The first ODI between India and Australia will be played at Baroda on the 25th of October. Earlier, this game was planned to be held in Jaipur, but with the problems in the Rajasthan Cricket Associations between the incumbent and Lalit Modi, the match has been shifted to Baroda. The last time

The issue of captaincy and Virender Sehwag just does not seem to die down! Talking to the media Sehwag said that he thought that his Delhi and India team mate, Gautam Gambhir was good enough to be the captain of the Indian side in the future. Sehwag has said that Gambhir was the leading member

India and Pakistan will face-off in what should be one of the most interesting games of the Champions Trophy on Saturday at the Centurion. It will be a day-night match and will be played on a pitch which looks a little slow and sluggish, much more than what one would expect in South Africa.

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

With the first loss to Sri Lanka, in a game that the Kiwis should have won, their second game against India assumes proportions of the do-or-die kinds. In such a tournament, where each loss could end up ending the hopes of a team of making it into the finals, two successive losses will turn th

Current India vice-captain, Virender Sehwag has asked the selectors to not consider him for the captaincy of the Indian side. He has also requested them to discontinue with him as the deputy skipper to M.S.Dhoni, and get in a vice-captain who could probably be groomed into the role of a captai

According to reports, half of the Indian team had trained in Ferozshah Kotla in Delhi on Monday without any security cover that they had been so vehemently talking about during their recent stand-off with WADA. The players who trained at the Kotla were eight cricketers including the Indian s

John Buchanan has created a big controversy by naming some of the great Indian cricketers in his book, "The Future of Cricket: The Rise of Twenty20" as misfits for Twenty20 cricket. He said that Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Sourav Ganguly and VVS Laxman are not suited to play this s

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,

India will play their first game of the Super Eights against West Indies at Lord's in London on Friday. India had won both their league games - against Bangladesh and Ireland - before getting to the second round, while West Indies had upset Australia but were stream-rolled by Pakistan in their

The last group match of the first round of the ICC World T20 will see India take on Ireland at Trent Bridge in Nottingham. Both, India and Ireland have already qualified for the Super Eights by the virtue of having beaten Bangladesh in their opening games. The Indian team seems to have gone

After a rather heavy drubbing at the hands of India, Bangladesh will take on the third side in their group, Ireland, at Trent Bridge in Nottingham. And due to their loss to India, this becomes a must-win game for the Bangladeshis, as another defeat would mean that they will need to pack their

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