
Colombo:: Samit Patel said on Monday he was hopeful his all-round talents would help him win a Test cap for England during the upcoming series against Sri Lanka. The 27-year-old Nottinghamshire player will vie with Ravi Bopara for the batting spot left vacant after the exclusion of Eoin Morgan for the two-Test series starting on March 26. Patel, a left-arm spinner and right-hand batsman who has played 25 one-dayers and...

08:10 PM, May 02, 2008

Mumbai: The bigwigs of the BCCI and Sahara Group on Tuesday started another round of discussions in a desperate bid to break the stalemate over the participation of Pune Warriors in the fifth edition of the Indian Premier League. A day after the BCCI's Working Committee rejected some of the demands of Sahara, both the parties held parleys in a city hotel here to try and find a solution to...

11:47 PM, Apr 23, 2008

Dubai: Four England cricketers, including Kevin Pietersen and Monty Panesar, escaped unhurt when the taxi they were travelling in was involved in a minor incident in Dubai. Stuart Broad, Jonathan Trott, Kevin Pietersen and Monty Panesar were travelling at around 100kph when the taxi's bonnet suddenly flew up and into the car's windscreen, obscuring the driver's vision, reported a cricket website. The driver was able to stop the car safely, ...

12:09 AM, Apr 23, 2008

Former pacer Damien Fleming is all praise for the current crop of young Australian quicks. He also speaks about the Indian fast bowlers, who, according to him, have the potential to be up there. ...

05:35 PM, Apr 22, 2008

Perth: In-form Australian batsman David Warner is likely to be rested for Friday's tri-series cricket match here against Sri Lanka, which could pave the way for Queenslander Peter Forrest making his international debut. Such has been Warner's rise that he was not in the one-day team a few months ago, but now there is fear he might burn out. Either Warner, Ricky Ponting or David Hussey will make way for...

11:43 PM, Apr 21, 2008