The countdown for the 2011 Cricket World Cup has begun officially with the unveiling of the trophy at a ceremony in the Bangabandhu Conference Centre in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Bangladesh is hosting the tournament jointly with India and Sri Lanka. Sharad Pawar, the chairman of the 2011 Cricket World Cup Central Organising Committee, formally handed over the trophy to the presidents of the relevant cricket... 

Their campaign is back on track after the win over Bangladesh but India will have to address top-order batting woes and inconsistent bowling to upstage a rampaging Sri Lanka in their third match of the Tri-series on Sunday. India have four points with a win from two matches and will aim to book a place in the January 13 final by beating Sri Lanka at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium on Sunday. Sri... 

Thilan Samaraweera’s second ODI century and Thissara Perera’s gem of a cameo tilted the balance as India slumped to a five-wicket defeat against Sri Lanka in their tri-series opener on Tuesday. Defending a 279-run total, India fancied their chances in their first outing of the new year but the 122-run stand between Samaraweera (105 not out off 106 balls) and Kumar Sangakkara (60), followed... 

Having comprehensively beaten a full strength Sri Lanka at home last month, in-form India will hope for a cakewalk when they take on the injury-ravaged islanders in their opening match of the tri-series here on Tuesday. India first beat Sri Lanka with consummate ease in the three-match Test series (2-0), and then compounded the visitors problem when they pocketed the five-ODI series 3-1. And with... 

Tillakaratne Dilshan cracked a solid century to power Sri Lanka to an emphatic seven-wicket victory over Bangladesh in a triangular One-day series on Monday. The in-form opener hit 104 for his sixth One-day hundred as Sri Lanka surpassed Bangladesh’s 260/7 with more than five overs to spare in the day-night match. Bangladesh were earlier well-served by Mohammad Ashraful, who made an impressive... 

The Indian cricket team’s tour of Bangladesh featuring a triangular limited over series and a two-Test rubber against the hosts in the New Year would be shown ‘live’ by NEO Cricket channel. The cricket action on the channel will start at 12.30 pm on January 4, 2010 with the first match in the tri-nation series involving Sri Lanka and Bangladesh at the Shere Bangla National Stadium,... 

India will be keen to extend their impressive run in a triangular series starting in Dhaka on Monday and boost their hopes of becoming the top-ranked side in One-day cricket. They have won six of their last seven bilateral One-day series under Mahendra Singh Dhoni, and a title-triumph here against a new-look Sri Lanka and a resurgent Bangladesh will help them narrow the gap against leaders Australia. Dhoni’s... 

Sachin Tendulkar hit a solid 96 not out to power India to an emphatic seven-wicket victory over Sri Lanka in the third One-Day International on Monday.   The opener cracked 13 fours in his 104-ball knock to help India achieve a 240-run target with more than seven overs to spare in the day-night game for a 2-1 lead in the five-match series. Left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja played a crucial role in... 

With the charismatic captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni serving a two-match ban, the Indian team under stand-in skipper Virender Sehwag will have Day in Pics: December 19 to pull out all the stops to regain their lead when they lock horns with Sri Lanka in the third One-dayer on Monday. As if poor fielding and bowling were not bad enough, the home side received a rude jolt when their inspirational skipper... 

Having crowned themselves the number one team in Test rankings, India would look to assert their supremacy in the shortest format as well when they clash against Sri Lanka in the first Twenty20 International on Wednesday. The 2-0 triumph and the number one Test ranking also gives India a psychological edge over the visitors, who are still licking their wounds after being spanked by an innings by the... 

India were on the threshold of becoming the number one team in Test rankings as they closed in on an emphatic victory in the third and final Test against Sri Lanka despite captain Kumar Sangakkara’s gritty unbeaten century on Saturday. After conceding a mammoth 333-run first innings lead, the visitors were struggling at 274 for six at close on the penultimate day which was marked by Sangakkara’s... 

Rahul Dravid struck his second consecutive century as India racked up a mammoth total and then made an early dent in the Sri Lankan top order to maintain their iron grip over the second Test on Wednesday. In reply to India’s imposing first innings total of 642, the weary Sri Lankans signed off day two on 66 for one with the spectre of a follow-on looming large over them. And they would have... 

Sri Lanka will renew efforts to win their first-ever Test in India when the second match begins on Tuesday, after being frustrated by a flat wicket in the opening tie. The islanders, who have never won a Test on Indian soil in six previous series, gave themselves a fair chance of scripting history at Ahmedabad by stacking up a huge 760/7 declared in their first innings. But India wiped out a 334-run... 

India could not beat Australia at home and become the number one ODI team but Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his men now have the chance to top the Test chart, provided they can beat Sri Lanka 2-0 at home in the three-match series starting on Monday. With only three ratings points separating first-placed South Africa (122) from third spot holder India (119) in the ICC Test Championship table, Dhoni and... 

Sri Lankan Test team, seeking its first win in India, arrived on Sunday to play a three-match series, commencing on November 16.  The Kumar Sangakkara-led squad landed at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport at around 2.30 AM. The team will begin their campaign with a three-day game against Board President’s XI starting on November 11 in Mumbai, from where they will move on to Ahmedabad...