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There are talks as Wright as new Coach for KKR (Kolkota Knight Riders), he has good tuning with Ganguly,he was associated with India cricket for 5 years,and he did quite a good job. Do you think he can bring the dommed KKR to a better position? Source

As expected, heads are rolling in the Knight Riders camp following the team?s dismal performance in IPL 2. The first one on the chopping block is none other than head of cricket operations John Buchanan, the former Australia coach whose controversial stint, according to sources, is set to...

Given the frequency of terror strikes in both India and Pakistan and the unstable political situation in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, there is a possibility of the International Cricket Council (ICC) seriously considering a proposal to shift the 2011 cricket World Cup to Australia and New Zealand...

Mahendra Singh Dhoni's leadership qualities on Tuesday got a thumbs up from India's cricket coach Gary Kirsten who said the ODI skipper was now ready to take over the Test captaincy from Anil Kumble. "He (Dhoni) is ready for it (Test captaincy) but there is no need to rush as of now. Anil...

Private letters written by Don Bradman, largely to former Australian board chairman Bob Parish, have been discovered by Cricket Australia just days before his birth centenary on August 27. The subjects of the letters range from the ban on tours to South Africa during the apartheid era...

The inaugural Champions League Twenty20 will be played between December 3 and 10, instead of October, the organisers - the boards of India, Australia and South Africa - have announced. To accommodate the change, the first Test between Australia and South Africa in Perth has been pushed back from...

KOLKATA: A victim of an Anil Kumble snorter way back in the Asia Cup in 2000, Saba Karim had asked Parthiv Patel to wear a helmet against the spinner, an advice he ignored and paid for it with a bloodied nose. "I saw how Parthiv was hit on his nose (during the third and final Test against...

Kevin Pietersen's switch-hit has become a symbol of modern batting but new shots have always come into the game - and usually caused outrage The idea of the shovel shot is believed to have developed almost 100 years ago when an Australia Test wicketkeeper named Sammy Carter used the stroke...

The ICC has set up a committee to look at increasing its relevance in the proliferation of Twenty20 leagues and its role in managing such tournaments, Haroon Lorgat, its chief executive, told Cricinfo. It may even change existing rules to prevent its marginalisation, as national boards plan...

Cricket's clash of cultures is now more pronounced than ever, and money lies at the root India and England find themselves at opposite poles and the ICC won't be able to bring them together in a hurry. Cricket, like much else, can only be a product of the world it operates in. Few things...

Adam Gilchrist is leading a player push for Twenty20 to be included in the 2020 Olympics, believing it is an essential step in securing the game's global future. With the start of the Beijing event less than a week away, Gilchrist says the cricket "pipedream" is a "potential reality" following...

Whether or not to opt out of series in Pakistan must be left to players to decide for themselves individually No one can be blamed for not touring Pakistan, but there will be players with the nerve to accept the challenge. Once reluctant cricketers see that their country will be...

NEW DELHI: World cricket is facing a crisis because of issues ranging from terror attacks in Pakistan to the rebel ICL tournament, causing major concern among top players of a split along racial lines - though nobody's mentioning the R-word - and the end of the game as we know it. Voices in...

KARACHI: Shoaib Akhtar overcame yet another hurdle on his way to a much-anticipated international return in this September's Champions Trophy on Wednesday when he cleared a dope test alongside two dozen compatriots. A senior Pakistan Cricket Board official said that all the 25 cricketers...

The BCCI has rejected an offer from the ECB to join England's version of the Champions League to be held in Sharjah this October, Cricinfo has learnt. It's understood that David Collier, the chief executive of the ECB, invited the Indian board to join the ECB's tournament. However, the BCCI...

MELBOURNE: Even as the furor over safety in Pakistan during Champions Trophy was yet to calm down, Australia have raised new security concerns about their four-Test tour of Indian subcontinent in October after back-to-back serial bomb blasts rocked Bangalore and Ahmedabad last week. ( Watch )...

The BCCI-backed Champions League Twenty20 tournament will be played this year in India but may not feature a team from England, Lalit Modi, the IPL commissioner, has told Cricinfo. Modi's statement comes on a day the English press reported that the ECB, which has been at loggerheads with the...

COLOMBO: The first Test might be slipping out of India's grasp but there was some good news for the One-day team on Friday: Sachin Tendulkar, in all probability, will play the five-match ODI series against Sri Lanka. "Sachin hasn't told the selectors formally, but he will certainly be fit...

NEW DELHI: International Cricket Council (ICC) has expressed concern over multi-million dollar Indian Premier League (IPL) being susceptible to match-fixing because of twin reasons of excessive cash involved and the over-hype surrounding it. ICC General Manager (Cricket) Dave Richardson said...

One day & Test stats...very interesting...do read.... Improving & Never Improving players' stats. http://content-ind.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/current/story/362084.html