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Rested for the game after already having qualified for the knock-outs stage, L Vignesh — Tamil Nadu Under-22's fast bowler - screamed out in Tamil to off-spinner M Prabhu who was fielding at long-off.

DDCA's under-22 selection committee drafts in inexperienced players, says changes will help 'improve the squad' In the first of their two do-or-die matches, the noose around the Delhi under-22 team's neck tightened to a choking grip on Wednesday as the team reeled to 187 for the loss of eight wickets on Day One in the CK Nayudu tournament against Tamil Nadu at the St.

Brett Lee's comment about India being an unpredictable ODI team in the build-up to the seven-match series may have taken quite a few by surprise.

His former team, Tamil Nadu, are playing Railways in their Super League match in Delhi. The side he was to represent this year, Rajasthan, are involved in a Plate Division tussle against Assam in Guwahati. He himself is sitting at home, unsure of when he will step on to a cricket field next.

Twelve-year-old Sarfaraz Khan was batting on 235 when stumps were drawn in his Harris Shield match on Monday evening.

Led by a fine knock of 41 runs from Prashant Chopra and superb bowling from Yugnik (4 for 21), Panchkula Coaching Center, defeated Gurgaon Cricket Center by seven wickets to lift the Ram Lal Taneja Memorial Inter-Centre Haryana Cricket Tournament at Gurgaon cricket ground on Wednesday.

If Mumbai thought dismissing Punjab for 259 was a job well done, they were in for a surprise at the Sector 16 stadium here.

Murali Vijay's unbeaten half-century consolidated Tamil Nadu's position as the visitors reached 150 for two after bundling out Railways for 327 on the second day of their Group A match.

Riding high on Aseem's all-round performance (48 and 2 for 20), DAV Police Line, Ambala, thrashed SCA Cricket Academy, Rajasthan, by seven wickets in a match during the first BK Sharma Memorial Cricket Tournament U-14 at BTS Cricket Academy , Sector 48, on Wednesday.

Abhishek Jhunjhunwala missed out on what would have been a well-deserved century on his comeback after an ICL stint, but fell five runs short when trying to reach the mark in style.

Twenty20 seems to have finally paid off for Farman Ahmed's three-year long struggle to get into days cricket.

A day after the Services team apologised for pulling out of a Ranji Trophy match in Srinagar on security grounds, Minister of State for Defence MM Pallam Raju has said that the decision not to play at the Sher-e-Kashmir Stadium was "unfortunate" and taken at a "lower level".

There was only one team that looked equipped to bag an outright win on the Motibaug wicket, and Delhi, surprisingly, seemed to settle for an anti-climax despite dominating proceedings for the second day running in their Ranji Trophy Elite group opener against Baroda.

Chandigarh, Nov 4 (IANS) A middle-order collapse left champions Mumbai struggling at 244 for seven against Punjab on the second day of their Ranji Trophy Super League match at the Sector-16 Punjab Cricket Stadium at Chandigarh Wednesday.

England must improve their consistency to have a realistic chance of beating South Africa in their five match one-day international (ODI) series, all-rounder Luke Wright said.

Australia suffered another injury setback ahead of Thursday's fifth one-dayer against India with all-rounder Moises Henriques ruled out of the remainder of the series with a hamstring injury.

Jammu, Nov 4 (ANI): Union Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram on Wednesday expressed his displeasure over the Services team, representing the armed forces, pulling out of the Ranji Trophy match in Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir.

New Delhi, Nov 4 (IANS) Cricket and tennis thought to be the sports where performance-enhancing drugs would not work. The myth has been broken in tennis and cricket, too, has had its share of doping cases leading to the International Cricket Council (ICC) signing the re-drafted World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) code in January.

Mohali/Hyderabad, Nov.4 (ANI): Australian left-arm fast bowler Doug Bollinger says that after his three wicket haul in the fourth one-day international against India in Mohali, Chandigarh, he is confident about scaling new heights in international cricket.

Hyderabad, Nov.4 (ANI): After fast bowler Peter Siddle, yet another of Australia's bowlers, Moises Henriques, has been sidelined with a hamstring injury and he will miss Thursday's fifth ODI against India in Hyderabad.