Dubai: Azhar Ali has been rewarded for his brilliant batting in Pakistan's Test series sweep against England with a place in the middle order of Pakistan's one-day squad. Ali has played just one limited-overs international — against Ireland last year — but earned the selectors attention after scoring a career-best 157 in Pakistan's 71-run third-Test win on Monday. Shahid Afridi's return to the one-day team could compound England's problem dealing...
03:35 AM, Apr 21, 2008
New Delhi: Cricketer Yuvraj Singh is suffering from cancer, but it is not lung cancer, doctors at Max Hospital, Saket (New Delhi) said. The malignant tumour is between Yuvraj’s lungs and not inside his lungs as reported earlier, said Dr Nitish Rohatgi of Max Saket while addressing a press conference on Monday. Claiming that the tumour was curable, the doctor said that Yuvraj is undergoing treatment in the USA for...
06:38 PM, Apr 20, 2008
New Delhi: Haryana leg-spinner Amit Mishra was on Sunday named as captain of the North Zone for their upcoming Duleep Trophy match, to be held here from February 4. The selectors picked a 15-member squad for the four-day tie in which North Zone will take on the winner of the match between East Zone and West Zone. Delhi's left-handed batsman Shikhar Dhawan was named as vice captain of the team....
05:03 PM, Apr 14, 2008
Sydney: Former England wicketkeeper Geraint Jones will return to international cricket aged 35 when he turns out for Papua Guinea, the country of his birth, at the World Twenty20 qualifying tournament in the United Arab Emirates in February. Jones, who played 34 Tests for England and was awarded an MBE for his involvement in the 2005 Ashes series victory over Australia, was born in Kundiawa in Papua New Guinea. He...
08:31 AM, Apr 14, 2008
Sydney: With India heading towards their sixth consecutive overseas Test defeat, veteran batsman Rahul Dravid on Thursday said his team has quality batsmen but they need some inspiration to fightback and save the second Test. The key for us is to keep them on the field for a long period of time. If we can keep their bowlers and fielders on the field for more than 100 overs. Then we...
09:02 PM, Apr 07, 2008
Lahore: Promising left-arm pacer Junaid Khan will know on Friday whether he will be part of Pakistan Test squad for the series against England in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. The 22-year-old is scheduled to undergo a full-fledged fitness test at the national cricket academy before the selectors and national team management take a decision on his participation in the coming Test series. He has made good progress and recovery from...
12:49 PM, Apr 06, 2008
Melbourne: With the match evenly poised, aggressive Indian opener Virender Sehwag on Wednesday said any target less than 300 would be gettable for his team in the first Test against Australia here. At the end of third day's play, Australia are 230 runs ahead of India but with just two wickets in hand at 179 for 8, it would be a challenge for the hosts to stretch the advantage much...
07:40 AM, Apr 04, 2008
Melbourne: Shane Watson's hopes of playing in the Boxing Day Test suffered a set-back as he failed to take part in the opening day of Australia's batting camp here on Tuesday while all-rounder Dan Christian and Tasmania's opening batsman Ed Cowan moved closer to making a Test debut. Instead of batting at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) nets, Watson, who is suffering from calf and hamstring injuries, helped assistant coach...
05:33 PM, Apr 01, 2008
Mumbai: The Wankhede Stadium, that was jam-packed when India defeated Sri Lanka to clinch the coveted World Cup earlier this year, was half full on Sunday when the hosts took on England in the fourth ODI, but Mahendra Singh Dhoni was not disappointed with the poor crowd response. (I was) Not really (disappointed). Because when you see the amount of cricket we have played, with the World Cup happening in...
03:07 PM, Mar 12, 2008
The Dalits want the college administration to be held accountable for the rape. ...
11:46 AM, Feb 08, 2008
New Delhi: Seven weeks of Indian Premier League has turned Paul Valthaty from a rank outsider to a household name and he is enjoying every bit of his stardom but is keen to retain the humility which has been the hallmark of his two role models - Sachin Tendulkar and Roger Federer. "I have always looked up to Roger Federer and Sachin Tendulkar for inspiration. They are the true champions...
04:47 PM, Feb 02, 2008
Mumbai: Stating that all plans against players like Virender Sehwag could simply flop if they get going, Pune Warriors skipper Yuvraj Singh on Saturday hoped that the Delhi Daredevils have an off day on Sunday when the two teams clash against each other here. "Sehwag is a great player. You can plan against great players but if they get going they will win the match for you. We will have...
10:34 AM, Jan 16, 2008
Cricket experts look ahead to match 14 of IPL-4 to be played at Chennai's MA Chidambaram stadium. ...
10:20 AM, Jan 16, 2008
Dhaka: The presence of former captain Ricky Ponting in the side will help Australia move forward and put their World Cup disappointment behind them, the team's new vice-captain Shane Watson said on Wednesday. "I think we had no choice on what Ricky thought and his decision. But it's as good a time as any to be able to start a new leadership group," Watson told a news conference in Dhaka....
05:14 PM, Jan 12, 2008
Ahmedabad: In the end it all paid off for the 48,000 fans who braved intense heat and fought their way through heavy security to watch India play Australia at the Sardar Patel Stadium on Thursday. They had come to witness Sachin Tendulkar score his 100th international century and an Indian quarter-final victory over the defending champions. Although Tendulkar was dismissed after a well-made half-century, the crowd still left content after...
08:56 AM, Jan 07, 2008
Dhaka: Skipper Shahid Afridi led from the front as formidable Pakistan crushed the West Indies by 10 wickets to reach the World Cup semi-finals for the first time since 1999 on Wednesday. Afridi spearheaded a spin assault on the flat-footed West Indies batsmen who crashed for 112 in 43.3 overs, a target Pakistan surpassed easily in the 21st over at the Sher-e-Bangla stadium. The leg-spinner, already the tournament's leading wicket-taker,...
11:46 AM, Jan 06, 2008
Ahmedabad: The use of the much-debated Decision Review System in the World Cup has improved the incidence of correct decisions by five per cent, International Cricket Council chief executive Haroon Lorgat said today. "To date, we have more than a five per cent improvement in correct decisions and I think we all want fundamentally for umpires to make the correct decisions. We don't want the game to hinge on something...
12:39 AM, Jan 06, 2008
Karachi: Pakistan coach Waqar Younis feels that the spot-fixing scandal and disciplinary issues involving the players, which had stained the image of the game in the country, were things of the past and said that the national team is back on the winning track. "I think the most satisfying thing for me right now is that the team now believes in itself and is back on the winning track. I...
03:23 PM, Jan 02, 2008
Chennai: England's Paul Collingwood has scotched speculation on his one-day future after coming in to bat at No. 8 during the World Cup defeat to Bangladesh. Collingwood quit Tests during the Sydney Test against Australia in January this year to allow himself to focus on one-day internationals and Twenty20 cricket. The Durham all-rounder, who led England to a famous World Twenty20 triumph last year, has had an unimpressive run in...
05:43 PM, Jan 01, 2008
Indian skipper MS Dhoni sounds the bugle ahead of the World Cup and says his team can handle the pressure before the home crowd. ...
07:05 PM, Dec 06, 2007
