Cricket News

The much-feared rains stayed away and there was finally some cricketing action in the city after three high-profile contests were almost completely washed out last week.

Playing age-group cricket till last week, the 17-year-old left-arm spinner finds himself in the state's Ranji squad Vikas Mishra's cricket journey was following the trail of any other player, climbing the ladder through the grinds of age-group categories.

In his first competitive game since April, Cheteshwar Pujara hit an unbeaten 52 as Saurashtra put on 236 for the loss two wickets against Maharashtra.

A strong batting display by Chandigarh College of Engineering and Technology (CCET) saw them trounce Gobindgarh Public College, Alour by seven wickets in the final match to win the Panjab University Inter-College Cricket (Men) B-Division championship held at the PU grounds on Tuesday.

You could see it in the way he was running in — focused, scheming, happy to help. You could tell just how much Zaheer Khan had missed playing for India from the way he celebrated — childlike, clapping his hands, sprinting to his team mates with an impish grin plastered on his face. Even so, the scoreboard at the end of the day indicated that India had missed him much more.

The unseasonal downpour on Monday ended up ruining an entire day for well over 8000 citizens of Ghaziabad, who had gathered for first day's play of the UP-Baroda Ranji Trophy match.

As the teams retired after the day's play, the visitors' dressing room was markedly more animated than the hosts, and with enough justification.

The ugliness of his dismissal was in sharp contrast to the innings Tillakaratne Dilshan had played. Zaheer Khan, bowling round the wicket, put all he had into a bouncer which hit the deck hard and jumped over the batsman's right shoulder.

In a move that is bound to have far-reaching implications, the eight franchisees of the Indian Premier League (IPL) have decided to come together and form their own union with a view to provide a forum to address their grievances.

Bengal stumper Deep Dasgupta will be up against the selectors' axe if he fails to perform commendably against Karnataka at Mysore.

Durham paceman Liam Plunkett was called up by England on Tuesday as injury cover for the first two one-day internationals (ODIs) against South Africa.

Sri Lankan centurion Tillakaratne Dilshan attributed his improvement as an international batsman to his decision to convert into an opener.

Opener Tillakaratne Dilshan stroked his fifth test century of the year for Sri Lanka who reached 275 for three in reply to India's 426 at the close on the second day of the first test on Tuesday.

Paceman Thilan Thushara will miss the reminder of Sri Lanka's tour of India because of a shoulder injury, his country's cricket board said on Tuesday.

Opener Tillakaratne Dilshan helped Sri Lanka make a strong start in reply to India's first-innings total of 426 with a sparkling half-century on the second day of the first test at the Motera on Tuesday.

Sri Lanka were 155 for one at tea in reply to India's first-innings 426 on the second day of the first test on Tuesday.

Riding on individual performances and still struggling to work together as a team, hosts Punjab are set to face a tough Tamil Nadu in the important Ranji Trophy encounter that kicks off here on Tuesday.

Uttar Pradesh take on Baroda in their Super League Group ?B? Ranji Trophy encounter at the Mohan Meakins Ground in Ghaziabad from Monday.

The Ranji Trophy match that starts here on Tuesday features the top two teams of Elite Division Group B, but there is possibly a bigger gap between Karnataka and Bengal than the measly two points that separate them now.

Sachin Tendulkar began his 21st year in international cricket with a cracking cover drive. The 36-year-old dispatched the relatively wide delivery and the Sardar Patel erupted in applause in anticipation. But two balls later Chanaka Welegedara brought one in from just outside the off stump to gate crash the party and stun the crowd into silence.