It was a great comeback by Australian team in the 4th One day international cricket match against India after losing 2 matches in a row. The match was important for both the teams as a win would have secured top spot for India and would almost secure the series for India. But in the end [...]

Yesterday, the inaugural ceremony of the Champions League Twenty20 cricket took place at the M.Chinnaswamy Stadium of Bangalore. All the Captains of the participating teams gave prints of their hands in clay, exchanged flags of their clubs and took the “MCC-Spirit of Cricket” oath. Then a grand laser show happened. After the laser show, Shaolin [...]

The excitement of Twenty20 cricket is back with the Airtel Twenty20 Champions League. It is an international Twenty20 cricket competition between top clubs from India, Australia, England, South Africa, Sri Lanka, New Zealand and West Indies. The tournament is going to start from 8th October 2009. This competition is brain-child of Lalit Modi, the vice-president [...]

The ICC Champions Trophy 2009 is going to start in South Africa on 22-Sep-2009 and will be broadcast in more than 180 countries. There will be top 8 test playing nations fighting for the Champions Cup. ESPN Star Sports is the official broadcaster of the tournament on TV. It will telecast live cricket matches [...]

One of the biggest cricketing events of this year, the 2009 ICC Champions Trophy is going to be held in South Africa from 22nd September to 5th October at Wanderers Stadium and Centurion Park, both in the Johannesburg area. It is the sixth edition of the ICC Champions Trophy. There will be 8 criket teams, [...]

With the huge success of T20 over the last 3 years, 50 overs one day match format has come under scrutiny. I would like to go back to 1971, when One day cricket was born. With the shorter form of Cricket gaining popularity in next 3-4 years, the Cricket Pandits talked of Test match format [...]

IPL is over, now it’s time for ICC Twenty20 World cup. From tommorw the 2009 ICC World Twenty20 is a Twenty20 cricket tournament is going to start in England. It will be the second ICC World Twenty20 tournament. This tournament will have 12 teams compete – the Test-playing nations and three qualifiers. From last two [...]

The second ICC World Twenty20 is a Twenty20 cricket tournament which is going to take place in England in June 2009. Last time the first World Cup happened in South Africa in 2007. This time also, this tournament will have 12 teams which includes 9 test playing nations and 3 qualifiers. India is the existing [...]

IPL has become a super-alliance for two biggest passions of the country, Cricket and Cinema. Shahrukh Khan, Shilpa Shetty and Preity Zinta are owners of three top IPL teams. It’s a great business opportunity for these Bollywood stars. Actually, Bollywood and cricket provoke maximum passion in India and their combination has to be very profitable [...]

Only three days are left for season 2 of Indian Premier League Cricket tournament. This time IPL is going to be be hosted by South Africa and is scheduled between April 18 and May 24, 2009. And IPL 2 is expected to be the second biggest cricket tournament in the world, after the Cricket World [...]

Finally India has saved the second Test match against New Zealand. Actually it was the marathon, match-saving 137 runs inning of Gautam Gambhir which helped India to save the match. He batted for 11 hours for this century. After this historical performance of Gambhir, Sehwag said he proved his game has improved and he is [...]

Hitting 6 consecutive sixes is a rare incident in World cricket. Till now, four cricketers have got this achievement. Last year, Yuvraj Singh hit 6 sixes in Stuart’s over in 20-20 world cup. Other 3 are Gary Sobers, Ravi Shastri and Herschelle Gibbs. However, Sobers and Shastri did this herculean taks in first class cricket, [...]

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In a recent list published by the international cricket counci (ICC)of top batsmen in last 132 yrs of test cricket history, Indian master blaster Sachin Tendulkar hasn’t managed to secure his spot in the top twenty greats. The list was prepared on basis of the highest rating secured by these players. Several modern day players [...]

Last month I posted one article called “Three monkeys of Google”. Now its time to share the snap of three monkeys of Indian cricket. Not take this snap otherwise, it is just for fun.

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