McCullum reported for dissent against umpire’s decision

May 18th, 2009 JOHANNESBURG - Kolkata Knight Riders captain Brendon McCullum has been 'severely reprimanded' by match referee S. Venkatraghavan at a hearing for showing dissent at an umpiring decision during their Indian Premier League (IPL) match against Deccan Chargers.

April 21st, 2009 DURBAN - The following is the scoreboard of the Twenty20 match between Kings XI Punjab and Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League (IPL) at the Kingsmead here Tuesday: Kings XI Punjab: Ravi Bopara c McCullum b Ganguly 15 Karan Goel c Gayle b Sharma 0 Irfan Pathan c Kartik b Ganguly 32 Kumar Sangakkara run out (Chopra/McCullum) 26 Yuvraj Singh c Yashpal Singh b Henriques 38 Mahela Jayawardene not out 31 Taruwar Kohli c McCullum b Dinda 1 Piyush Chawla not out 3 Extras (b 1, w 11) 12 Total(for six wickets in 20 overs) 158 Fall of wickets: 1-9 (Goel, 2.2 overs), 2-47 (Pathan, 6.2), 3-48 (Bopara, 6.4), 4-104 (Sangakkara, 14.1), 5-122 (Yuvraj, 15.4), 6-131 (Kohli, 17.2) Bowling: Ishant Sharma 4 0 24 1 Ashok Dinda 4 0 34 1 (1w) Moises Henriques 4 0 32 1 (1w) Sourav Ganguly 4 0 24 2 Laxmi Ratan Shukla 2 0 22 0 (2w) Chris Gayle 1 0 14 0 (3w) Murali Kartik 1 0 7 0 Kolkata Knight Riders: Brendon McCullum c Sangakkara b Malik 21 Chris Gayle not out 44 Brad Hodge not out 10 Extras (w 4) 4 Total (for one wicket in 9.2 overs) 79 Fall of wickets: 1-57 (McCullum, 5.3 overs) Bowling: Irfan Pathan 3 0 27 0 (2w) Yusuf Abdulla 2 0 20 0 (2w) Vikramjeet Malik 2 0 23 1 Piyush Chawla 2 0 8 0 Ravi Bopara 0.2 0 1 0 Toss: Kolkata Knight Riders, who chose to field first Points: Kolkata Knight Riders 2, Kings XI Punjab 0 Umpires: Daryl Harper (Australia) and Shashank Ranade (India) TV umpire: T.H. Wijewardene (Sri Lanka) Match referee: D.

March 28th, 2009 NAPIER - Scoreboard at tea on the third day of the second cricket Test between India and New Zealand here Saturday. New Zealand: Ist innings 619/9 declared India: 1st innings Gautam Gambhir c Vettori b Patel 16 Virender Sehwag c McCullum b Vettori 34 Rahul Dravid c McCullum b Ryder 83 Ishant Sharma lbw b Vettori 0 Sachin Tendulkar c Taylor b Patel 49 V.V.S Laxman not out 58 Yuvraj Singh c McIntosh b Martin 0 Extras (lb 7, nb 6) 13 Total (for six wickets in 82.2 overs) 253 Fall of wickets 1-48 (Sehwag, 8.6 overs), 2-73 (Gambhir, 16.6), 3-78 (Sharma, 21.2), 4-165 (Tendulkar, 45.1), 5-246 (Dravid, 77.6), 6-253 (Yuvraj Singh, 82.2) Bowling Chris Martin 18.2-3-64-1 James Franklin 13-4-31-0 (2nb) Daniel Vettori 19-5-45-2 (4nb) Iain O'Brien 10-4-43-0 Jeetan Patel 19-2-60-2 Jesse Ryder 3-1-3-1 Toss: New Zealand elected to bat Umpires: Billy Doctrove (West Indies) and Ian Gould (England) TV umpire: Evan Watkin (New Zealand) Match Referee: Alan Hurst (Australia)

March 27th, 2009 NAPIER - Jesse Ryder scored a double century while Brendon McCullum hit a century to take New Zealand to 592 for six in the first innings at tea on the second day of the second cricket Test against India at Mclean Park here Friday. Ryder was out for 201 off Zaheer Khan before McCullum became the third New Zealand batsman to reach the three figure mark.

March 18th, 2009 HAMILTON - The following is the tea scoreboard on the first day of the first Test between India and New Zealand at the Seddon Park here Wednesday. Scoreboard: New Zealand 1st innings Tim McIntosh c Sehwag b Sharma 12 Martin Guptill c Dravid b Khan 14 Daniel Flynn c Dhoni b Khan 0 Ross Taylor b Sharma 18 Jesse Ryder batting 50 James Franklin c Dhoni b Sharma 0 Brendon McCullum c Laxman b Patel 3 Daniel Vettori batting 64 Extras (lb 1) 1 Total (for 6 wickets in 54 overs) 162 Fall of wickets: 1-17 (Guptill, 6.5), 2-17 (Flynn, 8.2), 3-40 (McIntosh, 16.2), 4-51 (Taylor, 20.4), 5-51 (Franklin, 20.6), 6-60 (McCullum, 23.1) Bowling: Zaheer Khan 14 3 51 2 Ishant Sharma 15 4 51 3 Munaf Patel 13 3 40 1 Harbhajan Singh 12 6 19 0 Toss: India, who chose to field first Umpires: Ian Gould (England) and Simon Taufel (Australia) TV umpire: G.A.V.

March 11th, 2009 HAMILTON - Scoreboard of New Zealand's innings against India in the fourth One-day International at Seddon Park here Wednesday. India have to chase 281 as per the Duckworth-Lewis system after rain affected play.

March 6th, 2009 WELLINGTON - India's skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and decided to bat in the second One-Day International (ODI) against New Zealand at the Westpac Stadium here Friday. While India retained the side that won the first ODI at Napier by 53 runs, New Zealand were forced to make one change as their wicketkeeper Brendon McCullum, who badly bruised his right thumb in the last game, is playing only as batsman and Peter McGlashan of Northern Districts is keeping wickets.

March 5th, 2009 WELLINGTON - Brendon McCullum will not keep wickets in the one-day international against India here Friday. While McCullum is expected to play as a batsman, Northern Knights wicketkeeper Peter McGlashan has been drafted in for Friday's game.

February 27th, 2009 WELLINGTON - New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori won the toss and elected to bowl against India in the second and last Twenty20 International of the series at the Westpac Stadium here Friday. Both teams made a change each.

February 25th, 2009 CHRISTCHURCH - New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori won the toss and elected to bowl against India in the first Twenty20 International of the series here Wednesday. Teams: New Zealand: Daniel Vettori (captain), Brendon McCullum (wicketkeeper), Jesse Ryder, Martin Guptill, Ross Taylor, Jacob Oram, Nathan McCullum, Ian Butler, Tim Southee, Ewen Thompson and Iain O'Brien.

February 17th, 2009 SYDNEY - Cricket's two senior umpires Rudi Koertzen and Daryl Harper have given the thumbs-up to players challenging their decisions saying that the 'review system' helps to cut down the errors. 'The objective of the review system is to eliminate the obvious errors.

February 14th, 2009 SYDNEY - Adam Voges took a spectacular catch to remove dangerous Brendon McCullum as Australia sneaked past New Zealand by just one run in the Twenty20 clash at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) here Sunday. Just when McCullum (61 off 47 balls) looked like taking New Zealand past the victory target (151 runs), Voges' boundary-line jugglery won the match for Australia.

January 31st, 2009 DUBAI - The International Cricket Council (ICC) has reversed its decision on controversial Oval Test between England and Pakistan from a draw to an England win. The 2006 Test was initially awarded to England by umpires Steve Bucknor and Billy Doctrove after Pakistan refused to take field in protest against ball-tampering charges.

January 31st, 2009 COLOMBO - Yuvraj Singh has been cleared of charges of showing dissent in the second One-day International cricket against Sri Lanka. Yuvraj was charged under Level 1.3 of the code, which refers to showing dissent at an umpire's decision.

January 26th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Controversial Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds has been charged by Cricket Australia (CA) and will face a disciplinary hearing here Thursday over a radio interview in which he called New Zealand wicketkeeper Brendon McCullum a 'lump of s..t'. CA has reported the all-rounder for an alleged breach of the Code of Behaviour following the radio interview with Roy & HG on Triple M Friday night.