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[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]Naman Trivedi Ahmedabad / Sydney: India’s ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 campaign, colourful and vibrant and fearless, ended with a whimper on Thursday (March 26) night, allowing Australia to set up a title clash against trans-Tasman neighbours and co-host New Zealand at the MCG on Sunday. A vast majority …

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]Naman Trivedi Ahmedabad / Auckland: The wildest dreams of 41,279 hearts came one step closer to realisation on a blow-hot blow-wet autumn night in Auckland as New Zealand’s fire burned bright enough to overcome dogged South African opposition, the elements and the occasion. Set 298 to win on Tuesday …

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]Naman Trivedi Ahmedabad / Eden Park: The combatants are New Zealand and South Africa, the battlefield is Eden Park and the prize is a place in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 final. Both teams are in brilliant form, boasting line-ups packed with potential match-winners. Ultimately, which team boards …

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]Naman Trivedi Ahmedabad / Wellington: Anyone who heard a New Zealand opener had broken Chris Gayle’s record for highest World Cup score yesterday could have been forgiven for assuming it had come from the bat of the Black Caps skipper. But it was Brendon McCullum’s top-order partner in crime …

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]Naman Trivedi Ahmedabad / ICC CWC 2015: The ICC is giving cricket fans across the world the opportunity to bid for an official piece of ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 history in the form of the match-used coins from each of the 49 matches during the prestigious tournament which …

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]Naman Trivedi Ahmedabad / Wellington: The name Martin is synonymous with New Zealand cricket in general, and batting excellence in particular, and the man who made it so, Crowe, would not have begrudged the fact that it was another who caused the name to ring around the Wellington Regional …

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]Naman Trivedi Ahmedabad / Adelaide Oval: For a while, a long while, Wahab Riaz rattled Australia. With his third delivery, he winkled out David Warner. With his tenth, he bounced out Michael Clarke. He could have had Shane Watson at least a half-dozen times, he should definitely have had …

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]New Delhi: The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee and Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi congratulated the Indian Cricket team for victory against Bangladesh in the Quarter-final match of the ICC World Cup, 2015. In his Tweet, the President said, “Congratulations Team India on the win against Bangladesh; sportsmanship …

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]Naman Trivedi Ahmedabad: Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza has been suspended for one ODI and fined 40 per cent of his match fee, while his players have been fined 20 per cent of their match fees for maintaining a slow over-rate during the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 quarter-final against …

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]Naman Trivedi Ahmedabad / Sydney: It was here, at the Sydney Cricket Ground in 1992, that South Africa’s ICC Cricket World Cup hard luck story began. It was in the fitness of things that its World Cup knockout jinx ended at the same venue. South Africa was bundled out …