After a month long break, international cricket gets underway when India host Australia in the first of the four match test series this coming Thursday in Bangalore. Both these sides are right atop the test cricket ratings and with all the rivalry and past history coming into the fra

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

India will be hoping to make the most of a fine performance in the second One Dayer when they come up against Sri Lanka in the third One Dayer of the ongoing five match Sri Lanka India cricket One Day series this coming Sunday 24th August 2008. The series is intriguingly poised at 1-1 and wi

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

With no certain word still on Sachin Tendulkar's Indian Premier League debut tomorrow, Kings XI Punjab will be eager to take the opportunity to clinch an elusive win at home turf against Mumbai Indians here. The Yuvraj Singh-led Punjab team, having lost both its matches -- against Chenna

India will be hoping to make a dent on Sri Lanka's CB tournament aspirations with a victory in the second one dayer at the Gabba barely two days after the conclusion of the first one dayer at the same venue. India are a couple of paceman short after key injuries to R.P Singh and Zaheer K

The BCCI took a great step ahead in the launching of its mega million dollar new 20-20 domestic cricket structure aptly named the Indian Premier League with the naming of the eight city franchises and their owners, a mix of the biggest names in business and Bollywood. The auction con

Virender Sehwag was the star show for an Indian batting lineup that flayed the ACT XI attack to all parts of the ground in their recently concluded 3 day match up against the ACT XI line up. The flamboyant dasher from Najafgarh made his intentions clear from the very first over itself an

Australian quick Stuart Clark said his team had done adequate homework on how to decimate the Indian batting line-up and the result was there before all to see. "Most of the guys have those PSPs, the portable Play-stations, but I take my laptop with me everywhere we go. "

India's star middle order batsman Yuvraj Singh faces a disciplinary hearing with Match Referee Mike Proctor for showing dissent after his dismissal in the Boxing Day Test against Australia. Umpire Billy Bowden ruled Yuvraj caught behind off Stuart Clark yesterday, a decision that fai

India very nearly snatched a dramatic victory in the third and final cricket Test against Pakistan but their late bid to push for a historic 2-0 series triumph was thwarted by bad light here today. After setting a stiff victory target of 374 in 48 overs, the Indians had the visitors gaspi

Showering accolades on Yuvraj Singh, Sri Lankan cricketing great Aravinda de Silva described the middle order batsman as the Brian Lara of India. Admiring Yuvraj's entertaining batsmanship, de Silva expressed surprise that a player of his calibre was being kept out of the Test eleven.

A majestic century against Pakistan may have backed his claims for a permanent Test slot, but Yuvraj Singh today conceded that he still had some distance to cover before he can cement his place in the star-studded batting line-up. "It's difficult to get a chance in Tests because my

Yuvraj Singh, who failed to find a place in the Indian team for the first and second cricket Tests against Pakistan, was today released for playing Ranji Trophy matches for Punjab, BCCI sources said. Yuvraj will be seen playing against Bengal at Siliguri in the four-day elite group match w

Former Pakistani captain Aamer Sohail today joined the debate over Yuvraj Singh's exclusion from the Indian Test team, saying the middle-order batsman needed to have an edge over other contenders to cement his place in the side. Despite hitting match winning knocks in the recent one-day seri

Indian batsman Yuvraj Singh was fined 20 per cent of his match fee for showing dissent at the umpire's decision of giving him out during the fifth and final cricket one-dayer against Pakistan here. The punishment was handed down by ICC match referee Roshan Mahanama following a hearing after

A buoyant India will look to wrap up the five-match one-day cricket series against Pakistan when the arch rivals clash in the fourth tie which promises to be another high-scoring tussle here tomorrow. India displayed excellent temperament to win the previous match at Kanpur and take 2-1

Chief selector Dilip Vengsarkar may be drawing criticism for being too harsh to Rahul Dravid by dropping him from the squad for the first two ODIs against Pakistan, but the man on the hot seat insisted that he picked the team "purely on merit". "You cannot make everybody hap

Swashbuckling middle order batsman Yuvraj Singh today backed the decision of the International Cricket Council to cap the number of Twenty20 internationals played by a country in a calendar year. "It obviously feels great to be part of the winning team in the Twenty20 format, but it's

Their high-flying balloon of Twenty20 success pricked by Australia's back-to-back wins, India go into the fourth cricket one-dayer faced with the herculean task of winning four matches in a row to clinch the series. The task at hands seems all the more difficult with the Indians failing to

Yuvraj Singh's heroic 121 went in vain as a ruthless Australia maintained their stranglehold in the series with a comfortable 47-run victory over India in the third cricket one dayer here today. The formidable Australians rattled up 290 for seven and then bundled out the home team for 24

Having taken a 2-0 lead in the One-day series against India, Australian captain Ricky Ponting today warned his teammates to guard against complacency and said it was important to keep the heat on the home team. Ponting said the lead taken by his team would be "pretty handy" and i

Although the BCCI says that appointing a coach for the Indian cricket team is not necessary at the moment, vice-captain Yuvraj Singh feels the post should not be left vacant for long. The left-hander, who exhibited his exquisite form during India's title triumph in the Twenty20 World Cup i

India's World Cup winning cricketers returned to a tumultuous welcome today as an ecstatic nation rolled out the red carpet for the homecoming of their young heroes. The euphoria of the remarkable Twenty20 World Cup triumph spilled over onto the streets as the bustling metropolis virtually

Victorious Indian cricketers arrived here this morning to a tumultuous welcome following their triumph in the inaugural Twenty20 World Cup in Johannesburg. Thousands of cricket fans braved rain and waited for their heroes outside the CSI airport. Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh,

Ahead of the big final against acrhrivals Pakistan in the Twenty20 World Cup, Yuvraj Singh is confident of playing a big innings and is focused on his job, his father Yograj Singh said. "Yuvraj is concentrating and focusing like Arjun (in 'Mahabharat') for the all important final. The

Shahid Afridi leads the race for the Player of the Tournament award but tomorrow's final of the Twenty20 World Cup gives Yuvraj Singh, lone Indian in hot pursuit, yet another chance to pip the Pakistani to the honour. Afridi has so far polled seven votes to top the table, but there are s

His son may be blazing on the field but Yuvraj Singh's father says the player may have a feeling that he has been ignored for captaincy. Yograj said his son had not spoken to him even once on the issue, but as a father he felt that his son had been ignored in the matter. "Yuvraj Singh

The Indian team today heaved a sigh of relief with skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni exuding confidence that Yuvraj Singh will be fit for tomorrow's semifinal against Australia in the Twenty20 World Championship. Yuvraj missed the Super Eight encounter against South Africa yesterday due to an e

Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and decided to bat first as India, sans star middle order batsman Yuvraj Singh, go into a do-or-die match against South Africa in the Twenty20 cricket World Cup here today. After his heroics in yesterday's win against England which kept alive India's semif