Posts Tagged ‘South Africa’
England win 2010 ICC T20 World Cup
England ended a run of 35 years without winning a global tournament with a seven-wicket victory over their oldest rivals Australia in the final of the 2010 ICC World Twenty20 in Barbados. They did so in fine style, restricting a powerful Australian batting line-up to a score of 147 for six and with Craig Kieswetter hitting 63 and Kevin [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
