The Orissa Assembly was in uproar following the allegations. ...
03:05 PM, Aug 22, 2008
Barbados: Kieron Pollard has shrugged off the favourites tag being heaped on the West Indies side preparing for the ICC Twenty 20 World Cup in Sir Lanka later this month. The big hitting allrounder says being labelled as favourites would only put the West Indies players under a certain amount of pressure going into the tournament, reports CMC. Pollard, a T20 specialist and one of the world's most valuable cricketers,...
02:09 AM, Jun 24, 2008
New Delhi: Senior batsman Sachin Tendulkar on Thursday said that team India are confident of a good show at home against England and Australia but will certainly aim at preparing well when they play away series against these two teams next time. We need to look at one factor. When we played against Australia, they were the home team. England also played at home. There is no point in saying...
01:30 AM, Jun 13, 2008
Karachi: Praising the efforts of the two countries' cricket boards in reviving bilateral series, former Pakistan skipper and allrounder Shahid Afridi said the popularity of India-Pakistan series is bigger than the Ashes. Besides Afridi, Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq said that fans from both sides of the border are always eager to watch cricket matches between the two arch-rivals. Pakistan will be playing three one-day internationals and two Twenty20s against traditional rivals...
01:52 AM, Jun 10, 2008
New Delhi: Toss is again expected to be the decisive factor as Delhi prepare to take on Mumbai in the semifinal of the Vijay Hazare Trophy here on Saturday on a difficult Ferozshah Kotla track, which has come under severe criticism. The wicket has been in the news for all the wrong reasons since the start of the 50-over tournament with Wasim Jaffer, Robin Uthappa and Railways coach Abhay Sharma...
11:24 PM, May 01, 2008
Sydney: Australia captain Michael Clarke limped off the Adelaide Oval to a rousing ovation on Tuesday after scoring 117 against Sri Lanka in his final innings of a long Australian summer. His innings was destined to be in a losing cause and his hamstring injury could yet jeopardise his participation in the tour of the West Indies, but a sometimes spectacular century was a fitting end to his first year...
09:56 AM, May 01, 2008
Adelaide: India captain MS Dhoni was quick to blame himself for Gautam Gambhir's run-out in the Commonwealth Bank Series match against Sri Lanka here on Tuesday. In pursuit of 237, India were cruising to a comfortable win at 178 for four in the 41st over but Gambhir's run-out at that stage rattled the visitors' innings and the match ended in a tie. What happened was that Dhoni pushed a Lasith...
11:38 PM, Apr 23, 2008
Karachi: Former Pakistan captain Rameez Raja feels the country's cricketers are trying hard to regain their credibility that has been shaken by the spot-fixing scandal by trying hard to win each and every match they play. Former coach Waqar Younis and Rameez agreed that Pakistan's one-day series win over Sri Lanka and its fighting performance on Sunday in the fourth match was important after the damage caused by the spot-fixing...
03:59 PM, Mar 22, 2008
Visakhapatnam: A disciplined bowling effort by India colts helped them beat Sri Lanka by five runs in a low-scoring final match of the Under-19 quadrangular one-day cricket tournament here on Sunday. The Indian boys, who had topped the league stage, scored a modest 168 all out thanks to Akshdeep Nath's patient 55, who resurrected his side's innings from 37 for five in the 14th over after they were asked to...
12:07 AM, Mar 08, 2008
Birmingham: It took three crushing defeats for Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni to admit the overwhelming superiority of hosts England. The series never really went our way. Most of the sessions were won by them. More often than not, we were outplayed. We have been completely outplayed in the series so far, said a stoic Dhoni after losing the Test and the mantle of world's best Test side at Edgbaston...
01:05 AM, Feb 21, 2008
Melbourne: Cricket Australia's (CA) former chairman of selectors Trevor Hohns has joined the chorus with his successor Andrew Hilditch for restructuring the contract system to a more performance-based system that better reflects the importance of Test cricket. Hohns, whose tenure as chairman of selectors coincided with Australia's domination, said CA should hand out fewer national contracts than the 25. The CA is obliged to give 25 contracts under its deal...
04:03 PM, Feb 20, 2008
The off-spinner speaks exclusively to CNN-IBN ahead of Mumbai Indians' clash against Royal Challengers Bangalore in IPL-4. ...
08:40 AM, Jan 30, 2008
CNN-IBN's cricket expert Harsha Bhogle discusses the strengths and weaknesses of Kochi Tuskers Kerala and Sahara Pune warriors. ...
12:25 PM, Jan 13, 2008
Melbourne: Mike Hussey's omission from Australia's World Cup squad was "staggering" and team selectors ignored precedent by failing to give him a chance to recover from injury, according to former Australia captain Steve Waugh. The 35-year-old Hussey was initially selected for the Feb 19 - April 2 tournament on the subcontinent despite rupturing a hamstring last month, but was later replaced in the 15-man squad by Callum Ferguson. "If he...
10:50 PM, Dec 22, 2007
Bangalore: Scores of fans queued up at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium here Sunday morning for the day-night India-England World Cup cricket match. But with the sun playing hide and seek, the hot topic of discussion was -- would rain play spoilsport? Their concern was palpable as the meteorological department predicted 60 per cent chance of rain towards evening or night. Police began allowing spectators to enter the stadium at 10.30...
05:01 PM, Dec 22, 2007
Kolkata: With Eden Gardens no longer hosting a World Cup match featuring India, off-spinner Harbhajan Singh on Monday said he is really disappointed that they would not be able to bowl at the historic venue to the roar of spectators, which makes the ground really special. The ICC on Monday confirmed its decision to relocate the venue for the India vs England match to Bangalore after rejecting BCCI's appeal to...
10:18 AM, Dec 06, 2007
London: England batsman Kevin Pietersen has blasted the Cricket World Cup schedule, saying that the six-week fixture is too long and playing matches with six-day intervals is "ridiculous". "It's far too long. How can the England team play once and then in six days' time play again, and then in six days' time play again?" Pietersen asked. "It's ridiculous but there's nothing we can do about the schedules," he added....
09:59 PM, Dec 05, 2007
Smalin Jenita recovering in Chennai hospital after 'torture' in US. ...
12:33 AM, Nov 22, 2007
Her husband, however, insisted that her family had brutalised his grandfather. ...
03:57 PM, Nov 21, 2007
Sardar M Inamullah was the first to take note that something was amiss. ...
01:11 PM, Nov 21, 2007
