Rajasthan Royals skipper Rahul Dravid on Tuesday said it made sense to have Brad Hodge batting lower down the order since he is fantastic finisher.
Brad Hodge (52 off 23 balls), the iceman, orchestrated a fine four-wicket win for Rajasthan Royals against Otago Volts in the Group A match of the Champions League T20 (CLT20) 2013 at Sawain Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur on Tuesday.
Otago Volts scored 139 for 7 against Rajasthan Royals in a crucial Group A encounter of Champions League Twenty20 (CLT20) 2013 at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur on Tuesday. Rahul Shukla (three for 23) was star with the ball for Rajasthan.
Former Kiwi fast bowler Simon Doull hopes that India will play a full series in New Zealand where they are scheduled to tour early next year.
The latest star on the cricket horizon is Kerala's teenage sensation Sanju Samson and his middle name — Viswanath — is not known to many.
Rajasthan Royals' bowlers produced an inspired show to help their side trump Kolkata Knight Riders by 19 runs in their IPL 2013 match at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur on Monday.
It's not easy to be out of match practice for 10 months especially when one is on the wrong side of 40 and by his own admission former India captain Rahul Dravid was a "bit nervous" at the start of his innings during Rajasthan Royals' IPL match against Delhi Daredevils.
Pacer Suryakant Pradhan ran through the Jharkhand batting order with a brilliant seven-wicket haul as Odisha crushed Jharkhand by 235 runs in their East Zone leg of the Vijay Hazare One-Day Championship match.
Mumbai Indians added five cricketers - Apoorva Wankhede, Sujit Nayak, Rahul Shukla, Kuldeep Yadav and Sushant Marathe - to their list of players for the fifth season of Indian Premier League, commencing on April 4.
Middle-order batsman Saurav Tiwary and seamer Rahul Shukla have been omitted from the Jharkhand Ranji team ahead of its last league match against Goa, beginning at Keenan stadium on Tuesday.