Kolkata Knight Riders will play their third game in the very first week of the IPL, when they take on the Chennai Super Kings at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata. This will be the second game for Chennai Super Kings and second one for the Eden Gardens. The game will be a night match played on Tuesd

The first game of the third edition of the Indian Premier League will be played between the Deccan Chargers and the Kolkata Knight Riders. The match will be played at the Dr. D Y Patil ground, after security concerns back in Hyderabad pushed the game out of Chargers' home town. The g

The Kiwis swamped the Bangladesh side in both the T20I, and the three ODIs and now, the action will move to the longer variety of the game. this, incidentally is also the least favoured variety of the game for the Bangladeshis, and outside of their own country they have struggled t

The auction for the third season of the Indian Premier League was meant to be a light affair without much hype. However, it turned out to be a much spoken about event, what with three of the performers getting paid a huge sum of money, apart from the fact that Pakistan did not have a single

97 international cricketers had registered themselves for the IPL auction list for the third season of the tournament. This included 26 players from Pakistan, apart from those from Ireland, Netherlands and even Canada. Zimbabwe had two representations in Ray Price and Murray Goodwin, the latte

New Zealand pace bowler Shane Bond has decided to hang up his boots from the Test match format of the game. He announced his decision to retire from the test matches, and continue playing in the ODIs and the T20Is in order to prolong his career. Bond had been injured and was struggling to make

The fast bowling department of most teams around the world is continuously getting eroded due to the perpetual injuries that the leading men find themselves inflicted with. With four bilateral series going on in parallel, there is not a single series which does not have its own share of fast b

The second test match of Pakistan's 'home' test series against New Zealand will be played in Wellington. New Zealand leads the series 1-0 after beating Pakistan in the first game at Dunedin in a close and a thrilling game that would augur well for all those who fear that test match cricket is

Pakistan will play New Zealand in the first match of the three test match series at Dunedin on Tuesday. This series comes closely on the heels of the three ODIs and the two T20Is that had been played between the two sides in the Middle East. The ODI series had been won by the Kiwis, whereas th

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

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 third leg of New Zealand's tour of Sri Lanka will start from Tuesday, as the two nations face each other in the first game of the Compaq Cup tri-series. India is the third country in the tournament and will face Sri Lanka and New Zealand in the other two games before the finals on next Mon

After putting it across Sri Lanka rather unexpectedly in the first T20I, New Zealand will look to go into the second game as the favourites to win the series on the same venue; the Premadasa Stadium in Colombo. Sri Lanka, on the other hand, will look to correct their mistakes of the previous g

As is often the case, the change in format, could just bring a change in fortunes for one team. New Zealand, who were swamped aside in the test matches, will look heavenward in the hopes that the T20Is will get them a better of the results, especially given that the Kiwis are a side which cons

Players who were associated with the unsanctioned ICL and wanted a release from their contracts were in for a major relief. The league in a statement made said that it had decided to release 50 such cricketers who can then be eligible for selection for their respective countries. Amongst those

A new challenge beckons Bangladesh when they host New Zealand at home hoping to break the run of consecutive one day victories in the opening clash of the three match Bangladesh New Zealand one day series, starting Thursday 9th October 2008. Bangladesh have struggled in recent times and their

New Zealand will be hoping to wrap up the five match One day series against England with a thumping victory in Hamilton this upcoming Thursday to take an unassailable 3-0 lead in the series. New Zealand have belied all the form books to produce two marvelous performances to go 2-0 up in

England will be looking to continue their recent away One Day international form as they look to put one across new Zealand in the upcoming England New Zealand one day series to played in across different venues this month. England come into this series on the back of their first one day

Indian Cricket League were targetting New Zealand express fast bowler Shane Bond, a report said today. The ICL, who have already been looking to sign up Test captain Stephen Fleming, were offering the pace ace a "staggering" sum to play in the unauthorised Twenty-20 tournament in

Riding on his two centuries against Bangladesh, Sachin Tendulkar jumped back in the top-20 of the latest LG-ICC Player Rankings for Test cricket batsmen. The 34-year-old veteran player scored a hundred in each match, at Chittagong and Mirpur, compiling a total of 254 runs at an average of

Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene won the toss and elected to bat first in their World Cup semi-final against New Zealand at Sabina Park in Kingston, Jamaica today. Sri Lankans were 13 runs for one in the third over of their inning. Opener Jayasuriya was clean bowled by James Franklin on

Indian cricketers continued their free fall in the ICC ODI Rankings with stumper Mahendra Singh Dhoni dropping two places to eighth and skipper Rahul Dravid slipping one spot to 14th in the latest list. The other Indians in the list also dropped down with Yuvraj Singh barely maintaining h

Full marks to New Zealand for beginning their maiden World Cup hunt with roaring confidence notwithstanding some worrying moments during the onset of chasing a modest total of 207 set by the English team. Kiwis are a very strong contender for the World Cup this time around as they are riding h

Rahul Dravid and his men may have their concerns with injuries and form, but Pakistani legend Abdul Qadir believes India are "favourites" while Australia will fail to reach the semi-final of the World Cup in the Caribbean. The former leg-spinner said India had more strengths than we

New Zealand crushed Australia by 10 wickets in the first Chappell Hadlee one day match in Wellington on Friday. Shane Bond captured five wickets for 23 runs as New Zealand bowled the Australians out for just 148 inside the 50 overs. Mike Hussey top-scored for the visitors with 42.