Ahmedabad - 24 March 2011: Yuvraj Singh was India's hero yet again as the hosts ended Australia's 12-year-reign as World Cup champions with a five wicket quarterfinal victory on Thursday.The left-hander's unbeaten 57 -- his fourth fifty of a tournament where he is averaging over a hundred -- saw

NEW DELHI: Jacques Kallis, Hashim Amla and AB de Villiers slammed fifty apiece to help South Africa chase down 297-run target against India in their World Cup clash at the VCA stadium in Nagpur on Saturday. Faf du Plessis (25 not out) and Robin Peterson (18 not out) hold their nerves to lead Sou

COLOMBO: Shahid Afridi took four wickets and Misbah-ul-Haq notched a second successive half-century as Pakistan upstaged Sri Lanka in a highly-charged World Cup Group A match by 11 runs on Saturday. Afridi, who recorded Pakistan's best bowling figures of 5/16 in all World Cup matches in the 30

NAGPUR: Assuming that captain Daniel Vettori was not pulling a faster one at the toss (they would have batted first anyway), he was expecting his batsmen to put their hands up and deliver. New Zealand's top order indeed put their hands up. But it was an act of surrender (all out 206) in overcast c

NEW DELHI: AB de Villiers smashed an unbeaten century and debutant Imran Tahir scalped four wickets as South Africa launched their World Cup campaign with a comfortable seven-wicket win over West Indies in a Group-B league match on Thursday. The 31-year-old Pakistan-born Tahir also made a memor

HAMBANTOTA: Captain Shahid Afridi took five wickets and Umar Akmal scored one of four half-centuries as Pakistan crushed Kenya by 205 runs to get their World Cup campaign off to a flying start on Wednesday. Hapless Kenya found their opponents too hot to handle after Umar hit a 52-ball 71 to a

After a rousing opening ceremony greeted with passion and unbridled joy by the people here, the ICC ODI World Cup is all set for its lung-opener. India will meet Bangladesh in the inaugural match at the Sher-e-Bangla Stadium here on Saturday. The 10th edition of the premier ODI event, held every f

India paceman Praveen Kumar has been ruled out of the World Cup due to an elbow injury and will be replaced by Shanthakumaran Sreesanth, the Indian cricket board (BCCI) said on Tuesday.India had gambled on the fitness of Kumar, who had missed the recent five-match one-day series against South Africa

The ICC has found three Pakistan cricketers guilty of corruption and banned each of them from the sport for five years. Former captain Salman Butt and fast bowlers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir received their punishment at an International Cricket Council tribunal on Saturday. Butt was given a

Chairman Ijaz Butt has chosen to keep Afridi as captain for Feb. 19-April 2 World CupIslamabad, February 4, 2011 (AP) : Pakistan is expected to retain allrounder Shahid Afridi as captain for the World Cup.A Pakistan Cricket Board source, who could not give his name because the decision was not yet o

India won the toss and chose to bowl first in the fifth and deciding one-day international against South Africa in Centurion on Sunday.he five-match series is tied at 2-2 ahead of the game at SuperSport Park with India chasing its first-ever ODI series win over the Proteas in South Africa.India has

Chennai, January 17, 2011 (PTI):Young batsman Rohit Sharma and pacer S. Sreesanth were on Monday omitted from India's 15-member squad for the upcoming cricket World Cup to be held in the sub-continent from February 19.Tamil Nadu spinner Ravichandran Ashwin and Piyush Chawla were named in the squad

Dubai, January 7, 2011(PTI):India continued to dominate the ICC Test Championship table, holding on to the top spot in the latest rankings issued on Friday despite losing a rating point after the drawn three-match series against South Africa.India lead South Africa by 11 ratings with 128 ratings poi

SYDNEY, January 7, 2011 (AP) :England clinched its first Test series victory in Australia in 24 years by wrapping up the fifth and final match by an innings and 83 runs on Friday to take the Ashes series 3-1.The Sydney Cricket Ground triumph gave England an unprecedented third victory by an innings

Melbourne: England retained the Ashes on Australian soil for the first time in 24 years by completing an emphatic innings and 157-run win over Australia on Wednesday's fourth day of the fourth test.England's victory at the Melbourne Cricket Ground means it travels to the final test in Sydney startin

Mumbai which has produced several record-breaking batsmen, found yet another child prodigy when Armaan Jaffer, nephew of Ranji Trophy captain and former India opener Wasim, compiled the highest-ever score of 498 in school cricket history.Armaan Jaffer, playing for Bandra school Rizvi Springfield aga

New Delhi - President Pratibha Patil, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, BJP boss Nitin Gadkari and melody queen Lata Mangeshkar on Sunday hailed Sachin Tendulkar for being the first man to notch 50 Test tons, calling his feat "amazing, remarkable and historic." President Pa

Karachi, December 20, 2010 (PTI): Pakistan's former Test players showered lot of praise on Indian batting icon Sachin Tendulkar for becoming the first man to score 50 Test hundreds."Tendulkar can now rightly lay claim to the title of being the greatest batsman in cricket history," said former captai