Indian Cricket Team Updates

There were some impressive individual performances as India edged past Sri Lanka in the third ODI in Colombo on Saturday. # Angelo Matthews' superb unbeaten 71 off 57 balls is his second highest innings against India, next only to the 75 at Bulawayo on May 30, 2010. # Matthews has recorded his 11th fifty in ODIs - his second against India. # Matthews' strike rate of 124.56 is his highest when he has scored at least a fifty. # Jeevan Mendis' brilliant unbeaten 45 is his second highest score in ODIs, next only to the 48 against England at Old Trafford on July 9, 2011. # Mendis' previous highest against India was 35 not out at Harare on June 5, 2010. # Matthews and Mendis were associated in an unbroken stand of 104 off 72 balls - Sri Lanka's highest sixth wicket stand against India in Sri Lanka. Their run-rate of 8.66 is the highest for Sri Lanka for the sixth wicket - also the highest by any pair for the sixth wicket against India. (minimum 100 runs). # Sourav...

CLT20 2012 Teams, Schedule & Broadcasters Titans to play Perth Scorchers in Champions League Twenty20 Opener Kolkata Knight Riders and Delhi Daredevils in Group A, Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians in Group B South Africa’s reigning domestic T20 champions will take on Australia’s domestic T20 runners-up, in the opening ‘Group Stage’ game of the Champions League Twenty20 2012. The Group Stage of the tournament will commence with a double-header at Centurion on 13 October 2012. Titans, the winners of the T20 Challenge in South Africa, will play the Perth Scorchers, runners-up in the Big Bash League. The game will be followed by one between Kolkata Knight Riders, the IPL 2012 champions, and Delhi Daredevils, who finished third in the same tournament. The final of the Champions League Twenty20 2012 will be played on 28 October 2012, at the Wanderers, Johannesburg, an arena that has hosted some memorable cricket matches in the past, including the final of t...

Statistical Highlights: 2nd ODI - India tour of Srilanka 2012 Sri Lanka register a comprehensive comeback in the 5-match ODI series against India by registering a 9-wicket win at Hambantota on Tuesday. This after halting the visitors on 138. A statistical look at the clash. India in Sri Lanka ODI Series   - 2nd ODI • ODI no. 3292 | 2012 season • Played at Mahinda Rajapaksa International Cricket Stadium, Sooriyawewa, Hambantota • 24 July 2012 - day/night (50-over match) Toss: India win the toss and bat first. India are unchanged. For Sri Lanka, Isuru Udana comes in for Kulasekara. Dhoni: "Bit more grass compared to the last game. May see more swing under lights. The ball does skid a lot then, so that's the one advantage the team batting second has." Jayawardene: "The wind is pretty unusual here. It's dead grass here on the pitch. Udana is a talented young bowler. Pradeep will join us in Colombo." # Tillakaratne Dilshan (50 off 49 balls) has r...

Statistical Highlights 1st ODI - India tour of Srilanka 2012 India had an all-round performance to show for their efforts against Sri Lanka on Saturday. A look at the statistical highlights from the match that saw MS Dhoni and his side register a 21-run win. # Virat Kohli has got his eleventh Man of the Match award in ODIs - his third against Sri Lanka. He has received four MOM awards this year - the most by him in a calendar year. # Kohli has posted three successive centuries against Sri Lanka in ODIs. # Kohli became the first player to register four hundreds in ODIs this year. His fourth century against Sri Lanka is his 12th in ODIs. # The three Sri Lankan players to register centuries at Hambantota are Mahela Jayawardene - 100 against Canada on February 20, 2011; Upul Tharanga - 111 against Australia on August 16, 2011 and Kumar Sangakkara - 133 against India on July 21, 2012. # The match-aggregate of 607 for 15 wickets in the just concluded game is the second highest betw...

The All-India Senior Selection Committee has selected the 30 probables for the ICC World T20 2012, to be played in Sri Lanka in September-October 2012. PROBABLES - INDIA 1.  Mahendra Singh Dhoni 2. Virender Sehwag 3. Gautam Gambhir 4. Virat Kohli 5. Rohit Sharma 6. Suresh Raina 7. R. Ashwin 8. Pragyan Ojha 9. Umesh Yadav 10. Ashok Dinda 11. Ajinkya Rahane 12. Manoj Tiwary 13. Rahul Sharma 14. Vinay Kumar 15. Zaheer Khan 16. Yuvraj Singh 17. Robin Uthappa 18. Irfan Pathan 19. Yusuf Pathan 20. Mandeep Singh 21. Piyush Chawla 22. Ravindra Jadeja 23. Shikhar Dhawan 24. Ambati Rayudu 25. Harbhajan Singh 26. Munaf Patel 27. Naman Ojha 28. Dinesh Karthik 29. Praveen Kumar 30. L. Balaji

India Squad for Srilanka Tour - 2012: The All India Senior Selection Committee met earlier today at Cricket Centre, Mumbai to pick the Indian team for 5 ODIs and 1 T20 to be played in Sri Lanka in July – August 2012. Click the below link for India Tour Sri Lanka 2012 Schedule and Fixtures Following players were selected. 1. M S Dhoni (Captain) 2. Virat Kohli (Vice Captain) 3. Gautam Gambhir 4. Suresh Raina 5. Virender Sehwag 6. Rohit Sharma 7. R Ashwin 8. Pragyan Ojha 9. Zaheer Khan 10. Umesh Yadav 11. Ashok Dinda 12. Irfan Pathan 13. Ajinkya Rahane 14. Manoj Tiwari 15. Rahul Sharma

India Tour Sri Lanka 2012 Schedule and Fixtures: Indian Cricket Team going to play 5 ODI an 1 T20 Matches in Sri lanka in July 2012.

The Mumbai Indians will defend their Champions League Twenty20 title, which they won in Chennai last year, on the other side of the Indian Ocean in October after the venues and competing teams for the 2012 tournament were confirmed by the CLT20 Governing Council. The current IPL champions, Kolkata Knight Riders, will be in action as well and will be joined by Chennai and Delhi in this blockbuster T20 event. South Africa will host the fourth edition of cricket’s premier international club competition at Centurion, Durban, Cape Town and Johannesburg, from 9 October 2012 to 28 October 2012. The event will feature a galaxy of international cricketing stars, who will be part of fourteen champion teams, from as many as eight countries. It will be the second time South Africa has hosted the tournament, after a successful event in 2010 when Chennai Super Kings defeated Warriors in the final at Wanderers in Johannesburg. The 2009 and 2011 editions of the tournament were played in India. As ...