Bring on India, says Windies’ Bravo

West Indies captain Dwayne Bravo is confident of containing India's batting firepower when the two sides meet in a key Champions Trophy match at the Oval on Tuesday. The winner is almost certain to

Mahela Jayawardene and Tillakaratne Dilshan pulled up for excessive appealing

Former Sri Lankan captains Mahela Jayawardene and Tillakaratne Dilshan have been reprimanded for appealing excessively during Sunday’s tense Champions Trophy clash against New Zealand.

PREVIEW: 5th Match, Group B Pakistan vs South Africa, Edgbaston

South Africa and Pakistan are two extremely talented teams. The former’s strength – as Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel are injured – is the young batting talent and the innovative AB de Villiers whereas

Dale Steyn to miss Pakistan clash

South Africa are set to to be without Dale Steyn once again at the Champions Trophy when they face Pakistan at Edgbaston on Monday.

Steyn, widely regarded as the best fast bowler currently in world cricket, missed the Proteas' opening

New Zealand seal nail-biting thriller

Sri Lanka, who had won 10 of their last 11 completed 50-over games against New Zealand, let themselves down with a sloppy batting display in the first session.

Veteran Kumar Sangakkara played a lone hand for the Islanders with 68, his 75th one-day half-century, but five of the

15-year-old Fisher makes history

Matthew Fisher became the youngest post-war county cricketer when he was picked for Yorkshire against Leicestershire aged just 15 years and 212 days.

Yorkshire were forced to turn to Fisher for their Yorkshire Bank

Team-mates praise Ashraful for admitting guilt

Mohammad Ashraful has continued to be the subject of discussion at all levels of the public sphere in Bangladesh over the last four days. Some of his national team-mates have also weighed in, expressing their surprise at his admission of involvement in match-fixing and spot-fixing during the BPL. 

Shakib Al Hasan said he had also heard questions about February's BPL match between Dhaka

BCCI's Emergent Working Committee meets on Monday

Crisis-ridden Rajasthan Royals and its under-fire co-owner Raj Kundra's future hangs in balance as the BCCI's Emergent Working Committee meets on Monday (June 10) to deliberate on the IPL spot-fixing and betting scam and take action, if required.

The Board's head of the interim arrangement, Jagmohan Dalimya, was forced to call the meeting after

Cricket is bigger than individuals: BCCI secretary

Newly appointed BCCI secretary Sanjay Patel believes that the game of cricket is above all the scandals and match-fixing and will certainly emerge cleaner from this recent spot-fixing controversy. Patel also insisted that the Indian Premier League is here to stay and its long-term prospects look

Betting is a disgusting habit: Shah Rukh Khan

Speaking on the IPL spot-fixing and betting scandal, Kolkata Knight Riders owner Shah Rukh Khan has said that the team owners should stay away from such practices.

“I think as a team owner one should not indulge in all these practices even if you are a betting person

I’m innocent, says Raj Kundra

After a few hours of Rajasthan said co-owner Raj Kundra, who holds a 11.7 percent stake in IPL franchise will be suspended if the rate of the charges against him are proved, Kundra issued a statement saying that he would be deprived of its shares if “neither iota of wrongdoing is established

Pakistan sports movie for people who want to become like Shahid Afridi

The film, which was directed by Syed Ali Raza and written Vasay Chaudhry, unlike any previous Pakistani film, in the sense that it is a commercial, but a weak story, which centers on cricket.

Can't afford to have another bad game: Kirsten

While continuing to sweat on fitness Dale Steyn, South Africa hope to change ‘trend’, which is often denied them international fame of cricket. History shows South Africa is often suffocated in the

Kiwi’s target is to counter Sri Lankan bowlers in the Champions Trophy clash

Sri Lanka has an overwhelming record of winning 10 of their last 11 ODI matches and six in a row against the Kiwis but black hats to support themselves to reverse the trend especially when their batsmen in Superb Touch.

Opener Martin Guptill smashed two consecutive hundreds against England and Ross Taylor half a

Champions Trophy: New Zealand vs Sri Lanka – Sri Lanka Preview

It’s the first super Sunday in this year’s ICC Champions Trophy, and a crucial Group A encounter between probably the two underrated teams in the tournament, Sri Lanka and New Zealand is

Champions Trophy 2013: Bell, Anderson set up big win for England

A high impact performance from James Anderson and Ian Bell gave England a comprehensive win over Australia in the first Group A match at Birmingham. Ian Bell’s impressive 91 and Anderson’s timely wickets sealed the game for England against Australia.

England’s bowlers were instrumental as they carried on their form which they showed against New

Champions Trophy: Australia fined for slow over-rate

Australia had salt rubbed into the wound of their 48-run Champions Trophy defeat by arch-rivals England at Edgbaston on Saturday when they were fined for a slow over-rate.

Match referee Javagal Srinath, the former India bowler, imposed the fines after title-holders Australia

Siddle makes Scotland struggle in the sun

Australia A 372/8d & 165/4 (35.0 ov)
Scotland 149ao

Australia A lead by 388 runs with 6 wickets remaining 

Day 2: Morning Session
The players were greeted to conditions more familiar to Melbourne than Edinburgh when they arrived at the Grange Club for the second of the four day encounter

Ramdin charged over Misbah catch

Ramdin was charged with Level 2 breach of ICC Code of Conduct for Players and Player Support Personnel, which refers to “conduct that is contrary to the spirit of the game” for a two-wicket victory

SL Premier League team got Rs 50crore match-fixing offer

The Mumbai crime branch officials were shocked after receiving a letter from a Khar-based man, co-owner of a franchise team of Sri Lanka Premier League last year.

The man claimed that his brother had offered bookies to fix his team by paying Rs50crore.