New Delhi: Punjab and last year's runners-up Baroda were facing defeats, while Mumbai's Abhishek Nayar, Madhya Pradesh's Naman Ojha and Mohnish Mishra scored fine hundreds on Day Three of the Ranji Trophy Elite Division matches on Saturday. Punjab, chasing Saurashtra's 542, were struggling at 44-4 after following-on at the PCA Stadium in Mohali. The hosts, who made 278 in their first innings, need another 220 runs to make Saurashtra bat...
09:20 PM, Mar 21, 2008
The protesters tried to hoist Tibet's flag at the embassy. ...
08:09 PM, Mar 21, 2008
London: Former Australia fast bowler Jason Gillespie is set to take over as coach of Yorkshire from next season, the struggling English county announced Tuesday. Meanwhile Australia batsman Phil Jaques will return to Headingley as Yorkshire's overseas player for the next two seasons. Gillespie, 36, played for the county in 2006 and 2007 and has enjoyed a varied coaching career since retiring as a player, including spells with Mid West...
01:12 AM, Mar 20, 2008
Left is outraged at what they call the imperialist media's coverage of Lhasa. ...
01:36 AM, Mar 19, 2008
Karachi: The family of jailed Pakistani cricketer, Salman Butt, has contacted top government officials in the country to help him get deported from the United Kingdom (UK). Butt and teammates, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir were given prison sentences by a Crown Court in London last month while players' agent Mazhar Majeed got a jail term for spot-fixing, corruption and cheating during the Lords Test between Pakistan and England in...
01:06 AM, Mar 19, 2008
Kolkata: West Indies opening batsman Adrian Barath says he has recovered from the hamstring injury which sidelined him for the two Tests against Bangladesh last month and is keen on resuming his place at the top of the order in the second Test against India at Eden Gardens starting here on Monday. Barath has struggled with injury over the last year and has played just seven Tests since making an...
12:23 AM, Mar 19, 2008
Karachi: Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Zaka Ashraf claims to have told his Indian counterpart that Pakistan is willing to tour India in a bid to restore bilateral cricket ties the two both countries. Ashraf told the media before leaving for Dubai that he had sent a letter to BCCI President N Srinivasan in which he had urged resumption of bilateral cricket ties. "I have said in the letter we are...
11:28 PM, Mar 18, 2008
Lahore: The PCB might retain its interim coach Mohsin Khan for Pakistan's next series against Bangladesh in December as it negotiates with a foreigner for the position of permanent head coach of the national team. An official in the board said that while Mohsin was an option to continue as coach for the tour to Bangladesh, a lot of progress had been made on hiring a new head coach to...
03:18 AM, Mar 18, 2008
New Delhi: Defending champions Rajasthan put up a strong show against Mumbai on the opening day of the second round of the Ranji Trophy Elite Division on Thursday, while last year's runners-up Baroda bowled out Madhya Pradesh for a paltry 63 to take a sizable first-innings lead. Rajasthan ended day one at 309 for 4 after electing to bat in a highly-anticipated match at Mumbai's Brabourne Stadium. Skipper Hrishikesh Kanitkar...
02:10 AM, Mar 18, 2008
New Delhi: West Indies captain Darren Sammy on Wednesday said he was happy with the performance of his young team despite losing the first Test against India. It was a damn good display by our team here. We were aware how tough it is to beat India at home. We played some good cricket. Had we scored some more runs in the second innings, it would have been a different ...
09:10 PM, Mar 17, 2008
New Delhi: In the end, the scorecard will show that on November 9, 2011, India beat West Indies by five wickets at the Feroz Shah Kotla. But that does little to showcase a match that was high on drama, included many twists and turns, some careless batting and some scintillating strokes, some determination and some daredevilry, and which was played out under the overbearing specter of Sachin Tendulkar's quest for...
08:20 PM, Mar 17, 2008
Sydney: Australia has joined the chorus of cricket administrators hailing the conviction of three Pakistan players for spot-fixing in London, maintaining that fighting corruption must be a priority for the game. Former Pakistan Test captain Salman Butt and bowler Mohammad Asif were found guilty of corruption in a British criminal court on Tuesday. A third player, Mohammad Amir, pleaded guilty before the start of the trial. They will be sentenced...
09:55 PM, Mar 14, 2008
Islamabad: Corruption convictions against Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir in court on Tuesday were expected to terminate playing careers that were already in doubt from international suspensions. The threesome, already beyond wealthy by Pakistan standards, gambled their cricket careers by taking a shortcut to riches by conspiring to fix parts of the Lord's Test against England in August 2010. The International Cricket Council banned all three of them...
07:52 PM, Mar 14, 2008
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