Virender Sehwag scored the fastest triple-hundred in Test cricket history as India battered the South African attack on day three of the first Test at Chennai.
Sehwag finished unbeaten on 309 as India piled up 468-1 in reply to the Proteas’ first innings total of 540.
The 29-year-old, who made 309 against Pakistan at Multan in 2004, [...]
Sri Lanka clinched a 121-run win, their first ever in the West Indies, with just 40 balls of the first Test to spare in Guyana.
Chasing an unlikely victory target of 437, the West Indies started the final day on 96-1, requiring a further 341, and realistically the aim was to use the nine wickets left [...]
Hashim Amla’s 159 allowed South Africa to post a first innings total of 540 in the first Test against India.
India openers Wasim Jaffer and Virender Sehwag shared an unbroken stand of 82 to reduce their side’s deficit to 458 by the close of day two.
The Proteas used the first 62.5 overs on Thursday to extend [...]
India vice-captain Mahendra Dhoni and off-spinner Harbhajan Singh have both been declared fit ahead of the Test series against South Africa which starts next week.
Wicketkeeper Dhoni, who is also India’s limited overs captain, suffered a finger strain after playing in all the matches contested on their recent tour of Australia.
Harbhajan had been suffering a hamstring [...]
England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff took two wickets when he bowled for the first time since undergoing a fourth operation on his left ankle on Wednesday.
Flintoff, who made 39 with the bat on his return for Lancashire against Essex on Sunday, completed five overs in two spells against Sussex in his side’s third game of the [...]
India captain Anil Kumble says Gary Kirsten will be a great help as their new coach when he takes up his role for the series against his own nation South Africa.
The Proteas play three Tests in India and former South Africa batsman Kirsten will be able to use his knowledge of his own country to [...]
Former India captain Sourav Ganguly wants to emulate the recent one-day success of team-mate Sachin Tendulkar and prove his worth in the shorter form of the game.
Tendulkar inspired India to a brilliant Commonwealth Bank Series win in Australia, scintillating knocks of 117 and 91 in the opening two clashes of the best-of-three final ensured success [...]
India have included MS Dhoni and Harbhajan Singh in their 14-man squad for the first two Tests against South Africa, but young paceman Ishant Sharma has missed out.
India take on the Proteas in the opening Test in Chennai on March 26, and they have given two of their more experienced stars every chance to prove [...]
South Africa’s Imtiaz Patel will take over as the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) new chief executive in the summer.
Malcolm Speed is set to step down from the post in June and Patel has beaten off competition from former India cricket chief Inderjit Singh Bindra to replace the Australian.
“There was an absolute consensus on his choice,” [...]
Ricky Ponting gave his team a “kick in the backside” during a team meeting after the six-wicket loss in the first final and asked the players to pinpoint areas to improve for Tuesday’s sudden-death encounter at the Gabba. Ponting expected the side to lift after their loss against Sri Lanka on Friday, but the [...]
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