Rajiv Shukla, the BCCI vice president, said it's the PCB who took the initiative to convince the BCCI to resume the bilateral ties with Pakistan. ...
08:11 PM, Jun 09, 2008
Lahore: The cricket boards of Pakistan and Australia are planning to submit an official proposal to the International Cricket Council for a five-match Twenty20 series prior to the ICC World T20 schedule to be held in Sri Lanka in September. The five match series if permitted by the ICC would be the longest T20 bilateral series between any two countries. The ICC has already rejected a move by the Pakistan...
08:43 AM, May 31, 2008
St. John's (Antigua): The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) broke their silence on Chris Gayle's pending return to the regional team, saying they were pleased the estranged batsman had made himself available to play. Gayle announced last week he would pull out of his contract with English county Somerset in order to make himself available for the limited overs phase of West Indies' tour of England, and in all forms...
11:33 PM, May 21, 2008
Kolkata: Kolkata Knight Riders on Thursday signed up four domestic players, including two from Bengal, for the upcoming IPL season five, starting on April 4. Debabrata Das and Iresh Saxena from Bengal, Saurashtra's Chirag Jani and Kerala's Sanju Samson have joined the Knight Riders squad, a KKR release stated. The 25-year-old Das, an aggressive middle-order batsman and a part time wicketkeeper, had represented the franchisee in the 2008 season also....
08:43 PM, Apr 29, 2008
Wellington: Ross Taylor will be available for selection for New Zealand's first Test against South Africa, starting on March 7 in Dunedin. Taylor, who has missed the entire South Africa series so far, has fully recovered from a calf injury he suffered during New Zealand's tour of Zimbabwe. We are pleased with Ross's improvement and he will have fully recovered from the calf injury in time to lead the team...
11:39 PM, Apr 28, 2008
Chennai: The Indian and West Indian camps seem unanimous that the Chepauk pitch will be slow and might assist spinners in the fifth and concluding game of the ODI series to be played here on Sunday. Rahul Sharma, the rookie legspinner who picked up three wickets at the Indore game of tall scores earlier this week, obviously looked forward to plying his trade on a pitch that had gained some...
08:41 PM, Mar 28, 2008
Taunton: India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni says that if his side stick to the basics, preserving their number one Test ranking will take care of itself. Dhoni's team, also the 50-over world champions, have topped the ICC's Test table for more than a year but could be knocked off their perch if England, currently third, win the upcoming four-match series by two clear victories. India, who completed a 1-0 win...
02:39 PM, Feb 12, 2008
New Delhi: With Sri Lankan cricketers having been ordered to return home by May 5 for their tour to England, Kochi and Deccan Chargers are facing the toughest test of all teams as they stand to lose their skippers - Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara. Chargers, already hit by the loss of Adam Gilchrist this year, will have to take their pick from the bunch of foreigners they have as...
11:52 PM, Jan 14, 2008
Colombo: Three of the top four run-scorers in the World Cup are Sri Lankans who have amassed more than 1,200 runs between them over seven games — all but one played at home on Sri Lankan wickets. The real test of Sri Lanka's world-beating credentials will come in Mumbai on Saturday when their marauding batsmen face a tough bowling attack on an unfamiliar wicket. Tillakaratne Dilshan (467), captain Kumar Sangakkara...
09:52 AM, Jan 10, 2008
CNN-IBN's panel of cricket experts discussed Australia's record-breaking loss to Pakistan and South Africa's win over Bangladesh. ...
02:57 PM, Jan 04, 2008
India have failed to strike a right combination and have leaked more than 600 runs in the last two games. ...
08:44 PM, Dec 26, 2007
New Delhi: The BCCI may be skeptical about adopting the Decision Referral System (DRS) but India skipper MS Dhoni seems all in readiness now to use it in the upcoming World Cup in the subcontinent. Regarding DRS, we are prepared for it. We have done our homework on the UDRS system. Some decisions will help you while some will go against you. As a captain you can't help it, said...
02:23 AM, Dec 07, 2007
Melbourne: Australia captain Ricky Ponting's frustration over a TV referral decision boiled over into an ugly row with umpire Aleem Dar on the second day of the fourth Ashes Test on Monday. Ponting, whose team face a huge task to save the Test and keep alive their hopes of winning back the Ashes, spent more than a minute remonstrating with Dar after demanding a review of a not-out decision against...
07:01 PM, Nov 21, 2007
Centurion: For Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the passion that Sachin Tendulkar has for the game even after 21 long years is something amazing. As far as Sachin is concerned, he is a legend. Getting his 50th hundred is a milestone, but the passion he has got for cricket after 21 years of cricket is the same, Dhoni said paying rich tributes to the senior-most member of Team India. I...
03:28 PM, Nov 19, 2007
Star Health and ICICI will offer schemes like helplines and hospitalisation expenses. ...
09:19 PM, Nov 14, 2007
IRDA had asked general insurance council for definition of pre-existing illness. ...
12:42 AM, Oct 11, 2007
UPA announces its biggest social sector scheme after NREGS. ...
10:23 PM, Oct 01, 2007
Though NGOs welcome it, they are skeptical about the conditions. ...
07:31 AM, Sep 26, 2007
LIC has invested Rs 17,000 crore in equities as against Rs 24,000 crore last year. ...
09:27 PM, Sep 20, 2007
A 10,000 new born babies are snatched from their families every year. ...
03:01 PM, Sep 09, 2007
