South Africa beat Zimbabwe by 62 runs

Match 3: South Africa  vs Zimbabwe  in Hamilton. South Africa 339-4 (50 overs): Miller 138*, Duminy 115*; Zimbabwe 277 (48.2 overs): H Masakadza 80, Chibhabha 64. South Africa won by 62 runs. David Miller (138 not out off 92 balls) and Duminy (115 not out from 100) came together at 83-4 and made a record one-day…

Finch, Marsh stars in Aussie win

World Cup Cricket 2015, 49 matches, 14 teams, over 2 billion fans. Match Two Australia vs England at Melbourne  Australia 342 for 9 (Finch 135, Maxwell 66, Bailey 55, Finn 5-71) beat England 231 (Taylor 98*, Marsh 5-33) by 111 runs Finn finished the innings with five wickets and England’s first ODI hat-trick in nearly five years for…

“It is not Cricket” Mr Broad!

Stuart Broad, currently in Australia with England team preparing for next month’s World Cup Cricket wrote in Twitter:  ” I have heard if you earn minimum wage in England you are one of the top 10 per cent earners in the world. #stay # humble”. On Tuesday evening the comment had already been retweeted 663 times.…

The jargon of World Cup Cricket Venues

The 2015 , 11th ICC Cricket World Cup, One of the World’s largest international sports tournaments with 14 competing teams and over 400 accredited cricketers and officials taking part in it. The tournament is  scheduled to be jointly hosted by Australia and New Zealand  for the second time ( first being the 1992 Cricket World Cup),…

Dhoni retires from Test Cricket

Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni retired in December 2014 from Tests citing the strain of playing all three formats of cricket after India drew the third Test against Australia in Melbourne. Virat Kohli will captain the side in the fourth and final Test in Sydney. Dhoni’s announcement in Melbourne came following the third Test, which…