Riyaz Ponmanichi/ Dubai A well-settled Pandey was finding it difficult to put the bat on the ball against the top-quality Pakistan pacers. Babar throws the ball to his best bowler of the day Haris Rauf to bowl the 19th over. India despite a 100-plus partnership still needs 31 runs in just 12 balls. Haris Rauf […]
Riyaz Ponmanichi/ Dubai, Oct 21 Hailing from Tellicherry, we always takes pride in our 3 famous Cs, Cricket, Cake and Circus. But yesterday one C shone brighter than ever. “C for Cricket”, Today one of among us lead team UAE to a victory in a World Cup match. It is the first time in history […]
Gabba/ Brisbane ,Oct 17 (BPNS) In a thrilling warm up match to the run of T2O World Cup, India beat defending champions Australia by 6 runs. Speedster Mohammed Shami who was a surprise entry to the Indian team took three wickets. Batting first India posed a challenging total of 186/7 with fifties from K.L. Rahul(57) […]
Manoj Kandoth/ Bengaluru, Oct 16 As an ardent cricket fan and as a positive follower of game of cricket an incident, etched in my memory is of the day the “otherwise gentlemen of cricket” had an unsavory incident on the ground in Christ Church. Between Windies pace bowler Colin Croft and the officiating New Zealand […]
Geelong (Australia)/ Oct 16 (BPNS) In a low scoring thriller, UAE lost to Netherlands at their opening match in T20 world cup here on Sunday. Chasing 112, Netherlands notched victory with one ball and three wickets to spare. After C.P. Rizwan won the toss ,UAE opted to bat and scored 111 runs losing 8 wickets. […]
Geelong (Australia)/ Oct 16 (BPNS) Asia Cup Champions, Sri Lanka suffered a shocking defeat in the T-20 World cup opening match to minnows Namibia. The fancied Lankan team lost by 55 runs to Namibia. Jan Frylink of Namibia who hammered 44 runs and took two Sri Lankan wickets was the man of the match. A […]
Thiruvananthapuram, Oct 16 (BPNS) In a keenly contested match in the Syed Mushtaq Ali tournament ,Kerala lost to Services by 13 runs. This is the first loss of the Kerala team in the tournament which had beaten fancied Karnataka and Haryana teams. Kerala captain and Indian player Sanju Samson won the toss and put Services […]
Dr.Ajith Kumar/ Kochi – 13 0ct Going down memory lane one of the most thrilling Ranji trophy matches one witnessed at our maidan was undoubtedly the Ranji match between Kerala and the erstwhile Madras, now Tamilnadu, that commenced on the Xmas day of 1964. Madras came without its captain the redoubtable Satwinder Singh and the […]
Melbourne, Oct 12 (PTI) Sri Lankan batting legend Mahela Jayawardene is mighty impressed with the rise of Wanindu Hasaranga as he sees traits of pace bowling great Lasith Malinga in the 25-year-old spin allrounder. Hasaranga, who plays for Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League, hogged the limelight in the 2021 T20 World Cup in […]
Mumbai, Oct 12 (PTI) Former South Africa quick Dale Steyn feels the pace and bounce on Australian pitches will suit Suryakumar Yadav’s 360-degree game, making him India’s go-to player in the upcoming T20 World Cup. Following a hattrick of half-centuries in the bilateral home series against Australia, the Mumbaikar continued his red-hot form Down Under as […]
