Andrew Flintoff has become the first ever international cricketer to have turned down a national contract, to be able to prolong his career as a T20 cricketer, both at the international and the club level. This would mean that Flintoff may also end up missing international tours in order to pl

Four games into the ODI series between Australia and England, and it seems almost certain that the English side has progressively gone from being complacent to being switched off in the series. The series is already lost, but the pride is still at stake. What is also at stake for England is to

The fourth game of the seven ODI series between Australia and England will be again played at Lord's and it assumes proportions of a must-win match for the hosts. With the Aussies leading 3-0 and gunning for a 7-0 whitewash, it remains to be seen whether the England side will look to ring

That the English side was on the back-foot in the first T20I at Manchester can be established without too much doubt. That the rain-gods saved the English side from a major embarrassment can also be seen very evidently. However, the format of the game is such, that England will know

Old Trafford in Manchester will host Australia and England for the first of the two T20Is, a game which will signal the start of the second leg of competition between the two sides. This will include seven ODIs apart from the two T20Is.Click for Live Score Card of England vs AustraliaAs a prel

Even as the Australian fans wonder what went wrong at the Ashes, and some others bay for Ricky Ponting blood, the captain has come out and said that he would be perfectly understanding if the Cricket Australia (CA) decided to split the captaincy of the three formats of the game between him and

The Indian cricket board has made a huge surprise by offering a compensation package of $5 million to both the sides which had managed to reach the finals of the previous season's IPL's finals; the Chennai Super Kings and the Rajasthan Royals. The two sides had managed to qualify for the inaug

The selectors have named Rahul Dravid in the 15-member squad to go to South Africa to play in the Champions Trophy apart from resting Virender Sehwag for the prestigious mini-version of the World Cup to be played in South Africa in September. Dravid had last featured in an ODI in 2007 and desp

So, it has all boiled down to the fifth and the final test match between Australia and England to decide the fate of this year's Ashes. With the teams tied at one match apiece, the Oval ground in London will see the decider being played. After their abysmal performance at Headingley, England

Despite one of the first good days for Australia in the series, the Australian media has taken the selectors to task for having overlooked the presence of Stuart Clark in the squad. Clark, who did not feature in the team's plans in the first three test matches was finally selected for this fou

Zaheer Khan is in for another long break from international cricket, as he goes into rehabilitation to recover from the shoulder injury he is currently suffering from. Zaheer has undergone a major shoulder surgery in South Africa, but it isn't sure as to what the recovery period for the same i

Australia will face England in the fourth test match of the Ashes series at Leeds in Headingley, and will know that being down 0-1 in the series, they cannot afford to lose this game. A loss here will end their Ashes campaign for this year, as there will only be one game remaining after this.

West Indies will play Bangladesh at St. Kitts in Basseterre in the solitary T20I and look to salvage at least some pride in the game. Having already lost the test series, and the ODI series that followed, there is much to play for the West Indian cricketers and they will look to put one across

The third Ashes test match between Australia and England will be played on Thursday at Birmingham and the eyes will be on the selections of both the teams. However, being down 0-1, Australia will need to fight hard to get the momentum back, while England will look to overcome the gaping hole m

With eight days out of the last ten having seen rain in Edgbaston, the head groundsman of the ground, Steve Rouse is worried that the pitch may not be well-prepared in time for England's third Ashes test match against Australia. This is the second successive occasion on which the Edgbaston pit

It has been announced that the 2009 edition of the Champions Trophy will have its prize money increased from around $1m last time, to $4m this time around. The last Champions Trophy was played in India in 2006, and was hosted by Mohali, Mumbai, Jaipur and Ahmedabad. This time around, South Afr

The Sophia Gardens in Cardiff will play host to the first Ashes test match this year between England and Australia, and it promises to be one exciting encounter. The previous series between these two countries had ended in a 5-0 whitewash for the Australians, after they had lost the 2005 serie

India will play their first game of the Super Eights against West Indies at Lord's in London on Friday. India had won both their league games - against Bangladesh and Ireland - before getting to the second round, while West Indies had upset Australia but were stream-rolled by Pakistan in their

West Indies play Sri Lanka at Trent Bridge in a game whose result will have no bearing on how the tournament progresses from here. Both West Indies and Sri Lanka have already qualified for the Super Eights and Australia, the third team in the group has already been knocked out of the competiti

The second game of the double header in Trent Bridge will see the Australians take on Sri Lanka in a group C encounter. This game assumes must-win proportions for the Aussies, after their heavy loss to West Indies in the first match. Unfortunately, given that the margin of loss was quite empha

The second of the three games on the Super Saturday will be played between two Group C teams, Australia and West Indies. In the previous edition, Australia had lost to India in the semi-finals, while the West Indies had not even progressed beyond the first round. Australia's preparations wou

India's concerns over the fitness of their strike bowler, Zaheer Khan, suffered yet another jolt after skipper MS Dhoni declared that he wont be playing in either of the warm-up games. Additionally, opener Virender Sehwag too, looks all set to miss out on the opening warm-up on the 1st of June

The ongoing series between Australia and Pakistan will come to a close with the only T20 match to be played at the Dubai Sports City cricket stadium. It will be the final international encounter for either teams before they head for England to participate in the ICC T20 World Cup.

Dead rubbers rarely kindle any of serious interest amongst players or the spectators for that matter but if you're a side that's as short of international match practice as is Pakistan, then every game that you play gains significance. Especially if that game happens to be against a

Yet another series that almost did not happen for Pakistan now seems to be interestingly poised at. Despite the indifferent ODI form of the world Champions Australia, they were expected to comfortably beat Pakistan, a side that's woefully short on international match practice. But

After a barnstorming victory at Mohali, the Indian cricket team will be hoping to get the job done when they host Australia for the third and probably the most decisive test match of the four match India Australia cricket test series. India have played out of their skin thus yet and using our

Gautam Gambhir's unbeaten 53 helped India race to 104 for one wicket at lunch on the opening day of the second cricket Test against Australia here today. Gambhir had Rahul Dravid (11) for company at the break after the Indians thorougly dominated the first session. Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Australia had the edge in Bangalore while the brownie points belonged to India but both the bitter rivals would seek something more tangible, an outright win to be precise, when they collide head-on in the second Test here tomorrow. If the see-saw first Test, spiced up by some on-field ban

After a month long break, international cricket gets underway when India host Australia in the first of the four match test series this coming Thursday in Bangalore. Both these sides are right atop the test cricket ratings and with all the rivalry and past history coming into the fra

Chief selector Dilip Vengsarkar feels the combined failure of the experienced Indian middle order batting in Sri Lanka was a one-off thing and expects the batsmen to put it firmly behind them and start afresh in the upcoming four-Test series against Australia. Vengsarkar also feels that th