‘Cricket’ Archives
IPL 2010: Delhi Daredevils Preview
2009 Record: Semi-Finalist 2008 Record: Semi-Finalist Squad: Gautam Gambhir (captain), Rajat Bhatia, Tillakaratne Dilshan, AB de Villiers, Moises Henriques, Kedar Jadhav, Dinesh Karthik (wicket-keeper), Sarabjeet Ladda, Farveez Maharoof, Mithun Manhas, Amit Mishra, Andrew McDonald, Dirk Nannes, Ashish Nehra, Wayne Parnell, Shashi [...]
IPL 2010: Chennai Super Kings Preview
2009 Records: Semi-finalists 2008 Record: Runners-Up Squad: MS Dhoni (captain & wicket-keeper), Ravichandran Ashwin, Hemang Badani, Subramaniam Badrinath, George Bailey, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Chandrasekhar Ganapathy, Manpreet Singh Gony, Matthew Hayden, Michael Hussey, Shadab Jakati, Arun Kartik, Justin Kemp, Albie Morkel, Muttiah [...]
IPL 2010: Bangalore Royal Challengers Preview
2009 Record: Runners-up 2008 Record: Seventh Squad: Anil Kumble (captain), KP Apanna, Balachandra Akhil, Mark Boucher (wicket-keeper), Rahul Dravid, Dillon Du Preez, Sreevats Goswami, Jacques Kallis, Virat Kohli, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Praveen Kumar, Vinay Kumar, Abhimanyu Mithun, Eoin Morgan, Manish Pandey, Kevin Pietersen, Steven Smith, S [...]
IPL 2010: Hyderabad Deccan Chargers Preview
2009 Record: IPL Champions 2008 Record: Eighth Squad: Adam Gilchrist (captain & wicket-keeper), Harmeet Singh, Bodapati Sumanth, Azhar Bilakhia, Herschelle Gibbs, Ryan Harris, VVS Laxman, Mitchell Marsh, Monish Mishra, Pragyan Ojha, Kemar Roach, Ashish Reddy, Venugopal Rao, Rohit Sharma, Rahul Sharma, Anirudh Singh, RP Singh, Dwayne [...]
Ravindra Jadeja to miss 2010 IPL – confirmed!
Ravindra Jadeja is all set to miss the third season of the IPL despite pleas made on his behalf to placate the IPL authorities. They didn’t even listen to the appeals from different quarters of the BCCI so that is telling in the sense that there ought to be some ground in upholding the punishment against the offence. This is again a piece of [...]
IPL changes Time-Out rules
IPL commissioner Lalit Modi has announced changes in the time-out rules for the upcoming season of the IPL. Instead of the unbearably dull seven and a half minutes per innings, we will have two time-outs per innings of two and a half minutes each. Only this time the batting and the bowling side will have their very own time-outs. The bowling [...]
Australia buckle under Kiwi pressure
The last ODI game, before today, that Australia had lost was against India way back in October-November 2009. Since then, they played Pakistan and West Indies in ten matches and won nine of them with one being washed away by rain. It is not to say that one loss would have ruined their summer for this team has already proved its credentials in [...]
Problems aplenty for IPL
Less than two weeks remain before the annual cricket carnival that is the IPL begins. In all earnest, hosting the tournament in India this time around is proving to be a bigger hassle than it was to transfer the entire circus to South Africa on short notice. Lalit Modi and company will power through this time as well but if the teething problems [...]
A satisfying season
With the ODI series win against South Africa, a highly satisfying season for the Indian cricket team has come to an end. It has been one of many highs and some disappointing lows. Wining the tri-series in Sri Lanka while playing on poorly prepared pitches was an ideal start, though that waned off when Champions Trophy in South Africa and the ODI [...]
Thank You Sachin!
Almost eighteen years to the day, in the 1992 World Cup, India took on Pakistan. That was the first match I watched, thanks to our babysitter who was a cricket fan as it turned out. A curly-haired guy got a half-century – whatever that meant I must have thought then. Important point was everyone was happy and later got happier because India won. [...]
