Aus to wait and watch for Pak tour: Symonds

Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds has expressed reservations about touring Pakistan next year saying there has been a lot of ‘bombs going off’.
“There do seem to be a lot of bombs going off over there,” Symonds was quoted as saying in the ‘Sydney Morning Herald’ today.
“At the end of the day it is only a game of [...]

India looking to seal series in Gwalior

A buoyant India will look to wrap up the five-match one-day cricket series against Pakistan when the arch rivals clash in the fourth tie of the five-match series in Gwalior on Thursday.
India took a 2-1 lead in Kanpur, when they defeated Pakistan by 46 runs, after failing to defend their mammoth total of 321 at Mohali. The hosts will [...]

India name Harbhajan for Pakistan Tests

India off spinner Harbhajan Singh has been handed a Test recall after selectors included him in the 14-player squad for the first two Tests against Pakistan.The 27-year-old was dropped from the Test and one-day teams after the World Cup in March due to poor form and missed the Test series win in England that concluded [...]

Gilchrist named Australia’s best One-day player

MELBOURNE : Wicketkeeper-batsman Adam Gilchrist has been voted Australia’s greatest One-day player, the Australian Cricketers’ Association (ACA) said on Wednesday.
The 36-year-old received 38 per cent of the vote from past and present Australian One-day players. Current captain Ricky Ponting was second with 19 per cent, while former captain Steve Waugh was third with 14 per [...]

‘Pak team has always wanted to play in Mumbai Says Wasim Akram

Wasim Akram tells about the Pak team’s request to L K Advani in 1999 that they be allowed to play in Mumbai, Andrew Symonds’ “over-reaction” to monkey chants and India and Pak’s major cricket issues.

The India-Pak Test series starts in a few days. Who do you think has the edge?
A lot depends on who wins the [...]

Chappell says racism behind assault in India

SYDNEY : Former Australian cricket captain Greg Chappell believes he was subjected to a racist attack while coaching India and that the authorities there tried to cover it up, reports said on Wednesday.
He makes the charge in a documentary about his troubled two-year stint as India coach which is to be shown on national television [...]

BCCI more keen on IPL than coach

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) often drags it feet on cricketing matters, which is why the Indian team is without a coach and will be atleast for another month till they travel to Australia.
However, in marketing matters the board is right on top. The Indian Premier League, which promises to kill [...]

India struggle to find Chappell’s successor

NEW DELHI (AFP) — India’s cricket chiefs on Tuesday delayed a decision on naming a coach for the national team, but said they would appoint one ahead of next month’s Australian tour.
“We are definitely going to appoint a coach before the team leaves for Australia,” said Mohinder Pandove, an official from the Board of Control [...]

For Indo-Pak fans, no such thing as overkill

SOMETIME BACK, I.S. Bindra, a senior BCCI official, said that people were not getting as much cricket as they wanted.”All that an association gets is one match a year, which is certainly less than what people want,” he said, scoffing at the notion that a packed international calendar and the planned Indian Premier League would [...]

9 problems for Pakistan

GWALIOR ON Thursday afternoon is when it all can start for Shoaib Malik’s men. Or all end. They can either begin a dramatic, now largely unexpected turnaround or cave in again and gift the series to India.For some time, despite their T20 final showing, Pakistan have seemed more than usually erratic and off tangent. Here, [...]