Fast Bowlers The Indian team that has been announced for the Asia Cup to be played in Sri Lanka has only three fast bowlers and again the selectors have presumed that spin would do the trick for them. Contrast this with the Sri Lankan squad which has a battery of pace bowlers and each one of the fast bowlers is treated like  a prized commodity. Seeing the shabby treatment that is being given to the... 

ICC World Twenty20 Ravi Shastri is the director of the National Cricket Academy at Bangalore. After the pathetic performance of they Indian team in the ICC World Cup, there are chances that his neck may also be sacrificed. So, to wriggle out of the situation, he has come out with the statement that it is high time “India need to find hungrier and fitter players to play for the country”.... 

Cricket Ian Bishop former fast bowler who has been one of the tormentors of the Indian batsmen during his heydays seems to have gone too far by saying that India is “spineless”. If it is so, what would one say about West Indies? Ian Bishop has also forgotten that his commentating career got a new lease of life only after he associated himself with the broadcasting channels in India! What... 

The terminology of chin music was coined probably during the time when Sourav Ganguly had led the Indian team to Australia and had to face the short pitch bouncers from Glen McGrath, Jason Gillespie, and Brett Lee etc., all. From that time onwards the octaves of the music have further evolved and the music players in the form of bowlers have further honed their skills, while the aficionados, the Indian... 

IPL Twenty20 One of the singular achievements of the IPL has been that the communication companies that were on the fringe have chosen the platform of IPL to create awareness about their brand in a big way and they could not have got a much better platform to do so. When the government banned the Chinese mobiles that did not have the sixteen digits IMIE numbers, it led to proliferation of numerous... 

IPL Twenty20 The team that stood in top four in first IPL, Punjab was not able to stop them after making a devastating total of 203; the team which won IPL, Rajasthan surrendered to them completely; the team in-form, Men-in-blue Mumbai failed to block their way; the team that stood in the top four for both the IPL seasons gave them a way to success; But Delhi was able to stop the carnival of Bangalore... 

Rajasthan Royals got a win that proves out to be critical as the team get the momentum back. Their batting was empowered by the blazing innings of Adam Voges and Faiz Fazal and it was followed by clinical bowling performance as they got a 31-run win to push them to a joint-fourth in the points table. Punjab got a perfect start as their skipper made 29 runs of just 13 balls. This short cameo was followed... 

Ending the dramatic conditions going in Pakistan cricket, PCB announced that their team is going to be led by senior cricketer Shahid Afridi in the T20 world cup being held in the Carribean.  This will be second time Afridi is going to handle the top jobs after he led the team when Younis Khan stepped away from this format. “It’s a challenge for me and I accept it,” Afridi said.... 

Uthappa’s 68 of 38 balls rescued Bangalore’s innings after they lost three key wickets before half of their innings got over. Uthappa’s blitz helped his team recover from a shaky start and sluggish middle overs, after which Bangalore’s bowlers throttled Chennai Super Kings to move to the top of the points table. Match looked to be in control of Chennai as they bound the Bangalore in-form... 

After the long wait, the announcement has finally been made – the Indian Premier League is to expand to 10 franchises with the addition of the Pune and Kochi franchises from the 2011 season onwards. The financial might of the IPL was on display again on Sunday when Pune and Kochi became the league’s two new franchises, being sold for a value in excess of the original eight franchises combined. Sahara... 

What Yuvraj had not done in last three matches, he has achieved in the third ball of super over with a reverse sweep in the bowling of Muralitharan that gave his team a nerve-cracking win, their first win in this season. Juan Theron, playing his first IPL match and Punjab’s bowling hero in the regulation time, bowled Matthew Hayden off the second ball in the Super Over, and despite a slogged... 

IPL Twenty20 Things are falling in place for the Chennai Super Kings. Their skipper MS Dhoni is out injured but the depth of the side was there to see when they played Delhi Daredevils on Friday. Matthew Hayden has been fantastic, Suresh Raina looks comfortable with captaincy, and even the bowlers – Albie Morkel, L. Balaji and Muttiah Muralitharan – are coming into their own. Dhoni’s... 

IPL Twenty20 There is no plan to stage Indian Premier League outside the country but franchises are free to play abroad, IPL chief executive Sundar Raman said on Friday. Dismissing reports that a second IPL is in the offing and it would be held abroad, Raman said he could only foresee a situation with the franchises playing occasional matches abroad. “This is Indian Premier League and will be... 

William Shakespeare must be chafing in his grave. His famous quote ” To be or not to be” has now been hijacked and it has become ” To bee or not to bee”. Let me clarify. The swarm of bees that presumably tried to attack in the rally of the BSP supremo Mayawati when she was holding a rally in Lucknow has indeed raised the hackles. The bees are indeed going to be reduced to status... 

IPL Twenty20 The inauguration of the Indian Premier League in the third season was a razzmatazz that was supposed to enthrall the audience the world over and therefore it was planned in a manner to include primarily performances having a western orientation. The western orientation was reflected in the choice of the performers, as also the kind of performances that were done in the inaugural function....