Category: Cricket

Sunil Narine and Kieron Pollard have decided to pull out from the West Indies ICC World Twenty20 squad and Carlos Brathwaite has been named in the squad to replace Pollard, the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) announced on Friday (February 12). “Kieron Pollard withdrew from the squad citing a lack of sufficient progress in his rehabilitative work (injury sustained in […]

Left-hander Darren Bravo has become the third West Indies cricketer to pull out of the troubled Twenty20 World Cup squad. Following the high-profile withdrawals of Kieron Pollard and Sunil Narine last week, the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) announced that Bravo also has opted out of the squad in order to be available for Trinidad and Tobago Red Force in […]

India, who became the top-ranked team in Twenty20 internationals after whitewashing Australia 3-0 at Down Under last month, held on to their numero uno status with 2-1 series victory over Sri Lanka. India defeated Sri Lanka in the third and final match by nine wickets at ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam on Sunday. Chasing a modest 83-run target, in-form Shikhar […]

The Indian Under-19 cricket team’s quest for an unprecedented fourth World Cup title ended in disaster as the West Indies out-witted the Rahul Dravid-coached side by five wickets in a tense summit clash to clinch the coveted trophy for the first time since its inception. Put in to bat by the Caribbeans on a green-top amid overcast conditions, the script […]

Virat Kohli, after his stellar performance in the series against Australia in Australia, has been rested for the three-match Twenty20 International series against Sri Lanka, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced on Monday (February 1). Manish Pandey, who scored a magnificent century in the last One-Day International of the five-match series against Australia to lead India […]