Cricket News

The Manicaland cricket-viewing public has been denied the chance of watching their team contest the league cup final this Sunday against Old Georgians as the game has been moved to the `neutral' venue of Harare Sports Club

India have recalled Yuvraj Singh, Murali Kartik and Vijay Bharadwaj for the remaining two crucial encounters in the five-match one-day series being played against Zimbabwe

Following players have been selected to represent India in the last two one-day internationals (Hyderabad and Guwahati) against the touring Zimbabwe team

The unceremonious departures from the Zimbabwe national team in 2000 by top-order batsman Murray Goodwin and all-rounder Neil Johnson has always been a mystery to the ordinary cricket fan in the country

The comprehensive win in the second one-dayer must have done the Indian team a world of good, coming as it did immediately after the shock defeat at Faridabad

Saurav Ganguly's 84 was his fourth successive fifty in oneday internationals

Setting a team 320 for victory in a day-night one-dayer brimming over with excitement is a sure way to do one of two things - set up a tense run chase where the match goes right down to the wire or, more often than not, play the opposition right out

Dinesh Mongia and Yuvraj Singh's styles meshed perfectly and took India to a mammoth 333/6 in 50 overs, practically batting Zimbabwe out of the fifth and final one-dayer at Guwahati

India's dismal performance at Faridabad continued with their loss to Zimbabwe

The body language of the Indian team in the last five overs of the match was that of a team trying to defend, whenall they really had to was pick up two tail-end wickets to finish the game

An unusually crisp and cold March greeted the players from India and Zimbabwe in the capital city New Delhi where the second and final Test was to be played

At last - it seems that the Zimbabwean fighting spirit is back again

Even indian coach john wright conceded that the absence of tendulkarand sehwag will be felt, although he is hoping to build on theconfidence that the indians would have gained after winning bothtests

Every number 10 batsman dreams of pulling off a shock win, of hitting up a storm in the latter stages of a run chase to elevate his team from the depths of despair to the dizzying heights of victory

India might have won the Test series 2-0 but it was never a walkover

There will be a tendency to dismiss as inconsequential India's 2-0 Test series victory over Zimbabwe

India have won the second and final Test of their two-Test series against Zimbabwe by four wickets

It was raining wickets on the fourth day of the second Test

Sourav Ganguly has waited long for his eighth Test century

Sourav Ganguly has been looking forward to this day for the last 28 months