Playing for pride
Ricky Ponting: back in action, and aiming for 3-0© Getty ImagesAccording to the Perfect Script which would have been written for this series, both teams should have come into this last Test level at 1-1,…
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Giddins faces ECB hearing over gambling allegations
Ed Giddins: 'Hasn't the ECB more pressing things to deal with?'© Getty ImagesEd Giddins might have thought that he'd had his last run-in with cricketing authority when he retired last season, but according to a…
Kenya defeat brave Canada by four wickets
Kenya edged past Canada to win by four wickets with nine balls to spare, despite a late wobble as the Canadians exerted pressure, took vital wickets and so nearly pulled off another upset at this…
Gilchrist had a demoralising effect on batsmen: Borde
The passing of Roy Gilchrist in Jamaica on Wednesday was noticed withmore than passing interest in India, where he played his last Testmatch in 1959 and last first class match in 1963. Sir Garfield Sobershas…
Karim hopeful of Kenya's resurgence
Irfan Karim - the son of former Kenya captain Asif Karim - starred in his campus team, Loughborough Marylebone Cricket Club University's, seven-wicket win against European University of Bangladesh in the Red Bull Campus Cricket…
Celtic: Hoops eye Luke Graham swoop
Celtic are among a host of clubs eyeing a move for talented Dundee youngster Luke Graham, according to The Courier's George Cran. The lowdown: Rising prospect Currently enjoying a productive loan spell at Lochee United,…
'History is there to change' – Hathurusingha
As South Africa took the southern route from their team hotel towards the Fatullah Cricket Stadium for their practice match, the bowling machine was perched a few feet higher at the Shere Bangla National Stadium.The…
2007 World Cup final officials banned by ICC after farcical end to the final
The International Cricket Council has delivered a humiliating punishment on the five match officials whose combined errors caused the World Cup final in Barbados to be completed amid farcical scenes of near-darkness.The two onfield umpires,…
Ponting targets Ashes revenge
Ricky Ponting: "embarrassed" by defeat © Getty Images Ricky Ponting has fired another warning shot ahead of this November's Ashes rematch, by vowing to exact revenge for the "embarrassment" of the 2-1 defeat in England.England's…
Jayasuriya steers Sri Lanka past India
Scorecard and ball-by-ball commentaryHow they were out Virender Sehwag failed, as did India's batting, and Sri Lanka edged past © AFP Rahul Dravid, the bedrock of dependability on which this Indian team is built, pulled…