Never before has a no ball created such a stir. Suraj Randiv no ball to gift India a run, which denied Virendar Sehwag a century, has raised so much noise, especially in India. Virendar Sehwag was stranded on 99, and vented his frustration by hitting the bowler to a meaningless six

The Indian team has been hit by injuries from the very start of the Sri Lankan tour. And even before that! Their mainstream bowlers, Zaheer Khan and Sreesanth missed the tour due to the various niggles to begin with. Sachin Tendulkar and Gautam Gambhir then pulled out of the one-day leg series

On paper this Indian team sure had its flaws. With the absence of big names of big names like Sachin Tendulkar, Zaheer Khan, Gautam Gambhir and Harbhajan Singh the Indian team sure had chinks in its armor. Even the Kiwis had to miss the services of seasoned pros like skipper Daniel Vettori and

Suresh Raina joined the record books when he became the ninth ever Indian to score a century in the first innings of his debut Test match. He achieved this feat against Sri Lanka at the SSC in Colombo, in the second Test match between India and Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka leads the series 1-0. Vire

Muthiah Muralitharan became only the first bowler in the history of Test match cricket to get to 800 test match wickets as India were beaten by ten wickets by Sri Lanka. The first Test match at Galle that had seen one day of the game abandoned due to rain, had the Indians capitulating twice to t

Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has signed a record deal with two sports management firms to become the richest ever cricketer in the history of the sport. He has signed a three-year contract for a whopping sum of Rs 2.1 billion or 210 crores ($ 42 million) with the two firms. This is abou

The Indian cricket board and two of the eight franchises, Mumbai and Chennai have said that they would like the teams to retain some of the players for the next season's IPL. On the other hand, the other eight franchises, including the new ones, Pune and Kochi have said that they will want all

According to a report on a popular cricket website, many of the IPL franchises have expressed their thoughts about what they want from the IPL before the forthcoming auctions. After Lalit Modi was suspended as the IPL chairman, two more franchises have been added to the already existing ei

The second game of the Asia Cup will see India take on Bangladesh at Dambulla. This is the tenth edition of the Asia Cup and the Lankans have won the tournament four times, while the Indians have won it four times as well. On the other hand, Bangladesh's performance in this tournament has been

Sachin Tendulkar celebrates his 37th birthday on the 24th of April, and the tributes have flowed in from various quarters. Harbhajan Singh, who is Tendulkar's very good friend, said that the age is just a number for Sachin Tendulkar and that he can continue playing in the manner that h

It is finals time! And the Mumbai Indians will play the Chennai Super Kings to decide who will lift the trophy for the first time; both sides have yet to win the IPL so far. Chennai have been to the finals once, and were pipped at the post by Rajasthan, whereas, for Mumbai, this is the first tim

Jaipur will host the Rajasthan Royals and Royal Challengers Bangalore in the 49th game of the IPL this edition, and with only seven more matches to go in the league stage after this match, the competition for places in the semi-finals would have heated up to the extreme. Bangalore, by the virt

The Mumbai Indians will take on the Delhi Daredevils in the 47th game of the IPL at the Brabourne Stadium. The Mumbai Indians are sitting pretty at 14 points, knowing that they need to win only one game to go through to the semi-finals, but they will know that they cannot just afford to be com

The 42nd game of the third edition of the tournament will see the Deccan Chargers play the Chennai Super Kings at Nagpur. Nagpur is the home ground for the Deccan Chargers and the side will hope that the venue brings them much more luck than it had in the previous game against the Rajasthan Ro

Mohali will host the 41st match of the IPL between Mumbai Indians and Kings XI Punjab on the 9th of April. Mumbai Indians go into the match having already qualified for the semi-finals - or probably needing one win out of their remaining six games - whereas the Punjab side probably need to win a

The Mumbai Indians will play the Deccan Chargers at the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai. This is the 33rd game of the third edition of the IPL and it does look like the teams are now beginning to heat up really quickly. Mumbai Indians go into the game with six wins so far in the tournament, wherea

Mumbai Indians will play the Chennai Super Kings in the 21st match of the third edition of the Indian Premier League. The Mumbai Indians have won three out of the four games that they have played, whereas Chennai has played five games and won only two. Mumbai is currently at the second place i

The Mumbai Indians will play the Kolkata Knight Riders in the Brabourne Stadium. Going into the game, so far, Mumbai has won two out of two games and are clearly looking like the team in form whereas Kolkata won their first two games but lost their third match. The good thing about the Mumba

Mumbai Indians will be hosted at the Feroz Shah Kotla stadium for their second game of the third edition of the Indian Premier League. The match will be played on 17th March, 2010 and will be a night game. This will be Delhi's third game of the tournament. Feroz Shah Kotla will be hosting the

The Brabourne stadium in Mumbai will host the second game of the third edition of the Indian Premier League. Mumbai will host Rajasthan in this match, as the two teams go head to head in trying to overcome their previous season's debacle and enter the semi-finals in this tournament. The Mumb

India will play South Africa in the third and the final ODI of the series at Ahmedabad. The Indians have already won the series 2-0 and will look to experiment a little with their side, and the South Africans may also want to do the same, but will also like to go back home with at least one wi

Sachin Tendulkar broke the 13-year old ODI record by smashing the South African bowling to a double century in the fifty overs format of the game. Sachin Tendulkar scored a 147-ball, unbeaten 200 against South Africa at Gwalior in the second ODI of the series, to assist the Indians to get to 4

There is a chance that Yuvraj Singh may play for Middlesex in the forthcoming domestic T20 tournament in England. All the counties in England are allowed two overseas cricketers in their side and the Middlesex had already signed up Adam Gilchrist for this season for the tournament. Angus Frase

India will play Bangladesh in the first Test match of the two test series at Dhaka. India has never lost to Bangladesh in a test match, and will look to maintain their record whereas Bangladesh will look to continue their winning streak after having demolished the West Indian side last year.

The second game of the tri-series will be played between India and Sri Lanka at the same ground, Dhaka. And given that the Sri Lankans have only just lost their previous ODI series to India, this will prove to be a golden opportunity for them to avenge that series loss. India will know that th

The Indian selectors have named the team to play in the Bangladesh tri-series against the hosts and the third side, Sri Lanka. Sachin Tendulkar will rest from the series after a gruelling three months or so, and his place in the side will be taken up by Mumbaite, Rohit Sharma. Rohit Sharma m

It is possible that India will host South Africa for two test matches and three ODIs instead of five ODIs that was originally planned in a series in India, early next year. Earlier, there was a test series that was planned as well, however, it was later changed to accommodate only the five ODI

India will play Sri Lanka in the first of the five ODIs at Rajkot and after a batsman-dominated test match and a T20I series, things may not be too different in the ODIs either. India will look to get back to their original ODI form in which they had won five consecutive ODI series, includ

Sachin Tendulkar has completed twenty years in international cricket on 15th November, 2009. He had begun his career in Pakistan as a 15 year old boy in 1989 on the same date, and has gone on to become one of the best batsman in the world in the following twenty years. Some of the tributes t

The Sri Lankan cricket captain, Kumar Sangakkara, realises that their record in test matches in India is as poor as it could get and hence would like to change that in the forthcoming series that his team plays against hosts India. In the last 27 years, the Lankans have played 14 test matches