MIRPUR (Bangladesh): Virat Kohli and Gautam Gambhir toyed with the Sri Lankan attack as India stormed into the final of the cricket tri-series after crushing the islanders by eight wickets in a lopsided match on Sunday.
The Indian bowlers did a neat job, skittling out Sri Lanka for a meagre 213 in 46.1 overs before their [...]

MUMBAI: It was supposed to be a routine pre-tour press conference. But a candid Mahendra Singh Dhoni made sure it wasn’t. The Indian captain revealed that the team was missing bowling and fielding coaches, resulting in an increased workload on head coach Gary Kirsten. On the eve of the team’s departure for the tri-series in [...]

NEW DELHI: Virender Sehwag
is enjoying sensational form for India, thanks to his faith in his own natural aggression after an injury break as well as unusually cautious starts.
The explosive opening batsman’s match-winning knocks of 131 and 293 in Kanpur and Mumbai in the home Test series against Sri Lanka gave the team a 2-0 win [...]

Rejuvenated by a long holiday the Indian cricket team got back to action on Thursday. They gathered in Bangalore for a conditioning camp before their Sri Lanka tour to be followed by the prestigious Champions Trophy.
India Srilanka Tri-Series Schedule
The first day of camp was however spent mostly on meetings. The team began with a meeting [...]

The ghost of match-fixing has come back to haunt Pakistan cricket, feels former chief selector Abdul Qadir, who suspects that some players might be involved in it considering the “strange” manner in which the team lost the Test and ODI series in Sri Lanka.
Pakistan lost the Test series 0-2 and is trailing 0-3 in the [...]

Australia’s battling draw in the third Test has exposed weakness in England’s bowling attack and given Ricky Ponting’s men a fighting chance of retaining the Ashes, media in Sydney said on Tuesday.
Australian commentators hailed a 185-run fifth-wicket partnership between Michael Clarke and Marcus North that prevented England taking a 2-0 lead in the five-Test series.
The [...]

India made amends for their Twenty20 World Cup debacle, winning the one-day international series against West Indies 2-1 after torrential rains washed out the fourth and final ODI at the Beausejour Stadium in St Lucia on Sunday.
The match started an hour late following heavy rains just after India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss [...]