
Mumbai: The Indian squad for the four-Test series against England, which is the first part of their forthcoming tour, will be picked on July 2, Cricket Board sources said on Thursday. "The squad would be picked in Chennai on July 2," BCCI sources told PTI. Incidentally, July 2 is the last day of the scheduled second India-West Indies Test in the current series and would be played at the Kensington...

12:27 PM, Feb 06, 2008

On his 38th birthday, Sachin Tendulkar talks to paraplegic Indian soldiers at the rehab centre in Pune. ...

06:15 PM, Jan 18, 2008

Lahore: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is negotiating with former skipper Javed Miandad to accept the post of the national team's batting coach. ODI skipper Shahid Afridi told reporters here after a meeting with PCB chief Ijaz Butt that the board was in talks with Miandad. "I have suggested having a batting coach with the team to work with the players and Miandad is one of the people the board ...

10:59 PM, Jan 11, 2008

Canada take on Australia in their final World Cup fixture at Bangalore's M Chinnaswamy stadium. ...

09:45 PM, Jan 02, 2008

New Delhi: After the Indian cricket team snatched defeat from the jaws of victory on Saturday, the fans and the media have focussed on the selection of Ashish Nehra to bowl the final over. But it wasn't the last over where we lost the game, we lost the plot much earlier - while we were batting. And the lights of scrutiny have, therefore, fallen on other corners too, one of...

06:50 PM, Jan 02, 2008

South Africa take on Ireland in a crucial Group B tie at Kolkata's Eden Gardens. ...

01:49 PM, Jan 02, 2008
Karachi: Former Pakistan Test captain Javed Miandad urged the banned trio of Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir to expose the people involved in illegal betting and corruption in international cricket. Miandad, who is the director-general cricket in the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), said he felt saddened by the damage the spot-fixing scandal had done to the image of Pakistan cricket. "I am hurt by the damage caused to...

08:45 PM, Dec 11, 2007

Rain -battered roads in Kochi leave our citizen journalist Noordin Mehtar with little option for a smooth ride. ...

10:14 AM, Nov 01, 2007

Since smoking in public is banned, men smoke at home instead. ...

10:44 PM, Oct 30, 2007

Mohali: India suffered a dramatic batting collapse after Sachin Tendulkar missed his 49th century by a whisker to eventually fold out for 405 in their first innings at stumps on day three of the first cricket Test against Australia on Sunday. Tendulkar (98) fell short of his 49th Test century by just two runs as, riding on Mitchell Johnson's five for 64, Australian bowlers made a splendid comeback and dismissed...

08:31 AM, Oct 21, 2007

A wrestler in Kochi is fighting his disability by aiming higher. ...

12:59 PM, Aug 06, 2007

Over the past two months, garbage disposal had come to a halt. ...

09:46 PM, Jul 30, 2007

With no place to dump garbage, every nook and corner of Kochi has become a dumping yard. ...

11:10 AM, Jul 28, 2007
The Earthrace, a boat on a round-the-globe trip is currently docked at Kochi, waiting to break records. ...

09:59 AM, May 22, 2007

A doctor and a cricket fan from Kochi has put together an exhibition of cricket stamps that is attracting several fans. ...

04:24 PM, Mar 12, 2007

Queen Mary 2, the luxury ship, arrived on Wednesday in Kochi from Malaysia with more than 2000 holiday makers on board. ...

08:38 AM, Mar 08, 2007

President A P J Abdul Kalam on Wednesday condoled the death of children and teachers in a boat tragedy in Kerala. ...

11:40 PM, Feb 21, 2007

Eighteen students are feared dead as a boat carrying 37 students over-turned in a reservior at Thattekadu bird sanctuary near Kochi. ...

08:33 PM, Feb 20, 2007

On Tuesday, more than 10,00 Kochi residents took to the streets to wake up a sleeping municipal corporation. ...

07:56 PM, Jan 30, 2007

Senior officials reject media reports that the trip had been rescheduled because of threatening e-mail ...

03:04 PM, Oct 28, 2006