Opener Virender Sehwag’s career-best 146 helped India post its highest ever total in a limited-overs international on Tuesday, scoring 414-7 in the opening one-dayer against Sri Lanka.
Sehwag hit six sixes and 17 fours in his dominant 102-ball knock that helped India surpass its previous best of 413-5, made against Bermuda at Port of Spain during [...]
India achieved their biggest victory against Sri Lanka and in the process clinched their 100th Test win on the fourth day of the second Test in Kanpur. India’s previous best against their neighbors was a victory by an innings and 119 runs in 1994 and they bettered that with ease today. Thilan Samaraweera resisted the [...]
First Test Match
Ahmedabad
India 385-6 (R Dravid 177 no, M S Dhoni 110, Yuvraj Singh 68) v Sri Lanka
Rahul Dravid became the fifth batsman to reach 11,000 Test runs as India closed at 385-6 on the opening day against Sri Lanka in Ahmedabad.
Dravid reached stumps on 177 not out having seen the hosts out of early [...]
India’s cricketers at the Champions Trophy in South Africa are being encouraged by their coach to have sex to boost their on-field performance, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.
The benefits of sex feature prominently in a secret document circulated among players by coach Gary Kirsten and mental conditioning expert Paddy Upton, the Hindustan Times said in [...]
India’s Champions Trophy campaign suffered a major setback even before it started with Yuvraj Singh fracturing a finger during a practice session in Johannesburg. The injury will sideline him for six weeks and Virat Kohli will fly to South Africa as a replacement as soon as the formalities are completed.
Yuvraj’s absence presents fascinating challenges to [...]
The ghost of batting under the R Premadasa lights was almost buried tonight. Sachin Tendulkar’s master class, an 86th international century which was not far from being his best, nearly became a footnote on a night of punches and counter-punches. Sri Lanka knew being ultra aggressive was the only way of going about this huge [...]
India stumbled in pursuit of 156 under lights but MS Dhoni and Suresh Raina kept cool heads to steer them to a six-wicket win with 57 deliveries to spare and with it move to No. 1 in the ICC’s ODI rankings. New Zealand, after opting to bat, made a complete mess of things and ended [...]
Coach Gary Kirsten said Wednesday India needed to be consistent in the ongoing tri-series in Sri Lanka to become the world’s best one-day team.
India, who have won five successive bilateral series, will top the one-day rankings if they beat both Sri Lanka and New Zealand in the league stage and also win the final on [...]
A PIL has been filed with the Madras High Court seeking to stop the Indian team from visiting Sri Lanka for the tri-series citing alleged human rights violation against Tamils by the Sri Lankan government.
The petitioner, Joel Poul Antony, an advocate, said the international community would not respect India if it sent a team to [...]
