LONDON - Bangladesh are confident their captain and finest player Shakib Al Hasan will recover from chickenpox in time to face England in the first test which starts at Lord’s next week.
LONDON - Bangladesh are confident their captain and finest player Shakib Al Hasan will recover from chickenpox in time to face England in the first test which starts at Lord’s next week.
DUBAI — Sharjah international midfielder Abdul Aziz Al Anbari (right) stepped down after handing over the captaincy of the team to Nawaf Mubarak. Al Anbari was touted as an effective and consistent playmaker, and a player who could make a difference in the midfield.
LONDON - Britain’s new Prime Minister David Cameron sent his congratulations to England’s World Twenty20 winning team Monday.
England won the World Twenty20 for its first world cricket title, beating Australia by seven wickets in final after Kieswetter hit 63 off 49 balls and Kein Pietersen 47 off 31 deliveries.
BRIDGETOWN - Australia Twenty20 captain Michael Clarke admitted his place was under threat after a poor run of form continued in a seven-wicket World Twenty20 final loss to England.
BRIDGETOWN - England ended their 35-year wait for a world title with victory over Australia in the Twenty20 World Cup on Sunday thanks to a retuned playing style and a surge in self-belief, skipper Paul Collingwood said.
SHARJAH — Ibsons CC produced a tidy all-round performance to beat Eurocon Alubond by 14 runs in the 36th Ten Sports Bukhatir League A Division Tournament, organized by the Sharjah Cricket Council, at the Sharjah stadium, a press release said.
Australia seek a world title treble while England will be chasing a first global one-day trophy when the old enemies meet in Twenty20 World Cup final in Barbados.
Sri Lanka and New Zealand will play only two Twenty20 matches in the first full internationals to take place in US because of sub-standard floodlights at the venue.
NEW DELHI - Suspended Indian Premier League boss Lalit Modi kept the Saturday deadline to respond to charges of corruption and indiscipline levelled by the country’s cricket board.