Deandra Dottin kicks off Women’s World T20 with fastest ever T20 ton

West Indian Deandra Dottin got the Women’s Twenty20 World Cup off to as stupendous start, by becoming the first woman cricketer to hit a T20 hundred, which was also the fastest hundred in the history of the format.

I just wanted to get out of India: Shane Bond

New Zealand’s tear away fast bowler Shane Bond, who played for Kolkata Knight Riders in the ongoing Indian Premier League, has said his last few days in India were “nervy” following the bomb blasts outside the Chinnaswamy Stadium ahead of the match between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Mumbai Indians on April 17.

New Zealand romps over Bangladesh by 10 wickets

New Zealand cruised to a 10-wicket win over Bangladesh in the one-off Twenty20 match in Hamilton on Wednesday.

Pakistan continue winning run in Twenty20’s, beat New Zealand by 49 runs

Pakistan continued their good run in the shortest format of the game, defeating New Zealand by 49 runs in the first T20 at the Dubai stadium.

NZ win a humdinger, clinch series 2-1

New Zealand survived a scary last wicket partnership of 103 runs between Mohammad Aamer and Saeed Ajmal to win the third and final one-dayer against Pakistan and with it clinch the series 2-1.

McCullum helps Kiwis level the series

Brendan McCullum has had a really tough past one year. He had a disastrous IPL campaign captaining the Kolkata Knight Riders and was stripped of vice-captaincy of the New Zealand team last month to concentrate on his batting. But he scored a perfectly constructed 131, his second century in 162 matches, paving the way for a 64 runs win for New Zealand over Pakistan in the second ODI at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi.

Afridi leads Pakistan to a huge win

Shahid Afridi has been pretty open about his desire to be the captain of the ODI team of Pakistan and rumours of his differences with current captain Younis Khan have been picking up steam. Well, his brilliant all-round performance on Tuesday in the first ODI against New Zealand coupled with a duck from Younis Khan will do nothing to quell further talk on the issue.

Duminy’s brilliance stuns Bangalore

In 2008, at the same venue, in the inaugural match of the IPL, Brendan McCullum decided to give the people of Bangalore a treat and played what was probably one of the best knocks we will ever witness as he humiliated the Royal Challengers Bangalore team on way to 158. This time, it was JP Duminy, who on the inaugural night of the star studded Airtel Champions League T20; played one of the best innings of his career making a flawless 99 not out to take the Cape Cobras to a thrilling last over win over the Royal Challengers.

Winning Champions Trophy a special achievement: Ponting

Australian skipper Ricky Ponting applauded the efforts of all-rounder Shane Watson for his match-winning hundred in the final and also said that he was happy youngsters were standing up for the team on big occasions.

Watson helps Aussies retain Champions Trophy

Australian bowlers came to the party on the big day once again restricting the Kiwis to a modest 200 and then Shane Watson scored his second consecutive century to guide Australia to a six wicket win as they were crowed the 2009 ICC Champions Trophy winners.

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