Sydney: Architects have studied 81-year-old footage of Don Bradman at his childhood home to complete an award-winning restoration of the property. Bradman is said to have honed his batting skills in the Australian country town of Bowral by spending hours hitting a golf ball against the base of his home's metal water tank using a cricket stump as a bat. Architects from Sydney firm Clive Lucas Stapleton & Partners won...
04:51 PM, May 08, 2013
Eleven matches. Eight defeats. Kolkata Knight Riders, defending champions and regarded as one of the strongest teams in the league, are almost certifiably out of IPL 6. The stage has been reached where it is almost easier to say "insert previous match comments here" in describing how KKR have stumbled through IPL 6 like zombies, walking in circles with their groans getting louder as their hunger for success increases. Unfortunately...
12:20 PM, May 08, 2013
Mumbai: After the Congress, Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray Tuesday demanded that Mumbai Cricket Association lift its five-year ban on actor Shah Rukh Khan from entering Wankhede Stadium. Khan's Indian Premier League (IPL) team Kolkata Knight Riders and Mumbai Indians were set to face off at the Wankhede Stadium here Tuesday and the star would miss the match if the ban is not lifted. Thackeray said it was...
12:03 PM, May 08, 2013
Mumbai: Kolkata Knight Riders' IPL title defence fell by the wayside on Tuesday when a 65-run away loss at Mumbai Indians ended their hopes of entering the play-offs, but Kolkata skipper Gautam Gambhir refused to admit that his team is jinxed when playing away from home. "I don't know whether it's [playing away] a jinx, but if you don't play proper cricket, this is what is going to happen," Gambhir,...
10:23 AM, May 08, 2013
Melbourne: Fuming after L Sivaramakrishnan's appointment as a players' representative in the International Cricket Council, the Australian players' union has called the ICC the "most ineffective governing body in world sport". "It's a really sad day for cricket," Australian Cricketers Association (ACA) CEO Paul Marsh was quoted as saying by The Australian. "This issue encapsulates all that's wrong with cricket at the moment. The irony of the situation is the...
10:09 AM, May 08, 2013
Mumbai: Sachin Tendulkar may not have set this IPL season on fire but his 48 off 28 balls on Tuesday was enough for Mumbai Indians to end Kolkata Knight Riders' play-off hopes and brighten their own chances of reaching the knockout phase. En route Mumbai's win, milestone man Tendulkar got another record under his belt - most fours in IPL history. Tendulkar hit eight fours during his knock on Tuesday,...
09:44 AM, May 08, 2013
Fatherly advice, Caribbean generosity, a debut at 41 and more in Cricketnext's review of the fifth week of the IPL's sixth season. Innings of the week David Miller's bombastic, scarcely believable 101 not out off 38 balls - the third-quickest IPL century - to take Kings XI Punjab to a successful chase of 191 against Royal Challengers Bangalore tops the list hands down. Punjab were 51 for 3 when the...
08:37 AM, May 08, 2013
Hyderabad: On the eve of their match against defenders Chennai Super Kings, Sunrisers Hyderabad's chief coach Tom Moody says the track at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium here looked challenging but wasn't as bad as it looked statistically. "I am sure tomorrow (Wednesday) it is going to be on a new wicket again. I am sure it will be a good contest between bat and ball," Moody said. Sunrisers,...
09:06 PM, May 07, 2013
Dharamsala: God of cricket Sachin Tendulkar's imminent knock in the land of gods has sent the excitement quotient soaring across the boundary. His fans are desperately awaiting his first ever match at the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association's (HPCA) sole venue, located at an altitude of 4,000 feet above sea level here, May 18 when Mumbai Indians take on Kings XI Punjab. "Most of the tickets for the second IPL match...
08:31 PM, May 07, 2013
New Delhi: Preferring not to say it in as many words, former Australian spinner and FICA boss Tim May on Tuesday made a veiled reference to his ouster from the ICC's Cricket Committee, saying he is more interested in the apex body "policing" and maintaining its stated "governance". There have been allegations that the BCCI forced some of the captains of the member boards to vote in favour of former...
08:12 PM, May 07, 2013
Kallis said, "We have applied ourselves, but unfortunately we were not winning games. We have not played as bad as people think this season. We just lost a few close games that could have turned our season around". ...
05:39 PM, May 07, 2013
Bridgetown: Former West Indies fast bowler Michael Holding believes the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) represents an excellent opportunity for the development of professional cricket in the region. The 59-year-old, known for his strident criticism of the shortest form of the game, said the CPL was special as it had the potential to give birth to a new generation of professional cricketers in the Caribbean. He has signed on as the...
01:55 PM, May 07, 2013
Melbourne: A miffed Federation of International Cricketers Association today demanded an ICC ethics committee enquiry into BCCI-backed L Sivaramakrishnan's appointment as a players' representative in the governing body, saying captains could have been forced to vote against incumbent Tim May. Sivaramakrishnan replaced May, who is also the FICA CEO, on the ICC Cricket Committee after a reported re-vote pushed for by the BCCI. It is alleged that in the initial...
01:45 PM, May 07, 2013
Mumbai: Sources say that actor and Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) owner Shah Rukh Khan will not be attending his team's match against Mumbai Indians at Wankhede Stadium on Tuesday night. Shah Rukh reportedly wants to avoid any distractions ahead of the crucial game. Meanwhile, the Maharashtra Congress unit earlier in the day wrote to the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) asking them to allow Shah Rukh into the Wankhede Stadium for...
01:36 PM, May 07, 2013
Mumbai: The Maharashtra Congress unit has written to the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) asking them to allow actor Shah Rukh Khan into the Wankhede Stadium for Tuesday's IPL match of Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR). KKR is to take on the Mumbai Indians but team owner Shah Rukh Khan can't attend the match after the MCA wrote a letter to the Churchgate Police station, asking them to keep him away from...
12:39 PM, May 07, 2013
The Kolkata Knight Riders bowler said they will have to play their best cricket against Mumbai Indians on Tuesday to keep their IPL 6 campaign alive. ...
11:55 AM, May 07, 2013
Kolkata Knight Riders allrounder Jacques Kallis believes his team can make it to the next round in IPL 6 despite a poor show so far. ...
11:38 AM, May 07, 2013
Wellington: A New Zealand man has pleaded guilty to assaulting cricketer Jesse Ryder during an altercation outside a bar in the South Island city of Christchurch last month, reports said Tuesday. The 20-year-old, whose name was suppressed, was convicted after pleading guilty to one charge of assault and will reappear in the Christchurch District Court on June 5, the Christchurch Press reported. It said a second man, 37, the convicted...
10:46 AM, May 07, 2013
After putting 190 on the board and reducing Kings XI Punjab to 64 for 4 halfway through their chase on Monday, Virat Kohli and Royal Challengers Bangalore almost had another win the bag and a foot in the play-offs door - until David Miller proved to be the giant killer. The South African played his best and undoubtedly one of the most scintillating innings in the IPL history to strike...
10:37 AM, May 07, 2013
