
Australian New Captain M Clarke is committed to beat Pakies in UAE. Australia start a five-match ODI series against Pakistan from Wednesday in the United Arab Emirates due to security concerns in the subcontinental country.
TWENTY 20 CRICKET IS AN ENJOYMENT, ONE - DAY CRICKET IS AN EXHIBITION. TEST CRICKET IS AN EXAMINATION. ITS ALL ABOUT TO TAKE CHANCE. ONE, WHO DOESN'T THROW THE DICE, CAN NEVER EXPECT TO SCORE A SIX.
Cape Town: The Indian Premier League started on foreign soil with an explosion of entertainment and two cricket upsets at Newlands Saturday.
A sell-out crowd - although there were gaps in the IPL hospitality area - saw both last year's finalists defeated at the start of the five-week tournament moved from India because of security concerns.
Cape Town: Their owner may have been the most visible presence in the pre-tournament build-up, but the Kolkata Knight Riders will seek to show they are capable of playing good cricket when they open their Indian Premier League campaign against the Deccan Chargers at Newlands on Sunday.
The Delhi Daredevils meet the Kings XI Punjab in the early match of the second double-header at the ground in which all eight teams were due to be in action over the first two days of the five-week tournament in South Africa.
Knight Riders owner, film star Shah Rukh Khan, admitted that his team didn't perform as well as he hoped in finishing sixth out of eight last year, although he said they were the "coolest-looking" outfit.