Former Australian captain Greg Chappell says the IPL will become a world event and take cricket to hitherto unexplored regions. "I can see the day when IPL becomes a world format and we'll have New York playing Bombay playing Beijing playing Sydney playing London," Chappell said. Chappell said the growing Twenty20 mania and the .. more »

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Ahmedabad: Sachin Tendulkar scored a patient unbeaten fifty to steer India to a narrow seven-run lead as the hosts reached 341 for four at tea against Sri Lanka on the final day of the first cricket Test, which is heading for a draw here today. Trailing the visitors by a massive 334 runs in the first innings, India wiped off the deficit in the last .. more »

New Delhi: Challenge the monopoly of IPL Chairman Lalit Modi, all the IPL franchisees have decided to form an association to maximise revenues and safeguard their interests. IPL owners recently met in Bangkok and agreed to form an association which will be called ‘Franchisees United’. However, the whole thing is in its initial .. more »

"I have always seen that he has the ability to do that. He's had his fair share of blokes that have knocked him along the way and they have knocked me and the selectors for keeping on picking him. But, he's starting to show now what he's capable of, he has a great opportunity that he can become that considering a lot of the other .. more »

Freddie has been told his recovery is going so well he can set his sights on the 2011 one-day bonanza and the 2015 tournament, by which time he will be 37, reports The Sun. “It is a weight off my shoulders. I’m hoping this is going to give me the chance to play in the next World Cup in 2011 and the one after is a possibility, .. more »

Gautam Gambhir and Sachin Tendulkar kept the Sri Lankan attack at bay in the first session of the final day of the first Test after India lost night watch-man Amit Mishra within the first hour. Gautam Gambhir cracked a solid hundred, his seventh in Tests, as he made sure India stay in the hunt to pull off a draw against Sri Lanka in Ahmedabad. .. more »

India are on safe ground with Tendulkar looking solid in the course of yet another Test match fifty. The Little Master also became the first batsman to go past 30,000 international runs. Ricky Ponting is a distant second. A lapse of concentration has done Gautam Gambhir in. The Indian opener perished for a superb 114 when he danced down the .. more »

Gautam Gambhir and Sachin Tendulkar hit opportune centuries as India came up with a spirited batting display to salvage a draw in the first cricket Test against Sri Lanka in Ahmedabad on Friday. Opener Gautam Gambhir conjured up yet another marathon innings of 114 runs, result of his six-and-half hour vigil, before Sachin Tendulkar (100 not out) .. more »

Ahmedabad: Centurion Gautam Gambhir and Sachin Tendulkar held fort for India as the scorecard read 256/3 at lunch on the final day of the first Test. Gambhir had slammed his seventh Test hundred just when his team needed it the most. Studded with some exquisite boundaries, the knock helped India power past 250 runs. The morning had been .. more »

: Hello and welcome to Cricinfo Talk. I have with me Sanjay Manjrekar to look back on the first Test between India and Sri Lanka that ended in Ahmedabad today in a draw. Apart from a draw I think any other result was extremely unlikely and that was purely because of the kind of surface that we have had at the Motera. Day four gave us a hint as to .. more »

The hosts reached 256-3 at lunch on the fifth and final day, still trailing by 78 runs and hoping to force a draw by preventing Sri Lanka claiming the remaining seven wickets. Gambhir (105 not out) became the sixth batsman in the match to reach three figures on a batsman-friendly wicket in the opener of a three-Test series. Gambhir, the .. more »

The left-handed McIntosh scored 131 not out as the invitation side, which had trailed Pakistan by 52 runs on the first innings, reached 231 for two in its second innings before stumps were drawn with no result in prospect. McIntosh's New Zealand teammate Daniel Flynn made 56 in the second innings after being dismissed for 49 in the first and .. more »

Tim McIntosh hit a timely century as the warm-up match between a New Zealand Invitational XI and Pakistan ended in a draw. The left-handed opener was unbeaten on 131 with Grant Elliott 22 not out when the two teams called it a day at afternoon drinks on the third and final day at the Queenstown Events Centre. With the opening Test of the .. more »