The recess is over. India’s ODI team assembled in Bangalore today for a four-day conditioning camp, leading into the tri-series in Sri Lanka early next month, and then the Champions Trophy in South Africa following immediately. As they sat for the team meeting in the morning, it was the first time that all the players [...]
India-Sri Lanka-New Zealand fight it out in the tri-series in Colombo between 8th – 14th September Hewlett-Packard, the leading PC brand in India, has reiterated its association and commitment to the spirit of sports with the announcement of the ‘Compaq Cup 2009.’ The prestigious Compaq Cup 2009 will be presented to the winner of the [...]
Over the past year, debate about the top teams in Test cricket has usually centred on three teams: Australia, South Africa and India. Sri Lanka are almost never mentioned but they now find themselves at No .2, thanks to a superb record over the past three-odd years during which they have lost only one series. [...]
It’s quite simple – the winner goes into the semi-finals and the loser heads home. A second-round exit would be slightly unfair on the undefeated Sri Lanka, but they can avoid the trapdoor with another committed performance when they face New Zealand, who have a much healthier net run-rate despite a win and a loss [...]
New Zealand 90 for 3 (Ryder 31, Taylor 21*) beat Scotland 89 for 4 (Coetzer 33, Poonia 27, Watson 27) by seven wickets At the half-way stage of a match that rain reduced to a seven-over hitting contest, it looked as though there would be the second big upset of the tournament in two matches. [...]
2nd Match in ICC World Twenty20 Cricket Tournament, New Zealand vs Scotland (NZ v SC) from Groud D is scheduled on 6th June, 2009 from 10:00 local time (09:00 GMT). The sides have been playing warm-up matches for the past week and realistically this should be little more than another training run for New Zealand. [...]
ICC World Twenty20 Warm-up Matches between Australia vs New Zealand (Aus vs NZ) is scheduled at The Oval, Jun 2, 2009 from 17:30 local time (16:30 GMT). Live Cricket Match and Hasan Online Sports will publish links to watch free online cricket match streaming and embed media players from different sources for free live streaming. [...]
New Zealand 170 for 7 (Taylor 41, McCullum 31, Franklin 27*, Ishant 4-25) beat India 161 for 6 (Raina 45, Jadeja 41*, Vettori 3-24) by nine runs New Zealand’s unbeaten record against India in Twenty20s continued today by beating the world champions by nine runs in their warm-up outing at Lord’s. Several New Zealand batsmen [...]
In 1968, Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi’s men triumphed by eight wickets in Wellington to take a 2-1 lead. A win in the next Test sealed what is still India’s only Test series win in New Zealand. On Friday, MS Dhoni (or perhaps Virender Sehwag) will lead his charges at the Basin Reserve in pursuit of [...]
One down with two to play, New Zealand have it all to do. So comprehensively were they outplayed in all aspects in Hamilton that a reversal of fortunes is a tall task: their top order was woefully inadequate, the fast bowlers were a distant second to Zaheer Khan, Ishant Sharma and Munaf Patel, and Harbhajan [...]
