Posted by: devilkarthik on: July 7, 2009
Sri Lankan spin sensation Ajantha Mendis has signed for the South Australia Redbacks in this season’s domestic Twenty20 competition,on Tuesday. High performance manager Jamie Cox said securing the 24-year-old, whose unorthodox style helped Sri Lanka reach last month’s World Twenty20 final, was a huge boost for his side. “It was proven in the World Twenty20 [...]
Posted by: devilkarthik on: July 6, 2009
India made amends for their World Twenty20 debacle, winning the one-day international series against West Indies 2-1 after torrential rains washed out the fourth and final ODI at the Beausejour Stadium on Sunday. The match started an hour late following heavy rains just after India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and elected to [...]
Posted by: devilkarthik on: July 4, 2009
Mahendra Singh Dhoni played a captain’s knock as India battled inclement weather to defeat West Indies by six wickets via the Duckworth-Lewis method and take an unassailable 2-1 lead in the four-match ODI series at the Beausejour Stadium, here on Friday. Needing 11 runs off the last over after the target was revised to 159 [...]
Posted by: devilkarthik on: July 3, 2009
Barring a couple of individual performances, the Indians have generally been a pale shadow of themselves in the first two matches of the four-match series and Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s team has a daunting task to put it across the hosts. With the series locked 1-1, both the teams will go all out for a victory [...]
Posted by: devilkarthik on: July 2, 2009
Likening Twenty20 cricket with “dessert” which is delicious but could not satiate one’s hunger, Indian batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar has said Tests were the “main course” of meal and he cannot survive without it. “Twenty20 is like deserts? It tastes good but you can’t fill up your stomach with it? You have to have a [...]
Posted by: devilkarthik on: July 1, 2009
West Indies skipper Chris Gayle has signed up with Western Australia to play for Retravision Warriors in the country’s upcoming domestic Twenty20 tournament. The swashbuckling left-hander, who plays for Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League, has so far played T20 Internationals, scoring 454 runs at an average of 41.27. He has also bagged seven [...]
Posted by: devilkarthik on: June 29, 2009
Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s defiant 95 went in vain as India suffered a humiliating eight-wicket defeat at the hands of an inspired West Indies in the lopsided second One-Day International on Sunday. After dismissing the visitors for a modest 188 in 48.2 overs, the Caribbean team rode on openers Chris Gayle (64) and Runako Morton (85) [...]
Posted by: devilkarthik on: June 28, 2009
Having survived a scare in the opening match, India go into the second one-dayer against the West Indies on today, fully aware that they need to maintain their intensity right through the game to take an invincible 2-0 lead. The Indians just about managed a narrow 20-run victory in the first match on Friday and [...]
Posted by: devilkarthik on: June 27, 2009
Yuvraj Singh hit a rollicking 131-run knock as India pipped West Indies by 20 runs in the thrilling first cricket one-day international to take a 1-0 lead in the four-match series on Friday. Leaving behind their pathetic show in the World Twenty20, Indian batsmen came firing on all cylinders as they trampled the West Indies [...]
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