LONDON - Cricket’s newest format returns to its birthplace when England hosts the World Twenty20 with the event kicking off a bumper summer which includes one of the sport’s oldest combats, the Ashes.
LONDON - Cricket’s newest format returns to its birthplace when England hosts the World Twenty20 with the event kicking off a bumper summer which includes one of the sport’s oldest combats, the Ashes.
MUMBAI - India’s hopes of retaining the World Twenty20 title next month were boosted on Friday with news that pace bowler Zaheer Khan was expected to recover from injury before the second group game.
LONDON - Australia captain Ricky Ponting warned England on Friday they would be taking a gamble if they played a half-fit Andrew Flintoff in the Ashes series starting in Cardiff on July 8.
LONDON - Security concerns following the armed attack on the Sri Lanka team in Lahore in March forced captain Kumar Sangakkara to cancel a speaking engagement in Oxford last Friday.
KARACHI - Pakistan are confident that a tough conditioning camp and psychological counselling will make up for a lack of playing time and prepare the team for a serious assault on the Twenty20 World Cup in England.
KARACHI - When Pakistan won the 1992 World Cup, Mohammad Aamir was not even born.
PARIS - The sleepy octagenerians of Lord’s might struggle to grasp it, but there’s more to women’s cricket than scantily-clad dancers at the IPL or admirable sponge cakes in English village pavillions.
LONDON- New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori said he expected spin to play a major role in the upcoming World Twenty20 in England.
LONDON - England captain Paul Collingwood said his side had to be “brave” if they were to win the World Twenty20 even though fitness doubts surround star batsman Kevin Pietersen, their boldest player.
LONDON - Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara said that while life for his side would not be the same after the attack on their team bus in Pakistan it would not stop them from playing international cricket.