David Hussey

IPL side Kolkata Knight Riders on Saturday named Australian David Hussey as the chief mentor and former New Zealand pacer Kyle Mills as the team's new bowling coach.

The path ahead for Kolkata Knight Riders is not easy as they languish at the seventh position on the points table before the resumption of IPL phase II in UAE on Sunday. In spite of finding them in a position where they need to win almost all their remaining seven matches, KKR chief mentor David Hussey is still hopeful of putting up a challenge.

After a hard day on the field, Team Punjab chilled out at the ITC Sonar on Sunday, celebrating their victory over Team Kolkata.

The Warriors are the runners-up of the Twenty20 tournament of Cricket Australia, while Stallions are the Pakistan Twenty20 champions. The two teams will play the inaugural Champions League on December 4.

Matthew Hayden slammed 70 runs and Jacob Oram took three wickets to beat Kolkata Knight Riders by 9 wickets in the eleventh match of the IPL.

Kolkata Knight Riders mentor David Hussey feels new skipper Shreyas Iyer has a good cricketing brain and has proved his skills as a leader during his stint as Delhi Capitals captain.

Pakistani pacer Umar Gul, who was ruled out of the Twenty20 World Cup in the West Indies due to shoulder injury, has been advised complete rest for three weeks.

Actress Elizabeth Hurley took to twitter to express how unfair it was about Shane Warne being banned from a match.

After a successful run chase against Team Hyderabad, players of Team Punjab looked upbeat when they attended a meet and greet session organized by Lux Cozi in the capital.

While 'Mr Cricket' Michael Hussey has made a name for his uncanny quality of bailing out Australia when in trouble, the younger brother has carved out a niche for himself through sheer mastery in T20 cricket.

Spectators here had come to watch Chris Gayle bat.They werena??t disappointed as the West Indian treated them to some amazing strokeplay in the first half of the match.

Despite buying back Australia Test captain Pat Cummins at the last auction, Kolkata Knight Riders chose Shreyas Iyer to lead the team as the new captain. KKR mentor David Hussey talking to journalists in a media interaction organised by the team called Iyer a born leader.

Backing the out-of form Shubman Gill, Kolkata Knight Riders team mentor David Hussey said the opener is a "class act" who will be among the highest-scoring batsmen by the end of the IPL.

Having played in the initial years of the IPL for KKR, CSK and Punjab Kings, former Australian batsman David Hussey is in awe of the way batsmanship has evolved to an all-out attack level in the T20 league now from his time, when a 180-190 total was "out of this world." Hussey feels that given the way 200-plus totals are being regularly posted in the IPL these days, he won't be surprised if teams score 300 and chase it down too in a decade's time.

Australian all-rounder Glenn Maxwell might not start playing competitive cricket in the immediate future, with BBL side Melbourne Stars coach David Hussey saying he expects the 34-year-old to be a potential candidate for the ODI series against India in mid-March.

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) chief mentor David Hussey on Sunday hoped England's World Cup winning captain Eoin Morgan will be a great ally to the franchise's skipper Dinesh Karthik and his calm demeanour can help the team win matches in the upcoming Indian Premier League (IPL).

It has been a struggle for Parvinder Awana during his five years of first-class cricket and the snub for India A's tour of West Indies is another addition to that list.

India's pace bowling talent Ishant Sharma is bowled over by his IPL Kolkata Knight Riders teammate Aussie David Hussey.

England's Jonny Bairstow has withdrawn from the Melbourne Stars' upcoming Big Bash League campaign after he was recalled for international duty, the Australian Twenty20 franchise said on Thursday.

Matthew Hayden is considering a comeback to competitive cricket and could well be seen in action in the Big Bash Twenty20.