Posted on 20 October 2023
Former India captain Anil Kumble will submit his analysis on the disastrous tour of England to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) during his visit here for the one-off Twenty20 International between India and England on October 29, it is learnt. India suffered a humiliating 0-4 whitewash in the Test series, [...]
Posted on 08 September 2023
As the debate over excessive cricket taking its toll on the Indian team’s fortunes in England rages on, experts from the medical field believe that fatigue may be one of the reasons behind the visitors’ poor run in the series so far. “Chronic fatigue does have a bearing on the performance of a sports person,” said senior consultant [...]
Posted on 08 September 2023
It may have been a nightmarish tour on field but off the field, Indian cricketers had an evening to remember when they were felicitated by the Indo-British Parliamentarians Group for their historic World Cup triumph earlier this year. Britain’s former Foreign Secretary David Miliband presented a Crystal Cup to Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni at [...]
Posted on 07 September 2023
Captain Alastair Cook led from the front as England took a 1-0 lead in the one-day series with a seven wicket win over India at the Rose Bowl on Tuesday. After Saturday’s no result in Durham, Cook made 80 not out as England overhauled India’s total of 187-8 made in their 23 overs, with five [...]
Posted on 06 September 2023
Former England skipper Nasser Hussain feels the highly-lucrative Indian Premier League will entice and exhaust players unless it is carefully handled by cricket boards across the world. “I have seen IPL and I know what it means to the Indian public, they love it, British Indians love it. It’s a good tournament, but it will exhaust cricketers,” Hussain said. “There’s no [...]
Posted on 02 September 2023
Eoin Morgan and Jade Dernbach, England’s matchwinners in their jaunt to Ireland earlier in the week, once again produced their one-day best as England scraped home by six wickets in a tense Twenty20 against India at Old Trafford. Morgan made 49 from 27 balls to break the back of a stiff 166-run target, after Dernbach’s [...]
Posted on 02 September 2023
In yet another controversial remark, the former England skipper Nasser Hussain has equated some of the Indian fielders to donkeys during the Twenty20 match between India and England here on Wednesday. It happened during the fourth over while England was batting. During commentary, Hussain talked about the agility of some of the young Indian lads [...]
Posted on 31 August 2023
Jim Laker’s 19 wickets in one Test is a perpetual cricket record and on Wednesday India’s Rahul Dravid may follow suit with a debut and retirement from Twenty20 internationals (T20I) on the same day. India’s struggling batting dwindled further on the eve of their only Twenty20 game against England, when a concussed Gautam Gambhir [...]