Cricket News

Despite a spirited performance, Ireland were unable to deny West Indies XI a clean sweep of the three match Twenty20 series, as the eased to a 16-run win in the curtailed third fixture at Sabina Park on Sunday

Sarwan, Rampaul give West Indies XI clean sweep

Half-centuries by Tatenda Taibu, Craig Ervine and Andy Blignaut propped up Zimbabwe on the third day in Grenada to stretch the lead to a competitive 225 with three wickets in hand

Blignaut, Taibu and Ervine prop up Zimbabwe

Lalit Modi met the new chairman of the Kochi franchise, Dubai-based Harshad Mehta, in an attempt to solve the row over the team's ownership structure that has snowballed into a major political issue in India

Modi aims to resolve crisis, meets Kochi chairman

Gautam Gambhir, the Delhi Daredevils captain, has put down his team's exit from the IPL to its inconsistency

We didn't play as a team - Gambhir

This match will be of more interest to Mumbai Indians, though, who will want to enter knockouts on a winning note

Kolkata aim to bow out on a high

18-Apr-2010•The Preview by Sidharth Monga

Punjab end disappointing campaign with defeat

Tom Moody, Punjab's coach, gave credit to Chennai for staying strong even though Punjab were in control till the 18th over

The controversy over the sale of the IPL Kochi franchise has claimed its first victim, with Indian minister Shashi Tharoor resigning

Indian minister quits over Kochi franchise deal

Leicestershire celebrated their first away victory in the County Championship for four years when they won for the second time this season despite a defiant century from Derbyshire opener Wayne Madsen

Impressive Buck seals Leicestershire triumph

Another captain's innings from Andrew Gale and a fluent 90 from opener Adam Lyth earned Yorkshire a six-wicket win over Somerset with 10.1 overs remaining in the Championship match at Headingley encounter at Headingley Carnegie

Lyth and Gale guide Yorkshire to victory

Hampshire confirmed they are in talks with Australian paceman Brett Lee over a possible move to the Rose Bowl

Hampshire in talks with Brett Lee

Dual champions Durham needed plenty of backs-to-the-wall defiance, and some help from above, to eke out a draw against promoted Essex at the Riverside

Rain helps Durham deny Essex

Andrew Symonds' sparkling 54 gave Deccan a defendable total, which they protected with an inspired fielding performance led by Rohit Sharma and disciplined bowling

Deccan resist gutsy Collingwood to reach semis

18-Apr-2010•The Bulletin by Sriram Veera

Simon Kerrigan spins Lancashire to victory

Lancashire's bowlers made the completion of their County Championship victory over Warwickshire look easy during the fourth day at Old Trafford

Glamorgan secured their first Championship victory at Lord' s in 56 years after mopping up the last six Middlesex wickets in just over two hours to win by 78 runs and with 62 overs to spare

Glamorgan complete rare Lord's win

Sussex needed just 33 minutes to wrap up a 10-wicket victory over Surrey on the final day of their Division Two match at Hove

Sussex race to victory

The BCCI has pushed back a decision on the Kochi franchise sale by deferring its scheduled working committee meeting from next Saturday till after the tournament is over and also deferring a meeting of the IPL governing council

Rescheduled BCCI meeting to probe allegations

A pumped-up MS Dhoni again showed why he's one of the great finishers in the game to make Chennai Super Kings the only team to reach the semi-finals of each IPL so far

Dhoni blasts Chennai to semi-finals

18-Apr-2010•The Bulletin by Siddarth Ravindran

IPL semi-finals moved to Mumbai

Lalit Modi, the IPL commissioner, has said the IPL semi-finals have been shifted to Mumbai following the low-intensity bomb blasts outside the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore