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I’ve seen plenty of positive tweets from Rajasthan Royals players over the last couple of weeks, as international players have gradually made their way to India, and I’m getting a good vibe about it all.The Jaipur-based side wer...(more)


Cricket South Africa (CSA) named a provisional, 30-man squad for the ICC World Twenty20 to be played in the West Indies in May on Saturday and the lineup includes four new faces and one or two (really) old ones.Fifteen of these players will...(more)

On the back of unbeaten centuries from Jacques Kallis and AB de Villiers, South Africa posted their highest ever score against India and defended it to win the third and final ODI in Ahmedabad on Saturday.A vastly improved performance and t...(more)

Having won the ODI series against South Africa, India’s selectors have decided to rest key players and do a little experimentation on the side for the final ODI in Ahmedabad on Saturday.Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag and Praveen Ku...(more)

Fourteen of the 16 players in South Africa’s ODI squad in India have played in the two games so far, yet the Proteas have lost the series 2-0. Clearly something’s not right.At first glance, it’s the bowling that is a probl...(more)

The Highveld Lions won the first leg of their best-of-three Standard Bank Pro20 semifinal against the Titans in Johannesburg this evening off the last ball of the match, as Robbie Frylinck heaved David Wiese over the boundary for six.Four r...(more)

India’s Virender Sehwag has moved to the top of the ICC Player Rankings for Test batsmen after his heroics during the second Test against South Africa in Kolkata.The opening batsman smashed 165 in the first innings and has gained five...(more)

The three-match ODI series between India and South Africa gets underway in Jaipur on Sunday and injuries to key players on both sides make for a pretty intriguing match-up.India are hardest-hit once again, with Zaheer Khan ruled out of the ...(more)

As bad as India’s bowlers were in Nagpur, in Kolkata South Africa’s were no better. Although it was a devastating batting collapse that ultimately cost South Africa the second Test, the bowlers were unable to reproduce their pri...(more)

India’s innings victory over South Africa in the second Test in Kolkata was as complete a turnaround in form as you’re likely to see. A strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Singh.Zaheer Khan and Harbhajan Singh started the rot lat...(more)


VVS Laxman and MS Dhoni joined Virender Sehwag and Sachin Tendulkar in scoring centuries in India’s first innings in the second Test against South Africa in Kolkata, to set up an almost certain series-levelling victory.It was only the...(more)

It kills me that commentators are so bad at pronouncing names in cricket. I get that not all names necessarily roll off the tongue but as a professional person getting paid to commentate on sport you should at least make a worthy effort to ...(more)

Despite a late flurry of wickets, which still left India way ahead, South Africa’s bowlers were universally, to a man, nothing more than crap on the second day of the second Test between India and South Africa in Kolkata.Dale Steyn lo...(more)

Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag both posted glorious centuries on the second day of the second Test between India and South Africa in Kolkata and their tons couldn’t have been more different.In compiling his fourth consecutive hu...(more)

The final IPL squads for the third season have been announced, with the usual blend of foreign players and stars of the Indian domestic circuit.A whole bunch of form ICL players have been included this year, driving up the percentage of loc...(more)

Four overs before tea on the first day of the second Test between India and South Africa in Kolkata you’d have been forgiven for assuming the series was all but over for India.South Africa were poised on 218/1 after a double-century s...(more)

It’s do or die time for India if they want to avoid a rare home series loss to go with a dethroning as the world’s No. 1 Test team in the second Test against South Africa in Kolkata, which starts on Sunday.They did it in 2008 - ...(more)

Jacques Kallis and Hashim Amla have made a big impression on the latest ICC Player Rankings for Test batsmen released today.Kallis, who scored his 34th Test century during the match, has returned to the top five by gaining four places to si...(more)
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