Johannesburg: Australia's mental scars from a painful first-Test defeat have healed, captain Michael Clarke said on Wednesday. Wounds, however, can be reopened, which will be the aim of South Africa in the second and decisive Test starting on Thursday, in front of a typically pitiless crowd at Johannesburg's Wanderers ground. Australia showed unexpected vulnerability at Newlands last week when they capitulated to 47 all out, their lowest total in more...
01:30 PM, Mar 20, 2008
London: All of cricket's leading countries were involved in the fixing of major matches, not just Pakistan, the sport's former chief anti-corruption investigator said on Tuesday. In the late 1990s, Test and World Cup matches were being routinely fixed, Paul Condon, the founding head of the International Cricket Council's anti-corruption unit, said in an interview with London Evening Standard. There were a number of teams involved in fixing, and certainly...
02:20 AM, Mar 20, 2008
London: England's Test captain Andrew Strauss has termed the anti-corruption unit of the International Cricket Council as a toothless tiger. Strauss' comments came a day after Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir were given prison terms for conspiring to bowl deliberate no-balls in a 2010 Test match against England. The unit hasn't got the resources, said Strauss at a charity dinner. They can't do sting operations like the News...
11:46 PM, Mar 15, 2008
Kolkata: Fresh from the success of a 5-0 whitewash of England in the ODI series, the BCCI Selection Committee sits across the round table on Friday to deliberate upon the composition of Team India for the Test series against the visiting West Indies team. The hot topic, though, remains should Harbhajan Singh be recalled or should he be grilled in a few matches of the upcoming Ranji season. Harbhajan was...
12:37 PM, Mar 13, 2008
Karachi: Pakistan cricket authorities said on Wednesday they would use confessions made by retired paceman Shoaib Akhtar in his autobiography in court to justify disciplining the former international. In the book, launched last week in India, Akhtar confessed to ball-tampering and other violations of conduct during a 14-year career that was marred by injury and discipline problems before his retirement in April this year. The book, Controversially Yours, has riled...
10:48 PM, Mar 04, 2008
Mumbai: The Cricket Board has invited bids for live streaming of Tests, ODIs and T20 Internationals, to be played in India between October this year and March 2014, on the internet and on mobile phones. While the live streaming on the internet would be with a five-minute delay within India, it would be without such delay over the rest of the world as well as on mobile phones, the tender...
11:45 AM, Feb 22, 2008
London: Former Australian skipper Ricky Ponting has hailed England's ascendancy to the top of Test rankings after their recent thrashing of India at Edgbaston. Ponting, who stepped down as captain earlier this year after becoming the only Australian skipper to lose three Ashes campaigns, believes that the English bowlers deserve most of the accolades for steering the team to the No 1 Test status. "England's bowling attack is the best...
01:50 PM, Feb 21, 2008
Johannesburg: South Africa's newly-appointed limited-overs skipper AB de Villiers may be relieved of wicket-keeping duties given the additional burden of captaincy along with batting. Prolific batsman de Villiers, who kept wicket at the start of his Test career and sometimes fills in for veteran Mark Boucher in one-dayers, is unlikely to add keeping wickets to his list of responsibilities following his elevation as Proteas skipper for the shorter formats of...
12:42 PM, Feb 02, 2008
London: The British media has lavished praise on iconic batsman Sachin Tendulkar and according to a column written by former England cricketer Ed Smith, Manchester United star Wayne Rooney should learn how to turn expectations into inspiration. In an article headlined 'Sanctuary of crease lets Tendulkar reveal genius,' Smith had written, Twice last week, sportsmen have proved me spectacularly wrong. First, Sachin Tendulkar reached 14,000 Test-match runs. And that's not...
02:07 PM, Oct 25, 2007
Priyanka Chopra's off-screen linkups are creating quite a buzz. ...
12:48 AM, Oct 25, 2007
Karachi: The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Wednesday confirmed receiving the appeal of Pakistan's Test captain, Salman Butt against his provisional suspension but said it was yet to get similar appeals from the two other suspended players, Muhammad Aamir and Muhammad Asif. Under the terms of the code, the ICC Code of Conduct Commission chairman Michael Beloff QC will determine the issue of whether the provisional suspension should remain in...
02:24 AM, Oct 20, 2007
Platform to felicitate cricketers saw politicians eclipse the real heroes. ...
11:24 PM, Sep 26, 2007
The front row was filled with BCCI top brass and Maharashtra ministers. ...
06:30 PM, Sep 26, 2007
With the rise of Dhoni, Joginder and the Pathans, cricket has become more democratic. ...
01:18 AM, Sep 26, 2007
Dhoni will be the first recipient of Jharkhand Ratna award. ...
09:28 PM, Sep 24, 2007
India's future lies outside metros, in up and coming small towns. ...
07:40 AM, Aug 08, 2007
The big dreams of small town Indians are fast becoming reality now. ...
12:52 AM, Aug 08, 2007
Dhoni is the first small-town cricketer to lead the Indian team. ...
03:45 PM, Aug 07, 2007
M S Dhoni was let off by traffic police in his hometown Ranchi for sporting dark glasses in his car. ...
07:20 PM, Jan 10, 2007
