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10:57 PM, Jun 04, 2008
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad: Australia took three final-session wickets to restrict West Indies to 49-3 by stumps Monday on the second day of the second Test, building a 262-run lead despite Kemar Roach's five-wicket haul for the hosts. Roach took 5-105 from 27 overs as West Indies dismissed Australia for 311 after having resumed at Queen's Park Oval on 208-5. Kraigg Brathwaite (0), Adrian Barath (7) and Kieran Powell (19) were all ...
01:43 AM, May 13, 2008
Melbourne: Eighteen-year-old Australia Test fast bowler, Pat Cummins will make his return from a left heel stress injury against kids his own age. Cummins, who took six second-innings wickets and hit the winning runs in a man-of-the match performance on debut in the second Test against South Africa in December before the injury sidelined him for the rest of the Australian summer, will play in Australia's under-19 team in a...
07:11 PM, May 07, 2008
Chasing a modest 233, India's victory march was shaping up to be a dawdle at 157 for 3 at the WACA where India had failed to post 200 in a Test just about a month ago. But Suresh Raina's old folly, MS Dhoni's unnecessary hoik and Virat Kohli's suicidal run almost cost India a win that was in the end rescued by Ravindra Jadeja and the Man of the Match,...
11:58 PM, Apr 21, 2008
Mumbai: The Indian cricket board (BCCI) is under investigation for violating the country's foreign exchange laws, sports minister Ajay Maken said on Tuesday. The government was looking into alleged violations of the Foreign Exchange Management Act amounting to some 10.77 billion rupees ($206.7 million), Maken told parliament. He said the investigation covered the ownership of franchises and fund transfers without the permission of the Reserve Bank of India and the...
10:23 PM, Mar 25, 2008
Mumbai: The Indian cricket board (BCCI) is under investigation for violating the country's foreign exchange laws, sports minister Ajay Maken said on Tuesday. The government was looking into alleged violations of the Foreign Exchange Management Act amounting to some 10.77 billion rupees ($206.7 million), Maken told parliament. He said the investigation covered the ownership of franchises and fund transfers without the permission of the Reserve Bank of India and the...
10:23 PM, Mar 25, 2008
Roseau, Dominica: India eye completing a first-ever double of an ODI and Test series victory in the Caribbean and also improve their over-rate when they take on the West Indies in the third and final Test that starts at the Windsor Park Stadium here on Wednesday. Visiting skipper MS Dhoni was fined 50 per cent of his match fee in the second Test for slow over-rate, leaving him with the...
09:19 PM, Feb 09, 2008
Roseau, Dominica: India eye completing a first-ever double of an ODI and Test series victory in the Caribbean and also improve their over-rate when they take on the West Indies in the third and final Test that starts at the Windsor Park Stadium here on Wednesday. Visiting skipper MS Dhoni was fined 50 per cent of his match fee in the second Test for slow over-rate, leaving him with the...
09:19 PM, Feb 09, 2008
Kolkata: Stylish middle-order batsman Manoj Tiwary on Saturday said that Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) would be keen to prove a point in the upcoming Champions League Twenty20 to be held from September 23-October 9. The Bengal skipper, who received the best cricketer award from the Calcutta Sports Journalists' Club here on the occasion of International Sports Journalists Day, said KKR did well in the fourth edition of the Indian Premier...
10:43 PM, Feb 08, 2008
Kolkata: Stylish middle-order batsman Manoj Tiwary on Saturday said that Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) would be keen to prove a point in the upcoming Champions League Twenty20 to be held from September 23-October 9. The Bengal skipper, who received the best cricketer award from the Calcutta Sports Journalists' Club here on the occasion of International Sports Journalists Day, said KKR did well in the fourth edition of the Indian Premier...
10:43 PM, Feb 08, 2008
Bangalore: India's women's cricket team leaves for a tour of England on Friday hoping to claim a share of the limelight the men's team is so used to dominating. A World Cup victory earlier this year was a major accomplishment for the men's team, which will now strive to retain its top Test ranking with series in the West Indies and England. Amid the busy men's calendar, the women's team...
01:09 AM, Feb 05, 2008
Bangalore: India's women's cricket team leaves for a tour of England on Friday hoping to claim a share of the limelight the men's team is so used to dominating. A World Cup victory earlier this year was a major accomplishment for the men's team, which will now strive to retain its top Test ranking with series in the West Indies and England. Amid the busy men's calendar, the women's team...
01:09 AM, Feb 05, 2008
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