Dambulla: A disciplined bowling display by Pakistan helped the visitors maintain a tight leash over Sri Lanka in the first One-Day International here at Dambulla. Put into bat, the hosts struggled for momentum, and in an attempt to break the shackles, kept losing wickets at regular intervals. Having lost their fifth wicket with just 125 [...]
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North scores century on Ashes debut
Posted by shantanu on July 11th, 2009
Marcus North and Brad Haddin upped the ante in the hour and a quarter after lunch before Australia declared 239 runs ahead in the first npower Ashes Test at Cardiff. Haddin flew to a century, having taken lunch on 50, with some mighty blows as the tourists amassed a mammoth 674 when he was the [...]
Buchanan asked Ganguly to quit T20
Posted by shantanu on July 10th, 2009
Convinced that Sourav Ganguly was unfit for T20 cricket, John Buchanan had asked the left-hander to quit after IPL 1. In his book, Buchanan has revealed advising Ganguly to quit Twenty20 even though the then Knight Riders captain refused to oblige. In ‘The Future of Cricket: The rise of Twenty20′, Buchanan writes: “At the end [...]
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Gambhir moves to top of Test rankings
Gautam Gambhir became the first India batsman in over four years to head the batting rankings after a double failure by Mohammad Yousuf saw the Pakistani drop out of the top three in the Reliance [ Get Quote ] Mobile ICC layer Rankings for Test batsmen. Yousuf, who had returned to the batting table last [...]