India have been seeded 6th at T20 WORLDCUP`10 held at westindies . campain starting may 1 . India have been placed in group “C” along with southafrica and qualifying team yet to be decided .Indians had a disastrous campaign at the last T20 world cup held in england`09 [...]

Deccan chargers couldn’t have timed their ninth defeat at uppal stadium any worse.Their second defeat in group A of the champions league T20 meant curtains to their campaign while trinidad and tobago who won the crucial league encounter by three runs, and somerset sabres progress to super eight.
Chargers looked good when they set out to [...]

Todays match between Deccan Chargers and Somerset was a thriller and in the end Somerset dramtically winning in the last over by styris.As we see through the match the need for an excellent player like vaas who is a handy bowling allrounder on sub continents pitches interestingly Gilly choose styris who almost got DC a [...]

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 birth of IPL has its roots from club football premiership leagues across different countries of Europe. The home away concept taken from them and modified the winner deciding factor to semifinals and final playoffs where as in different premier leagues which are played through out the season are decided on points basis.
The shorter format [...]

Birth of Champions League T20

The Twenty20 Champions League is an international Twenty20 cricket competition between clubs from India, Australia, England, South Africa, Sri Lanka, New Zealand and West Indies. The Twenty20 Champions League is chaired by Lalit Modi, who is the Chairman and Commissioner of the Indian Premier League and Vice-President of the BCCI.
The competition [...]

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 [...]

More of the rebel players who cut their ties with the ICL are getting into their national squads. After Abdul Razzaq made a successful return in world T20 its the turn of Shane Bond and Daryl Tuffey to called back to the Black Caps squad for the series against Sri Lanka.
Shane Bond could make it [...]

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List of injured players is bothering Black Caps ahead of their super 8’s match against Ireland. The long list including hard hitting batsmen Jesse Ryder and Ross Taylor , captain Daniel Vettori missed the two group matches with a shoulder injury, incurred in training, and will be given a fitness check ahead of [...]

Group E: India,England,West Indies,South Africa
Group F: Ireland,Pakistan,Sri Lanka,New Zealand.

Virender Sehwag, the Indian vice-captain is heading back home after confirmed reports that he had a muscle tear in his right shoulder. Speaking to reporters Dhoni replied very caustiously and very little. He said “Whatever related to fitness, you will get it from the BCCI“, and was not willing to tell anything about the status [...]

Pakistan completed a clinical whitewash of the fantasy team Netherlands. Pakistan won the match by 82 runs good enough to reserve its place in super eight. Netherlands, which affected biggest upset of T20 world cup, lost the toss and  was forced to field. The bowling was sprited one but it was undone by some slog [...]