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 [...]