Category: ICL

Sachin Tendulkar created history with the first double century in one-day internationals as India thrashed South Africa by 153 runs in Gwalior.

The 36-year-old hit 25 fours and three sixes in an unbeaten 200 off 147 balls.

It passed the previous best of 194, set by Pakistan’s Saeed Anwar in 1997 and Zimbabwe’s Charles Coventry last year.

Mahendra Dhoni hit four sixes in 68 from 35 balls in a mammoth 401-3, and South Africa were 248 all out as India took an unassailable 2-0 series lead.

Tendulkar, whose previous best one-day knock was …

Nearly 25,000 passionate Indian and Pakistani fans turned up for an exciting and noisy ICC Twenty20 warmup tie at the Oval cricket ground Wednesday, and guess what - not a single incident was reported.

As their governments were locked in the latest exchange of words back home, Indian fans in Britain showed they were more than happy to enjoy a day’s cricket in peace with their Pakistani neighbours.

Pakistanis returned the compliment, as passionate and often-delirious supporters actually cheered the other side - every boundary, every wicket, every dot ball was greeted by waves …

Australia’s cricket captain Ricky Ponting and his team may be able to repair the country’s reputation as a safe place for Indian students, a senate hearing has been told.

West Australian Liberal Chris Back, who’s done business in India, told a senate estimates hearing into education that Australian cricketers could smooth things over, the Herald Sun reported Thursday.

“Do not underestimate the value of cricket in possibly mending these relationships.

“I’m not being flippant. If we do need to mend those bridges do not overlook the value of Australian and Indian cricketers in trying to …

Updated - 21/9/2008 - IANS.

Melbourne, After being left out for the India tour, Australian medium pacer Ashley Noffke is peeved with the selectors and is contemplating to join the T20 Indian Premier league (IPL) or even the rebel Indian Cricket League (ICL).

The 31-year-old Noffke had an outstanding 2007-08 season for Queensland. He topped the Australian first-class wicket-takers list with 51 wickets and scored 741 runs at 46.31. But inexperienced Victorian paceman Peter Siddle was preferred to Noffke for the India tour. Siddle was also impressive with his 33 wickets.

“I have told Digger …

Updated - 20/9/2008 - IANS.

Karachi, Pakistan’s prolific Test scorer Mohammad Yousuf has accused the selectors of leaving him out of the list of probables for a Twenty20 tournament in Canada because of “personal dislike” and not on the basis of his form.

A miffed Yousuf, whom the selectors reckon a misfit in the shorter form of the game, said he was as good a player in the Twenty20 format as in Test cricket.

“I personally believe that I have a lot to offer to Pakistan even in Twenty20 cricket. But unfortunately they (selectors) think …

Updated - 31/8/2008 - IANS.

Karachi, Former Pakistan captain Moin Khan hopes that the new office-bearers of the Pakistan Cricket Board will lift the ban on players playing in the Indian Cricket League (ICL).

Moin, who is coach of Lahore Badshahs, the only Pakistani team to play in the ICL, said the players have every right to earn their livelihood.

PCB chairman Nasim Ashraf has quit his post after the resignation of President Pervez Musharraf and a new set-up is expected to take over in September.

“All players featuring in the ICL are professional cricketers and …

Updated - 8/8/2008 - IANS.

Beijing, An Asian member of the London assembly has launched an online petition to persuade sporting authorities to include an international 20-over cricket competition as part of the 2012 Olympic Games in the British capital.

Cricket enthusiast Murad Qureshi’s petition aims to lobby the International Olympic Committee (IOC), International Cricket Conference (ICC) and London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (LOCOG).

Qureshi, who is in Beijing to lobby IOC members, said Thursday the petition can found on the website www.twenty20for2012.com.

Traditionally, the host Olympic nation introduces a national sport as a …

Updated - 23/6/2008 - IANS.

New Delhi, The heroes who changed India’s cricketing landscape by winning the 1983 World Cup were felicitated by the Indian cricket board here Sunday as part of the silver jubilee celebrations of the historic win.

The 15 men including manager P.R. Man Singh penned a new chapter in Indian history 25 summers ago on the hallowed turfs of Lord’s by beating Clive Lloyd’s invincible West Indies.

With their fond memories they transported the audience at a city hotel, as they recalled the eventful day of June 25 when a bunch …