Posts Tagged ‘Kevin Pietersen’
Kevin Pietersen, Andrew Flintoff will play in IPL
Posted by: karthik007 on: January 4, 2009
The roadblock to the participation of Kevin Pietersen, Andrew Flintoff and team-mates in second edition of Indian Premier League seems to have been removed after England and Wales Cricket Board and Professional Cricketers’ Association agreed on a 15-day window for the players.
The duration agreed by the ECB and the PCA means players will be able [...]
Dhoni as the captain of Herald Test team of the year
Posted by: karthik007 on: December 26, 2008
Mahendra Singh Dhoni has been elected as the captain of Sydney Morning Herald newspaper’s
Test team of the year, which also features India opener Gautam Gambhir.
Apart from Dhoni and Gambhir, no other Indian features in the team which is picked entirely on the basis of performances in the year gone by and has specialists in all positions.
Talismanic [...]
Team India ends the year(2008) on a high
Posted by: karthik007 on: December 24, 2008
Team India’s golden run continues, as skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni and boys end the year (2008) on a ‘winning note’, with Dhoni’s brigade winning the Test series against England 1-nil.
Even though the final Test at Mohali ended in a draw, it was celebration time for the Indian players, as Dhoni’s boys lifted the trophy after [...]
ICC Test rankings: Gambhir 10th place
Posted by: karthik007 on: December 24, 2008
Opener Gautam Gambhir’s stupendous year with the willow today (December 24) helped him jump 10 spots to 10th in the ICC Test Rankings, making him the highest-ranked Indian batsman in the list.
The diminutive Delhi batsman has scored more than 1000 runs this calendar year, including three hundreds in his last five Tests.
Gambhir, who made 179 [...]
Play resumes on day 5: Mohali Test
Posted by: karthik007 on: December 23, 2008
Play finally resumed after a two-and-a-half hour delay, as a thick fog delayed start of the fifth day’s play in the second and final cricket Test between India and England in Mohali today (December 23).
The weather denied a timely start of day’s play for the third day in a row. India is expected to go for [...]
Fog could rob India of whitewash: Mohali test
Posted by: karthik007 on: December 23, 2008
Thick fog delayed start of the fifth day’s play in the second and final cricket Test between India and England in Mohali today (December 23).
The weather has delayed start of play for the third day in a row.India is expected to go for a kill, but weather just might play spoil sport, bringing down the number [...]
Gautam Gambhir and Yuvraj Singh kept India in control of the second Test
Posted by: karthik007 on: December 22, 2008
Following a fog-delayed start, England resumed on 282-6 in reply to India’s 453 but they were bowled out for 302 as Harbhajan Singh finished with 4-68.
The tourists fought back to reduce India to 44-3 and then 80-4.
But Gambhir (44no) and the explosive Yuvraj (39no) guided the hosts to 134-4 at the close, a lead of [...]
England recover after shaky start: Mohali Test
Posted by: karthik007 on: December 21, 2008
India’s new ball colleagues Zaheer Khan and Ishant Sharma struck in their first overs to reduce England to 57 for two at lunch on day three of the second and final cricket Test in Mohali today. At the lunch break, England captain Kevin Pietersen (28) and Alastair Cook (25) were in the middle, having scored runs [...]
Dhoni says ‘It’s the toughest Test win under my captaincy’
Posted by: karthik007 on: December 16, 2008
Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Monday (Dec 15) described the enthralling six-wicket win over England in the first cricket Test here as the toughest of his four-match old tenure as captain.
“The toughest win. We were not present for the first three days of this Test, did not take wickets and bat the way we [...]
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