Match FactsMonday, July 26, 2010Start time 1000 (0430 GMT)Gautam Gambhir's participation in Colombo is uncertain•Associated PressThe Big PictureThe tributes are done with, the celebrations have concluded and the perfect farewell consigned to memory. Come Monday,…
South Africa will meet India at the FIFA World Cup stadium in Durban next year for a Twenty20 game expected to attract the biggest crowd to ever attend a cricket match in South Africa.The Moses…
AB de Villiers will keep wicket for South Africa during the limited-overs leg of their tour of West Indies instead of Mark Boucher, whose place in the team is now uncertain. Graeme Smith, the South…
The statistician Frank Duckworth has launched a robust defence of the eponymous formula that he devised, in partnership with Tony Lewis, to recalculate run-chases in rain-affected one-day games, and believes that the current criticism of…
ScorecardSussex extended their unbeaten record to three matches after skittling Surrey inside 16 overs for a paltry 67 to win the first county head-to-head in Dubai by 34 runs.The low-scoring Emirates Airline Twenty20 clash proved…
Sussex have signed Brendon McCullum for the Twenty20 as a replacement for Tillakaratne Dilshan after he was declined permission to play by the Sri Lanka board.Dilshan had been due to join Dwayne Smith as Sussex's…
Hashim Amla, the South Africa batsmen, has been signed by Nottinghamshire for the first seven weeks of the 2010 county season. Amla will provide cover for Australian batsman David Hussey, who will play for Nottinghamshire…
Hyderabad, home to the Deccan Chargers, will not host any IPL matches in the third season of the tournament following a decision of the league to shift all matches scheduled to be held in the…
Pakistan stayed top of Group D with their second win, a comfortable six-wicket success over Papua New Guinea in Palmerston North. A very dominant bowling performance had PNG wrapped up for 99 in 37.3 overs…
Pakistan have dropped 14 catches in this series. There are still a maximumof four days left and many batsmen to give lives to so thenumber could rise. In New Zealand before this affair they dropped,conservatively,…