India 260 for 9 (Tendulkar 85, Riaz 5-46) beat Pakistan 231 (Misbah 56) by 29 runs
Play of the Day: Hats off to Ashish Nehra for not claiming the bumped catch of Shaid Afridi, a great show of sportsmenship in the semi final of the world cup 2011.
Does home teams have advantage over visitors ?
Are home teams in more pressure when performing in front of their home crowd ?
It is complete rubbish that home teams are in bigger pressure to perform when playing on their familiar grounds and in front of supportive crowds. It is a psychological tactic used by visitors to pressurize the home team. Just look at the statistics on the home teams a large percentage of wins are at home as opposed to losses which are in foreign soil. One m...
Sir Richard Hadlee from New Zealand one of the best fast bowler of all times. A tribute to Richard Hadlee from ESPN legends of Cricket.
...China is making a bid to host its first major international cricket event by showing interest in staging the 2012 Asia Cup in Guangzhou, the venue that hosted the first-ever Asian Games cricket tournament in November.
The Asian Cricket Council (ACC) chief executive, Syed Ashraful Huq, told ESPNcricinfo that one of the upshots of the Asian Games was that the Chinese Cricket Association had "expressed its interest" in hosting the 2012 Asia Cup. "If our ACC board agrees, China will have its first...
The greatest fast bowlers the world has ever seen gathered in Australia in 1979 to compete in speeds and accuracy competition. Hosted by Richie Beanud.
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Rare footage of Don Bradman showing how to play cricket shots the orthodox way. A great trip down the memory lane and a reminder of the golden days how cricket used to be.
...Sri Lanka 9 for 243 (Mathews 77*, Malinga 56, Doherty 4-46) beat Australia 8 for 239 (Hussey 71*, Perera 5-46) by 1 wicket
Angelo Mathews and Lasith Malinga produced one of the great one-day international fightbacks to clinch an improbable victory for Sri Lanka, extending Australia's losing streak to six international games since July. The visitors seemed destined for a humiliating loss when they crashed to 8 for 107 chasing 240, but Mathews and Malinga kept fighting, spurred on by nois...