New Delhi: India will begin their campaign in the the last edition of the ICC Champions Trophy with their Group B match against South Africa at Cardiff on June 6. The biennial tournament is being wound up as the ICC is unable to slot it in the crowded cricketing calendar.
India play their second group game against the West Indies at the Oval on June 11 before running into neighbours Pakistan at Edgbaston on June 15.
There are only two day-night games and curiously, Sri Lanka figure in both, to be played at The Oval - against England on June 13 and against Australia on June 17.
The semifinals are on June 19 and 20 and the final on Sunday, June 23....
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12:28 PM, May 01, 2013
The ABVP's Odisha unit on Tuesday protested outside the Bhubaneswar airport over the participation of the Pakistani cricket team in the upcoming women's world cup tournament. The activists protested outside the airport where BCCI members arrived earlier on Tuesday morning. They are to assess preparations for the matches. ...
02:01 PM, Jan 22, 2013
Pakistan play Australia in the opening match of the World Cup slated for January 31 at Bandra Kurla Complex. ...
04:45 PM, Jan 02, 2013
The captain of the visually-impaired cricket team of Pakistan, Zeeshan Abbas, was on Saturday admitted to a hospital in Bangalore after he drank cleaning liquid that he mistook for water at breakfast before a match with Bangladesh. The incident threatened to escalate into a bigger crisis with some sections of the Pakistani team thinking the incident was deliberate. ...
07:45 PM, Dec 08, 2012
The captain of Pakistan's blind cricket team, who was hospitalised on Saturday after mistakenly consuming phenyl, has been discharged. Before leaving hospital, Zeeshan Abbas said that he had consumed the liquid by mistake and that no one had given it to him. Meanwhile, the hotel where the incident happened has apologised to the player. Sources say that the matter has been resolved. ...
05:43 PM, Dec 08, 2012
The captain of Pakistan's blind team was hospitalised in Bangalore on Saturday morning after he drank diluted phenyl by mistake. Police have claimed that Zeeshan Abbas consumed the diluted phenyl in a hurry after a hotel cleaning staff left the bottle on a table by mistake. ...
01:00 PM, Dec 08, 2012
After Unmukt Chand led his team to the Under 19 World Cup trophy, there has been a lot of talk about youngsters breaking into the national team. We look at those who made it big, those who didn't, and those still hoping for another chance. THEY MADE IT BIG: Batch of 1998: Virender Sehwag and Harbhajan Singh. Both have been mainstays of the national side for over a decade now....
04:57 PM, Sep 24, 2012
New Delhi: State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) on Tuesday offered a job to Unmukt Chand, star captain of Under-19 world champion cricket team. "We have today felicitated the star cricketer and have decided to make a job offer," ONGC chairman and managing director Sudhir Vasudeva said in New Delhi. ONGC has traditionally offered jobs to Indian cricketers. Batsman Virendra Sehwag, pacer Ashish Nehra and U-19 world cup winning...
06:43 PM, Sep 04, 2012
New Delhi: While the entire U-19 Indian cricket team celebrates its U-19 World Cup win, its captain Unmukt Chand has a niggling worry at the back of his mind. He has a legal case against his University that is denying him the Right to Education. India's World Cup winning Under 19 team captain, scorer of a perfect ton that got India the World Cup down under is locked in a...
09:50 AM, Aug 30, 2012
India will begin their campaign against Australia on September 27. ...
02:58 PM, Aug 20, 2012
Lahore: A terrorist wanted for alleged involvement in the 2009 attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team was killed in a shootout with police in Pakistan's Punjab province, officials said on Wednesday. Law enforcement agencies started checking vehicles near Ghazi Ghat bridge in Multan, 400 km from Lahore, after getting a tip-off on Wednesday that some terrorists were bound for the city in public transport. During the checking of a...
10:41 AM, Aug 02, 2012
Virat Kohli says that the team will be looking to notch up a third consecutive win in the last ODI on Saturday. ...
12:30 PM, Aug 01, 2012
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07:13 PM, Jul 17, 2012
The retired batsman's recent comments about coaching have sparked off plenty of speculation. ...
08:34 AM, Jul 05, 2012
Sahara Group is set to become the new sponsor of the Bangladesh cricket team after offering $9.4 million over four years. ...
10:49 PM, May 30, 2012
Anjum Chopra has also been dropped from the 15-member squad of the Indian women's team for the England tour. ...
05:51 PM, May 14, 2012
South Africa will face England in a Test series in July to claim the No.1 spot. ...
09:18 PM, May 11, 2012
New Delhi: The Central Information Commission has issued a show cause notice to Air India subsidiary Alliance Air for not disclosing information about a flight which was pulled out of its scheduled departure to ferry an IPL cricket team, despite its orders. The Delhi-Coimbatore flight was aborted on April 20, 2010 and the aircraft was reportedly used to ferry IPL players and Poorna Patel, daughter of the then Civil Aviation...
08:14 PM, Jan 24, 2012
Ok, ok, so you do remember it all, dont you? That Dhoni six that sealed the World Cup. Those stories that appeared soon after about team spirit and leadership. And the paeans of praise for a leader who could do no wrong. Ah, those were the days. Suddenly, it seems to have all gone wrong. The Indian team has slipped in the world rankings, lost every international game on the...
12:58 PM, Sep 27, 2011
Nothing could be a bigger platform than Kolkata's Eden Gardens to draw such huge public attention at one time to the new faces of Always Kabhi Kabhi, superstar Shah Rukh Khan's latest production. The cast and crew of the film would accompany Khan to support his Indian Premier League (IPL) team Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in its face-off with the Mumbai Indians there Sunday. "We are all going to Kolkata...
12:03 PM, May 22, 2011
