India Lose Early Advantage Falters Towards Closing Stages of Third Day in Colombo Test
August 31, 2015 R K Gupta
Cricket, indian cricket, Indian Sport News, Sri Lanka, Test CricketThough India couldn’t add much to their overnight score and ended up at 312 all out, they ran through the early part of the Sri Lankan innings. At 47 for 6, Sri Lanka looked like heading to a disastrous first innings’ finish but once again the much-hyped bowling couldn’t complete the kill. The last four […]
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Cheteshwar Pujara and Amit Mishra Rescue India on Second Day of the Third Test
August 30, 2015 R K Gupta
Cricket, indian cricket, Indian Sport News, Sri Lanka, Test CricketAfter the opening day’s wash-out, India’s batsmen either couldn’t sustain the Sri Lankan bowling attack or fell by committing avoidable errors in a test match situation. They ended the second day at 292/8. Come to think of it; Cheteshwar Pujara’s unbeaten 145, unexpected 59 from Amit Mishra and 18 extras in the innings amounted to […]
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India Rout Sri Lanka for Their First Test Win in Thirteen Months
August 25, 2015 R K Gupta
Cricket, indian cricket, Sri Lanka, Test CricketIt was on the Lords cricket ground that India registered their last test match victory against England. That was July 2014 and Ishant Sharma emerged as the hero of that victory. Since then, there have been only losses and draws. They looked like taking the Galle test but Dinesh Chandimal stood in their way. Finally […]
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Kumara Sangakkara Bids Adieu to Test Cricket at Colombo As India Dominate the 4th Day
August 24, 2015 R K Gupta
Cricket, indian cricket, Indian Sport News, Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lanka, Test CricketKumara Chokshanada Sangakkara visited the cricket pitch for the last time in his career after the dismissal of Kaushal Silva in the third over of Sri Lanka’s second innings. He didn’t have a fairytale ending to his cricketing career but that didn’t stop his fans from getting emotional after he fell to Ravichandran Ashwin for […]
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Australians win Fifth Test in an Ashes series of contrasting conditions and insufficient excitement
August 24, 2015 John Welsh
Cricket, Cricket Australia, ECB, England Cricket, Test CricketAustralia duly won the Fifth Ashes Test match at the London Oval with England displaying some resistance in their second innings before being bowled out for 286 on the fourth day to suffer an innings and 46 runs defeat. That the hosts survived to bat on Sunday was mainly attributable to a lengthy innings from […]
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Despite Mathews’ Century India End Third Day of the Colombo Test with Some Advantage
August 23, 2015 R K Gupta
Cricket, indian cricket, Indian Sport News, Sri Lanka, Test CricketIndian bowling was fully tested in the first session of the third day. They couldn’t find a wicket and looked helpless against the determined Sri Lankan skipper Angelo Mathews. Sri Lanka began the day in trying to prevent India gaining any further advantage after they posted 393 runs and took three wickets for 140 at […]
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London suits the Australians as they seek a consolation Ashes Fifth Test victory
August 22, 2015 John Welsh
Ashes series, Cricket, Cricket Australia, ECB, England Cricket, Test CricketIt would appear that the Australian test cricket team prefer playing in London rather than in other cities during the current 2015 Ashes series against England. Their only victory in four previous tests occurred at Lords close to the centre of the Capital as a good fast wicket and plenty of warm sunshine suited their […]
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Nothing Spectacular From India’s Viewpoint on Second Day of the Colombo Test
August 22, 2015 R K Gupta
Cricket, indian cricket, Indian Sport News, Sri Lanka, Test CricketOvernight not out batsman Wriddhiman Saha helped India stretch the morning and caused enormous frustration to the Sri Lankan bowlers. If it was not for Saha, who recorded his highest test score of 60 at Galle, the innings could have folded much earlier. Saha was the 9th India wicket that fell on the second day […]
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Riding on Lokesh Rahul’s Century India Reach 300-Plus on First day of the Colombo Test
August 21, 2015 R K Gupta
Cricket, indian cricket, Indian Sport News, Lokesh Rahul, Sri Lanka, Test CricketJust when, he should have thought of preparing himself for the next day, Rohit Sharma fell leg before to Mathews. It was a similar delivery that the Sri Lanka skipper had used against Rohit in the first test. Rohit, however, had done the job by scoring 79 but his wicket yielded a psychological advantage to […]
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Before Colombo Badly Bruised India Trying to Recover From the Gargantuan Galle Gloom
August 18, 2015 R K Gupta
Cricket, indian cricket, Indian Sport News, Sri Lanka, Test Cricket, Virat KohliFor India’s cricketers, especially the batsmen, it is not easy to forget what they did on the fourth day of the Galle test. As they arrived in Colombo for the second test beginning next Thursday, the memories of that woeful disaster kept chasing them. Ten remaining batsmen could not stand up to Rangana Herath on […]
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| 1 | PRANNOY H. S. | 62,410 |
| 2 | Viktor AXELSEN | 61,500 |
| 3 | CHOU Tien Chen | 58,580 |
| 4 | Jonatan CHRISTIE | 55,060 |
| 5 | Anthony Sinisuka GINTING | 52,440 |