
Canberra: India pace spearhead Zaheer Khan is lacking in extra pace but young Umesh Yadav could get much quicker against Australia during the forthcoming Test series, according to left-handed opener Ed Cowan, who scored a scintillating 109 on Tuesday. Coming back from injury, he's (Zaheer) probably lacking that extra yard of pace and it's not a fast wicket. So he's more likely to be bowling within himself, Cowan said. Young...

02:42 PM, Apr 01, 2008

Melbourne: Calls for Ricky Ponting's retirement from international cricket grew stronger, with Test legend Doug Walters and former wicket-keeper Ian Healy joining the chorus saying the former Australian captain should call it a day with the two-Test series at home against New Zealand next month. The Australian media has also come down harshly on Ponting, who turns 37 next month, and said the batting legend should be honest with himself...

08:49 AM, Mar 22, 2008

Karachi: Former Pakistan captain Rashid Latif on Friday lashed out at a former ICC anti-corruption chief for taking a decade to reveal that all top international teams were involved in fixing, not just Pakistan. Paul Condon, the founding head of the International Cricket Council's anti-corruption unit, revealed this week that all of cricket's leading countries were involved in the fixing of major matches. In the late 1990s, Test and World...

11:56 AM, Mar 21, 2008

Meghalaya government to face floor test on Wednesday. ...

10:17 AM, Mar 19, 2008

US speaker Nancy Pelosi on a visit to Afghanistan met with Afghan president Hamid Karzai in Kabul on Sunday. ...

02:37 PM, Jan 29, 2007

This week Bush is expected to announce his new strategy in Iraq which may include sending more troops there. ...

03:42 PM, Jan 08, 2007

When the Speaker was a guy all there were were handshakes, but Nancy Pelosi was tenderly touching faces pre-kiss. ...

01:40 PM, Jan 06, 2007

Nancy Pelosi made history on Thursday when she was sworn in as the first woman speaker of the House. ...

03:11 PM, Jan 05, 2007

It was women power all the way at the US mid-term polls suggesting that this is just a sign of things to come. ...

02:49 PM, Nov 11, 2006

Republicans openly warn that a Democratic majority will mean endless investigations into the Bush administration. ...

10:13 PM, Nov 08, 2006