Delhi Daredevils' Sri Lankan batting import Mahela Jayawardena is relishing his role as an opener in the shorter form of the game, saying it gives him opportunities to go for the big shots at the start of an innings.

India's poor form in the CB series has left the national team selectors in a quandary for the selection of the team for the Asia Cup.

Here are striking points about Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag's ODI double centuries.

Stunned by the sheer brutality of Virender Sehwag's epic ODI double hundred, former Pakistani cricketers have lauded the Indian opener's "superb" hand-eye coordination with ex-captain Rameez Raja calling him the "King of entertainment".

Former South African cricketer Jonty Rhodes on Thursday said he was not surprised to see India's swashbuckling opener Virender Sehwag scoring a record 219 in One-Day International.

Having cut Andre Russell to the boundary to go past Sachin Tendulkar's 200, Virender Sehwag was celebrating his record-breaking feat with a fist-pump, when he saw something strange.

What separates Virender Sehwag from everyone else is that he plays each ball on its merit, and usually thinks each ball merits a boundary. That is why it will be no surprise if he crosses the 200-run mark in ODIs again.

Virender Sehwag is confident of being fit for the tour of England in July after undergoing shoulder surgery in London last week.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni could lead a 16-man squad sans Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag and Zaheer Khan during India's forthcoming five-match ODI series against West Indies, it is learnt.

Delhi's dumping of tradition, the story of Sreesanth's career in an over and more in a review of the action from the third week of the IPL