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England end the first day’s play at Lord’s with a score of 364/6 after Australia made a remarkable comeback into the match… England captain Andrew Strauss hit a superb century but Australia battled back towards the end of an absorbing opening day to the second Test. The Middlesex batsman finished the day unb… |
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London, July 15 (IANS) Former England captain and all-rounder Andrew Flintoff Wednesday announced his retirement from Test cricket after the Ashes, admitting that his injuries have conquered him. ‘My body has told me it’s time to stop. Since 2005 I’ve had two years when I’ve done nothing but rehab from… |
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West Indies 82 for 5 (Sarwan 19*, Chanderpaul 17*) beat England 161 for 6 (Bopara 55, Pietersen 31) by five wickets (D/L method)… The experience of Ramnaresh Sarwan and Shivnarine Chanderpaul guided West Indies into the ICC World Twenty20 semi-finals after the top order threatened to lose their heads in a reduced chase … |
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England 153 for 7 (Pietersen 46, Harbhajan 3-30, Jadeja 2-26) beat India 150 for 5 (Pathan 33*, Sidebottom 2-31, Swann 2-28) by three runs… ‘You’re not Singh-ing anymore,’ chanted some English fans, and India certainly weren’t as they were dumped out of the competition that they won two years ago… |
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South Africa 114 for 3 (Kallis 578) beat England 111 (Shah 38, Parnell 3-14)… South Africa laid bare their ICC World Twenty20 title credentials with a comprehensive seven-wicket victory over England at Trent Bridge. The Proteas put in a superb first-innings display in the field to limit the hosts to 111 all out, after P… |
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Australia spent their first 24 hours in World Twenty20 exile paying the price for slow over-rates and arranging for Test-only players to fly to England two days earlier than originally scheduled. On a day Ricky Ponting had hoped would be occupied with net sessions and Super Eights strategy meetings, Australia instead awoke to… |
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England 185 for 5 (Pietersen 58, Wright 34, Ajmal 2-23) beat Pakistan 137 for 7 (Younis 46*, Broad 3-17) by 48 runs… Victory was a necessity, after losing their opening game to the Netherlands, and the hosts duly obliged with an outstanding performance with both bat and ball. Kevin Pietersen, who passed a late fitness [… |
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Netherlands 163 for 6 (de Grooth 49, Borren 30, Anderson 3-23) beat England 162 for 5 (Wright 71, Bopara 46) by four wickets… Cricket’s rich history of thrilling upsets was given another chapter as Netherlands sensationally beat England by four wickets in the opening match of the ICC World Twenty20 at Lord’s… |
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Captain Paul Collingwood says England will enter the ICC World Twenty20 with quiet confidence they can triumph on home soil and end their wait to win a major international trophy. Wednesday’s outstanding nine-wicket warm-up hammering of West Indies at Lord’s, when Ravi Bopara and Luke Wright shared a 119-run openi… |
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Jeroen Smits fulfils a childhood dream when he leads the Netherlands into their ICC World Twenty20 clash with England at Lord’s today. The 36-year-old was awe-struck by the famous ground when he accompanied his parents to see the Dutch national side lose to Zimbabwe in the 1986 ICC Trophy final. “I was really impressed wi… |
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