50 overs India 319 for 5 (Tendulkar 138, Yuvraj 56*, Dhoni 56) beat Sri Lanka 272 (Kandamby 66, Harbhajan 5-57) by 46 runs
Scorecard and ball-by-ball details. How they were out!
The ghost of the R Premadasa lights was almost buried tonight. Sachin Tendulkar’s master class, not far off his best, his 86th international century, almost became [...]

Indian batsman Virender Sehwag has said he doesn’t want to lead the team and suggested that a new face be given the vice-captain’s responsibility, so that he can be groomed to take over the reins after captain MS Dhoni.
“I don’t want to be a captain, I have already told selectors about it. I have said [...]

Sachin Tendulkar came up with a new proposal to save the 50-over format from the Twenty20 wave which threatens its existence, suggesting that one-day matches be split into four innings of 25-overs-a-side.
“I am for 50-over cricket. I think we should have 25 overs a side to start with. I thought of this during the 2002 [...]

LONDON — England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff will be on crutches for at least six weeks after undergoing surgery on his damaged right knee.
The England and Wales Cricket Board said Tuesday that the 31-year-old Flintoff had microfracture surgery in London on Monday night.
The operation addressed an injury that ruled him out of one of England’s five [...]

LONDON — England regained the Ashes with a 197-run win over Australia in the fifth and final Test at the Oval here on Sunday.
Victory, achieved with more than a day to spare, saw England take the five-match series 2-1.
Australia, set what would have been a record fourth innings victory total of 546, were bowled out [...]

Virender Sehwag, the India batsman who is undergoing rehabilitation after a shoulder injury, has targeted next month’s Champions Trophy for a return. Sehwag missed the World Twenty20 in June due to the injury, sustained during the semi-final of the IPL.
He was operated on June 11, and was expected to be ruled out for 12 to [...]

Sachin Tendulkar has said he is not satisfied with his achievements and hopes to accumulate 15,000 runs and win the World Cup in 2011.
“I am not pleased yet with what I have done,” Tendulkar, who has scored a record 12773 Test runs at an average of 54.58 from 159 matches, said in an interview with [...]

England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff announced on Wednesday that he will retire from Test cricket after the Ashes series against Australia because of his ongoing struggle with injuries.
The 31-year-old Flintoff is still determined to feature in the four remaining Tests of the current series _ despite aggravating a knee injury during the drawn first Test against [...]

Pakistan 139 for 2 (Afridi 54*, Akmal 37) beat Sri Lanka 138 for 6 (Sangakkara 64*, Mathews 35*, Razzaq 3-20) by eight wickets
It wasn’t the edge-of-the-seat final that would have signed off the ICC World Twenty20 in style, but that won’t matter to Pakistan who gave their nation a something to savour amid troubled [...]

Pakistan captain Younus Khan on Sunday dedicated the team’s World Twenty20 triumph to the terror-stricken nation, calling it the defining moment of his captaincy.
“This triumph came at the right time and it’s our gift to the people back in Pakistan,” an emotional Younus said after his teammates beat Sri Lanka by eight wickets to lift [...]

Oh yes, cricket will be included in the 2010 Asian games in China. Twenty-20 format will be used.
Isn’t it a a good news? Olympics is not far away from cricket now.
Another thing, don’t you think that cricket should also be included in the 2010 commonwealth games in New Delhi , India?
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Sunday, November 02, 2008 (New Delhi)
India captain Anil Kumble announced his retirement from the Test cricket after the third Test against Australia in New Delhi.
Kumble said after the completion of the Kotla Test that he had taken the decision on Saturday.
“It was a tough decision when you have played 18 years of cricket and been [...]

The one-Test ban imposed on Gautam Gambhir on Friday evoked a mixed reaction from former cricketers with some of them describing the punishment as “harsh” while others justifying it, saying offences related to physical contact need to be dealt with strictly.
While Mohinder Amarnath felt the ban was harsh, others like Ravi Shastri, Ian Chappell and [...]

Former India captain Sourav Ganguly is to retire after the upcoming Test series against Australia in India.
Ganguly, 36, has played 109 Tests, 49 as captain, amassing 6,888 runs at an average of 41.74, including 15 hundreds and 34 fifties.
The 21 matches won during his tenure as skipper is an Indian record.
India’s selectors picked Ganguly in [...]

Captain Ricky Ponting (5) continued to come a cropper in India as Australia floundered against Rajasthan Cricket Association’s Centre of Excellence team in a two-day practice match, folding up for 218 on the first day.
Home team left-arm spinner Gajendra Singh was the wrecker-in-chief returning with five for 58 including the prized scalps of Ponting, who [...]