The rise of several T20 tournaments coupled with several other factors has resulted in the declining popularity of the longer formats especially ODIs.Audiences for one day cricket slumped by 17 per cent during 2009-10.A match between Australia and the West Indies in 2010 returned the lowest audience seen for a day-night game in 5 years, with an audience of just 625,000

In the past five years, audiences for the one-day games have been in a slow downward spiral, losing between 5 and 6 per cent each year from an average of 1.18 million in 2005, 

There is a plenty of evidence which highlight the fact that ODIs have lost a good number of viewers/spectators

Probably these are some reasons which prompted the ICC to make a few changes in the ODI format. ICC's new ODI rules came into effect from October 1, 2011, . Here's a crisp segmentation of the set of new rules: what each rule actually means, ICC’s intention behind these rules , and how these rules are likely to affect ODI cricket...

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Pakistan becomes the first country to name their squad for the SAARC Twenty20 Cup to be held in Maldives between 31 October and 7 November. The U25 twenty20 tournament is an initiative of the Maldives government and is organised by the Cricket Board of Maldives.

The tournament will be played in a purpose built stadium on the island of Fuvahmulah in the South Province.

Umer Amin to lead Pakistan, Read Full Story to find more:

Pakistan play South Africa on Friday.

Pakistan play Hong Kong and India on Saturday.

QF, SF and Final will be played on Sunday.

Racism, Please go away 

Racism has brought itself in our beloved game with 2 major cases being reported in the past few feeks. What has been going on? Read the article for more

"ONE COMMUNITY, ONE LOVE, ONE GAME"

The Pakistan Cricket Board and their Bangladesh counterparts have announced a full series that will commence, on the 29^th November, with the only T20 in Mirpur. A further two ODI’s will be played at same venue, with the third and last in Chittagong. A further two test matches will be played with the first in Chittagong and the last in Mirpur. The tour ends on the 21^st December.

 It has come as a surprise as a shorter tour was expected, but will delight the Bangladesh public to see their Asian rivals after the 2009 was cancelled by the Bangladesh Board as a result of the Lahore attacks on the Sri Lankan team.

Pakistan's leading bowler

The second test match started today with the non-selection of Aizaz Cheema in favour of the slow left arm orthodox Abdur-Rehman. This selection caught everyone by surprise but why?

Abdur-Rehman or Manna how his teammates refer to him was named in the Test team of the year for magazine the Cricketer for his achievements in the past 12 months. He took 29 wickets at just under 32 a piece. Add his batting average of 22 along with a top score of 60 against South Africa and the picture isn’t so gloomy.

Yet again, India brushed aside England, this time by a good margin , 95 runs in the fifth and final one-day international in Kolkata on Tuesday to sweep the series 5-0.

Yet again, India brushed aside England, this time by a good margin , 95 runs in the fifth and final one-day international in Kolkata on Tuesday to sweep the series 5-0.


The tourists had their task cut out when india ended with 271 on the board, England started well with Cook and Kieswetter making batting look extremely easy on a pitch which offered a fair amount of assistance to both the spinners and the fast bowlers. They looked on course to chase down 271 till they were 129-0 by the 22nd over..


However the innings subsided in a hurry, they went through an embarrassing collapse and the side which at one stage looked to be on top with 129-0 , lost all 10 wickets for just 47 runs, only to be bowled out for 176.


Jadeja , who picked 4 important wickets was the man of the match . He was well supported by Ashwin (3-28 ). Raina , Tiwary , Aaron picked one wicket each.

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A simply amazing show by the Zimbabweans, Waller helps his team to chase a mammoth target of 328 runs. Zimbabwe beat New Zealand by 1 wicket.

In a high-scoring game, twin centuries from Ross Taylor, who made 119, and Kane Williamson, whose 100 came from just 69 balls, were not enough for New Zealand, who nevertheless clinched the series 2-1. Zimbabwe’s Waller faced 74 balls, hitting ten fours and a six, following up half-centuries from Brendan Taylor (75) and Tatenda Taibu (53) to hand Zimbabwe an impressive win.
Waller and Chigumbura started together at the start of the 31st over, with 146 runs required to win and crafted a match-winning partnership. They batted themselves in, faced the spinners - Nathan McCullum and Rob Nicol - capitalised on anything on a length or too full and left New Zealand's bowlers wondering how many more runs they needed to work with.
The chase was filled with twists after Chigumbura and Waller brought the target down to less than a run a ball, Jacob Oram bowled Chigumbura, swinging down the wrong line. He left Waller to marshal the lower order, a task he completed with distinction.
Zimbabwe made a poor start with Nathan McCullum having Vusi Sibanda caught by Brendon McCullum without scoring but they were revived by Hamilton Masakadza's 36 and then half-centuries from Brendan Taylor and Taibu.