England lost a fourth player from their original World Cup squad with the shock withdrawal of Mike Yardy, who is suffering from depression. Just two days before the quarter-final against Sri Lanka, Yardy became the second England cricketer to admit to having the illness after Marcus Trescothick’s well-documented problems and immediately flew home to his […]
NEW DELHI (AFP) – India swept three-time defending champions Australia out of the World Cup on Thursday to set up a semi-final showdown against bitter rivals Pakistan and heap more pressure on Ricky Ponting. India’s five-wicket triumph in Ahmedabad means they will tackle Pakistan, who reached the last four with a crushing 10-wicket win over […]
Pakistan 178 for 6 (Shafiq 46, Umar 44*, Lee 4-28) beat Australia 176 (Haddin 42, Gul 3-30) Pakistan were the last team to overcome Australia at a World Cup and it was they who brought Ricky Ponting’s 34-match unbeaten run to an end with a four-wicket victory in Colombo to secure top spot in Group […]
Sri Lanka 265 for 9 (Sangakkara 111, Jayawardene 66, Southee 3-63) beat New Zealand 153 (Taylor 33, Muralitharan 4-25) by 112 runs Sri Lanka’s old guard combined to ease to a 112-run victory over New Zealand at the Wankhede Stadium. Kumar Sangakkara made his first ODI century since June 2008, supported by a controversial 66 […]
Shoaib Akhtar will retire from the international game at the end of Pakistan’s World Cup, bringing to an end one of cricket’s most compelling and mercurial careers. He told his Pakistan team-mates of the decision at the Premadasa Stadium on Thursday morning, during an emotional gathering in which he delivered a farewell speech and was […]
Sri Lankan Sports Authorities today (16) imposed a ban on Boxer Manju Wanniarachchi from taking part in any national or international games. The National Anti Doping Agency of Sri Lanka in accordance with the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA) code has imposed a provisional suspension on him from taking part in the games effective from […]
South Africa 300 for 7 (Kallis 69, Amla 61, de Villiers 52) beat India 296 all out (Tendulkar 111, Steyn 5-50) by three wickets In a fascinating chase, with their choking past hovering over them, South Africa held their nerve to clinch a thriller in Nagpur. Jacques Kallis and Hashim Amla set it up, AB […]
Sri Lanka 327 for 6 (Dilshan 144, Tharanga 133) beat Zimbabwe 188 (Taylor 80, Dilshan 4-4) by 139 runs When Elton Chigumbura chose to bowl in Pallekele, to avoid his spinners having to struggle with a dew-soaked ball, little did he think his team would fail to take a wicket for 44.3 overs. But Tillakaratne […]
Sri Lanka skipper Kumar Sangakkara told Tillakaratne Dilshan to stay angry despite the opener losing out to Australian fast bowler Shaun Tait in an ugly World Cup war of words. Dilshan and Tait were locked in a furious exchange when the Sri Lankan star edged through the slips for a boundary at the start of […]
CHENNAI, India (AFP) – England’s star batsman Kevin Pietersen will miss the rest of the World Cup, with a team spokesman announcing Monday he would be returning home to undergo a hernia operation. “Kevin Pietersen will return to the United Kingdom in the next 24 hours because of a hernia injury,” said the spokesman. […]
Match Abandoned 32.5 overs Sri Lanka 146 for 3 (Sangakkara 73*, Samaraweera 34*) v Australia Torrential downpour forced the game to be abandoned after Kumar Sangakkara pushed Sri Lanka to 146 for 3 in 32.5 overs. It was a typical tough scramble of a contest that is expected on a turning track in Sri Lanka. […]
The Government today vehemently rejected the allegations made by a certain State Media against two Sri Lankan cricketers of alleged match fixing at the Sri Lanka – Pakistan match at the 2011 World Cup. The Government noted that they had full confidence in each and every member of the Sri Lanka cricket team and said […]
Los Angeles, 03 March: Serena Williams, a former world number one and a 13-time Grand Slam singles champion, had emergency surgery to remove a blood clot from her lungs, a representative for the tennis star said on Wednesday. Nicole Chabot confirmed that the 29-year-old American underwent an emergency operation at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los […]
Ireland 329 for 7 (K O’Brien 113, Cusack 47, Swann 3-47) beat England 327 for 8 (Trott 92, Bell 81, Pietersen 59, Mooney 4-63) by three wickets Kevin O’Brien stunned England with the fastest hundred in World Cup history as Ireland secured their greatest victory with a monumental three-wicket triumph in Bangalore. O’Brien clubbed a […]
Source: ESPN Cric Info – Pix by Getty Images Sri Lanka 146 for 1 (Tharanga 67*, Dilshan 44) beat Kenya 142 (C Obuya 52, D Obuya 51, Malinga 6-38) by nine wickets Lasith Malinga announced his return to full fitness by storming his way to an unprecedented second World Cup hat-trick with an exhibition of […]
