Indian Cricket Team Updates

The Northern Knights took a step closer to progressing to the main draw of the Oppo CLT20 2014 after they defeated the Lahore Lions by 72 runs in the third of the qualifying stage matches. After posting 170 runs on the board, the Northern Knights new-ball pair quelled the contest in the first six overs of the run-chase when they reduced the Lahore Lions to 19 for 5. The Lahore Lions eventually folded up in the 18th over, with 98 runs on the board. ( Also Read:  MATCH REPORT: Q2 – MUMBAI INDIANS V LAHORE LIONS ) Tim Southee set things off for the Northern Knights when he landed the perfect yorker in the second over and breached past the defences of Nasir Jamshed. Trent Boult angled one across Ahmed Shehzad in the following over, lured the batsman to play at it, and found the ball take the outside edge on its way to the wicket-keeper. Southee picked up a big wicket in the next over when Mohammad Hafeez attempted to pull a short delivery but only managed to feather one to the wi...

The dismissal of Kane Williamson gave MS Dhoni his 200th dismissal as ‘keeper-cum-captain. He became the first to effect 200 dismissals in the dual role. Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara is distant second with 69 dismissals. (Also Read:  Report: New Zealand vs India, 2nd ODI ) Brendon McCullum registered his third duck in NZ’s ODIs as captain. With this he equaled John Wright and Daniel Vettori’s tally of ducks as captain. Now only Stephen Fleming (14) is ahead of McCullum. Corey Anderson’s strike-rate of 258.82 (44 runs off 17 balls) is the second highest by any batsman against India in an innings of 10 balls or more, after Australia’s Glenn Maxwell, who made 60 off 22 balls (SR 272.72) at Bangalore last year. Tim Southee became the 15th New Zealand bowler to claim 100 ODI wickets when he dismissed Rohit Sharma. By taking 76 matches, Southee became the sixth quickest Kiwi bowler to reach this landmark. Virat Kohli (78) became the first Indian batsman to score 50-plus scores in his...

After three days of competitive cricket, the second Test between India and New Zealand is interestingly poised at the end of Day 3. While the hosts made inroads in the Kiwi line-up to reduce them to 232/9, they will still need to pull out all stops in order to win this contest in the fourth innings. Meanwhile, on the individual front, Virat Kohli registered his first Test ton on Indian soil. The Delhi batsman now has scored seven international centuries this year. New Zealand’s Tim Southee also had a great outing, and picked up seven wickets and also reached the 50-wicket mark in Tests. Here are these and many more interesting statistics from Day 3: Virat Kohli (103) scored his second Test hundred in his 10th Test. The other hundred had come against Australia – 116 at Adelaide in January 2012. This hundred was Kohli’s seventh in international cricket this year (two in Tests and five in ODIs) – most by any batsman. Interestingly, all other Indian batsmen have managed just four hu...