Cricket News sort by Kevin Peter Pietersen

The sixth season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) may have kicked off amid much fanfare, but simultaneously another league has been growing rather strongly. More and more players are joining the list of another IPL, which we have termed as the Injured Players League.

New Zealand are on the backfoot at 66 for 3 in 33 overs by Stumps on Day 2 of the Second Test at the Basin Reserve in Wellington in reply to England’s first innings total of 465.

155, 158, 257 – these are England’s scores with the bat in the last three ODIs against India which they ended up losing, perceptibly demonstrating that this is where they lost the series.

India clinched the Mohali ODI to take an unassailable series lead of 3-1 against England. It was an all-round performance for Team India with the bowlers doing their bit and the batsmen ensuring that their efforts aren't wasted.

Going into the current ODI series against India, England had won only one of the previous 16 encounters held in India over the last three visits. However, all that seemed destined to change after the Englishmen, as if they were just carrying on from where they left off in the Tests, won the opening one-dayer courtesy a superlative batting performance.

As the year draws to a close, we look at the top five batsmen in cricket in 2012 in all three formats of the game.

A look back at the good, the bad and the ugly – everything that transpired on and off the cricket field in the year.

England are in the driver’s seat in the Third Test by ending the crucial third day’s play with a massive first innings lead of 193 runs. There is still some batting left for England to ensure that they will not have too many runs to chase down on a wearing pitch possibly on the final day.

When England take on India in the third Test at the historic Eden Gardens in Kolkata, two of their prominent names would be chasing history themselves.