England’s top-order batsman, Ravi Bopara has said that he will delay his departure to India for the Indian Premier League. He said that he was apprehensive about the security situation in the country and did not know whether he could tour the country or no.
The name Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar echoed not only in Gwalior’s Major Roop Singh Stadium but also throughout the country as he smashed a double century against South Africa in an ODI. Tendulkar became the first ever batsman in the history of cricket to score double century and it was befitting that it was Tendulkar who did it before anyone else!
What South Africa had done to India in the first match, the same has been meted out by the hosts to the tourists on the first day of the second Kolkata Test match.
Pakistan cricket continues to shock and awe. Just when they were getting a little overly fidgety about the IPL exclusion, has come another blow. On the Australian tour, Pakistani captain for the T20Is as well as the last ODI of the series, Shahid Afridi, has been suspended by the ICC for the next two international games.
The Indian team for the first Test match against South Africa has been named and it has a couple of surprising names. For starters, Rahul Dravid and Yuvraj Singh have been ruled out of the Test match due to their injury.
The Pakistani cricket is said to be puzzling on most occasions. And on the tour of Australia, it continues to go into doldrums as the suspense around who will keep wickets for the Pakistani side in the third Test match at Hobart continues unabated.
After yesterday’s game between India and Sri Lanka at the Feroz Shah Kotla had been abandoned due to an unsuitable pitch, there is a good chance that the ground in Delhi may be blacklisted for a period of 12 to 24 months from playing international games. This could mean that it will not host its share of the World Cup games in 2011 if deemed by the ICC.