Indian Cricket Team Updates

The past few months would have been tough for Sunil Narine. He had to give the World Cup a miss in an effort to remodel his action; this, after being reported for a suspect bowling action. To Narine’s credit, he has gone back to working out the basics, changed his action to a legitimate one and has now been cleared by the BCCI’s review committee to take part in KKR’s Pepsi IPL 2015 campaign. It is almost a no-brainer that Narine has been the nucleus of KKR’s bowling plans and captain Gautam Gambhir was visibly happy to have his ace spinner back in the side.  Related News: Mumbai Indians (MI) Squad IPL 8 - 2015 Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) Squad IPL 8 - 2015 Gambhir credited Narine for the effort he has put in over the past few months. “We were always very confident of him coming back and remodeling his action, especially after the test that he got done in Loughborough which was also an ICC testing center,” Gambhir said.  “I am really happy for him. I have always fe...

Defending champions, Kolkata Knight Riders, had to make two changes to their squad a few days ahead of the 2015 season of the Indian Premier League due to injuries to Jimmy Neesham and Chris Lynn. (Also See:  Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) Squad IPL 8 - 2015 ) Veteran cricketer Azhar Mahmood has come into the side for Neesham while Johan Botha has been brought in for Lynn. During Queensland's Sheffield Sheild game against South Australia, Lynn suffered a hamstring injury which has caused him to miss the forthcoming season of IPL. He was retained by KKR but now has to make way for South African all-rounder, Botha. The 32-year old experienced campaigner was bought for his base price, INR 1,00,00,000.  New Zealand all-rounder, Neesham too had to pull out of the eight edition of the T20 tournament due to injury. He has apologised to his fans on twitter for not being able to participate in the forthcoming season of the T20 league. His replacement, Mahmood, was inducted into the s...

IPL 8: Kolkata Knight Riders (KXIP) Players List 2015 Total 16 Players has been retained by Kolkata Knight Riders before Auction process of IPL 2015. Nine Indian Players: Gautam Gambhir, Robin Uthappa, Yusuf Pathan, Kuldeep Yadav, Manish Pandey, Suryakumar Yadav, Piyush Chawla, Umesh Yadav, Veer Pratap Singh and Seven Overseas player: Andre Russell (WI), Chris Lynn (Aus), Morne Morkel (SA), Patrick Cummins (Aus), Ryan ten Doeschate (Neth), Shakib Al Hasan (Ban) and Sunil Narine (WI) has been already selected for IPL 8 Kolkata Knight Riders Squad before Auction process. Remaining Squad has been completed by Auction process. KKR Released Players for 2015: Debabrata Das, Sayan Sekhar Mandal, Jacques Kallis. City:  Kolkata, West Bengal Founded:  2008 Home ground:  Eden Gardens, Kolkata (Capacity: 70,000) Secondary home ground:  Barabati Stadium, Cuttack (Capacity: 45,000) Owner(s):  Shahrukh Khan (Red Chillies Entertainment) Juh...

The first Trading Window for the Pepsi IPL 2015 is open from Monday, 6 October 2014, to Friday, 12 December 2014. In what is the fifth trade prior to the 2015 season, Royal Challengers Bangalore have acquired Iqbal Abdulla from Rajasthan Royals. Earlier, Royal Challengers Bangalore acquired Manvinder Bisla from Kolkata Knight Riders and traded Parthiv Patel to Mumbai Indians. Mumbai Indians acquired Unmukt Chand from Rajasthan Royals and R. Vinay Kumar from Kolkata Knight Riders.  The Pepsi IPL 2015 will be played from Wednesday, 8 April 2015, to Sunday, 24 May, 2015. source: iplt20.com