Lahore, Dec. 26 (ANI): Former Pakistan Test opener Saeed Anwar would be organising a special training camp for the opening batsmen of the national squad soon after the team returns from Australia.
Anwar said he is keen to share his experience with the [...]
Lahore, Dec. 18 (ANI): Pakistan cricket team’s manager Abdul Rauqib has expressed hope that foreign teams would start visiting the country within the next one year or so, as the security situation has improved over time.
Rauqib, who is currently in Australia with the team, said situation has improved in the country, however, he did not [...]
Kanpur, Nov 27 (IANS) India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni lauded temperamental fast bowler Sreesanth for controlling his aggression and playing a match-winning role in the mammoth victory over Sri Lanka in the second cricket Test here Friday.
Till a couple of months back Sreesanth’s return to international cricket was uncertain after both the Indian cricket board [...]
Sydney, Nov.23 (ANI): Overlooked fast bowler Stuart Clark still believes he has a Test future and wants to be a part of Australia’s next Ashes campaign in 2010-11.
Clark was the only casualty from Australia’s Ashes defeat at the Oval earlier this year, missing [...]
London, Nov 19 (ANI): England county team Middlesex is all set to sign master blaster Sachin Tendulkar to play Twenty20 cricket for them next season.
Former Australian wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist will also play Twenty20 cricket for Middlesex next season.
The deals would be part-funded by the MCC and would commit the players to five Twenty20 matches, [...]
Auckland, Nov 17(ANI): New Zealand fast bowler Kyle Mills has been ruled out of action for at least four months following a shoulder and knee injury.
The 30-year-old will be required to have a surgery on his knee this Friday and an operation to repair a torn rotator cuff in his left shoulder the following [...]
London, Nov.17 (ANI): Former England left arm spinner Monty Panesar has joined Twenty20 champions Sussex on a three-year deal.
Panesar, 27, who endured a tough season with Northamptonshire, has left the county team despite having a year left on his contract.
The left-arm spinner last played for his country in the first Ashes Test, with his [...]
Karachi, Nov.14 (ANI): Newly appointed Pakistan Test captain Mohammad Yousuf has backed middle-order batsman Misbah-ul-Haq to fill in the gap created in the batting order by the absence of Younis Khan.
“Our team is fine, but I have asked the board for Misbah-ul-Haq to fill the gap that has appeared in the middle order as [...]
Melbourne, Nov 13 (ANI): Andrew Symonds has answered an urgent call from an injury-hit Queensland to line up for the Bulls in Alice Springs on Saturday.
Symonds, who ended his international career when he was sent home from England in June, will make a surprise return to domestic cricket against South Australia in a one-day [...]
New Delhi, Nov 9 (IANS) Rahul Dravid, gearing up for the Test series against Sri Lanka at home next week, feels the start of the Ranji Trophy Super League couldn’t have been timed better.
Dravid, who is here to play the Ranji tie against Delhi, starting Tuesday, felt that for him the national championship matches ahead [...]
Adelaide (Australia), Oct. 29 (ANI): South Australian wicketkeeper Graham Manou has been rushed to India to make his one-day international debut in place of injured Tim Paine.
Manou was preparing to captain the Redbacks in a Sheffield Shield game against Victoria from Friday, but his plans changed when Paine busted the ring finger on his left [...]
Lahore, Oct 19 (ANI): Pakistan’s former captain Ramiz Raja has asked chairman of the National Assembly’s standing committee on sports, Jamshed Dasti, to apologise to the nation for accusing the team of match-fixing.
Raja backed skipper Younus Khan’s decision to resign from the captaincy of the national team.
“This team has been doing pretty well and [...]
Karachi, Oct. 13 (ANI): Pakistani opener Salman Butt has said that he will concentrate on scoring runs in domestic cricket and stick to his routine to reclaim his place in the national team.
“The main thing for me to concentrate on at the moment is to score heavily in domestic cricket, stick to the basics and [...]
Bangalore, Oct 4(ANI): South African domestic cricket team, Cape Cobras, arrived in Bangalore on Sunday to take part in the Champions League Twenty20 tournament, which begins on October 8.
Cape Cobras, is one of the 12 teams which will fight for the trophy with domestic twenty20 teams from India, Australia, England, South Africa, Sri Lanka, New [...]
Melbourne, Sep 5 (ANI): England skipper Andrew Strauss has warned that banishing 50-over cricket from the country’s domestic schedule could have dire consequences for the team’s World Cup campaigns.
The England and Wales cricket board decided to axe 50-over cricket for a shortened 40-over format from next season.
Strauss said domestic cricket should mirror internationals, and believes [...]
Chandigarh, Sep 4 (ANI): Indian batsman Mohammad Kaif has said that he was hopeful of making a come back to the national squad.
Talking to reporters here Kiaf said he was hopeful of making a come back to the national squad.
“You can just perform, that’s only thing in [...]
Lahore, Aug.10 (ANI): Pakistan’s chief cricket selector Iqbal Qasim has said controversial fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar still has a future with the national side, but he must prove his fitness to be seriously considered.
“The door is not closed on Shoaib, he can still play cricket for Pakistan in future. However, what he needs to [...]
Islamabad, Aug 8 (ANI): Pakistan Cricket Board’s newly appointed chief selector Iqbal Qasim has stated that controversial fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar still has a future in international cricket.
Qasim said: “The door is not closed on Shoaib Akhtar, he can still play cricket for Pakistan in future, [...]
