbers from cricket World Cups held between 1975 to 2015.
The ban is considered ridiculous as the classes simply involve music and movement with no religious content.
'If you have Nicholls and Tom Latham in the middle order they can hopefully score freely off these spinners as they can sweep and reverse sweep'
Australia will play against Sri Lanka in the first T20I at North Sydney Oval on September 29.
Jhulan Goswami picked up ten wickets in the match to help India beat England by five wickets in the second Test.
India made England follow-on after gaining a 208-run first innings lead in the second women's Test.
Set a stiff target of 363, India saw off 61 overs from England on the final day to enforce the draw.
Responding to England Under-19's 392 in the first innings, the Indians were 230 for 3 at stumps on day 2 of the four-day match.
The England under-19 skipper scored a fine 123 to take the hosts to 279 for six on the first day of the second Test against India.
Indian captain Mithali Raj on Tuesday created a world record by becoming the first player to cross 6000 runs in the history of women's ODI during the ICC World Cup match against Australia in Bristol.
Their second defeat in three days saw them losing by four wickets in a one-day match at Taunton.
Jonny Bairstow struck a sublime unbeaten 60 to lead England to a dominant nine-wicket victory over South Africa in the first Twenty20 international in Southampton on Wednesday.
Rajneesh Gupta gives us a list of noteworthy statistics from first-class and Ranji Trophy
Andile Phehlukwayo delivered a superb final over as South Africa beat England by three runs in a thrilling Twenty20 international at Taunton on Friday.
The record books were rewritten twice in an astonishing run spree at Nottinghamshire's Trent Bridge ground on Monday which saw a record English one-day partnership and the most aggregate runs scored in a List A match. By the close in the Royal London One-Day Cup game between Notts and Northamptonshire, statisticians were checking to see if there had ever been a day like it anywhere in the world. The big hitting began from the start with Nottinghamshire's Riki Wessels and Michael Lumb sharing a record one-day partnership in England of 342 from 39.2 overs. Wessels eventually departed for a career-best 146, from 97 balls, while Lumb went on to make 184, also his best and a record for the county, as Nottinghamshire posted 445 for 8, the second highest score for a List A match in the world. The runs continued to flow when Northamptonshire chased down what would have been another record for a team batting second. But they fell short despite 128 from Rory Kleinveldt.
Imam Ul-Haq shoulders such heavy responsibility for a man whose best years are only just beginning. At just 23, expectation is no stranger to a man for whom big things were dreamt when he could first lift a bat. Having Pakistan legend Inzamam Ul-Haq for an uncle will do that to you.
Buttler has been 'Mankaded' twice
India women cricket team's skipper Mithali Raj has called on her side to improve their fielding, especially catching, ahead of their much-anticipated clash against arch-rival Pakistan in the ICC Women's World Cup at County Ground, Derby, on Sunday.
Chris Gayle ended up on the losing side despite marking his debut for county side Somerset with a remarkable hundred in their Twenty20 Blast match against Kent on Sunday.
As India and Sri Lanka get set to duel in the make-shift ODI series, starting Sunday, Rajneesh Gupta gives us a look at how both teams stand in One-dayers.
Rajneesh Gupta highlights important numbers featuring the Sri Lankan team from World Cups.
Smriti Mandhana hit an unbeaten century to power India to an emphatic seven-wicket victory against West Indies, in the ICC Women's 50-overs World Cup, in Taunton, on Thursday.
England and New Zealand have both had to ride out the storm to make this year's ICC Men's Cricket World Cup final. It has been far from smooth sailing for either side, but in the end it is Kane Williamson and Eoin Morgan's side who have emerged on top, and deservedly so.
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