Leicester: Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Monday awarded an honorary doctorate by De Montfort University after the conclusion of a Twenty20 practice match against Leicestershire here. Dhoni was praised for his exemplary leadership quality and achievements before he became an Honorary Doctor of Letters at a ceremony here. Dhoni has achieved many milestones in his career. Under his captaincy, the Indian team won the 2007 ICC world Twenty20 championship,...
12:40 AM, Feb 26, 2008
New Delhi: Former BCCI president A C Muthiah on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to restrain Board Secretary N Srinivasan from discharging his present duties and from assuming charge as president next month. A bench of justice Altamas Kabir and S S Nijjar however, refrained from passing any order on the fresh application and instead directed Muthiah's counsel Nalini Chidambaram to approach the Chief Justice for appropriate remedy. Muthiah in...
08:38 PM, Feb 24, 2008
London: Manchester-based Farokh Engineer was not at the Oval on Monday. And he's probably happy to miss the Test as India provided England a 4-0 series win on a platter after much hope in the first session of play on Day five of the final Test. At least they put up a fight, was former stumper Engineer's first reaction to India's innings defeat. Indeed they fared better, by reaching the...
02:16 PM, Feb 24, 2008
Lahore: They may be out of favour at the moment but senior Pakistan players Kamran Akmal and Shoaib Malik have not given up hope of playing for the national cricket team again. The duo, who are unlikely to get the new central contracts that would be announced soon, have said they are confident of making comebacks. While Kamran has been dropped purely because of his form, former captain Malik has...
11:26 PM, Feb 14, 2008
Bangalore: Defending champion Australia failed to bowl out a much-improved Kenya side but still won by 60 runs on Sunday to seal its place in the World Cup quarterfinals. Collins Obuya (98 not out) fell agonizingly short of a century as he and Tanmay Mishra (72) led the resistance for Kenya, which finished on 264-6, its highest score of the tournament. However, the Kenyans' scoring rate never really threatened Australia,...
06:50 PM, Dec 31, 2007
Pallekele: Pakistan manager Intikhab Alam denied on Saturday that Umar Akmal had faked a finger injury in a desperate bid to save his blundering brother Kamran's place in the team. Umar, who has been tipped to take the wicket-keeping gloves from his elder brother for Monday's World Cup match against Zimbabwe, hurt his index finger on his right hand in practice two days ago. But some sections of the Pakistani...
04:00 PM, Dec 31, 2007
Chittagong: Bangladesh relied on their tail-enders to return from the dead and pull off a sensational two-wicket upset victory over England in a World Cup group B match to keep their quarter-final hopes alive here on Friday. Chasing a modest 226, the hosts were precariously were placed at 169 for eight before Shafiul Islam (24 not out) combined with Mahmudullah (21 not out) to steer their side to a dramatic...
01:14 PM, Dec 30, 2007
Harare: Zimbabwe are all set for a meeting with their batting coach Brian Charles Lara as their World Cup bound team lands in Dubai for a high intensity training session. ''The national cricket team will leave the country tomorrow (Tuesday) for Dubai via Johannesburg for a training camp at the ICC’s High Performance Centre and a practice match against Netherlands until February 9 when they leave for Chennai, India.'' said...
12:59 AM, Dec 07, 2007
London: Pakistan wicketkeeper Zulqarnain Haider arrived in London on Monday after skipping his team's one-day match against South Africa in Dubai. Haider flew to Heathrow Airport aboard a flight from the United Arab Emirates, where he had been scheduled to play in the deciding one-day international in the series against South Africa. Earlier, Team officials had reported Haider as missing to police and the International Cricket Council's anti-corruption and security...
03:28 PM, Nov 02, 2007
Chandigarh: Australia's Marcus North hit form with a fine century in a three-day practice match against the Indian Boards President's XI in Chandigarh on Sunday. North, who has scored just one century in his last 10 Tests, hit 124 off 128 balls as the tourists posted 505 in their first innings on the second day of the tie against Board President's XI. At stumps, the hosts were tottering at 143-6...
03:16 AM, Oct 19, 2007
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12:56 PM, Oct 09, 2007
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11:13 AM, Oct 07, 2007
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01:44 AM, Sep 20, 2007
A brigadier was beaten up for he protested the drunk driving of 15 bikers. ...
01:33 AM, Sep 20, 2007
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01:14 PM, Sep 11, 2007
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07:20 PM, Sep 09, 2007
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10:54 PM, Sep 04, 2007
Two Kerala residents have invented equipment that ensures safety while driving. ...
02:44 PM, Aug 30, 2007
A concept car being developed by Nissan conceptualises the end of drunk driving. ...
03:55 PM, Aug 13, 2007
The traffic police want to send drunk drivers to jail. ...
02:55 AM, Aug 11, 2007
