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Botham reinventing cricket for urban youth

The former England captain is promoting a condensed form tailored for school gyms or basketball courts. ...  

Kaneria to appear before ECB spot-fixing hearing

Kaneria will appear in the hearing from June 18 and will leave for London with his lawyer on Thursday. ...  

Eurozone break-up could hit us in face: Basu

Mumbai: Chief economic advisor Kaushik Basu has warned that if the Eurozone breaks up finally, it will be more disastrous than the 2008 global financial crisis triggered by the fall of the Wall Street banks, from which the global economy is yet to recover. "If Europe does slip into a crisis, it is going to be a very difficult time. There is no escaping from that. Though we (government and...  

ECB signs new international TV deal

The ECB has signed a new seven-year broadcasting deal with ESPN STAR Sports to keep matches being shown in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. ...  

Did Pietersen quit because of ECB?

ECB policy states that centrally contracted players must make themselves available for both ODIs and T20s, or none. ...  

ECB sets up anti-corruption team

The anti-corruption team will perform a similar role as the ICC’s Regional Security Managers monitor international matches. ...  

Pietersen fined for Twitter attack on Knight

Pietersen took to Twitter to question the credentials of Knight as a Test match commentator for Sky Sports. ...  

ECBs in aviation welcome: Vijay Mallya

New Delhi: Beleaguered air-carrier Kingfisher Airlines on Friday welcomed the Budget proposal to allow aviation companies to raise capital through external borrowings worth $1 billion during the next fiscal. "External Commercial Borrowings for working capital are very welcome. Interest rates and hedging costs will be much less than Indian rupee denominated costs," Kingfisher Airlines Chairman Vijay Mallya said. Introducing the 2012-13 Budget, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee acknowledged that the airline...  

Budget: Realty sector wants FDI, ECB norms relaxed

Developers in the realty sector, which is facing severe credit crunch due to higher interest rates, expect the government to relax norms for repatriation of FDI and external commercial borrowings (ECBs) in the forthcoming Budget for 2012-13. The industry expects the Budget, to be announced on March 16, to relax norms for FDI and ECBs, especially for township projects that will give developers source funds at a much reasonable cost....  

Europe in a very grave situation: Draghi

Strasbourg: Europe is an a "very grave" economic situation, European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said on Monday, but he added that euro zone governments are progressing well with efforts to put their finances in order. Speaking in his capacity as head of Europe's recently created financial system super-watchdog, Draghi added that markets had to a large extent anticipated Standard and Poor's downgrade of a slew of euro zone countries...  

Greek protests as France, Spain face squeeze

Paris: Greek police clashed with anti-austerity protesters and Italy announced sweeping reforms in response to a European debt crisis that on Thursday pushed borrowing costs for France and Spain sharply higher. More than 30,000 Greeks took to the streets of Athens in a protest rally that marked the first public test for a new national unity government that must impose painful spending cuts and tax rises if the country is...  

European Central Bank cuts rates by 0.25 pc

Frankfurt: The European Central Bank cut interest rates by a quarter point to 1.25 per cent in a surprise move on Thursday, acting boldly to support the ailing euro zone economy at President Mario Draghi's first policy meeting in charge. The move gave an immediate boost to stock markets, which will be looking for any signal at Draghi's first post-policy meeting news conference on whether the ECB is ready to...  

ECB confirms Test series will go on

ECB assured BCCI to return to India and play the two-match Test series starting on Dec 11. ...  

World central banks join hands, make historic rate cut

Central banks around the world cut interest rates on Wednesday. ...  

England names squad for the cash-rich Stanford series

Michael Vaughan would be relieved to get a central contract yet again. ...  

ECB in a fix over BCCI's 'no ICL players' diktat

Visakhapatnam: Rain may prove to be a spoilsport in Saturday's T20 match against New Zealand with weather bureau forecasting heavy showers due to active monsoon activity. The conditions were good earlier in the day on Friday and both the teams had their net practice but it rained heavily in the evening. According to the cyclone warning centre here, rains will continue for one or two days as the monsoon is ...

IPL's big money makes cricket boards jittery

Perth: It's hard to tell when Mahendra Singh Dhoni is joking. There are times when his jokes are filled with seriousness - if you read between the lines. On Monday afternoon, Ishant Sharma joined Virat Kohli as the second Indian cricketer to flip the middle finger to hecklers on the ongoing tour of Australia, but Dhoni downplayed the incident joking about it. It is understood that Ishant was reacting to...  

'Darrell Hair has no credibility left'

The Australian umpire is on the England and Wales Cricket Board's reserve list. ...