Defending champions Chennai Super Kings began their title defence with a thrilling two-run win over Kolkata Knight Riders, as the fourth edition of the Indian Premier League got off to a sensational start.
The Indian cricket team arrived in Ahmedabad on Monday for their first match of the three-Test series against visitors New Zealand, starting November 4 at the Sardar Patel stadium in Motera.
Lungi Ngidi bowled the most economical figures of this season's IPL to uproot Punjab's innings.
# Sachin Tendulkar has become the first Indian batsman to amass 400 runs in the 2011 World Cup -- 464 at an average of 58.00 including two hundreds and two fifties in eight games.
Veteran Yuvraj Singh made a comeback to the Indian team, while Virat Kohli took over the captaincy from Mahendra Singh Dhoni, for the forthcoming three-match ODI and T20I series against England, starting in Pune, on January 15.
Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Suresh Raina on Wednesday joined the Test squad ahead of the first Test against Australia in Mohali after completing their Champions League Twenty20 engagements for Chennai Super Kings in South Africa.
In a heartwarming show of sportsmanship and camaraderie, the Indian cricket team sent a special retirement gift to Shahid Afridi by presenting him a Virat Kohli shirt signed by all the players.
Images from Day 5 in the first Test between India and England, at Lord's.
Images from India's tour match against Somerset, being played in Taunton
India were left bruised and battered as they were shot out for a mere 224 in their first innings and then allowed Somerset to score at a rollicking pace before the three-day warm-up game ended in an expected tame draw on the final day in Taunton.
India's batting, led by captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni's power hitting, forced New Zealand into submission by piling on a massive total and earned the co-hosts an easy 117-run win in the warm-up game in Chennai on Wednesday.
Sachin Tendulkar threw his weight behind the youngsters in the Indian team who failed terribly during the tri-series in Sri Lanka, but asked them to minimise mistakes and learn to respond to situations swiftly.
Skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni top-scored with an unbeaten 65 in a strong batting show as India strengthened its position in the third cricket Test against the West Indies by taking a healthy 104-run lead on day three in Roseau on Friday.
Chennai Super Kings became the first team to qualify for the semi-finals of the Champions League Twenty20 after scoring a comprehensive eight-wicket victory over Brisbane Heat in a Group B match in Ranchi.
After the gruelling league phase of the ongoing IPL, the stage is set for the play-offs with CSK and MI clashing against each other for a place in May 12 final.
IPL Season 11 begins on April 7. Rajneesh Gupta has all the numbers.
Statistical highlights from the opening day's play in the second cricket Test between India and the West Indies played in Bridgetown, Barbados.
Sachin Tendulkar lost the coveted number one spot in the ICC Test rankings to South Africa's Jacques Kallis, but Rahul Dravid, adjudged man-of-the-match for his century in the first Test against the West Indies, returned to the top-20 after climbing nine rungs.
Rahul Dravid has completed 15 years in Test Cricket. He made his debut in Tests against England at Lord's on June 20, 1996.
India were bowled out for 246 in their first innings on the opening day of the first cricket Test against the West Indies in Kingston on Monday. At stumps on day one, the home team had scored 34 for one in reply.
While the team may seem 'balanced' to many, injury woes may spoil the show again for the home team, says Rajorshi Sanyal about the World Cup team
VVS Laxman's unbeaten century under pressure showed why he is regarded as "very very special", captain Mahendra Singh said on Saturday, attributing India's series-levelling victory against Sri Lanka to a "collective effort".
Fielding has never been Indian cricket's strong point but stand-in skipper Suresh Raina says the side competing against the West Indies right now is the best fielding unit he has been part of in the past five years.
Indian skipper Suresh Raina blamed his batsmen's poor shot selection and failure to build partnerships for the massive 103-run loss to the West Indies in the fourth one-dayer.
Led by their captain, Mahender Singh Dhoni, leading Indian superstars, Virender Sehwag, Harbhajan Singh, Suresh Raina and Virat Kohli will sport a never-seen-before painted body look for Pepsi's path-breaking World Cup 2011 campaign to be launched soon.
Stand-in captain Suresh Raina is happy that the new-look Indian team that got very little time to prepare for the West Indies series have produced results.
An injury-hit India produced a disciplined all-round performance to notch up an emphatic 21-run victory over South Africa in the only twenty20 international in Durban on Sunday.
Rediff.com takes a look at other instances where two players, their teams not facing each other, have scored their maiden Test hundreds on the same day.
The fourth day of second Test between India and Sri Lanka in Colombo on Thursday saw a plethora of records being established.
# Suresh Raina (43) recorded his highest innings against West Indies in ODIs, eclipsing the 35 at Dambulla on July 31, 2005.
India take on the West Indies in the first of five matches, in the One-Day International series, in Port of Spain on Monday. A look a the records of players from both teams.
They might be without key senior players but even a second-string India would be hard to stop for the struggling West Indies when the two sides clash in a one-off Twenty20 match in Port of Spain on Saturday.
Gautam Gambhir, named captain of the national team for the West Indies tour, is still not sure how bad his shoulder injury is as he still awaiting the result of MRI scan, done to measure the extent of damage.
After guiding defending champions Chennai Super Kings to their third IPL final in four seasons, Suresh Raina said his aim was to stay till the end and win the game against Royal Challengers Bangalore in the play-off qualifier.
Royal Challengers Bangalore skipper Daniel Vettori came down heavily on his bowlers after they let Chennai Super Kings off the hook in the first play-off match of the Indian Premier League.
Chennai Super Kings beat Royal Challengers Bangalore by six wickets in the first play-off at the Wankhede Stadium on Tuesday to move into the final of the Indian Premier League. Chasing a tough target (176), the defending champions romped home with two balls to spare.
Statistical highlights of the Indian Premier League match between Chennai Super Kings and Kochi Tuskers Kerala.
Kings XI Punjab face the uphill task of not only pulling the rug from under the feet of formidable Chennai Super Kings but also boosting their net run-rate in the last IPL round-robin match to salvage hopes of sneaking into the play-offs.
'We knew it would get easier as the game progresses. We bat quite deep -- until 9 -- and knew we could accelerate in the last few overs'
Pace spearhead Zaheer Khan, who missed the first two matches due to injury, on Thursday, returned to the Indian team for the next three games of the ODI series against New Zealand while the selectors decided to rest batsman Suresh Raina and pacer Sreesanth, ahead of the upcoming South Africa series.
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