New Delhi: The vacation bench of the Delhi High Court Thursday ordered in favour of ESPN Software India Pvt Ltd (ESIPL) in its suit for permanent injunction filed against cable operators across the country against unauthorised broadcast of the ongoing India's cricket tour to Australia. The High Court restrained all cable operators, hotels and internet websites from unauthorisedly showing the series in any manner. ESIPL in its suit before the...
11:52 PM, Apr 07, 2008
Sydney: Former Australia skipper Mark Taylor heaped praise on current captain Michael Clarke for putting the team's interest ahead of his personal ambition by deciding not to chase the world record individual score in the second cricket Test against India here on Thursday. He's a guy who loves the game of cricket and I don't think people have quite understood that with Michael. He had an opportunity to make the...
05:48 PM, Apr 07, 2008
Australia had a great chance to get rid of a well-set Gautam Gambhir on the stroke of stumps, but the wicketkeeper Brad Haddin spilled a catch. James Pattinson, in the second last over of the day - after he was called on for a two-over burst - was the bowler to create the desired opening. It was a great delivery, bowled from around the stumps and squaring up Gambhir outside...
05:45 PM, Apr 07, 2008
Rahul Dravid's Australia tour is shaping up ominously. After being bowled thrice during the first Test at the MCG including once off a no-ball Dravid suffered the same fate on day three in Sydney. On the ball before he was bowled, Dravid had inside-edged an in-cutter just past the top of the stumps and away to the boundary. If he thought he had been given a life, Dravid had another...
05:00 PM, Apr 07, 2008
Cape Town: Jacques Kallis and Alviro Petersen hit centuries as South Africa dominated the first day of the third and final Test against Sri Lanka at Newlands on Tuesday. South Africa were 347 for three at the close after being sent in to bat. Kallis, playing in his 150th Test match, was on 159 not out. He and Petersen (109) put on 205 for the third wicket, a record for...
04:56 PM, Apr 06, 2008
Ricky Ponting had been rendered a statistical legend for the last two years or so. Knowing that well, India's newfound pace sensation Umesh Yadav chose to give Punter a wake up call early in his innings. Before the Australia batting legend could get his eye in, Yadav's bouncer reared from just short of good length to crash into Ponting's helmet. The blow shook the Aussie great all right, but he...
01:46 PM, Apr 03, 2008
Melbourne: He is touted as Australia's next big pace sensation who will make life difficult for the Indian batsmen in the upcoming Test series, but not too long ago, James Pattinson was nothing more than a fringe player even for his IPL team - the Kolkata Knight Riders. Team India is justifiably bewildered at the noise which surrounds Pattinson ahead of the opening Test starting in Melbourne on Monday. Just...
09:52 AM, Apr 03, 2008
Melbourne: The current crop of Australian cricketers are struggling because they have not been taught the correct technique for batting, bowling and fielding, feels former wicket-keeper batsman Rod Marsh. When someone does run in and swing the ball, it becomes almost unfair because the batsmen don't know how to deal with it, Marsh told The Advertiser. You have to learn to play the swinging ball because it is part of...
03:38 PM, Apr 02, 2008
Johannesburg: Sri Lankan batsman Mahela Jayawardene will bat more freely after he reaches his milestone of 10,000 Test runs, feels captain Tillakaratne Dilshan. "I believe Mahela will bat with more freedom after he will get that single run he still requires to reach his 10,000 Test run mark," Dilshan told the Afrikaans daily Beeld. Sri Lanka lost their first Test of the three-match series by an innings and 81 runs...
12:38 PM, Apr 02, 2008
Mumbai: Paying glorious tributes to legendary cricketer Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi, who passed away on September 22 this year, former Australian skipper Ian Chappell has said the Indian's services could have been better utilised as an administrator. His (Pataudi's) abilities could have been used to the full extent. He had a wonderful knowledge of the game and had the ability to give more to cricket. I know he had some...
02:56 PM, Apr 01, 2008
Canberra: Having picked up four wickets against Cricket Australia Chairman's XI at Manuka Oval on Tuesday, India off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin said that he has done his homework well and is all set for the upcoming four-match Test series against Australia, starting on December 26. You have to spin it and rub it on the batsmen. First few days of a Test, I don't expect the ball to turn. It has...
01:28 PM, Apr 01, 2008
New Delhi: There was no love lost between Sourav Ganguly and the then India coach Greg Chappell, but the former Indian captain has taken their feud a step further by calling the Australian mad. Reacting to reports that Chappell would 'demystify' Sachin Tendulkar and other Indian greats for the Australian bowlers during the upcoming Test series, Ganguly said this was good news for the Indian team. He has been a...
07:36 AM, Apr 01, 2008
Karachi: Pakistan's interim cricket coach Mohsin Khan is expected to get a showcause notice from the PCB for stating that he was not willing to accept any position with the national team other than being the head coach. In an unusually hard-hitting interview to the Express Tribune, Mohsin, who is presently with the Pakistan team in Bangladesh, hinted that he would reject any offer to become the batting coach of...
09:42 AM, Mar 31, 2008
New Delhi: In a significant move, the government of India made changes in the eligibility criteria for a person getting the Bharat Ratna. According to media reports, this move will pave way for Sachin Tendulkar to get the country's highest civilian honour. The Prime Minister's Office has accepted the Ministry of Home Affairs' recommendation of broad basing the Bharat Ratna category. The change in rules came at the behest of...
08:58 AM, Mar 31, 2008
Pretoria: Cricket South Africa (CSA) chief executive Gerald Majola has admitted to the Nicholson inquiry looking into the financial affairs of the board that he did not disclose a huge bonus paid to him by the organisers of the IPL. An independent inquiry by auditors KPMG, established by sports minister Fikile Mbalula, cited Majola as being in breach of the Companies Act, but this is the first time that he...
01:48 PM, Mar 27, 2008
New Delhi: A public relations agent who seems to have doubled up as the skipper of the West Indian cricket team that could be an apt way to describe Darren Sammy. Sammy's cheerful demeanour might be a lesson in stoicism, but unfortunately the results are not there to be seen for a side whose transitional phase refuses to come to an end. It is all very well for the coach,...
10:06 AM, Mar 27, 2008
New Delhi: A maiden double-century from Delhi's wicketkeeper Puneet Bisht, coupled with two early strikes from fast bowler Parvinder Awana, gave Delhi the upper hand over Baroda on day three at the Feroz Shah Kotla here on Thursday. Bisht's unbeaten 223 helped Delhi to 415 - a lead of 97 in reply to Baroda's first-innings 318 before Awana helped leave the visitors in trouble at 81 for 4, trailing by...
01:10 PM, Mar 26, 2008
New Delhi: Recuperating from a non-malignant tumour in his left lung, Yuvraj Singh said he is absolutely fine and would be returning to cricket very soon. Yuvraj, 29, withdrew from the upcoming ODI series against the West Indies after it was revealved that he is being treated for a tumour in his left lung. After his mother Shabnam made the revelation in a formal statement on Saturday, Yuvraj tweeted that...
01:33 PM, Mar 25, 2008
Port of Spain: Out-of-favour West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Bravo has warned of more runs to come from his younger brother Darren Bravo. The emerging batting star has scored nearly 1,000 runs already in the last 12 months, including three centuries, and has come to the fore in the ongoing three-Test series against India. He will bat and bat and bat. He does not bowl, all he likes to do is...
08:30 AM, Mar 25, 2008
Lahore: Lawyer Aftab Gul, who represented Salman Butt in the ICC spot-fixing hearings, believes that the crown court in London does not have enough evidence to give an adverse decision against the banned Pakistan captain and pacer Muhammad Asif. Butt and Asif, who were banned by the anti-corruption tribunal of the Pakistan Cricket Board last February for their role in the spot-fixing scandal, are presently awaiting a verdict from the...
11:50 PM, Mar 13, 2008
