Ian Harvey

Kapil and Inzamam were missing from the bash hosted by them for ICL players.

West Indies Test captain Kraigg Brathwaite has joined Gloucestershire for the first eight matches of this season's County Championship, the club announced on Thursday.

Indian Cricket League has postponed its Twenty20 tournament scheduled next month as it clashed with India's tour of New Zealand, ICL board member Dean Jones said.

It was another day, another era when cricket was yet to go colour. A Test series that Gary Sobers had called the greatest ever where every Test match was completed in the last over of the fifth day.

Ahmedabad Rockets will have their hands full against the TimesJobs.com Chennai Superstars, who carved out a six-wicket win over Dhaka Warriors, when they clash in the ICL Championship.

The recession-hit rebel Indian Cricket League, which has cancelled its next tournament, has not paid players' wages due last December, the Sydney Morning Herald has reported.

The ICL World booked their place in the final of the Indian Cricket League's World Series Twenty20 competition by beating ICL Pakistanis by six wickets.

Fourteen-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi became the youngest centurion in Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy history, scoring an unbeaten 108 for Bihar. His remarkable innings, however, wasn't enough as Maharashtra, led by Prithvi Shaw's 66, chased down Bihar's total to secure a victory. The result gave Maharashtra their second win from four matches in the group.

The Indian Cricket League will kick start on October 10. Here are four superstars who will be watched for an interesting league.

Former India all-rounder Yuvraj Singh has revealed how his then skipper Sourav Ganguly spooked him so much by pulling a prank the night before his debut at the 2000 ICC Knockout tournament that he could not sleep the whole night. On the night before the clash, Ganguly asked Yuvraj if he would open in the all-important match the next day.

A few precocious talents, hardworking teenagers and a chunky lot which might fall by the wayside in times to come will form an eclectic 16-team mix in the melting pot called ICC Under-19 World Cup starting on Friday.

The Chennai Superstars claimed honours in the Twenty20 championship last year and then followed it up with the title in the ICL 50s championship early this year.

Indian Cricket League is in danger of facing a court case from its disgruntled players who have not been paid their fees amounting to "millions of dollars".

Indian wrist spinner Ravi Bishnoi's repertoire of skills will meet a match in Australian Tanveer Sangha's variations in a face-off between two talented tweakers during the quarter-final of the ICC U-19 World Cup on Tuesday.

Chennai Superstars' Rajagopal Sathish (51) wielded the willow in style and then bowled with a golden arm to beat Kolkata Tigers by 93 runs.

PERTH: Australia had seen a sliver of an opportunity two days ago and they are now going all the way to expose and smash India in the finals.

Half-centuries by openers Murray Goodwin and Damien Martyn gave the World XI a competitive total and put the pressure back on the ICL Pakistani XI.

It's early days yet. But the Australians at the IPL are proving why they are regarded as the finest cricket professionals in the world.

ADELAIDE: It was almost four years ago, in the jungles of Kenya, that the legend of Yuvraj Singh was born. He went on to smash 84 runs against Australia to storm into the hearts of India's fans.

MELBOURNE: As Sachin Tendulkar sizzled during the tour-opener against Victoria, cricketers and writers alike were tripping over each other in offering their tributes to the greatest batsman of modern times.