Australia will face Pakistan in the first of the five ODIs that will be played at Gabba in Brisbane. And after a 3-0 whitewash of the visitors, the Aussies will be looking at continuing with their good ODI form - that has already seen them beat England 6-1, India 4-2 and win the Champions Tr

The South Africans are hurting real badly after their loss to England in the second test match at Kingsmead at Durban. Such was the intensity of the collapse in the second innings, that it had all the critics pointing fingers at the South African captain with the likes of Clive Rice even point

After a thrilling last gasp draw from England in the first Test match at Centurion, South Africa will be sharpening their claws at Kingsmead in Durban for the second game of the series. The match will be played on the Boxing Day, that is on the 26th of December. The first game looked to be h

The fifth and the final ODI of the series between England and South Africa will be played at Durban on Friday. England will go into the game knowing fully well that they cannot lose the series, as they possess a 2-1 lead, and all the running will be needed to be done by South Africa. South Afr

Younis Khan has changed directions again and decided to resign from the role of a captain of the Pakistani cricket team. He spoke with the head of the Pakistan Cricket Board, Ejaz Butt, and handed him over his resignation. The official reason that he gave was that he thought that he had lost the

New Zealand cricket seems to be in transition period as many changes have been effected to the team after a below-par season that did culminate with a runners-up position in the Champions Trophy against Australia. For starters, the New Zealand Cricket (NZC) has sacked their cricket coach,

The first ODI between India and Australia will be played at Baroda on the 25th of October. Earlier, this game was planned to be held in Jaipur, but with the problems in the Rajasthan Cricket Associations between the incumbent and Lalit Modi, the match has been shifted to Baroda. The last time

Finally we have a decision on Younis Khan future as captain, the ardent skipper of Pakistan cricket team who stepped down from captaincy just recently because of match-fixing controversy that surrounded the game after he dropped a crucial catch in the semi-final match against New Zealand in

Do we have another Andrew Flintoff in the making? Maybe yes, as New Zealand all-rounder Jacob Oram is reportedly considering his retirement from the Test cricket owing to an injury-ridden show for almost all his career. This time it was his latest problem, hamstring injury, that forced

It was a hearty site as James Hopes leaped on Shane Watson to give him a bear hug as the winning runs came off Watson's bat as he hit two consecutive sixes, in chase of a meager 201 target posted by New Zealand in the Champions Trophy final. It was Australia once again who lifted the Champi

Australia will face New Zealand in the finals of the Champions Trophy, 2009. The game will be played at Centurion, on a track which could aid the slower bowlers towards the second innings of the game. Australia has literally swept into the finals - by today's standards, that is. They may n

Australia marched in to the finals of the Champions Trophy after defeating England by nine wickets with 49 balls still remaining, at the Centurion on Friday night. And the feeling to lose to Australia in an ODI was not new to England, though worse this time, given the fact that it was Champion

The inaugural Champions League Twenty20 starting from October 8 will miss more than one players who are nursing injuries picked up by them during or before the currently happening Champions Trophy that ends on October 5. The list starts from the South African skipper, Graeme Smith who has

The second semi-finals of the Champions Trophy will see the Pakistanis take on New Zealand at Wanderers in Johannesburg. Pakistan had finished second in their group after their loss to Australia, whereas New Zealand and England had tied on points in their group but the Kiwis went marginally ah

Australia will face England in the first semi-finals of the Champions Trophy at Centurion. In what will be a repeat of the seven game series leading up to the start of the tournament, the two sides will be meeting each other, in a more important game than the rest, as the winners will get a ch

The last league game of the Champions Trophy tournament will have the Indians facing the West Indies. The game will be played at Johannesburg on a wicket that has been a mystery to the sides, so much so that it has been difficult for the sides to predict what they would do after winning the to

The first game on the final day of the league stage for the Champions Trophy will see Pakistan take on Australia. The match will be played at Centurion, and the equation for the Aussies is rather simple; they only need to beat the Pakistanis to get through to the semi-finals of the Champions T

India and Pakistan will face-off in what should be one of the most interesting games of the Champions Trophy on Saturday at the Centurion. It will be a day-night match and will be played on a pitch which looks a little slow and sluggish, much more than what one would expect in South Africa.

The captain of the Pakistani side, Younis Khan, has been ruled out of the clash against West Indies. This, after he had sustained an injury during the warm-up game versus Sri Lanka while fielding in the slips and going for a catch. As it turns out, Younus Khan's little finger has been fracture

The third game of the Champions Trophy will see South Africa play the New Zealand side at Centurion. South Africa has already played one game and they lost it to the Sri Lankans rather easily. New Zealand will be playing their first game, and if they could relegate the hosts to a loss here, it

The second game of the Champions Trophy will witness Johannesburg host Pakistan and West Indies in a day night game. West Indies has come into the competition with a long standing tiff with the West Indies Cricket Board. Hence, the WICB ensured that the main side did not go to the tourna

South Africa will take on Sri Lanka in the first game of the Champions Trophy at Centurion. The two teams are placed in Group B along with England and New Zealand. South Africa will be the favourites to win the tournament, and given that being the case, their first game against the Lankans

Sachin Tendulkar has said that the century he hit against Sri Lanka in the finals of the Compaq Cup tri-series was one of the best ever in his career in the fifty overs format. Tendulkar scored 138 in 133 balls to propel the Indians to a resounding win against Sri Lanka. It helped India to get

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 second game of the Compaq Cup in Sri Lanka will see India take on the Sri Lankans, at the same RPS ground in Colombo. Sri Lanka has already won their first game of the tournament with a thrashing 97-run victory over the Kiwis, and another win here would see them through to the finals. On

Current India vice-captain, Virender Sehwag has asked the selectors to not consider him for the captaincy of the Indian side. He has also requested them to discontinue with him as the deputy skipper to M.S.Dhoni, and get in a vice-captain who could probably be groomed into the role of a captai

The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has revealed that the former coach of the national side, John Dyson, was sacked from the side, because he had postponed signing the contract with the WICB for the 18 months that he was here. The director of the WICB, Conde Riley said that the WICB was

Mathew Hayden has made a suggestion that should warm the cockles of the IPL hearts. Only recently drafted into the Cricket Australia board, Hayden has said that the ICC should consider stopping the Champions Trophy altogether and instead, create a two month long window for the Indian Premier L

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

A day after the BCCI backed its players with the whereabouts clause and refused to sign the dotted line, it has said that it will suggest to the cricket's apex body, the ICC, to give up on World Anti Doping Association (WADA) code of conduct for anti-doping and form one of its own for the memb