Cricket News

Anil Kumble, India's leading Test wicket-taker, faces a rare milestone - the 100th Test

The Sri Lankans were clearly happier at the end of a Test match that produced just over four sessions of play

A probing spell of left-arm seam from Chaminda Vaas engineered an Indian collapse before Sri Lanka's top order, led by the classy Mahela Jayawardene, managed some useful batting practice on the final day of the rain-curtailed first Test at Chennai

After three-and-a-half days were lost to rain, Virender Sehwag enthralled the patience crowd with a quick-fire 36 off just 28 balls

India finished on 90 for 2 at close of play on a truncated day at the MA Chidambaram Stadium

Wet conditions on the morning of the third day meant that play was off at 8:30am local time

Play was called off for the second day running at Chennai after an inspection by the umpires at 1pm

With Chepauk semi-submerged by torrential rain, the match officials called off play at 11:30am local time

The Uttar Pradesh (UP) Government has said it would try hard to ensure that the third Test between India and Sri Lanka is not shifted from Kanpur

As Cyclone Baaz lies pretty much stationary somewhere over the Bay of Bengal, so too do predictions on whether the India's first Test series against Sri Lanka on home soil in eight years will begin as per schedule

Zee TV has secured the television rights for the India-Sri Lanka three-Test series beginning December 2 in Chennai

Both Tom Moody and Marvan Atapattu appeared quietly focussed on the task ahead - how to change Sri Lanka's record of six losses and no wins in 11 matches on Indian soil

After the pinched faces in Kolkata and the tension-fraught atmosphere in Mumbai, Rahul Dravid and Greg Chappell were far more relaxed

A petition seeking an interim stay against the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) holding the first Test between India and Sri Lanka, starting December 2, has been filed in a Chennai Court