OverPitched
From the daily archives: Tuesday, November 8, 2011
DUBAI: India can pip South Africa to second position in the ICC Test rankings if they manage to win their ongoing home series against the West Indies 3-0 and provided Graeme Smith’s side loses the upcoming two-Test rubber against Australia.
South Africa trails top-ranked England by seven ratings points but [...]
NEW DELHI: Sachin Tendulkar on Tuesday achieved another milestone as he became the first cricketer in the history of the game to cross 15,000-run mark in Test cricket.
Playing in his 182nd match, Tendulkar reached the mark on the third day of the first Test against the West Indies when [...]
NEW DELHI: Chasing 276-run target, Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar took India to 152/2 at the close of the third day’s play of the first Test against West Indies at Feroz Shah Kotla.
Dravid (30*) and Sachin (33*) added unbeaten 57 runs third wicket stand to [...]
NEW DELHI: Chasing 276-run target, Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar were playing cautiously after losing Virender Sehwag on the third day of the first Test against West Indies at Feroz Shah Kotla.
Sehwag raced to his fifty in just 52 balls before Darren Sammy got better [...]
MELBOURNE: Their soured relationship was no secret but the attack launched by former India cricket coach Greg Chappell on Sourav Ganguly in his just-published autobiography reveals the Australian’s much deeper bitterness towards the ex-Indian skipper.
There was “no bigger panicker” than Ganguly, writes Chappell about the elegant left-hander [...]
NEW DELHI: Chasing 276-run target, India lost Virender Sehwag (55) and Gautam Gambhir (22) against West Indies on the third day of the first Test at Feroz Shah Kotla stadium in New Delhi.
Sehwag raced to his fifty in just 52 balls before Darren Sammy got [...]
KARACHI: Convicted for the spot-fixing scandal, Pakistan’s tainted pacer Mohammad Aamer has been moved from a notorious young offenders detention centre to a more secure and safer rehabilitation centre in the United Kingdom.
Aamer, who has been sentenced to six months jail term by the crown court last [...]
NEW DELHI: Virender Sehwag (20 not out) and Gautam Gambhir (17 not out) negotiated 8 overs before tea-break comfortably as India chase 276-run target to win the first Test against West Indies on the third day at the Feroz Shah Kotla stadium in New Delhi.
India [...]
NEW DELHI: Ravichandran Ashwin claimed a five-wicket haul on debut to help India bundle out West Indies for 180 in their second innings on the third day of the first Test at Feroz Shah Kotla stadium in New Delhi.
West Indies lost eight wickets on Tuesday [...]
MELBOURNE: He had a bitter stint as India’s cricket coach but the one player for whom Greg Chappell has only admiration is current skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni as the Australian feels he broke down a “hierarchical” system in the team by becoming the voice of young players.
Chappell, whose two [...]
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