Interior Ministry note asks all death sentences to be commuted. ...
05:31 PM, Jan 02, 2009
Lahore: The Pakistan cricket Board wants former Test captain and fast bowling legend, Wasim Akram to spare time to coach at a camp for emerging players to be set up at Gaddafi stadium from June 20th. Intikhab Alam, the former Test captain who heads the PCB national academy affairs told reporters on Wednesday that Wasim would be invited to coach at the camp which will feature the country's best emerging...
09:16 AM, May 31, 2008
Kingstown, St. Vincent: India A were reeling at 57 for 4 at stumps on the third day of the second unofficial four-day Test, chasing a 220-run victory target against West Indies A here at Amos Vale. India lost all their top-order batsmen, including the in-form skipper Cheteshwar Pujara, to left-arm seamer Delorn Johnson who produced a lethal burst of bowling. The 23-year-old left the visitors still needing 163 for victory...
11:14 PM, May 30, 2008
Melbourne: Indian batting mainstay Rahul Dravid didn't turn up for the net practice at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) on Saturday but the side's media manager insisted that he is fine and only wanted to take a break ahead of the first Test against Australia beginning on Monday. Dravid normally has a fetish for nets and usually pads and turns up earlier than his team-mates do for practice. However, he...
01:45 AM, Apr 03, 2008
Melbourne: A Zimbabwean businessman, who is also the chairman of the St Joseph's House for Boys in Harare from where Peter Roebuck adopted many young men, has decided to launch his own investigation into the deceased cricket writer's association with the organisation. According to a report in The Australian newspaper, Brian Maphosa, the chairman of the organisation that cares for orphaned and abandoned boys, said Roebuck had visited the institution...
03:56 PM, Mar 20, 2008
India's premier pace bowler, Zaheer Khan has been in and out of the team because of constant injury problems. ...
01:25 PM, Mar 18, 2008
Agartala: Himachal Pradesh thrashed Tripura by an innings and 15 runs in the Ranji Trophy plate-A pool here at Maharaja Bir Bikram Stadium on Sunday. In the last day of four-day match, trailing by 227 runs, Tripura were bundled out for 212 in their second innings. But just like the Elite division, where six of the seven matches ended in a draw, in the Plate Division, too, barring HP's victory,...
08:26 AM, Mar 17, 2008
Kevin Pietersen hit 53 off 39 to guide England to a six-wicket win in the one-off T20, allowing them to end the tour with a victory. England Innings: 19th over: England win by six wickets with eight balls to spare, Ravi Bopara steered Kohli for a single to complete a superb victory for England, who stay No1 in the world as a result. It's also their first win against India...
08:21 PM, Mar 13, 2008
MS Dhoni hit 75 not out in a series in which he wasn't dismissed, while Ravindra Jadeja took 4/33 as India thrashed England by 95 runs to sweep the ODI series 5-0. England Innings 37th over: Ashwin does it for India, two wickets in an over and India whitewash England 5-0 in the series. Ashwin picked up Meaker and Finn in one over to help India win by 95 runs....
08:28 PM, Mar 12, 2008
Karachi: Former Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi has revealed that alleged bookmaker Mazhar Majeed, who is at the centre of a spot-fixing scandal since last year, approached him and tried to befriend him several times in the past. He made several attempts to get friendly and close to me. But every time he tried to do this, I ticked him off with some straight talk, Afridi said. The seasoned all-rounder said...
11:58 AM, Mar 12, 2008
During the spot-fixing trial, Majeed was heard calling Aussies biggest fixers besides claiming access to Harbhajan and Yuvraj. ...
02:43 AM, Mar 09, 2008
London: A British sports agent representing two Pakistani cricketers accused of a betting scam told an undercover reporter that Test matches could be thrown for £1 million, a court in London heard on Monday. The claim emerged as the former investigations editor for Rupert Murdoch's now-defunct News of the World tabloid, Mazher Mahmood, gave evidence at the trial of ex-Pakistan cricket captain Salman Butt and bowler Mohammad Asif. The jury...
11:47 AM, Mar 08, 2008
Lahore: Pakistan's controversial stumper, Zulqarnain Haider's return to first-class cricket has been marked with controversy after he lashed out at some seniors including former captain Shahid Afridi and retired pacer Shoaib Akhtar for their comments on Pakistan cricket and PCB. Haider, who has been playing in the ongoing Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, took a dig at Afridi and Akhtar, criticising them for giving statements after they retired from the national team. Now...
07:36 PM, Mar 07, 2008
Chennai: After slumping to their second defeat in the ongoing Champions League Twenty20, Chennai Super Kings opener Mike Hussey felt one of their top-order batsmen should have dug in and anchored the defending champions home against Trinidad and Tobago. Chennai's hope of making it to the semi-final of the Twenty20 tournament were dealt a severe blow last night when they lost to T&T by 12 runs in a low-scoring Group...
11:44 PM, Mar 05, 2008
Chennai: New South Wales pacer Mitchell Starc refused to be compared to his Australian compatriot Mitchell Johnson, saying he has not modelled his bowling action on anyone. "No, I haven't modelled myself on Mitch. Though in the past couple of years I've been compared with him," said Starc at a press conference on Friday. "I've spoken a fair bit to him and have had an opportunity to play with him...
01:24 PM, Mar 05, 2008
Mumbai: Cricket legend Kapil Dev took a dig at the Indian cricket board on Thursday for not giving the triumphant Indian squad more time to unwind after their fabulous World Cup triumph on April 2, and for paying them much more money to represent their IPL franchises rather than the country. The players did not get time to unwind and enjoy their World Cup victory. They had worked three years...
08:08 AM, Mar 05, 2008
Dharamsala: The National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bangalore could see some changes in the near future, BCCI joint secretary Anurag Thakur said on Thursday. Thakur, who was recently appointed to the post of joint secretary, felt that the NCA along with other specialised academies should be made more accountable to the board. The board is thinking on the line to bring changes in NCA Bangalore, Thakur said. He said that...
01:06 AM, Mar 05, 2008
Chennai: In a key Group A game on Wednesday, New South Wales Blues and Trinidad and Tobago will go head to head, gunning for their first points in this year's Champions League Twenty20. Both sides have several issues to address, having lost their opening group matches of the tournament. While NSW went down by seven wickets to underdogs Cape Cobras, T&T were narrowly beaten by Mumbai Indians despite having taken...
12:46 PM, Mar 04, 2008
Karachi: Preferring to play down the controversy stirred by Shoaib Akhtar's recently released autobiography 'Controversially Yours', in which he has made some tall claims, Pakistani cricketer Shoaib Malik said there was no point in giving much importance to the pacer's book. "When his own family does not take him seriously, I don't understand why is everyone taking his comments in his book seriously?," Malik told a TV channel in an...
12:38 PM, Mar 04, 2008
Bangalore: Mumbai Indians might have edged out Trinidad and Tobago by one-wicket in a last-ball thriller of the Champions League Twenty20 here but skipper Harbhajan Singh said they didn't deserve to win and the Caribbean side was the better team on Monday. I must congratulate Darren and his team. They were the better side. We didn't deserve to win. We didn't bat sensibly, Harbhajan said after the match. The India...
08:35 AM, Mar 04, 2008
