Sammy opens to Gayle return in England Tests series

West Indies captain Darren Sammy left the door open for former captain Chris Gayle to return in the remains of the Test series against England after the tourist defeat in the opener at Lord's.

West Indies went down to a 5-wicket loss here on Monday to fall 1-0 behind in the 3-match series. They did so without dynamic opening batsman Gayle, who has not played international cricket for more than a year following a argument with the West Indies Cricket Board But Gayle said previously this month he would not be worship his contract with county side Somerset so as to make himself presented to the West Indies in this tour of England.

As he was not chosen in the Test squad, it had been idea Gayle would return to the side for the ODI series against England, which starts in Southampton on June 16.Gayle has been playing in the profitable IPL Twenty20 competition but his IPL commitments have done after the Royal Challengers Bangalore were eliminate from the tournament.

Although his fraught association with the WICB means it is unlikely Gayle will feature in the Test series, particularly as the 2nd match starts on Friday at Trent Bridge, Sammy refused to rule him out totally.

Whatever happens outside this team takes its own course, Sammy told Sky Sports. Whoever comes in we will welcome them into the team and with any luck they will help. It is up to the selectors to select the team.

Vvs Laxman signs off in Hyderabad?

Calcutta - Will V.V.S. Laxman signs off from International cricket in August? That’s the question doing the round after the Board of Control for Cricket in India Tour, planned and Fixtures Committee named Hyderabad as the site for India’s 1st Test of a 2-match series, against New Zealand.

The call for the seniors’ heads had gather ground after back-to-back grievous tours of England and Australia. Rahul Dravid called it quit earlier this month, on March 9, as he feels it was the right time to move on. Speculation of Laxman follow suit has been doing the rounds for quite some time at present.

And so the committee’s broadcast, after a meeting in Chennai, that Hyderabad Laxman hometown will host a Test against the Black Caps, trigger speculation about the stylish right-hander’s retirement. The committee on Monday decisive the venues for the series, to be play from August 2012 to March 2013.

While a wonderful innings may finish in one hometown, any more hometown of an Indian star is ready for its maiden innings. Ranchi, India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni hometown, is set to host its 1st international cricket match when India and England get the field for the 3rd ODI of a 5-match series later this year/early 2013.

Ranchi is amongst the four new venues that will stage International matches. The new maiden hosts are Dharamsala, Pune and Rajkot.Sanjay Jagdale, the BCCI desk, will finalist the exact plan for each series, based on logistics. While Dharamsala has already been approved as an international venue, Rajkot, Pune and Ranchi are ready for approval.

Construction of the Ranchi stadium, which is inside the JSCA International Stadium compound, was finished in a little over 2 years’ time. The stadium has an estimated capacity of 35,000 and has 5 viewing levels on the North and South Pavilions.

SERIES AND THE VENUES

New Zealand series: August-September 2012

Test Match

Match                             Team                               Place

2 test                              IND vs New Z                 Hyderabad and Bangalore

Twenty20 Match

Match                            Team                               Place

2 T20                            IND vs New Z                  Visakhapatnam and Chennai

England series: November 2012-January 2013

Test Match

Match                            Team                                Place

4 Test matches             IND vs ENG                     Cal,Mum,Ahmadabad & Nagpur

Twenty20

Match                            Team                                Place

2 T20                             IND vs ENG                    Pune and Mumbai

ODI

Match                            Team                                Place

5ODIs                            IND vs ENG                     Rt,Dharamsala,Ranchi,Mohali and Kochi

Australia series: February 2013-March 2013

Test Match

Match                             Team                               Place

4 Test matches              IND vs AUS                    Chennai, Delhi, Kanpur and Mohali

Match  Details Coming Soon...........

India may slip to 4th spot in ICC Test rankings

Dubai- a series win for Australia in the 3-match Test series against the West Indies may push India 1 place down to the 4th rank in the International Cricket Council Test Ranks.

Australia will be eye to gain at least 1 place on the Test Championship table when they get on the West Indies in the Test series starting in April 7. As a series win will put Australia in front of India in third position, a 3-0 series win will put Australia on equal points with England on 113 ratings points.

And when the ratings are calculate further than the decimal point, then Australia will be placed above England in 2nd position they will have a rating of 113.10 against England's rating of 113.045.England finds them in a must-win position in the Colombo Test if they have to retain their number-1 position on the Reliance ICC Test Championship chart.

England's win will continue them ahead of South Africa by a small part of a point but their failure to win the Test will build South Africa as the new No.1 ranked side. But England loses the series 2-0; they will drop from 118 ratings points to 113 ratings points - 3 points behind South Africa - while a 1-0 beat will mean they will slip to 114 ratings points.

The Test Championship Rank as well as the player rankings will currently be updated at the finale of the Colombo Test.

No       Team                            Rank

1.         England                        118

2.         South Africa                  116

3.         India                            111

4.         Australia                       111

5.         Pakistan                       108

6.         Sri Lanka                       98

7.        West Indies                     87

8.        New Zealand                   85

9.        Bangladesh                       8

Tendulkar will be playing for fifth IPL

Mumbai- Mumbai Indians says Captain Sachin Tendulkar, who is in London for a routine check-up of an old toe injury, will be available for the 5th Indian Premier League.

Mumbai Indians captain Sachin Tendulkar joining the in-progress camp at Wankhede Stadium from 31st March 2012 and is totally available for the total IPL season 5. Sachin is in the UK to ask his doctor and will be back in India to join the camp from 31st March, Mumbai Indians said Wednesday.

Tendulkar have to rush to London Tuesday for a medical on an old toe injury, which has resurfaced and might need operation. He also missed Rahul David’s felicitation ritual here Tuesday evening.

Tendulkar picked up the injury nearly a decade ago. But it came back to trouble him last year’s forcing him to miss the ODI series in England in September. He had to ask an expert in London and was advice 4 weeks rest.

Tendulkar was also ruled out of champion League T20 which Mumbai Indians under the last year that’s time captain Harbhajan

The IPL starts in Chennai, where Tendulkar-led Mumbai Indians, the last year's runner-up takes on caring champions Chennai Super Kings, led by India skipper Mahindra Singh Dhoni at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium Chennai.

Super win England. Sri Lanka tour match

Colombo: England displayed their batting prowess ahead of next week's Test series in Sri Lanka by winning the last practice match with an amazing run chase on Thursday.

The tourists surpass a stiff target of 359 from 64 overs with 4wickets and 20 balls to spare against a Sri Lanka improvement XI in the 3-day match at the Sinhalese sports club in Colombo. Matt Prior led the assault with a scorching 84 off 60 balls, and was ably support by Kevin Pietersen (52), Ravi Bopara (66) and Samit Patel (72).

Graeme Swann bring up the win for the world's top-ranked Test side with 14 runs off 3 balls -- four, six and four -- off leg-spinner Kaushal Lokuarachchi.Out-of-form Ian Bell was the lone batsman to miss out, falling for 11. He has now scored just 25 runs in 3 innings on the tour so far.

The tourists suffer a blow when it was exposed that Bopara was unlikely to bowl in the 2-Test series due to a side strain. Bopara will, however, still be available for choice as an expert batsman, a team spokesman said. The home team, who resumed their 2nd innings at the for the night score of 44-1, moved to 199-4 before the innings was declared during the lunch break.

Angelo Perera, a 22-year-old right-hander, followed his 85 in the 1st innings with a winning 90 off 70 balls, studded with 8t boundaries and 6 sixes. The tourists won the 1st practice match against the Cricket Board XI by an innings and 15 runs. The 1st Test open in Galle from Monday, followed by the 2nd in Colombo from April 3.

Brief scores:

Sri Lanka Development XI 1st innings: 431-6 declared -Chamara Silva 163, Thilina Kandamby 64, Angelo Perera 85, Stuart Broad 3-69, Steven Finn 2-93, and Samit Patel 1-83.

England 1st innings: 272-4 declared. Andrew Strauss 100 retired, Jonathan Trott 101 retired.

Sri Lanka Development XI 2nd innings: 199-4 declared .Angelo Perera 90 not out, Steven Finn 1-17, Tim Bresnan 1-16.

England 2nd innings: 360-6 (Kevin Pietersen 52, Ravi Bopara 66, Matt Prior 84, Samit Patel 72) England won by four wickets.

Yuvraj is good condition. Said doctors

Yuvraj Singh's response to chemotherapy has left his medical team fairly confident that the meditational semi formal he had been diagnosed with will not come back. Dr Nitesh Rohatgi, a key member of Yuvraj's medical team told. Yuvraj undergo 3 cycles of chemotherapy, the last one in hospital before being discharge, and is predictable to return to India in the first half of April.

Rohatgi, senior medical oncologist at Delhi Max Cancer Center said Yuvraj Singh, diagnose with a meditational semi formal, a germ-cell tumors among his lungs, had respond well to therapy. "He has had the normal treatment for such tumours, which is three cycles of chemotherapy followed by a austere protocol based follow-up and we are with care confident that it will not come back.

The doctor’s progressive assessment over the period of almost two months of chemotherapy had indicated that the tumors mass detected earlier has now shrunk significantly. Has come down faster than predictable and both the signs jointly are comforting of the fact that the cancer should be on the way out of his system. Yuvraj has been in the US for treatment as end January. He underwent chemotherapy in Indianapolis at the Indiana University's IU Simon Cancer Center below the management of Rohatgi and Lawrence H Einhorn, who had head the treatment of cycling champion Lance Armstrong in 1996.

Following the three cycles of chemotherapy, Rohatgi said that while Yuvraj's tumour marker had normalized his readings of the liver and kidney test remain robust, representative that the chemotherapy has not irrevocably damaged his body. All the side-effects he has had so far are reversible and we've seen cipher of quick revival between cycles of chemotherapy.

When asked about a specific time frame for Yuvraj's return to full fitness, Rohatgi said it was, variable. In our experience, mine from cases in the UK and Dr Einkorn’s from the US, patients get back to good normal activity in a month's time. Whether that also amounts to excellent training capabilities we will only find out in time. Yuvraj is very strong-minded.

Yuvraj will stay in the US for between two to three weeks due to what Rohatgi called a safety period that had to be experiential following chemotherapy. His then step would now above all be to get back to health and go through a follow-up and check-up custom through blood tests and CT scans, none of which would break off any of Yuvraj's schedules. Along with physical recovery, Rohatgi said Yuvraj Singh had spiritually handled the chemotherapy very well. The common psychological effect on patients of cancer and chemotherapy can be despair, but Yuvraj has tackled it very well. He came across to us as an main person who said when this get over let me get back on track.

Sammy backs. W Indies youth full team.

Kingstown March 15: West Indies caption Darren Sammy believes his team's mixture of raw youth and battle-scarred veterans can knock Australia out of their stride when the 5-game, ODI series starts on (16-03-12) Friday.

The 1st three matches all take place at Arnos Vale, as international cricket returns to St Vincent for the 1st time since March, 2010.Johnson Charles is an excite prospect and we also have Narine, who is a well spinner, and also Andre Russell, the exciting all-rounder, who can do the work that is requisite, said 28-year-old Sammy.

We have some players who are make a return to international cricket like Tino Best, who has been bowling well, and Dwayne Bravo, who says he is very excited to be back in the maroon shirt. We are team which will be very spirited against the Australians. We will seem to play hard cricket and look for wins.

Darren Sammy said he enjoy playing at Arnos Vale. 2 years ago, he record career-best ODI figures of 4 for 26 against Zimbabwe while back, in 2009; he took five for 70 next to Bangladesh in a Test match. We will look to hit the ground running and start the series on a winning note. Arnos Vale has been an excellent venue for us.

The last time we played here we win the matches and we enjoy the crowd support from the fans and the ambiance at this venue is forever superb “We are playing against the Australians, and every person knows they are a well team .a very spirited team. But we are focus on us and what we have to do.