Cricket Pulse

PCB has finally found solution to the security concerns back home. UAE to be ‘home’ venue for Pakistan after PCB decides to hold all home matches for Pakistan in Dubai now in the wake of terrorist strikes in the country.
It has signed a three-year agreement to play its home One-Day Internationals and Twenty20 matches at [...]

Munaf Patel’s four-wicket haul enabled Rest of India take the upperhand against Delhi on Day 2 of the Irani Trophy match at the Reliance Stadium in Vadodara on Thursday. The 25-year-old Baroda pace bowler claimed four wickets for 31 runs as Delhi were dismissed for 177 in their first innings, in reply to Rest of [...]

Delhi’s pacers Ishant Sharma and Pradeep Sangwan took three wickets apiece as Rest of India were dismissed for a disappointing 252 in their first innings on day one of the Irani Trophy tie in Vadodara on Wednesday.
India’s Test team captain Anil Kumble had billed the match as an important part of preparation for the upcoming [...]

If Ishant Sharma started the rot, it was Pradeep Sangwan who forced Rest of India into the rut and the left-arm Delhi pacer says nothing really matched the feeling of scalping the wicket of Mahendra Singh Dhoni in the Irani Cup tie here on Wednesday.
It was akin to banging head against brick wall in the [...]

Rajasthan Royals, the winners of the inaugural Indian Premier League, could soon be going public. According to sources, the owners of the team, Emerging Media, have decided to float some equity in the market and get listed on the stock exchange.
While the sources couldn’t confirm under what name the listing will be done, they said [...]

He may have performed like a “general” to lead India to victory at Lords in 1983 but will have to remain satisfied with the rank of a Lt-Colonel quarter of a century later. But this time, instead of the staid “whites”, he will be donning the real olive-green uniform, with epaulettes and all.
Legendary cricketer Kapil [...]

Cricket is finally getting noticed in Italy, more than 100 years after it helped introduce soccer to the country.
A group of British expatriates set up Genoa Cricket and Athletic Club in the Italian port in 1893 and it was only when English doctor James Richardson Spensley joined a few years later that soccer was added [...]

Yuvraj Singh will lead BCCI’s President’s XI team against Australia while S Badrinath will be his deputy for the four-day warm-up match, to be played at Hyderabad from October 2 to 5.
Parthiv Patel will be the wicket-keeper in the 15-member squad, according to a statement issued by BCCI secretary Niranjan Shah on Tuesday.
The selectors appointed [...]

The Irani Trophy is very popular with cricket lovers in the country and is followed with keen interest. Leading cricketers participate in the competition and it is often a kind of selection trial to pick the Indian team for the tours in the upcoming seasons.
Live cricket score of Irani Trophy 2008 between Rest of India [...]

India will play a Test and a ODI in Rawalpindi on their tour of Pakistan early next year despite the latest bombing in adjoining Islamabad, official said on Tuesday.
The blast on Saturday evening devastated the five-star Marriott hotel and killed at least 60 people, including at least four foreigners.
“India will play a Test and a [...]