Sydney: There are plenty of lessons to be learnt for India from their disastrous tour of Australia and one of them should be aggressive one-day captaincy, opined former Australia captain Mark Taylor. While recapping India's poor tour, the Channel Nine commentator said: Mahendra Singh Dhoni has to be more aggressive in his captaincy. Look at the way Mahela Jayawardene has captained and it has reflected by Sri Lanka's performance in...
04:26 PM, Apr 30, 2008
The man who recalled Ian Bell from the pavilion in England, protested a human error in Australia. The man who believed in being a calming influence, bumped into a bowler. A win, a tie and a loss later, MS Dhoni has shown that beneath his tranquility is, after all, human flesh and blood that can get flustered. After two successive run-chases, comparisons were yet again being drawn between Dhoni and...
08:14 AM, Apr 26, 2008
Canberra: Embattled Ricky Ponting on Wednesday received support from an unexpected quarter in the form of Harbhajan Singh who said it is a big mistake to write off the former Aussie skipper. The out-of-favour Indian off-spinner, who had plenty of fiery exchanges with Ponting over the years, especially after the 'Monkeygate' scandal in the 2008 Sydney Test, surprisingly put his weight behind the Australian and asked him to defy his...
04:16 PM, Mar 30, 2008
New Delhi: If the performance of West Indies on overseas tours is anything to go by, then statistics would indicate that they have been struggling to get their act together for quite a while now. On paper, India putting it across the West Indies in the Test series commencing on Sunday should be a mere formality, however Darren Sammy’s team did manage to finish on top in their recently concluded...
01:19 PM, Mar 16, 2008
Chennai: India off-spinner Harbhajan Singh on Friday slammed retired Pakistan pacer Shohib Akthar for pointing fingers at Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid's abilities in his controversial autobiography which released in New Delhi on Friday. In his book titled 'Controversially Yours', Akhtar questioned Tendulkar and Dravid's ability to finish matches. "I do not know what Shoaib is up to and what made him say that. If you talk about Sachin Tendulkar,...
01:17 PM, Mar 03, 2008
Karachi: Pakistan announced the itinerary on Tuesday for their autumn series against Sri Lanka, to be played in the neutral territory of the United Arab Emirates. Pakistan have been forced to play on foreign soil since a terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan team bus in Lahore two years ago shattered the global cricketing community's faith in the nation being able guarantee the safety of touring sides. Eight people died...
01:41 AM, Feb 26, 2008
Leicester: Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Monday awarded an honorary doctorate by De Montfort University after the conclusion of a Twenty20 practice match against Leicestershire here. Dhoni was praised for his exemplary leadership quality and achievements before he became an Honorary Doctor of Letters at a ceremony here. Dhoni has achieved many milestones in his career. Under his captaincy, the Indian team won the 2007 ICC world Twenty20 championship,...
12:40 AM, Feb 26, 2008
New Delhi: Former BCCI president A C Muthiah on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to restrain Board Secretary N Srinivasan from discharging his present duties and from assuming charge as president next month. A bench of justice Altamas Kabir and S S Nijjar however, refrained from passing any order on the fresh application and instead directed Muthiah's counsel Nalini Chidambaram to approach the Chief Justice for appropriate remedy. Muthiah in...
08:38 PM, Feb 24, 2008
London: Manchester-based Farokh Engineer was not at the Oval on Monday. And he's probably happy to miss the Test as India provided England a 4-0 series win on a platter after much hope in the first session of play on Day five of the final Test. At least they put up a fight, was former stumper Engineer's first reaction to India's innings defeat. Indeed they fared better, by reaching the...
02:16 PM, Feb 24, 2008
Lahore: They may be out of favour at the moment but senior Pakistan players Kamran Akmal and Shoaib Malik have not given up hope of playing for the national cricket team again. The duo, who are unlikely to get the new central contracts that would be announced soon, have said they are confident of making comebacks. While Kamran has been dropped purely because of his form, former captain Malik has...
11:26 PM, Feb 14, 2008
Bangalore: Defending champion Australia failed to bowl out a much-improved Kenya side but still won by 60 runs on Sunday to seal its place in the World Cup quarterfinals. Collins Obuya (98 not out) fell agonizingly short of a century as he and Tanmay Mishra (72) led the resistance for Kenya, which finished on 264-6, its highest score of the tournament. However, the Kenyans' scoring rate never really threatened Australia,...
06:50 PM, Dec 31, 2007
Chittagong: Bangladesh relied on their tail-enders to return from the dead and pull off a sensational two-wicket upset victory over England in a World Cup group B match to keep their quarter-final hopes alive here on Friday. Chasing a modest 226, the hosts were precariously were placed at 169 for eight before Shafiul Islam (24 not out) combined with Mahmudullah (21 not out) to steer their side to a dramatic...
01:14 PM, Dec 30, 2007
New Delhi: Unheralded Dutch spinner Pieter Seelaar needed only a split second to nominate his top scalp after grabbing three wickets against mighty India - naming superstar Sachin Tendulkar. The 23-year-old took 3-53 in the Netherlands' defeat by the joint hosts, including openers Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag as well as big-hitting Yusuf Pathan. "Usually you don't bowl to that calibre of player," he said, adding: "It gets the best out...
03:34 PM, Dec 29, 2007
New Delhi: Yuvraj Singh once again starred with both bat and ball as India beat the Netherlands by five wickets in a World Cup Group B clash at New Delhi on Wednesday. Chasing a victory target of 190, Yuvraj who brought up 100 ODI wickets earlier in the day played a crucial innings of 51 not out to steer India to a well fought win along with skipper Mahendra Singh...
05:11 PM, Dec 28, 2007
CNN-IBN's cricket expert Chris Cairns discuss the game between minnows Ireland and England. ...
02:42 PM, Dec 24, 2007
Harare: Zimbabwe are all set for a meeting with their batting coach Brian Charles Lara as their World Cup bound team lands in Dubai for a high intensity training session. ''The national cricket team will leave the country tomorrow (Tuesday) for Dubai via Johannesburg for a training camp at the ICC’s High Performance Centre and a practice match against Netherlands until February 9 when they leave for Chennai, India.'' said...
12:59 AM, Dec 07, 2007
The driver escaped unhurt, though three of his friends suffered mild injuries. ...
12:56 PM, Oct 09, 2007
Cops have arrested one person and are looking for the other three. ...
09:00 PM, Oct 01, 2007
A brigadier was beaten up for he protested the drunk driving of 15 bikers. ...
01:44 AM, Sep 20, 2007
A brigadier was beaten up for he protested the drunk driving of 15 bikers. ...
01:33 AM, Sep 20, 2007
