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Flight ends, Amit Kumar brought back to Delhi

Melbourne: Fallen power Australia are not even thinking about a return to the top of the Test rankings, according to coach Tim Nielsen, as the team seek to rebuild following their humiliating Ashes defeat to England. The World Cup quarter-finalists remain top dogs in the one-day game but have slipped to fifth in Test rankings behind India, South Africa, England and Sri Lanka after their 3-1 loss on home soil...  

India gets Amit Kumar, puts him on flight home

Dominica: In what could be a big blow to the Indian team ahead of the third Test here, two of India's best fast bowlers Ishant Sharma and Praveen Kumar on the tour sustained injuries in a collision while playing football. Ishant was escorted back to the dressing room by his teammates after he sustained a bruise beneath his right eye after colliding with Praveen. What could make matters worse for...  

Kidney racket doc cornered in Nepal hotel

Lahore: The Pakistan Cricket Board on Monday said it had given clearance to former captain Shahid Afridi to take part in the inaugural Sri Lankan Premier League starting later this month. A senior PCB official confirmed that they had given permission for the Sri Lankan authorities to sign on around 10 Pakistani players for the league and that list included Afridi. We gave these permissions and clearance for the players ...

3,000 kidney transplants were social service: Kumar

Islamabad: A court has summed the Pakistan Cricket Board to appear on July 26 for ignoring test leg-spinner Danish Kaneria. Kaneria's lawyer Farogh Naseem told The Associated Press on Monday that Sindh High Court has also asked PCB officials not to issue any defamatory remarks about the leg-spinner. Kaneria filed a court petition demanding that the PCB allow him to play test cricket or explain why he's not considered for...  

Nepal to probe Dr Kidney's links in the country

Bridgetown: West Indian skipper Darren Sammy believes his side had a good chance to win the second Test against India before rain intervened but he is not too disheartened with the draw either. We believe we had a chance. The coach (Ottis Gibson) had outlined the game in stages and with 15 overs remaining, we were right on course, stated Sammy after the match on Saturday. Sammy didn't believe that...  

Just a two-year jail term if Dr Kidney is convicted

Mumbai: Opener Virender Sehwag needs more time to recover from surgery on his shoulder and will miss the first Test against England at Lord's later this month, the Indian cricket board (BCCI) said on Saturday. "Virender Sehwag will join the team a fortnight later," the BCCI said in a statement after the selection committee meeting in Chennai, during which the squad for the four-Test series was picked. Senior cricketers including...  

India files for kidney racket kingpin's extradition

Barbados: Bad light had the final say in the second Test between West Indies and India at the Kensington Oval which ended in a draw with India three wickets away from snatching a dramatic victory. Chasing a 281-run target set by India, when they declared their innings at 270/6, West Indies reached 202-7 when umpires decided to call off the match due to bad light. Carlton Baugh (46) and Ravi...  

Police zero in on Dr Kidney's brother | 'He's no monster'

Bridgetown: West Indies coach Ottis Gibson insisted that the explosive opener Chris Gayle does not figure in the team talks and that his entire energy was devoted to doing well against India in the second Test. Gayle is out of the national squad due to a row with the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB). "We don't sit down and discuss Chris Gayle. We discuss how to get Dravid and Laxman...  

My husband is no monster: Kidney kingpin's wife

Karachi: Pakistan's cricket administrators will hold talks with the government on how to implement a ban by the sport's governing body on political appointments within the game, an official said on Saturday. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), whose chairman Ijaz Butt was appointed by the president of the country, is directly hit by the ruling from the International Cricket Council (ICC) executive board on Thursday. Sri Lanka and Bangladesh will...  

Dr Horror offered Rs 1 cr to Nepal cops to let him go

Leeds: Sri Lanka are contemplating resting Mahela Jayawardene from games in order to prolong the star batsman's career. The only people who appeared to need Jayawardene to take a break at Headingley here on Friday were England's bowlers as the 34-year-old marked his 343rd one-day international with a career-best 144. Jayawardene's innings powered Sri Lanka to 309 for five and laid the platform for a 69-run win in the second...  

Nepal to charge Dr Kidney in fake currency racket

India files formal deportation request. 'An easy catch ...  

Vague law makes life tough for kidney patients

Law says donor should have 'genuine affection' towards the patient. ...  

Dr Kidney: Nepal's 'easy catch', India's tough task

India will, in all probability, seek access to question him. ...  

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VP Singh denies link with kidney kingpin

London: Cardiff lost the right to host one of England's Test matches against West Indies next year as Glamorgan were late in paying the fee for staging last month's Test against Sri Lanka, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said on Thursday. The ECB said hosting rights would go out to tender again. Glamorgan would be given extra time to make the payments but they would not be able...  

Nepal police was hot on kingpin's trail

Bridgetown: Speedster Ishant Sharma on Thursday scalped his 100th Test wicket on the third day of the second Test against the West Indies here. Ishant scalped the wicket of West Indies captain Darren Sammy in the post-lunch session, his fourth wicket in the home side's first innings, to reach the milestone at the Kensington Oval. Ishant, who achieved the milestone in his 33rd Test, became the third youngest Indian to...  

Four kept confined by kidney transplant racket, rescued

Hong Kong: Former captain Sourav Ganguly has welcomed the ICC's decision to make the DRS mandatory for Tests and ODIs but also justified India's initial reluctance to embrace the technology. Ganguly said he has now seen a vast improment in the way DRS works and gradually all the cricketers will get adjusted to techonolgy and there will be improvement in the decision. Ganguly was a part of the Indian team...  

How the kidney trade runs in Nepal

Barbados: Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni tried putting an end to the discussions about being wrongly given out, stating that he would blame himself rather than anyone else for playing a poor shot. I think I played a wrong shot, Dhoni said informally, criticising himself instead of blaming the broadcasters for showing the wrong replay which led to his dismissal. Dhoni was out playing uppishly to mid-on and had begun...  

Gurgaon police team to leave for Nepal

Bridgetown: The unbeaten stand between West Indies' pair of Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Marlon Samuels is a crucial partnership which will determine the future of the hosts in their second cricket Test against India, according to coach Otis Gibson. Chanderpaul was unbeaten on 20 and Samuels 21 and the pair had built up an encouraging 41-run partnership as the West Indies ended a rain-affected second day Wednesday at 98 for five...