Injured Malinga Misses T20's Against Australia

Lasith Malinga, the Sri Lankan fast bowler, has not been picked for the national team's two-match Twenty20 series against Australia, starting August 6th in Pallekele, due to an injury. Malinga was named in the list of 20 probables for the home series, but was left out of the Twenty20s to get back to fitness for the five-match ODI series starting on August 10. Sri Lanka have drafted in uncapped allrounder...

Flower unhappy with limited DRS

Andy Flower  the England coach, has said the ICC should have over-ruled India's insistence on using a watered-down Decision Review System (DRS) for the ongoing Test series. He felt the system for the series - which doesn't use ball-tracking technology, and doesn't allow lbw decisions to be reviewed - was "unsatisfactory". England had several close lbw appeals turned down as they hunted for...

Anderson leads dominant England to big win

England 474 for 8 dec (Pietersen 202*, Trott 71, Praveen 5-106) and 269 for 6 dec (Prior 103*, Broad 74*, Ishant 4-59) beat India 286 (Dravid 103*, Broad 4-37, Tremlett 3-80) and 261 (Raina 78, Laxman 56, Anderson 5-65, Broad 3-57) by 196 runs  England's bowlers fought through dogged batting, the absence of DRS for lbws and some sloppy catching to avoid a repeat of Lord's 2007...

Team's job will be stop Sachin from scoring 100th ton: Strauss

London: England captain Andrew Strauss today admitted that his team would be doing everything to stop Sachin Tendulkar from scoring his 100th international century in the Lord's Test, starting on Thursday. "I'm sure Sachin would like to get it here and it's our job not to let him do so. If it's a distraction for him, it's great for us," said Strauss. The skipper also said that he considered...

DRS to be used, but not for lbw decisions

A watered-down version of the Decision Review System (DRS) will be used in the England-India series with both sides agreeing to not use the system for lbw decisions. A day before the first Test starts at Lord's, the ICC announced that infra-red technology and stump microphones will be part of the DRS - though not for lbw decisions - but not ball-tracking.This meets the minimum standards for DRS usage...

Shahid Afridi’s father passes away

 KARACHI: Former captain Shahid Afridi’s father passed away here on Wednesday following an extended illness, Geo News reported. The family members of the cricketer told the reporters that Sahabzada Fazul Rehman Afridi succumbed to illness.  Afridi’s father was not keeping good health for the past many days, that is why, the all-rounder returned home after canceling his foreign tours. The...

ICC Task Team to visit Pakistan

A visit by the ICC's Pakistan Task Team (PTT) to Pakistan is on the cards, though details of the scope and nature of the trip as well as the timing are yet to be finalised. The development comes after the PTT's report on Pakistan cricket was criticised by the PCB on two counts, among others: the timing of its submission, and the observation that other than the visit of an individual member, the task...

Dravid returns to where it all began

Lord's operates on the same characteristics that have defined Rahul Dravid's career: discipline, order, balance, elegance, simplicity and respect Rahul Dravid may as well confess he feels at home at Lord's. The ground operates on the same characteristics that have defined Dravid's career: discipline, order, balance, elegance, simplicity and respect.He is an honorary MCC member and part of the MCC's...