"Pakistan shouldn't play QFs in India" Shahid Afridi is right in saying that the team should top the group to avoid playing its quarter-final match in India, feels Wasim Akram. "I agree with what Afridi and coach Waqar Younis have said that they would not like to play their quarter-final in...

Sachin Tendulkar's dream wicket in the ongoing ICC Cricket World Cup is Irish teenager George Dockrell's biggest scalp in his short career. Dockrell got Tendulkar lbw for 38 in India's five-wicket win over the minnows in a Group B match in Bangalore on Sunday. Later in the game,...

Enigmatic fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar is unlikely to play any further role for Pakistan in the ongoing ICC Cricket World Cup. Shoaib, 35, announced on Thursday that he will retire after the tournament. The bowler seems to have lost favour with the team management, including skipper Shahid Afridi,...

Justin Langer has been tipped to succeed India's head coach Gary Kirsten, who is expected to resign after the ICC Cricket World Cup. It could be Cricket Australia's loss. Its failure to offer permanent jobs to all its national team coaches could cost it none other than Australia's...

"Donkeys on their last legs plod home" - read a headline in the British media as it blamed hectic scheduling for the team's quarterfinal exit. The injury-ravaged England - which lost key players such as Kevin Pietersen, Stuart Broad in the middle of the event - were handed a...

Intikhab Alam has rubbished reports that Shoaib Akhtar was not ready for the ICC CWC semi-final against India because of fitness problems. "Shoaib has been fully involved in match practice, and is available for selection. He's very much part of the squad and there is no question about...

New Zealand's Daniel Vettori will be the captain of Royal Challengers Bangalore for the fourth edition of the Indian Premier League, starting April 8 in Chennai. Vettori, who led New Zealand to a record sixth semi-final apperance in the just-concluded World Cup, will replace spin legend...

Kings XI Punjab captain Adam Gilchrist says someone in his former franchise Deccan Chargers has been making \"bad\" comments about him ever since he left. He captained the Hyderabad side for the first three seasons, guiding them to the IPL trophy in 2009 before being bought by...

Sixty-two-year-old Duncan Fletcher has been appointed as the coach of India ahead of the team's tour to the West Indies. The decision to appoint Fletcher, whose name was doing the rounds as a possible successor to Kirsten, was taken at the BCCI's working committee meeting. The...

Former India captain and coach Kapil Dev said an Indian should have been chosen as the coach of the national team. Speaking to the Hindustan Times newspaper, Kapil said: "Who is Duncan Fletcher? I would like to see Venkatesh Prasad and Robin Singh as coaches of the Indian team. Not because...