India a win away from topping Test Championship table

November 28th, 2009 MUMBAI - Indian cricket team members arrived here on Saturday in Mumbai ahead of the third and final test against Sri Lankan team. India won the second Test played in Kanpur on Friday (Nov.27) to take one-nil lead.

November 23rd, 2009 KANPUR - On the eve of the second Test match against India, Sri Lankan cricket captain Kumar Sangkkara said that this match would start from scratch since the first Test match was drawn. He said while interacting with the media persons at the Green Park Stadium in India's northern city of Kanpur on Monday (November 23).

November 21st, 2009 AHMEDABAD - Sri Lankan opener Tillakaratne Dilshan and fast bowler Dammika Prasad suffering from fractured nose and a hamstring niggle respectively may not be able to take to the cricket field in the second Test against India to be played in Nagpur on Tuesday. Dilshan reportedly suffered the injury during a practice session after colliding with a team-mate, when they were playing football, while Prasad pulled his hamstring muscle on the final day of the first Test at Ahmedabad, following which he could bowl only four overs.

November 20th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - India drew the first cricket Test with Sri Lanka at Motera's Sardar Patel Stadium here Friday. India were 412 for four in the second innings when both the teams decided to call it off.

November 19th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - Sri Lankan batsman Mahela Jayawardene has become only the seventh batsman in Test cricket to score six or more double hundreds. He made 204 not out against India in the first Test.

November 17th, 2009 MELBOURNE - A study conducted by the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), the custodian of the game, has raised fresh doubts on the future of Test cricket. The study revealed that only seven per cent of followers in cricket-crazy India nominate Tests as their preferred form of the game.

November 17th, 2009 AHMADABAD - Tillekaratne Dilshan's tenth Test century powered Sri Lanka to 275 for three against India at the close of second day's play in the first cricket Test here Tuesday. Dilshan made 112 and at the close of play, Thilan Samaraweera was batting on 45 and Mahela Jayawardene on 36.

November 17th, 2009 AHMEDABAD - Sri Lanka were 37 for no loss in the first innings against India at lunch on the second day of the first cricket Test at the Sardar Patel Stadium here Tuesday. Tillekaratne Dilshan and Tharanga Pranavitana were batting on 18 each.

November 15th, 2009 more images more imagesDUBAI - After failing to replace Australia at the top of the Reliance Mobile ICC ODI Championship table earlier this month, India gets a shot at the number-one spot in the longer version of the game when it goes head to head with Sri Lanka in the three-Test series which begins in Ahmedabad on Monday. Only three ratings points separates first-placed South Africa from third-placed India in the Reliance Mobile ICC Test Championship and all could change as the most challenging and important format of the game returns to action after nearly 10 weeks' break.

November 9th, 2009 MUMBAI - Sri Lankan skipper Kumar Sangakkara has said the islanders would be able to upstage India in the upcoming three-match Test series. Addressing reporters here on Sunday, Sangakkara said India would be under pressure to maintain their home record of not losing a single Test to Sri Lanka in their previous 14 encounters.

October 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - The itinerary of the Sri Lanka's tour of India, which begins next month, was released by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Friday. Sri Lanka will arrive in Mumbai Nov 8 to play three Tests, five one-Day Internationals and two Twenty20 matches.

October 15th, 2009 WELLINGTON - New Zealand Cricket is optimistic that they will host a tour by one of world cricket's big four nations-England, Australia, India and South Africa-in each year of the next international calendar. The International Cricket Council is hammering out its post-2012 Future Tours Programme and the prospects are bright for England, Australia, India and South Africa visiting New Zealand in each of the following five years with the exception of 2015, when New Zealand would co-host the World Cup.

September 23rd, 2009 LONDON - The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) Wednesday denied International Cricket Council's (ICC) chief executive Haroon Lorgat's claims that it was not supportive of a world Test championship. Lorgat had said that England and India were the only countries blocking the proposed venture.

July 26th, 2009 JOHANNESBURG - There are trends developing in world cricket that are of concern to the future of the game, including in India, Indian coach Gary Kirsten said here, saying Team India has to decide its priorities in terms of test cricket and other forms of the game, like T20. Kirsten was speaking Saturday at a gathering here organised by the Indian mission here for local and visiting captains of business and industry who had attended the Doing Business with India Conference.

July 15th, 2009 DUBAI - India's Gautam Gambhir has moved to the top of ranking in the Reliance Mobile International Cricket Council's rankings for Test batsmen. Gambhir, who climbed two spots, has become the first India batsman in over four years to head the batting rankings after a failure by Pakistan's Mohammad Yousuf against Sri Lanka in the second Test saw him drop four places.