cricket news

[Karthik]

New South Africa bowling coach Allan Donald is looking forward to the challenge of toppling England from the helm of the ICC Test rankings.
"The series in England is going to be a huge one for us," said former Proteas fast bowler Donald.

"We always weigh ourselves against England and Australia and next year's series is going to have more on it with England going number one in the rankings.

 

[Karthik]

Australian captain Michael Clarke highlighted a failure to perform at the top of the order for the 78-run loss to Sri Lanka on Tuesday.
"We didn't perform well enough at the top of the order," Clarke said after the result.
"We have no excuses. We didn't perform as well as we would like and we know that."

 

[Karthik]

Cricket Australia and New Zealand Cricket have announced the appointment of James Strong as Chairman of the Local Organising Committee for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015, to be hosted in New Zealand and Australia.
James Strong is the current Chairman of Woolworths Limited, a non-executive Director of Qantas Airways Limited, Chairman of Kathmandu Holdings and the Chairman Australian Council for the Arts.

 

[Karthik]

Injury-hit Zaheer gets ankle surgery
http://sports.ndtv.com/cricket/news/item/177198-injury-hit-zaheer-gets-ankle-surgery

 

[Karthik]

Shoaib Malik has been cleared by PCB's integrity committee. Malik is back and expected to play against Zimbabwe in the upcoming series.

Meanwhile, there are also rumours that he will be handed limited-overs captaincy.

 

[Karthik]

Younis Khan was offered ODI Captaincy to reduce workload on Misbah-ul-Haq but the former denied to lead the team to concentrate on his batting.

Meanwhile, PCB has also shunned reports that Shoaib Malik is being considered for ODI captaincy role.

 

[Karthik]

Zimbabwe v Bangladesh, 4th ODI, Bulawayo

Chance for Zimbabwe to build on positives
http://www.espncricinfo.com/zimbabwe-v-bangladesh-2011/content/current/story/528270.html

 

[Karthik]

Board needs specific plans for India's top 25 cricketers

 

[Karthik]

ECB may ban counties from Champions League
http://www.espncricinfo.com/champions-league-twenty20-2011/content/story/528301.html

 

[Karthik]

Ireland announce squad for England ODI
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ireland/content/story/528245.html