Durban: South Africa fast bowler Dale Steyn could miss the fifth and final One-dayer against England on Friday due to a hamstring injury.
Steyn was hurt in the third match and sat out the fourth game which England won by seven wickets to take a 2-1 series lead. The opening game was washed out by rain.
"For us the priority is the Test series and we would never compromise Dale's chances of being 100 percent fit for the first test (in Centurion) by playing him on Friday," South Af... Read Full Story
Mumbai: A chance to go a top the world rankings at stake, India take on a struggling Sri Lanka in the third and final Test here Wednesday hoping to wrap up the series 2-0.
As Test cricket returns to the Cricket Club of India's Brabourne Stadium after more than three and a half decades, the hosts are clear favourites to wrap up the rubber with another victory following the landmark 100th win at Kanpur inside four days.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni's men appear to carry too big an arsenal, especial... Read Full Story
Mumbai: Murali Vijay will replace Gautam Gambhir as opener in the third and final Test against Sri Lanka here, Indian captain MS Dhoni said on Wednesday.
Adressing reporters ahead of the Brabourne Test, Dhoni said the team management may include Amit Mishra in the playing XI as the wicket could aid the spinners.
A final decision on his inclusion will be taken later, he added.
Dhoni said it was "special" to play at the Cricket Club of India.
"Playing at the CCI is specia... Read Full Story
Chandigarh: Even after a stunning win over hosts England in the Twenty20 World Cup earlier this year, Netherlands cricket is struggling to get government support to popularise the game in the football crazy European country.
Peter Borren, captain of the 14-member national team that is here for a practice tour, feels there is immense cricketing talent in the Netherlands, but the sport is still struggling to find a place for itself for want of government support.
"We hardly get any a... Read Full Story
Melbourne: Former Australia test batsman Brad Hodge on December 1 announced he will retire from first class cricket at the end of this year.
Hodge, 35, will end his 17-year first class career playing in Victoria state's next two matches in Australia's domestic Sheffield Shield competition. He will then retire as the state's leading first class run scorer, but will continue to play for its Twenty20 and limited-overs teams.
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Wellington : Shane Bond has been ruled out of the rest of the Test series against Pakistan due to a torn abdominal muscle. Bond was the Player of the Match in the thrilling win in Dunedin, where he took eight wickets for the game in what was his first Test in two years.
Bond suffered minor abdominal discomfort following the 32-run victory and scans on Tuesday revealed a one-centimetre tear in an abdominal muscle. The New Zealand team manager Dave Currie said Bond would be rested from the s... Read Full Story
Melbourne: Australian spinner Nathan Hauritz is taking tips from former Pakistani spin great Saqlain Mushtaq to develop a 'doosra' that will be unleashed on the West Indies in the ongoing Test series.
Saqlain met Hauritz during the Ashes in England and since then the Australian has fine-tuned his own doosra, a leg-spinner that looks like an off-spinner, at the nets.
Though it was Sri Lankan spin wizard Muthiah Muralidaran who made the doosra famous, it was Saqlain who introduced it to T... Read Full Story
