Everyone who talks about cricket has spoken about Sachin -the batsman. But on the other side, sachin has another art- bowling. Yes, Sachin at one point of time was called as partnership breaker. The most striking feature of his bowling is the amount of variations he can produce. From medium pace to leg spin, off [...]

What the media, former players, colleagues, opponents feel about Sachin. Check the best of them at cricinfo, at quotes .

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Can Test match survive in the wake of the growing popularity of T20 format of the game, this is a question asked by many in the recent times.The Marylebone Cricket Club which is the custodian of the laws of cricket conducted a survey in places like South Africa, New Zealand and India [...]

Its impossible to pick up just 3 innings out of his 425 innings and rate them as best. It had 45 centuries, 91 half centuries and in all 17000 runs. But we would reflect the most testing innings in his career in which he flourished.
3rd: 186 vs. New Zealand in Hyderabad
Hyderabad would probably be one [...]

Calculations usually don`t make heroes , but Yuvaraj and MS Dhoni pulled it off with panache at the kotla as India. Prised out a 2-1 series land on saturday
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Todays match of deccan chargers vs somerset was a thriller but in the end our own uppal stadium still bears no good signs for us.The match intially started of a blitzkrieg from adam gillchrist and our own hyderabadi v.v.s.laxman deccan chargers were at 59 for loss of two wickets at 5.5 overs gilly and suman [...]

Duminy scored a marvelous 99 to secure a convincing victory for the Cape Cobras in the opening encounter of CLT20 against Royal Challengers Bangalore. Duminy made the 180 run chase an easy looking affair with some clean hitting and meticulous planning. It was sheer hitting as he eclipsed every other batsmen, though Davids, Ontong and [...]

The charge is on as the champions league T20 looms large on the horizon. The city ,which has been at the receiving end of the elements [...]

Group A:
Deccan Chargers – Hyderabad, India
Somerset – England
Trinadad & Tobago – West Indies
Group B:
Eagles- South Africa
New South Wales – Australia
Sussex – England
Group C:
Bangalore Royal Challengers – Bangalore, India
Cape Cobras – South Africa
Otago – New Zealand
Group D:
Delhi Daredevils – Delhi, India
Victoria – Australia
Wayamba – Sri Lanka

The Week in NEWS:
> New Zealand takes a fairy tale route to final of the Champions Trophy 2009.
> Australia back to their best, enters Final.
> ICC Awards 2009 announced. Details below in the story of the week.
> England Local cricket matches are now reduced to 40 overs a side from 50 overs.
Quotes of the Week: [...]

India messed with the chase to hand over a comfortable 54 run win to Pakistan in an important match. India now stares down the barrel with two matches against Australia and West Indies, requiring to win both the matches. India chasing Pakistan’s mammoth 302 started of well with Dravid and Gambhir adding 67 for the [...]

In the era of cut throat competition, a gentleman kind gesture by Andrew Strauss has taken him to a different league altogether. It was during the tense match between England and Sri Lanka in the ongoing Champions Trophy. Angelo Matthews looking for the second run rammed into bowler Graham Onions, meanwhile  Mathews was run out by Matt Prior. [...]

Australia defeated the spirited West Indies yesterday in the league stage of champions trophy encounter. With this defeat West Indies is virtually out of the tournament except for a miracle. Australia batting first managed to score 275 which at one stage looked improbable. But mitchell jhonson, the ever improving all rounder, scored a magnificient 73 [...]

Yuvraj Singh injured his finger during the practice session and will not be available for the rest of champions trophy. Virat Kohli has been named as the replacement for Yuvraj Singh. While Gautam Gambhir will take over the vice captaincy. This will be a serious blow to team India as two of its most destructive batsmen in Sehwag and Yuvraj are [...]

The draws for the T20 Champions League to be played in India are out.
The two teams from England will be finalised after the country’s domestic Twenty20 Cup ends in mid-August, the organisers said.
The 12 teams will be divided into four groups with the top two from each group advancing to the second round, where eight [...]

South African umpire Rudi Koertzen became the first umpire to officiate 200 ODI , he reached the 200 mark during the second match between Ireland and Kenya in Dublin.
Speaking in this occasion Koertzen said:
"For someone who started umpiring very late in life, it is a huge personal achievement and a dream come true. [...]

Sri Lanka announced the schedule for the Sri Lanka, New Zealand, India tri series.New Zeland will first play two tests and a T20 then India will join for the ODI’s
 

1st Test NZ vs Sri Lanka

August 18 to 22

at Galle International Stadium.

2nd [...]

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After the infamous stint with the Kolkata Knight Riders in the IPL-2 John Buchanan has recently released a book called ‘ The Future of Cricket: The Rise of Twenty20 ‘ in which talks about T20 and IPL in particiular.In this book he commented on various Indian players and also on [...]

Ahead of the series against the Bangladesh West Indies players have boycotted the series. The West Indies Players Association (WIPA) said it had attempted to hold talks in the past few days with the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) to resolve a number of issues. “The players have requested me as President of WIPA, the [...]

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Brett Lee who was expected to the spearhead the Australian bowling attack against the English in the Ashes is ruled out for the first two matches as he suffered a tear in the side muscle. Australia will miss his experience as the remaining bowling attack is relatively inexperienced.  He is also a doubtful [...]