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01:42 PM, Nov 06, 2008

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02:46 PM, Oct 06, 2008

Islamabad: Indo-Pak bilateral cricket could be in for an early revival with PCB chief Ijaz Butt saying that the modalities of a possible series are being worked out with BCCI officials. Butt, who visited India recently and met with the BCCI officials, hinted at a breakthrough during discussions with his counterparts. I held discussions with Indian officials, Butt told The Express Tribune newspaper in an interview. Both countries have shown...

10:46 PM, Feb 25, 2008

Townsville: Skipper Ryan Carters scored a fighting century while useful contribution from Glenn Maxwell and Tim Armstrong helped Australian Institute of Sports (AIS) hold India to a draw in the concluding three-day encounter of the Emerging Players Meet. Indians didn't get any points from the match but AIS were docked a negative point for conceding first innings lead. India, however, finished the tournament with six points from three encounters with...

04:29 PM, Feb 20, 2008

Harare: Visiting Bangladesh will play their first ODI of the UCB five-match ODI series against hosts Zimbabwe at the Harare Sports Club ground on Friday. Despite a disappointing performance in the only Test against Zimbabwe in Harare, Bangladesh will take to the field on Friday recalling the sweet memories of their last five-match ODI series against Zimbabwe on home soil. In that ODI series, Bangladesh notched a 3-1 victory over...

11:53 AM, Feb 20, 2008

New Delhi: Give it a rip, pitch it up at off and middle stump, make it dip on the right-hander. And if the batsman is an Englishman, history says the leggie will get his man. Does that mean Amit Mishra is not a leg-spinner? No, he is; just that he doesn't know how to bowl legitimate deliveries. Harsh it may sound, but justified criticism is never slave to any logic...

10:21 AM, Feb 20, 2008

Harare: The ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat feels that India's No 1 ranking in Test cricket is certainly on line after back-to-back defeats against England at the Lord's and Trent Bridge but the quality of contest has been pretty enthralling. Currently, we are enjoying an enthralling series in England with India's number-one position on the Reliance ICC Test Championship table on the line. It is all about meaningful, hard-fought and...

01:21 PM, Feb 18, 2008

London: Impressed with England's dominating performance in the Lord's Test, former South African pacer and bowling coach Allan Donald says Andrew Strauss' men deserve to edge past India as the new world number one in Test cricket. England deserve to be the number one, there's no question about it, Donald told BBC Radio 5 live. England beat India by 196 runs in the opening Test of the four-match series, putting...

05:17 PM, Feb 15, 2008

Karachi: The first full hearing of the case filed by discarded leg-spinner Danish Kaneria against the Pakistan Cricket Board will be heard at the Sindh High Court on Tuesday. The PCB's legal team will submit its detailed reply to the petition filed by the discarded leg-spinner in which he has said that the board had given no reason for not clearing him to play for the national team. The court...

10:49 AM, Feb 15, 2008

London: With regular bowlers failing to shine in the absence of Zaheer Khan, Indian skipper MS Dhoni on Friday rolled his arm to give variation to the attack on day two of the Lord's Test against England. As England resumed their innings after lunch, cricket fans all over the world were surprised to see Dhoni coming in to bowl the first over and in the process Rahul Dravid kept wickets....

05:16 PM, Feb 14, 2008
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London: As the hallowed turf of Lord's eagerly awaits the 100th Test between India and England, the cricketing world will fondly remember the heroics of two Indian openers - Vijay Merchant and Mushtaq Ali - who came together to post the country's first major partnership that attracted international acclaim. In the sixth Test, when matches were a three-day affair, between the two countries in the summer of 1936 at Manchester,...

10:39 AM, Feb 13, 2008

New Delhi: Skirting the boundaries of a humdinger, India set foot in the land of colonial cousins to play a Test series that besides being their sternest test since being christened No. 1, could be the recipe to rekindle Test cricket. While the Facebook 'likes' for the series continue to grow, it comes on a platter that is running out of space to accommodate the historic moments that may befall....

02:06 PM, Feb 12, 2008

Bridgetown: India coach Duncan Fletcher has praised the development of the West Indies team under new coach Ottis Gibson. His praise came in the wake of India's 1-0 win over the hosts in the three-match Test series which concluded with a drawn game at Windsor Park in Dominica Sunday. Under Ottis Gibson, the team is improving all the time. I have been with England here, I have seen them in...

02:04 AM, Feb 12, 2008

Lahore: Pakistan's Supreme Court granted bail to Malik Ishaq, one of the founders of banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and a key suspect in the attack on Sri Lankan cricket team here in 2009. Ishaq had appealed to the Supreme Court to overturn the Lahore High Court's decision rejecting his bail plea. The case was heard by Justice MA Shahid Siddiqui at the Lahore registry. Ishaq is accused of planning an attack on...

05:35 PM, Feb 11, 2008