Gautam Gambhir has joined the list of injured players in the Indian Premier League when he did something nasty to his hamstring yesterday while chasing the ball. He missed out most part of yesterday’s game against the Mumbai Indians and will not play the next game for Delhi against the Chennai Super Kings either.
The Rajasthan Royals have been hit by a huge blow as their premier batsman, Graeme Smith will not play in the rest of the tournament due to a finger injury. Smith was injured in the previous game against the Delhi Daredevils and later it was diagnosed as a double fracture of the middle finger, and he will return back to South Africa.
The IPL has decided that it will reduce the time allocated for the strategic time-out from the earlier 7.5 minutes which was a part of the second edition of the IPL. The IPL has decided that it will reduce the strategic time from 7.5 minutes to five minutes, and that too will be divided into two sessions of 2.5 minutes each.
Bangladesh’s former captain and current fast bowler, Mashraf Mortaza has said that he is not sure about his future as a Test match bowler. Mortaza was recovering from his knee injury for the last eight odd months, that he had sustained in the West Indies last July.
Aussie quickie, Brett Lee is said to be contemplating retiring from the five day format of the game to be able to concentrate on only the ODIs and the T20Is. Lee has been out of the Australian squad for some time now and has had issues with major injuries and has not been the first choice in the Test team despite being one of the fastest around.
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.
by Vivek Gite on February 2, 2010 · 1 comment
VVS Laxman has finally spoken out of what one always believed was the case. Talking to the cricket website, Cricinfo, he said that he was worried about India’s lack of spinning options in the domestic cricket.