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Cricket: Cook hits another ton in England win

England beat Pakistan by 20 runs in the second one-day international to lead 2-0 and grab at least a share of the series spoils on Wednesday. Skipper Alastair Cook scored a second successive century while Steve Finn and Ravi Bopara played [...]

Posted On : Feb, 16 2012 | Comments : 0

Pakistan v England – England's series report card

Andrew Strauss (150 runs at 25.0) Set the tone on the very first morning of the series with tentative footwork and an almost desperate shot to get out with 20 overs not yet bowled. He looked like a man coming back after a long lay-off and [...]

Posted On : Feb, 09 2012 | Comments : 0

Pakistan look for a whitewash over England

Captain Misbah-ul Haq believes routing world number one England 3-0 will be a big achievement but stressed his team will not take that extra pressure into the third and final Test in Dubai on Friday. No team has ever registered a clean sw [...]

Posted On : Feb, 03 2012 | Comments : 0

Pakistan bowlers puncture England

bowling has reinvented itself, crushing all best known batboys without compromises. Australia crushed India, while South Africa thrashed Sri Lanka and Pakistan just shattered all hopes of both England’s team and Indian sport strateg [...]

Posted On : Jan, 25 2012 | Comments : 0

Cricket: Pakistan lead England by 96 runs

Pakistan openers Mohammad Hafeez and Taufeeq Umar hit contrasting half-centuries to steer their team to a 96-run lead over England with three wickets in hand by stumps Wednesday on the second day of the first test. Led by Hafeez' [...]

Posted On : Jan, 19 2012 | Comments : 0

Online Cricket Betting: Strauss wants England to improve

Online cricket betting fans found out that Andrew Strauss, England captain, challenged his side to continue improving, as he told them: “getting to number one in the rankings is nothing.”Strauss’ men landed on Tuesday in [...]

Posted On : Jan, 10 2012 | Comments : 0

England series Pakistan’s toughest: Misbah

Pakistan skipper Misbah-ul Haq has said his side will focus on playing good cricket rather than just entertaining the crowd, ahead of the upcoming series against England in the United Arab Emirates. “The most important thing is to w [...]

Posted On : Jan, 03 2012 | Comments : 0

Cricket-England collapse hands India series sweep

Ravindra Jadeja and his spin colleagues bowled India to a 95-run victory over England in the fifth and final one-day international to complete a series sweep on Tuesday. A 129-run opening stand between Craig Kieswetter (63) and skipper [...]

Posted On : Oct, 26 2011 | Comments : 0

India crush England by 126 runs in first ODI

Ravindra Jadeja picked up three wickets with his part-time left-arm spin and off-break bowler Ravichandran Ashwin took three more as England, chasing a target of 301, were bundled out for 174 in 36.1 overs at the Rajiv Gandhi Internationa [...]

Posted On : Oct, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

England tour a bad dream: Srikkanth

Selection committee chairman Krishnamachari Srikkanth, whose tenure has been extended by the BCCI, feels the England tour was a "bad dream" and it is time for Indian cricket to move on. "I'm thankful to the BCCI for ext [...]

Posted On : Sep, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Jonny Bairstow stands out for inclusion in England's one-day...

It has been a minor miracle. The one-day internationals have been Duckworth-Lewis damp, Cardiff cold, and contested by a shadow side dutifully led by MS Dhoni, the one stellar survivor in the India party. In the press box the exc [...]

Posted On : Sep, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

England v India - live!

21st over: England 65-0 (Strauss 32, Cook 30) Sharma finally switches to around the wicket, which makes sense because he can't really get an LBW from over the wicket. An otherwise good over ends with an overpitched delivery that Cook [...]

Posted On : Aug, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

Clarke chasing England and a rise up Test rankings

Well done England, but we're busy trying to catch up. That's Australian captain Michael Clarke's reaction to England's rise to the Test cricket No.1 world ranking. England took over the mantle as the world's best Test [...]

Posted On : Aug, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Cricket: The lights go out on India-England

The lights went out for India at Edgbaston on Friday. Not even the failure of the floodlights, which led to two farcical delays, could provide any relief for the visitors, who were outclassed in every department on day three of the third [...]