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

The schedule for the Champions League of cricket tournament to be held in India in October has been announced. The 12 teams will play 23 games over a period of 16 days over three different venues in the tournament. The matches will be played in Bangalore, Hyderabad and Delhi, which are also

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 ICC announced the World T20 XI squad at the completion of the tournament, but none of the Indian players could make it to the final eleven. This was announced by the ICC at Lord's on Monday, along with the team for the women's World T20 XI as well. The captain of the men's team is the win

The Indian team to tour West Indies has been announced and although there have been many changes to it, the same has been on expected lines. India plays West Indies in four ODIs and one T20I starting from the 26th of June. Zaheer Khan has been rested because of his shoulder injury that he had

Pakistan will play South Africa in the first semi-finals of the ICC World T20 on Thursday at Trent Bridge, Nottingham to decide who will feature in the finals of this second edition. South Africa had topped Group E with a 100% win record, after beating England, West Indies and India in the

India and South Africa will meet in a dead rubber Super Eights game at Trent Bridge, Nottingham. India has already crashed out of the tournament following two successive losses in the second stage, while South Africa is through to the semi-finals. With not much at stake except pride for India,

West Indies take on South Africa at the Oval in a Group E clash of the Super Eights to decide who goes on the top of the group. Both the teams have already won their first game, with South Africa getting better of England, while West Indies shocking the Indians. The best part about the West

South Africa and New Zealand will play each other in an inconsequential group D game at Lord's after both the teams have already qualified for the Super Eights by beating Scotland. In fact, according to the new rules of ICC, New Zealand will be ranked as the number one team from their group an

South Africa will look to live up to their favourites tag when they take on Scotland in their first game of the ICC World T20 on Sunday at Oval in London. Scotland have already played one game and lost a high-scoring slog-fest to New Zealand. South Africa has gone about very quietly in the c

The inaugural Champions T20 league (that was put off in 2008 due to the terror attacks in Mumbai) will be held from October 8-23 in India, just after the Champions Trophy that's to be played in South Africa. Also, there have been a few changes made in the way the teams would be selected to pla

In an interesting development, the four Pakistani players who were suspended from participating in this year's IPL have planned to travel to South Africa to meet the tournament commissioner, Lalit Modi. The statement came from last year's purple cap holder Sohail Tanvir that the players would

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

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

Simon Taufel, the man officiating at the all-important end during the over when Yuvraj Singh hit the ICC award winning six sixes, said it was "quite an experience" watching the Indian unleash his array of strokes. "It was quite an experience," Taufel told reporters last ni

England will be hoping to continue their supreme form under new skipper Kevin Pietersen when they come up against South Africa in the fourth one dayer of the ongoing England vs South Africa five match One Day Series. England hold an unassailable 3-0 lead in the series and with the likes

Despite their historic 3-2 series-win against Sri Lanka, India has dropped to fifth place in the ICC ODI Championship table, released today. England replaced India at the fourth place and has second position within touching distance after winning three consecutive matches against South Af

England will be hoping for Kevin Pietersen to get his team off to rollicking start against Scotland before they come up against a tougher test in the form of South Africa in the upcoming five match England South Africa one-day series. England have blown hot and cold big time in recent months

England will be hoping to redeem themselves and avoid a first ever series defeat to South Africa when they come up against their high flying African neighbours this coming Wednesday July 30th in Birmingham. England are already 1-0 down in the four match series and any more setbacks here will h

After the unexpected draw in the first test match of this four test match series, both England and South Africa will be looking forward to the second match. The second test match between these two seemingly bitter rivals will begin on the 18th of July at 10:00 GMT. The teams have been in

Struggling players Yuvraj Singh and Irfan Pathan lost their places in India's Test squad today with the national selectors including ODI batsman Rohit Sharma and replacing an exhausted Mahendra Singh Dhoni with wicketkeeper-batsman Parthiv Patel for the three-match Test series in Sri Lanka lat

The Cricket Board has recommended India's ODI and Twenty20 captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni for the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, the highest honour for any sportsperson in the country. BCCI Chief Administrative Officer Ratnakar Shetty said the board has already forwarded its r

England will be hoping to continue their fine run in the test arena when they come up against a South African side in the first test of the three match England South Africa series this coming Thursday 10th July 2008 at the Lords in England. South Africa and England both have proved to be stron

West Indies will be hoping to kick start a revival with a test series victory over the mighty Australian test cricket team when the three match test series starting on the 22nd of May. The West Indies have not won a test series for over four years now and will be hard pressed to pick out

Mumbai Indians' hopes got a big shot in the arm when their icon player and captain Sachin Tendulkar today declared himself fully fit to play his first Indian Premier League match against Chennai Super Kings at Wankhede stadium here on May 14. "Yes I will be playing the match on May 14.

Catch up with all the action from India vs. South Africa live online with the help of the amazing India cricket services that are available here. The South African cricket team has been in tremendous form in this cricketing season. The team has been in tremendous touch and has been takin

Virender Sehwag, the swash buckling Indian opener played himself to form in the first test match between India and South Africa with a fine unbeaten knock of 309 of 272 balls. The opener smashed the entire proteas attack ball by ball and reached his triple ton in a record number of d

The upcoming India South Africa cricket test series has been hyped and anticipated as the battle between the two new forces of international cricket. Both these sides are in pine form and with a young generation of talent taking over from the old guard, one can be assured of a heavy

India will be hoping to continue their fine recent form in International cricket when they take on South Africa in the first of the upcoming three match test series in Chennai on the 26th of March 2008. This series pits the two inform teams in World cricket against one other in what

Bangladesh will be hoping to get the better over Ireland in the three match upcoming One Day Series at home. The Asian lions come into this clash on the back of some rather mediocre performances against the likes of New Zealand and South Africa and given the intense fan following at