Premiership season to start on 20 September

Ponting retires from ODI cricket

Ricky Ponting accepts he will no longer play limited overs cricket for Australia but remains available for Test selection. The 37-year-old told a press conference he was no longer in Cricket Australia’s plans for one-day or Twenty20 cricket. “I don’t expect to play one-day international cricket for Australia anymore and I don’t think the selectors do either.” “I’ve been dropped from the one-day international team which I’m disappointed about, but life goes on for me,” Ponting said. “My form

21 Feb, 2012

India beat Sri Lanka by 50 runs

Virat Kohli and Gautam Gambhir cracked sparkling centuries as defending champions India launched their campaign in the Asia Cup cricket tournament with a comfortable 50-run victory over Sri lanka today. Put into bat, the Indians rode on the heroics of Kohli (108) and Gambhir (100) to post an imposing 304 for three and then polished off the islanders for 254 in 45.1 overs in a floodlit contest at the Shere-e-Bangla National Stadium. The highlight of the Indian batting was the belligerent 205-ru

13 Mar, 2012

Sri Lanka beat India, go up in points

Sri Lanka beat India by 51 runs in the tri-series match in Australia today and moved to second place in the points table. Earlier, half-centuries by Lahiru Thiramanne and Tillakaratne Dilshan and an unbeaten 49 by Angelo Matthews powered Sri Lanka to 289/6. Virat Kohli, who was made to bowl the last over of the Sri Lankan innings, conceded 14 runs. India’s run chase got off to a disastrous start as stand-in captain Virender Sehwag fell in the second delivery. Sri Lanka is now on par with Ind

21 Feb, 2012