Jaipur: They have jumped to the second spot in the points table with sixth consecutive win but the Royal Challengers Bangalore's stand-in skipper Virat Kohli is not ready to take their place in the IPL play-offs for granted. Top four teams will compete in the play-offs to earn a place in the summit clash. Kohli led Bangalore in the absence of injured regular skipper Daniel Vettori against Rajasthan Royals on...
01:02 PM, Jan 24, 2008
Jaipur: Their play-off hopes dented by two consecutive defeats, Rajasthan Royals need to do something special to tame a rampaging Chris Gayle as they prepare to clash with Royal Challengers Bangalore in their next IPL match on Wednessday. Both the teams have consistently been in the reckoning for the play-offs but the scale of task is now enormous for Rajasthan, which lost to Chennai Super Kings on Monday night. Bangalore...
05:59 PM, Jan 23, 2008
London: The future of Test and one-day cricket, as well as the controversial decision review system (DRS), will be among the subjects up for discussion when the International Cricket Council (ICC) cricket committee gathers at Lord's for a two-day meeting starting here on Tuesday. The ICC would like DRS, first introduced in 2009, to be used in all one-day internationals (ODIS) as was the case at the recent World Cup...
05:08 PM, Jan 23, 2008
Jaipur: Giving a new twist to the controversy over the Sawai Mansingh wicket, Rajasthan Royals skipper Shane Warne on Monday drubbed the "instructions" to make a new strip for the side's remaining home games in the Indian Premier League as "ridiculous". "In the past four years we have never been told to play on any particular wicket. It is ridiculous to have instructions for pitch," a fuming Warne said after...
04:53 PM, Jan 23, 2008
New Delhi: India's newly appointed cricket coach Duncan Fletcher is likely to attend Friday's selection committee meeting in Chennai to pick up the team for the tour to the West Indies. A top official of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) told IANS that Fletcher will be arriving in Chennai Friday and will attend the meeting to pick the squads for three Tests, five ODIs and a...
01:37 PM, Jan 23, 2008
Karachi: Pakistan's cricket board chief Ijaz Butt on Thursday said that differences between the board and its chief selector Mohsin Khan have been resolved. Mohsin had reservations over the 15-man squad announced for this month's Test series against the West Indies and threatened to resign. Butt summoned Mohsin to the board's headquarters in Lahore on Thursday for a meeting and later stated that they have sorted out things. "Mohsin and...
01:25 PM, Jan 22, 2008
Georgetown: Pacer Ravi Rampaul claimed 4-45 and Lendl Simmons followed with an unbeaten 77 as West Indies strode to a 10-wicket victory over Pakistan in the cricket one-day international series finale at National Stadium on Thursday. Rampaul's feats, supported well by skipper Darren Sammy's 3-30, sunk Pakistan for 139 all out off 41.2 overs. Mohammad Hafeez, the eventual man of the five-match series, offered the only real resistance with 55...
01:14 PM, Jan 22, 2008
New Delhi: Delhi Daredevils' play-off hopes suffered a jolt as Kochi Tuskers Kerala snapped their three-match losing streak by thrashing the hosts by seven wickets in their Indian Premier League match here on Monday. Daredevils' middle-order let them down yet again as the hosts just about managed to score a modest 140 for six after being invited to bat at Feroz Shah Kotla ground. In reply, Tuskers avenged their Saturday's...
05:53 PM, Jan 21, 2008
Deccan Chargers pace bowler Ishant Sharma was happy with his performance against Kochi Tuskers Kerala and wants to repeat it against Chennai Super Kings. ...
01:37 PM, Jan 21, 2008
Mumbai: Smarting from their morale-shattering seven-wicket loss against the Rajasthan Royals, Mumbai Indians would look to put behind their disappointment and train their guns on a struggling Kings XI Punjab to return to winning ways in the Indian Premier League here on Monday. The high-flying Sachin Tendulkar-led Mumbai Indians, one of the strong favourites for the title, were brought down to the terra firma by Shane Warne-inspired Royals two days...
12:14 PM, Jan 21, 2008
Kolkata: Brad Haddin's Indian Premier League campaign was cut short after the KKR wicketkeeper was detected with a fractured finger. An MRI in New Delhi on Thursday revealed that the injury sustained during Australia's series in Bangladesh has not healed as he is all set to fly home and undergo a surgery. The 33-year-old Aussie wicketkeeper was not available for the first three outings of the KKR as he was...
11:22 AM, Jan 20, 2008
New Delhi: Sania Mirza, on Thursday, advocated resumption of bilateral cricketing ties between India and Pakistan, saying such a move can help in improving relations between the two countries. "The very fact is obviously people love it. You say that in the (World Cup) semifinal (in Mohali between the two teams). I think it can make the relations between the two countries better. It's obvious, you have the two Prime...
06:49 PM, Jan 19, 2008
Bangalore: Having lost four games on the trot in the fourth edition of the Indian Premier League, Pune Warriors will have to pull up their socks and perform as a team when they take on a confident Royal Challengers Bangalore at the M Chinnaswamy stadium on Friday. The eight-wicket defeat to Chennai Super Kings at Mumbai in their previous game has put the Warriors in a tricky position. With barely...
06:44 PM, Jan 19, 2008
New Delhi: A two-judge bench of the Supreme Court today delivered a split verdict on a petition challenging amendment in BCCI regulation to exclude IPL and T-20 tournaments from its perview and referred the matter to the chief justice for allocating it to a larger bench. The petition, filed by former BCCI president A C Muthiah, had alleged that the amendment was brought to favour the cricket board's secretary N ...
05:12 PM, Jan 19, 2008
Experts discuss Chennai Super King's win over the Pune Warriors and Deccan Charger's victory over Kochi Tuskers Kerala. ...
04:48 PM, Jan 19, 2008
Kochi: As Ishant Sharma re-discovered himself with a demolishing five-wicket haul against the Kochi Tuskers Kerala, the gangling paceman credited senior bowler Zaheer Khan for improvement in his bowling. Ishant took five wickets at the expense of just 12 runs to help Deccan Chargers score an emphatic 55-run win as they bundled out Kochi side for a paltry 74. I need to say thanks to Zaheer Khan because he told...
04:34 PM, Jan 19, 2008
New Delhi: Kolkata Knight Riders batsman Manoj Tiwary feels that Gautam Gambhir's willingness to give each and every member of team a lot of space makes him stand out of the pack. Gautam is an innovative captain. He comes up with lot of ideas and makes it a point to discuss it with the players. He tries to understand each and every player's game and gives them a lot of...
04:18 PM, Jan 19, 2008
Mumbai: Subramaniam Badrinath slammed his second unbeaten half century of the tournament to power defending champions Chennai Super Kings to a comprehensive eight-wicket win over Pune Warriors in an Indian Premier League match at the D Y Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai on Wednesday. Badrinath, who scored a classy 71 not out for a losing cause against hosts Mumbai Indians on April 22, stroked his way to a fine 63...
12:22 PM, Jan 19, 2008
New Delhi: The Indian Premier League has always been an ideal platform for the unknown names from hinterlands to take centrestage and Sunday was the turn of 22-year-old Pune Warriors' left-arm pacer Shrikant Wagh to grab his share of spotlight. Wagh impressed with the ball with figures of three for 16 that fetched him the man-of-the-match award against Kings XI Punjab. "It's undoubtedly the best day of my life," Wagh,...
04:16 PM, Jan 14, 2008
New Delhi: The calls for bestowing Sachin Tendulkar with the 'Bharat Ratna' may have got louder after India's World Cup triumph but giving the country's highest civillian honour to the batting icon would require tweaking of the criteria that has been laid down for the coveted award. The 'Bharat Ratna' was started in 1954 and has so far been given to 41 eminent personalities, none of whom are sports-persons, the...
10:32 AM, Jan 14, 2008
