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

The Indian government has categorically denied having any role behind the IPL auctions that were held in Mumbai saying that the IPL was a private event and they had no say in its functioning. None of the 11 Pakistani cricketers in the IPL auction were finally selected and that led to the voice

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

India will play Sri Lanka in the final of the tri-series tournament at Dhaka. Both the sides, India and Sri Lanka won three out of their four games in the league stages of the tournament before making it to the final. Between the two teams, Sri Lanka had beaten India in the first game that the

India will play Sri Lanka in the fifth league game of the tri-series. So far, Sri Lanka has won all their three games that they have played in whereas India has won one and lost one. Bangladesh has lost all three and will face India in their last game on Monday. A win here for Sri Lanka will

The fourth game of the tri-series will see Bangladesh play Sri Lanka at Dhaka. It will be a very important for the Bangladeshis as a win here can make their chances of qualifying for the finals a less-distant possibility as compared to a Sri Lankan win, who have already, almost gone through to

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 first match of the tri-series in Bangladesh will be played between the hosts and the Sri Lankans. India is the third team in the competition and the three teams will be involved in a two round, round-robin tournament. The top two sides at the end of the tournament will play in the finals.

The fifth and the final ODI between India and Sri Lanka will be played at the Feroz Shah Kotla in Delhi. However, with the series having already been decided, the game will be rendered for almost academic purposes only; India leading 3-1 in the series with one to play. Despite having already

India will face Sri Lanka in the fourth ODI of the series at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata. India leads the series 2-1 and will be looking to finish off the series by winning this game, whereas Sri Lanka will make sure that the Indians do not have it easy and try to take the series into the fift

The third ODI between India and Sri Lanka will be played at Cuttack in the Barbati Stadium. It will be a day-night game, and with the teams tied at one game apiece, this match will assume great importance as a win for either team will mean that the other side will have to win two successive ga

Sri Lanka has been dealt a body blow when it was announced that their star spinner, Muthiah Muralitharan has failed to recover from his finger injury and will miss the rest of the ODI series against India. He will be flying back to have his finger examined and reassessed by doctors and if need

The second ODI between India and Sri Lanka will be held at Nagpur on Friday. India had just about scraped through the first game by a wafer thin margin of three runs after having piled up 414 batting first. And with Nagpur having had shown its penchant for some big runs, it may not be too diff

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

The second and the final T20I between India and Sri Lanka will be played at Mohali. Sri Lanka had won the first T20I by beating India by 29 runs at Nagpur, and the side will now look to drill home the advantage by making it 2-0 at Mohali. India, on the other hand, will look to stall the four m

India has got to the top of the test playing world by beating the Sri Lankan side by an innings in the third and the final test match at Brabourne. India, in the process, also managed to win the series rather easily by a margin of two games to zero. The Indians needed not more than 30 minute

India will play Sri Lanka in the first of the two T20Is on Wednesday at Nagpur. The second game will be played on Saturday at Mohali. The Indians will be on a high after having achieved the number one slot after having beaten the Sri Lankans rather easily by an innings in two successive games.

Indian pace bowler, Irfan Pathan, has said that he has been very impressed and inspired by the return to international cricket of S. Sreesanth and hoped that he would be able to do the same in the near future. He said that his optimism stemmed from the fact that he was now playing domestic cri

India will take on Sri Lanka in the third test match of the series at Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai. This is the first ever game that will be held on this ground after almost 35 years, and with the series poised at 1-0 in favour of the Indians, it looks like it could be a venue for a very exciti

The Green Park Stadium Kanpur is the venue of the second test match between India and Sri Lanka. It is also a venue which has had a lot of talk surrounding it in the recent past, especially after the first game of the series in Ahmedabad had ended in a high-scoring draw, with only 21 wickets

The second test match between India and Sri Lanka will be played at the Green Park in Kanpur. The first game at Ahmedabad ended in a draw as the two teams failed to make any inroads on a pitch that was anything but bowling-friendly. India will understand that the pitch could hold the key to th

India will face Sri Lanka in the first test match of the three test match series at Ahmedabad. The game will begin on the 16th of November. The Indians will go into the series having just lost a seven match ODI series to Australia after they had gone into the series as favourites. This means

The ICC has announced the World Cup schedule for the 2011 edition in Mumbai. According to this schedule, India will open the campaign against Bangladesh at Mirpur on the 19th of February. India will play the remaining five of its league stage games in India itself. Sri Lanka will have a new

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

The second match of the Super Sunday will see Centurion play host to South Africa and England in what will be a knock-out game for the hosts. Given that England has played only one match and won that encounter against Sri Lanka, a loss would still allow them to make a comeback against New

The fourth game of the tournament will have the English and the Sri Lankans fight it out at the Wanderers in Johannesburg. Sri Lanka will go into the game having played one match so far and won that game against South Africa, whereas it will be the first game for the English, who have only jus

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

The Pakistan Cricket Board President, Ijaz Butt has said that there was a chance that the bilateral series between India and Pakistan will be revived on neutral grounds. He said that the Indian side had agreed to playing the Pakistanis on the neutral venues, and the ICC has agreed to factor th

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

India will face Sri Lanka in the finals of the tri-nation Compaq Cup at the RPS in Colombo, after the hosts had beaten the visitors in a dress-rehearsal to the finals. In that last league game, Sri Lanka thrashed India by a whopping margin of 139 runs, and would have seriously dented the India