On Thursday Pakistani leg spinner Danish Kaneria seemed a bit frustrated for not playing Test cricket for more than eight months, since he had a tour in India in last December and thus he requested his board to increase the Test schedule.

He queried, "Just imagine my last Test appearance was in India in December. Sometimes it is frustrating. How can a country go without a Test match for eight months?

Kaneria however, was amicable to the condition of PCB, after due to security reasons, Australia postponed their three-Tests and five ODI tour to Pakistan scheduled for April-May. The player, who recently injured his finger and had to go under small surgery, requested the Board to increase the Test schedule than thinking of more limited overs games.

Indian cricket team won the fourth one-day international at the Premadasa Stadium in Sri Lanka. Speedster Munaf Patel and spinners Harbhajan Singh and Yuvraj Singh performed very well in the match and helped India to clinch the 46-run victory over the host Sri Lanka. It is a third successive victory of India over Sri Lanka. India has secured 3-1 lead in the five-match series.

India scored 258 in 49.4 over. Mahinder sing Dhoni won the toss and decided to bat first.

Ajantha Mendis seems to have built a really good impression on the Australian former coach John Buchanan, who feels that the player should be judged on long term basis.

On Tuesday, Buchanan reported in Mumbai, “Mendis reminds me a bit of Johnny Gleeson, though he releases the ball much quicker, is taller and stronger. He also has good change of pace.”

Buchanan is the chief coach of Kolkata Riders, an IPL franchise, and the Australian is in the country to carry out a two-day selection trial at Goregaon Sports Club for the same.

India did well for itself in the five-match series, as it beat Sri Lanka on Sunday at the Premadasa Stadium and secured 2-1 lead in the series.

Man-of –the-Match was none other than M.S. Dhoni, as he helped the team score 237 runs in partnership with Suresh Raina (53), and 67 with Rohit Sharma, for nine in 50 overs after winning the news.

The top order of Sri Lanka was broken by Zaheer Khan and Praveen Kumar, as they took the early four wickets, and India won by 33 run in the third one-day international.

Although the Sri Lankan Captain, Mahela Jayawardene, played well and scored 94 to save his team, the team could not survive as four players were already out till the team had scored 40 runs.

It is in news now that the Champions Trophy cricket tournament to be held in Pakistan next month will not see the arrival of South Africa as the country. SA Cricket board on Friday announced that it would not send its team to Pakistan for the tournament next month. This has made South Africa the first country to officially boycott the tournament.

The decision came after a meeting held between Cricket South Africa, International Cricket Council chief executive Haroon Lorgat and ICC security officials
In a statement passed by Cricket SA President Norman Arendse, he said, “After extensive discussions and a frank exchange of views, the board resolved not to send our team at this time to Pakistan to take part in the ICC Champions Trophy.”

At the working committee meeting on Saturday, the BCCI took the decision to have paid selection committees for the junior and senior women’s and national senior teams.