A battered and bruised New Zealand, trailing 0-4, will hope for a reprieve when they take on India in the fifth and final match of the ODI series on Friday.
A battered and bruised New Zealand, trailing 0-4, will hope for a reprieve when they take on India in the fifth and final match of the ODI series on Friday.
England batsman Kevin Pietersen was booked for speeding in a Lamborghini arranged by his friend Shane Warne while driving back from a beach resort near Melbourne on Thursday, local police said.
MELBOURNE - Former Australia skipper Kim Hughes has slammed selectors for being ‘too precious’ with Australia’s bowlers and said resting dropped paceman Mitchell Johnson before a likely recall for the third Ashes test would be lunacy.
KARACHI - Former Pakistan captain and top batsman Javed Miandad has accepted an offer from the Pakistan Cricket Board to work as a batting and fielding consultant with the national team before the 2011 World Cup.
LAHORE, Pakistan — Pakistan hit top gear in preparing for next year’s World Cup with former great Javed Miandad giving special coaching to faltering batsmen in a week-long training camp that began Wednesday.
Legendary leg-spinner Shane Warne has labelled calls for his return to Test cricket in a bid to boost Australia’s flagging Ashes hope as ‘very flattering’.
MELBOURNE - With Australia’s Ashes campaign on the ropes after a crushing second test loss to England, local sports writers have resorted to trying to cajole 41-year-old legspinner Shane Warne out of retirement to save the cricket team in their hour of need.
Yusuf Pathan hammered a career-best 123 not out off just 96 balls as India pulled off a thrilling five-wicket win in the fourth one-day international against New Zealand on Tuesday.
The Australian cricket team collapsed to defeat before what could have been a potentially test-saving storm in Adelaide, but had little cover from the deluge of media criticism on Wednesday that greeted their 1-0 deficit to England in the Ashes series.
India beat New Zealand by five wickets with seven balls remaining in the fourth one-day international at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium on Tuesday.