Indian media lashed out at the national cricket team's latest miserable performance on their shambolic tour of Australia, labelling their efforts in Perth a “disgrace” and mourning the spectacular decline of a team that won the 2011 World Cup.
Pakistan cricket team manager Naveed Akram Cheema said he was “absolutely clear and confident” there would be no repeat of the spot-fixing controversy when his team play England in the United Arab Emirates over the next two months.
India’s effigy sellers are licking their lips at the prospect of booming business as the national cricket team continue to struggle on a shambolic tour of Australia and fans back home lose patience with Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his men.
Jamie Pandaram, writing in Australia’s Daily Telegraph, speaks to Dan Christian’s family about his growing up years. Christian’s mother Toni spent hours driving him from Campbelltown to Kensington when Christian joined the University of NSW cricket team, where he was mentored by Geoff Lawson and Michael Slater. “And the M5 Motorway didn’t extend all that way back then,” Toni laughed. “It was especially busy when the footy and cricket seasons overlapped, we’d be driving from the footy to the cricket, and the cricket to the footy.” She added: “The move…
KARACHI : Pakistan ’s cricket chief said on Sunday he hoped the Bangladesh cricket team would tour the country, after the 2009 attacks on Sri Lanka ’s side brought international visits to a standstill.
Sri Lanka’s sports minister on Wednesday blamed the cricket team’s poor form on team bickering, squad politics and the influence of players’ agents.
Unpaid for nine months, without a test series win in over two years and now hit by injury, Sri Lanka’s cricket team has a list of problems to overcome in its search for an elusive success in South Africa.Sri Lanka has never won…
Unpaid for nine months, without a test series win in over two years and now hit by injury, Sri Lanka’s cricket team has a list of problems to overcome in its search for an elusive success in South Africa.Sri Lanka has never won…
The victorious New Zealand cricket team arrives at Auckland Airport tonight for what supporters hope will be the start of a golden summer.Coach John Wright and batsman Dean Brownlie landed in Auckland late last night, with the rest…
In The National, Dileep Premachandran writes that Irfan Pathan has done enough to earn a recall to the national team as the selectors pick Praveen Kumar’s replacement for the Australia Tests. His success in the previous tour in 2007-08 should spur him on. The flight from Sydney to Perth takes more than four hours, and most members of the Indian cricket team had their earphones plugged in almost as soon as they took their seats. One of them, though, was reading a copy of Inside Sport, and his own one-page…
