London: Fabrice Muamba carried the Olympic torch through London on Saturday, four months after collapsing on the field during an English football match.
The Bolton midfielder's heart stopped for 78 minutes on March 17 after collapsing during an FA Cup match at Tottenham.
While he is still not well enough to play, Muamba was able to walk 300 meters with the torch on Saturday as the relay reached London.
The Congo-born player was the day's final torchbearer in Walthamstow, where he arrived to live in 1999 at the age of 11 after his family escaped the civil war at home....
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09:36 AM, Jul 22, 2012
London: Punjab-born Fauja Singh, who defies age to run marathons, drew the loudest cheers on Saturday as the Olympic Torch was carried by him, Olympic medal winners and leading individuals through London amidst a welcome clear sky and sunshine. Clad in all-white apparel and a matching white turban, the sprightly Singh carried the torch accompanied by hundreds of admirers, including Sikhs with yellow T-shirts bearing Singh's image, who hailed him...
07:47 PM, Jul 21, 2012
London: The Olympic torch relay for the 2012 London Games will be confined to Britain, organisers confirmed on Friday. The past two summer Olympics have seen the torch taken on a world tour, but the experiment, started for the Athens Games in 2004, has now been scrapped. It follows the widespread political protests which disrupted the passage of the torch ahead of last year's Games in Beijing. The London leg...
08:08 AM, Mar 28, 2009
Torch relay will now be confined to inside the boundaries of host countries. ...
10:34 PM, Mar 27, 2009
Mumbai: The IPL Governing Council will meet here on October 17 following BCCI's month-long legal battle against Deccan Chargers over the decision to terminate the IPL franchise for breach of contract. There is a meeting of the IPL Governing Council in Mumbai on October 17th. I don't know any other details, said BCCI's CAO Prof Ratnakar Shetty on Monday. Deccan Chargers lost their status as an IPL team after the...
03:27 PM, Jul 07, 2008
Worcester: Worcestershire's hope of seeing Saeed Ajmal return for a second spell with the English county for their domestic Twenty20 campaign have been dashed by the Pakistan spinner's international commitments. The Midlands club, whose other overseas player is Australia batsman Phil Hughes, had hoped to have Ajmal, England's tormentor-in-chief during Pakistan's recent 3-0 Test series win in the United Arab Emirates, back at New Road. However, the confirmation of Pakistan's...
12:21 AM, May 14, 2008
Dubai: Rivals players Azhar Ali of Pakistan and Graeme Swann of England on Sunday showed confidence their teams can pull off a win in the third and final Test which was set for an interesting finish. England, set to chase 324 runs on an eased out Dubai Stadium pitch, were 36-0 but face an uphill task against Pakistan's threatening spin duo of Saeed Ajmal and Abdul Rehman, who orchestrated their...
03:07 AM, Apr 20, 2008
Melbourne: Australia all-rounder David Hussey, who played a big part in his team's facile 31-run victory over India in Sydney last night, is looking for a perfect game to make it 2-0 in the second Twenty20 international at the MCG on Friday. It's pretty important to make it 2-0. We played good cricket and got a few cobwebs out of the way. We want to keep the momentum going forward...
11:42 AM, Apr 18, 2008
You had to feel for Rohit Sharma during the Test series. A highly talented batsman, he had to sit on the bench or carry drinks through four crushing defeats in Melbourne, Sydney, Perth and Adelaide. It must have been frustrating for the promising youngster. With the 4-0 whitewash done, there was hope that India's limited-overs players would turn around the team's fortunes. After Suresh Raina, a true Twenty20 matchwinner, the...
01:42 AM, Apr 18, 2008
Dubai: Fast bowler James Anderson is counting on England's batsmen to show their quality in the third Test against Pakistan after below-par performances in two defeats. Pakistan's spinners have made the England batters struggle on turning wickets in Dubai and Abu Dhabi with two convincing victories — by 10 wickets and by 72 runs. Anderson says the mood in England camp is very good despite two heavy defeats and that ...
01:27 AM, Apr 18, 2008
Chennai: Farokh Engineer cannot comprehend how India lost 0-4 again after watching their annihilation in England last year. More than the disappointment of not being given a chance to help the Indian team on their 2010 trip to England, the Lancashire-based former Indian wicketkeeper-batsman is upset that the team has not learnt their lessons after the disastrous result in Old Blighty. Engineer (73) is currently in Chennai for a coaching...
12:44 AM, Apr 18, 2008
New Delhi: Team India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, on Tuesday said that he is willing to give up the captaincy and be replaced by someone else. India suffered their second successive whitewash on an overseas tour when they were wiped out 4-0 by Australia in the recently concluded Test series. The world champions suffered the same margin of defeat on their tour of England last year. It's an added responsibility...
05:18 PM, Apr 17, 2008
Kolkata: Pakistan's world cup winning captain Imran Khan on Monday revealed that during his formative years he looked up to Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi for inspiration. Addressing a gathering at the Tiger Pataudi Memorial Lecture here, Imran said there was a certain engima about Tiger Pataudi whose academic qualification was equally noteworthy as his cricketing exploits. I grew up admiring two persons. One was my first cousin Javed Burki and...
03:53 PM, Apr 17, 2008
Kolkata: Pakistani cricketer turned politician Imran Khan on Monday said that the appropriate time for Sachin Tendulkar to retire was after India's 2011 world cup triumph. We all want to go with a big bang but you always don't get it right. For Sachin the ultimate time to go was after that World Cup win. He had such a great World Cup. He is a great player and there is...
01:30 PM, Apr 17, 2008
Sydney: India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni says Australia's selectors have made the right decision in naming his Chennai Super Kings team-mate George Bailey to lead the national Twenty20 side. He's an interesting character; he plays good cricket. He's someone who can play his strokes. He's very intelligent and understands the game well. He's a really good character to have, Dhoni said of Bailey on Tuesday. Bailey, 29, will make his...
12:56 PM, Apr 17, 2008
Melbourne: Injured Australian all-rounder Shane Watson wants to continue batting in the top-order once he returns to the Test team even though his increased bowling workload has made it difficult to balance his role as an opening batsman. Watson, who missed six home Tests this summer against New Zealand and India with hamstring and calf injuries, hopes to return to action in a few weeks time. I would prefer to...
11:00 AM, Apr 17, 2008
Valsad: A disciplined all-round performance by East Zone helped them beat West by five wickets to make it to the semi-final of the Duleep Trophy, here on Monday. East will meet North Zone in the semi-final scheduled to be played in Delhi from February 4. After a batting collapse saw West lose five wickets for 21 runs, East were left to chase a target of 173, which they successfully did...
09:02 AM, Apr 17, 2008
New Delhi Auction for the fifth edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) will see franchises vying for 144 players, which will also mark the formal opening of IPL 2012 The IPL 2012, The shortlist of players set to be auctioned on February 4, 2012, at the ITC Royal Gardenia in Bangalore has been framed after feedback from the franchises and includes top England players like Graeme Swann and James...
08:02 AM, Apr 17, 2008
Adelaide: Miffed with reports that its senior players were contemplating retirement after failing in the Test series loss to Australia, the Indian team management on Saturday rejected the speculation as baseless and refused to answer queries on the matter. India were whitewashed 0-4 in the Test series that concluded on Saturday and the senior batting trio of Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman were heavily criticised for their poor...
11:01 AM, Apr 16, 2008
Napier: New Zealand opening bat Brendon McCullum has backed BJ Watling as the side's wicketkkeeper ahead of the one-off Test against Zimbabwe at Napier on Thursday. McCullum who kept for New Zealand for 51 Tests before deciding to play as a specialist batsman felt that Watling has the perfect chance to cement his place as the permanent keeper of the side. "I know he's got the skills to do it...
04:27 PM, Apr 15, 2008
