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 12 October 2023
World champions India will resume their battle with World Twenty20 winners England for top ranking in the ODI Championship table when the two sides lock horns in the one-day series starting in Hyderabad on Friday. India are currently ranked fifth, just a rating point behind England who are placed in the fourth position and [...]
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
A downcast Indian captain MS Dhoni has admitted that while the team is not just going through the motions, nothing really has come together for the side on this tour of England. India lost the rain-curtailed, 23-over-a-side second ODI by seven wickets at the Rose Bowl on Tuesday as England chased down the stiff target [...]
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 30 August 2023
England paceman Tim Bresnan on Tuesday said they are looking to hit India hard in the upcoming one-day series as they aim to inflict another whitewash on the hapless World Champion side. India will go into the five-match ODI series, starting September 3, without five of their World Cup heroes due to injuries. Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh [...]
Posted on 29 August 2023
Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni could be suffering from “sore hands” causing his wicketkeeping to deteriorate on the present England tour, is the verdict of former England wicketkeeper Paul Nixon. “It looks like he has sore hands. He’s too proud a guy to show it but he has sore hands. Otherwise, he is very aggressive [...]