Mumbai, Apr 8 (ANI): Bollywood actor and owner of Rajasthan Royals Shilpa Shetty unveiled new cricket gear for her team here last evening. Designed by Puma, the new cricket gear of last year’s IPL winner was sponsored by Ultratech Cement. She wished her squad best and hoped that her team would defend the title. “I…

Chennai Super Kings left for Johannesburg on Wednesday morning without their skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni. The Super Kings left for Johannesburg via Dubai at 9.45 this morning on the auspicious day of Lord Aiyappa’s birthday by an Emirates Airlines flight. Apart from Dhoni, medium pacer Lakshmipathy Balaji and opening b…

Joseph Hoover Wellington, Apr 7 (PTI) India recorded their first series triumph on New Zealand soil in 41 years though rain denied them a deserving victory in the third cricket Test here today. Rain played spoilsport in India’s push for a 2-0 series win on the fifth and final day and the hosts escaped with [...]

Chennai, April 6 (IANS) Leaving nothing to chance, the Chennai Super Kings, led by Mahendra Singh Dhoni, will be flying out their full contingent of 27 players besides support staff to South Africa for the Indian Premier League Twenty20 cricket tournament. The team’s director for cricketing operations, V.B. Chandrasekar…

India 379 (Tendulkar 62, Harbhajan 60, Dhoni 52, Martin 4-98) and 434 for 7 dec (Gambhir 167, Laxman 61, Dravid 60, Dhoni 56*) drew with New Zealand 197 (Zaheer 5-65) and 281 for 8 (Taylor 107, Harbhajan 4-59) The Wellington weather and a Ross Taylor century defied India as the third Test ended in a [...]

Sachin Tendulkar struck twice just before the end of the first session to reduce New Zealand to 254 for seven at lunch. India started the fifth and the final day of the third Test match, beaming with confidence of finishing it off early. While the bowlers were looking to take quick wickets, the overnight batsmen [...]

Joseph Hoover Wellington, Apr 6 (PTI) Rahul Dravid scaled another lofty peak in his illustrious career when he created the world record for the most number of Test catches by a fielder here today. Levelled with Mark Waugh’s 181 (128 Tests) before going into the match, Dravid pulled ahead in his 134th match when he [...]…

Ross Taylor scored a half-century to keep alive Kiwi hopes of a draw against India before bad light stopped fourth day’s play. Harbhajan Singh struck twice in the same over as New Zealand continued to give up cheap wickets after lunch on the fourth day of the final Test with New Zealand in Wellington. The [...]

Mumbai, Apr 6 (PTI) Kolkata Knight Riders owner Shah Rukh Khan took a dig at former India captain Sunil Gavaskar for ridiculing John Buchanan’s multiple captain theory saying he bought the team and would run it the way he wants. Former Australia World Cup winning coach Buchanan, who is now manager of Kolkata Knight Ride…

Harbhajan Singh strikes twice in the same over to get rid of Martin Guptill and Jesse Ryder to put India on top. Just after lunch Zaheer Khan claimed his second victim in the form of Daniel Flynn. Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni struck an unbeaten half century (56) to set New Zealand an improbable victory target [...]