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Karachi, Mar.5 (ANI): Newly appointed Pakistan cricket coach Waqar Younis’s first major assignment is to help his team prepare to defend the ICC World T20 champion title, but Younis has said his main objective would be to improve Pakistan’s performance in the Test arena.
Younis said it is good to see Pakistan doing well in the [...]

London, Sep 19(ANI): England paceman James Anderson has said that the England team would be looking forward to avoid a humiliating 7-0 whitewash against Australia in the NatWest Series.

England team has been [...]

London, Sep.19 (ANI): With an historic 7-0 whitewash of their one-day series against England firmly within their grasp, Australia’s cricketers head to Durham.

No team has ever swept a seven-match series, but Tim Paine, the stand-in wicketkeeper-batsman whose maiden international century led Australia to a 111-run victory and a 6-0 lead at Trent Bridge on Thursday, [...]

Melbourne, Sep 18 (ANI): Tim Paine’s maiden international century has handed Australia a 111-run victory over England and elevating them to No.1 spot ahead of current world leaders South Africa in ODIs.

The tourists are just one win away from claiming a 7-0 sweep [...]

Nottingham (UK), Sep.16 (ANI): Ricky Ponting scored a brilliant 126 of 109 balls to keep Australia in the hunt for a 7-0 whitewash of their one-day series against England, leading his side to a four-wicket victory in the fifth one-day international at Trent Bridge on Tuesday.

Ponting’s 27th ton in ODIs included three sixes and 14 [...]

London, Sep.14 (ANI): Wicketkeeper Matt Prior believes England can start winning again after suffering a four-nil series loss to Australia.

After Saturday’s seven-wicket drubbing against Australia at Lord’s, England are sliding towards a humiliating 7-0 whitewash.

The Aussies will take on the Poms in the fifth match at Trent Bridge tomorrow.

“There’s no getting away from it [...]

London, Sep 12(ANI): Australian all-rounder Cameron White reckons that Australia can finish their Ashes-losing England tour with a flourish by defeating their arch rivals seven-nil in the on-going ODI series.

Australia lost the five-Test campaign 2-1, but they are leading 3-0 in the seven [...]

London, Sep 11 (ANI): Ravi Bopara, who has been struggling with his batting form, remains convinced that he will become an international star despite a desperate struggle against Australia.

He has already been dropped from England’s [...]

London, Aug 25(ANI): Punters have improved England cricketer Andrew Flintoff’s odds of getting a knighthood and winning the BBC Sports Personality of the year award following his Ashes heroics.

Betting and gambling website William Hill has placed the Lancashire all-rounder at 16-1 odds for being knighted, down from its earlier bet of 25-1, which now compares [...]

London, Aug.19 (ANI): The fifth Ashes Test, which begins at The Oval from tomorrow, will be a defining one for Australia captain Ricky Ponting.

Victory at The Oval will hand Ponting something that is demanded of any Australia captain worth his salt, a series victory over England, in England, reports Fox Sports.

A draw or worse [...]

Sydney, July 7 (ANI): Former Australian star Glenn McGrath has predicted that the current Australian squad has the potential of cleaning out England 5-0 in the Ashes series which begins in Cardiff on Wednesday.

Though McGrath had made a similar prediction before the [...]

Cardiff (Wales), July 7 (ANI): With a day to go before the first Ashes Test against Australia to be played here, explosive batsman, and 2005 Ashes hero Kevin Pietersen has said that England can win the Test and the series even if he has a bad run.

“I think you guys (media) make the weight of [...]

London, July 5(ANI): England fast bowler Stuart Broad has urged upon the importance of getting stuck into the Aussies and putting pressure on them from the first ball of the Ashes series in Cardiff to have a vital impact.

Broad highlighted the example of Steve Harmisson, who got stuck into the Aussies from the first ball [...]

Lancashire (UK), June 18  All-rounder Andrew Flintoff believes that the selectors will be making a big mistake if they do not include fast bowler Steve Harmison in the Ashes squad.
Harmison has taken 15 wickets for 132 runs in his last two county championship matches for Durham, and Flintoff said: “He was close to unplayable.”
Harmison stormed [...]

Melbourne, May 20 (ANI): Australian captain Ricky Ponting has brushed aside concerns over the omission of troubled all rounder Andrew Symonds from this year’s Ashes squad.

A long-time backer of Symonds, Ponting said he believed that Australia had the talent in the squad to retain the Ashes on English soil without Symonds.

“I can’t personally be disappointed [...]

London, May 13 (ANI): England’s talismanic all-rounder, Andrew Flintoff, is recovering from knee surgery, and despite his latest setback, he insists that he is working towards participating in this year’s Ashes against the Australians.

“When you’ve had the problems I’ve had, with the ankle operations and now my knee, then it’s the dream of playing Ashes [...]

Lahore, Apr.11 (ANI): Pakistan captain Younus Khan has said that his team would beat Australia 5-0 in the forthcoming one day international series in the UAE.

Talking to reporters at the Gaddafi Stadium here, Khan, while replying to a question said: “No doubt be 5-0, but [...]

New Delhi , April 8 (IANS) Home Minister P. Chidambaram Wednesday said Sikhs had a ‘legitimate grievance’ that a few people had been punished for the 1984 anti-Sikh riots but assured the community that ‘no one in the government is trying to whitewash anything’.
Chidambaram told the CNN-IBN television channel: ‘The Sikhs have a legitimate grievance [...]

St. Lucia (West Indies), Apr.4 (ANI): England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff has said that he will not allow the Indian Premier League (IPL) to compromise his dream of recapturing the Ashes from the Australians.

Having helped England to a 3-2 one-day series win over West Indies, Flintoff is expected to pocket around 75,000 pounds a game for [...]

Cape Town, Mar.25 (ANI): The poor performance of the South African cricket team in the opening match of a series has left coach Mickey Arthur frustrated.

Arthur said he failed to understand why his team always struggles to put on a credible show in the first Test [...]