London: Former captain Rahul Dravid has said India have to restore their pride by winning the fourth and final cricket Test of the series against England at The Oval. Dravid, who has been India's most prolific scorer with two centuries in the series, admitted it has been a tough outing for the visitors for a combination of reasons. "It has been a tough series for a combination of reasons. The...
02:01 AM, Feb 22, 2008
New Delhi: The big names of Indian cricket are all set to tour England in the four Test series beginning from July 15. The BCCI on Saturday announced in the selection meeting that MS Dhoni will lead the side while Gautam Gambhir will be his deputy. Sachin Tendulkar who rested himself for the ongoing tour to the West Indies has also been named in the squad, whereas Virender Sehwag who...
10:08 PM, Feb 08, 2008
Kingston: Rebel West Indies batsman Chris Gayle is so frustrated and disillusioned with his Cricket Board officials that he might consider walking away from the national team, a media report here has claimed. According to the 'Trinidad Guardian', the friction between the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and Gayle has only increased after a stormy meeting, which was ironically called to settle the differences after the batsman's controversial radio interview....
01:54 AM, Feb 05, 2008
Lahore: The Pakistan cricket Board might split its forthcoming Test and ODI series against Sri Lanka at two neutral venues but has dropped the idea of organising it in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe was under consideration to be a neutral venue for the Pakistan-Sri Lanka series later this year but sources in the Board said the high costs involved in organising the matches had virtually ruled it out of contention. The costs...
01:38 PM, Feb 04, 2008
Dharamsala: Adam Gilchrist (106) smashed a breath-taking century and shared a record 206-run partnership with Shaun Marsh as Kings XI Punjab overwhelmed Royal Challengers Bangalore by 111 runs to keep themselves in the reckoning for the play-offs in the Indian Premier League. The second-wicket partnership between Gilchirst and Marsh (79 not out) was the highest in Twenty20 cricket and it steered the hosts to a mammoth 232 for two, highest...
11:02 AM, Jan 26, 2008
Chennai: Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Daniel Vettori today admitted that the fielding had been the difference between the two teams in his team's loss to Chennai Super Kings at the M A Chidambaram Stadium. Bangalore lost by 21 runs to CSK, a match in which the visitors dropped three catches, including that of Michael Hussey on 8. Hussey went on to make 83.'Yeah, I think fielding is what cost us...
11:05 AM, Jan 16, 2008
Karachi: With the stage all set for their high-profile World Cup semi-final against India at Mohali, Pakistan's chief selector Mohsin Khan has said that induction of young blood in the squad has worked wonders for the controversy-ridden team in the ongoing tournament. Mohsin also expressed confidence that the Shahid Afridi-led side can pull off a win in tomorrow's much-anticipated match, which will attended by the Prime Ministers of both India...
08:22 PM, Jan 09, 2008
New Delhi: Even though in the end it turned out to be a comprehensive win for Team India against the West Indies on Sunday, seven for 50 to add to the seven for 33 and nine for 29 are figures that will haunt India as they fly into Ahmedabad to take on Australia in their quarter-final game on Thursday. In their six league matches, India batted first on four occasions...
08:04 PM, Jan 04, 2008
Nagpur: Error-hit England survived a huge scare to get their World Cup bid off to a winning start with a six-wicket victory over the Netherlands Tuesday despite Ryan ten Doeschate's all-round heroics. South Africa-born Doeschate dominated England's attack in making 119 as the Netherlands piled up 292 for six and he then took two for 47. But with England captain Andrew Strauss making 88, the Test side scraped home in...
09:07 AM, Dec 20, 2007
London: South Africa bowler Wayne Parnell has agreed to join English county Sussex for the second half of next season. Parnell will take over from Pakistan paceman Rana Naved-ul-Hasan as the county's overseas player from June, pending approval from Cricket South Africa. The 21-year-old left-arm seamer has represented South Africa in all three formats of the game and played in England for Kent in 2009. Parnell, who is in the...
11:12 PM, Dec 06, 2007
Reports confirm that the police may well have been complicit in the racket. ...
01:20 PM, Nov 30, 2007
Durban: South Africa called batsman Hashim Amla into its squad and will rest allrounder Jacques Kallis and fast bowlers Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel for the one-off Twenty20 match against India next month. Retired pace bowler Makhaya Ntini was also named in the Proteas' 12-man squad on Wednesday for the Jan 9 game at Durban's Moses Mabhida World Cup football stadium. The 33-year-old Ntini announced his retirement from international cricket...
11:19 PM, Nov 22, 2007
The conversion controversy has got parts of rural Maharashtra on the boil. ...
03:25 PM, Nov 11, 2007
The case has caused a feeling of insecurity amongst the working ladies, especially the ones who work in a BPO. ...
01:28 AM, Nov 05, 2007
Mumbai Police is losing officers to work and stress related diseases. ...
01:37 AM, Nov 01, 2007
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