Tendulkar in frame for India test team captaincy

MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s Sachin Tendulkar is in the frame for a third term as test captain when the selectors meet early next month to name Rahul Dravid’s successor.
Dravid relinquished the post last month after the England tour saying captaincy was becoming stressful and that he wanted to focus on his batting.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni, 26, [...]

Shoaib must fulfill responsibility as senior player: Ashraf

KARACHI: Pakistan’s cricket chief Nasim Ashraf on Thursday asked comeback fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar to fulfill his responsibility as a senior player and prove his critics wrong with a forceful performance during the all-important tour of India starting from next week.
“The tour of India is certainly the most important assignment for our team and is [...]

Derbyshire sign Sri Lanka captain

COLOMBO (AFP) — Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene will play English county cricket for Derbyshire next year, the county’s official website said.
Jayawardene, 30, will turn out for the county from the end of April to mid-July before returning home for Sri Lanka’s Test commitments, the website said.
“Signing such a world-class player and current international captain [...]

Everyone knows about his responsibility: Dhoni

Ranchi: Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Thursday said his team would continue to play with aggression even as Australia dared the Men in Blue to sustain the fire when they tour Down Under.
“Everyone knows about his role and responsibility. And if we can play aggressive cricket… If any player can play aggressive cricket… [...]

‘No coach in the world can help West Indies’ – Dujon

Jeff Dujon, the former West Indies wicketkeeper and assistant coach, has said no coach can help West Indies cricket at the moment and believes it will take at least a generation for West Indies cricket to improve and get to the top.
“Regardless of where he [coach] comes from, he is not going to make this [...]

Sangakkara says tour success is target

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Sri Lanka vice captain Kumar Sangakkara believes off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan will be fired up to pass Shane Warne’s test wicket-taking world record in Australia but said a successful tour is the top priority.
Muralitharan, just nine wickets away from surpassing Warne’s world record test tally of 708 wickets, was heckled by spectators on [...]

21 teams for Under-15 National TWENTY20 Cricket

Chandigarh, Oct 25 : With a view to provide regular competitions to players and ‘non-stop’ entertainment to the cricket crazy spectators, the Chandigarh Twenty20 Cricket Association is organising the National Twenty20 Cricket Championship for Under-15 from October 26 to 30 at three venues of the ‘City Beautiful’.
The National Championship is being conducted under the patronage [...]

Won’t let Murali surpass Warne on Aussie soil: Ponting

Muttiah Muralitharan may be just nine short of overtaking Shane Warne as Test cricket’s highest wicket-taker but Australian skipper Ricky Ponting says he is confident his team can stop the Sri Lankan off-spinner from capturing the record in its backyard.
The task of taking nine wickets to surpass the record of Warne’s 708 wickets does not [...]

T20 cricket like chocolate, to be taken in small doses: Sidhu

Former India cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu on Thursday said that Twenty20 cricket is like chocolate which is harmful for health and should be given in small doses.
“When one-day cricket became big in India I had said it was like fast food – buying a burger from outside when no one is prepared to cook at [...]

Kartik destroys Australia with 6 wicket haul

India’s Murali Kartik destroyed the high-flying Australian batting for a measly 193 with a devastating career-best spell of spin bowling in the seventh and final cricket one-dayer here on Wednesday.Kartik, who grabbed two wickets off successive balls to be on a hat-trick twice, sent the visitors to their doom in the dead-rubber tie with a [...]