Mumbai: England captain Alastair Cook on Monday described the forthcoming four-Test series against India as a huge challenge as no team from his country has won a Test series here for three decades. It's a huge challenge as history suggests. It is so hard for an English side to win in the sub-continent. We are just desperate to use the conditions in these three (warm-up) games and change things around,...
03:23 PM, Jul 12, 2008
New Delhi: Mumbai Indians skipper Harbhajan Singh blamed himself for the 37-run loss to Delhi Daredevils in an IPL match here on Friday and said he needs to lift his performance for his and the team's sake. Harbhajan's four overs went for 42 runs as Delhi Daredevils outclassed Mumbai. I have got to lift my performance for myself and the team. I haven't been bowling well, the last 2-3 matches,...
05:19 PM, May 16, 2008
Brisbane: New Australian coach Mickey Arthur warned on Tuesday that fans needed to be patient as the national side undergoes a rebuilding process that could take years to come to fruition. The South African's recent appointment as Australia's first foreign coach completed a major overhaul sparked by the Ashes debacle against England earlier this year. But Arthur said it could take until his contract expires at the end of the...
10:59 PM, Mar 25, 2008
Jaipur: Their play-off hopes dented by two consecutive defeats, Rajasthan Royals need to do something special to tame a rampaging Chris Gayle as they prepare to clash with Royal Challengers Bangalore in their next IPL match on Wednessday. Both the teams have consistently been in the reckoning for the play-offs but the scale of task is now enormous for Rajasthan, which lost to Chennai Super Kings on Monday night. Bangalore...
05:59 PM, Jan 23, 2008
London: The future of Test and one-day cricket, as well as the controversial decision review system (DRS), will be among the subjects up for discussion when the International Cricket Council (ICC) cricket committee gathers at Lord's for a two-day meeting starting here on Tuesday. The ICC would like DRS, first introduced in 2009, to be used in all one-day internationals (ODIS) as was the case at the recent World Cup...
05:08 PM, Jan 23, 2008
New Delhi: India's newly appointed cricket coach Duncan Fletcher is likely to attend Friday's selection committee meeting in Chennai to pick up the team for the tour to the West Indies. A top official of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) told IANS that Fletcher will be arriving in Chennai Friday and will attend the meeting to pick the squads for three Tests, five ODIs and a...
01:37 PM, Jan 23, 2008
Johannesburg: South Africa reduced its 2011 home series against Australia from three Tests to two on Friday because of "time constraints," the latest sign that Twenty20 was threatening the five-day game as cricket's showpiece format. For the first time, a tour involving the teams will feature as many T20 internationals as Tests. Cricket South Africa confirmed the schedule would consist of two Tests, three one-day internationals and two Twenty20s in...
04:46 PM, Jan 22, 2008
Jaipur: Off-spinner Harbhajan Singh on Thursday said that he he was happy the way things were going when asked about the winning streak of the Mumbai Indians. "I am happy with the way things have gone till now. We have been through rough patches but one or the other has been able to pull us through. Like in the last match Rohit Sharma and Andrew Symonds batted well to help ...
11:47 PM, Jan 19, 2008
Karachi: Pakistan's limited overs captain Shahid Afridi today said that he is not satisfied with the One-day rankings system, presently applied by the ICC. His unhappiness stems from the recent announcement by the ICC that even if Pakistan, which lead the five-match ODI series 2-0 against the West Indies, manage to whitewash the series, it will not earn them a single rating point and they will still be placed at...
08:24 PM, Jan 19, 2008
Kochi: As Ishant Sharma re-discovered himself with a demolishing five-wicket haul against the Kochi Tuskers Kerala, the gangling paceman credited senior bowler Zaheer Khan for improvement in his bowling. Ishant took five wickets at the expense of just 12 runs to help Deccan Chargers score an emphatic 55-run win as they bundled out Kochi side for a paltry 74. I need to say thanks to Zaheer Khan because he told...
04:34 PM, Jan 19, 2008
New Delhi: Kolkata Knight Riders batsman Manoj Tiwary feels that Gautam Gambhir's willingness to give each and every member of team a lot of space makes him stand out of the pack. Gautam is an innovative captain. He comes up with lot of ideas and makes it a point to discuss it with the players. He tries to understand each and every player's game and gives them a lot of...
04:18 PM, Jan 19, 2008
Lahore: Former Indian spinner Bishen Singh Bedi on Saturday lashed out at the "holier-than-thou" attitude of the western cricket boards while coming to the rescue of the Pakistan cricket Board over spot-fixing allegations. Bedi on Saturday reacted strongly to a statement by Cricket Australia's chief executive James Sutherland who recently said that PCB could have avoided the spot-fixing scandal in Britain if it had implemented the recommendations of the Qayyum...
02:04 PM, Jan 18, 2008
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the BCCI and its estranged partner, World Sport Group (WSG), to resolve their dispute through a civil suit or arbitration. A bench comprising Justices R V Raveendran and A K Patnaik said that main dispute over the media rights of IPL T20 matches was still not before them or any court. "Main dispute is not before us. Matter would have to go...
01:52 AM, Jan 18, 2008
Hyderabad: Paul Valthaty's delivered both as a bowler (4/29) and as a batsman (75 off 47 balls) to pave way for Kings XI Punjab's stunning victory over Deccan Chargers by eight wickets in match 15 of IPL-4 here on Saturday. Chasing 166 to win, KXIP openers Adam Gilchrist and Paul Valthaty put on a 136-run stand to defuse the Chargers, who were let down by their bowlers. The chase, though,...
10:49 AM, Jan 16, 2008
New Delhi: The calls for bestowing Sachin Tendulkar with the 'Bharat Ratna' may have got louder after India's World Cup triumph but giving the country's highest civillian honour to the batting icon would require tweaking of the criteria that has been laid down for the coveted award. The 'Bharat Ratna' was started in 1954 and has so far been given to 41 eminent personalities, none of whom are sports-persons, the...
10:32 AM, Jan 14, 2008
Chandigarh: Star batsman Yuvraj Singh's father Yograj can't wait for long for his son to return home, saying he would shed tears of joy over his son's shoulder. "I think I will hug him and probably weep over his shoulders ... he has made all of us so much proud," Yograj said on Saturday when asked about what would be the first thing he would like to do on meeting...
08:02 PM, Jan 10, 2008
An epic battle is on the cards between the world's top two ODI teams. ...
04:28 PM, Jan 06, 2008
Bangalore: Ireland match-winner Kevin O'Brien said his hair would be staying a shocking shade of purple, despite the pleas of his girlfriend, after his record-breaking World Cup century against England. O'Brien scored the fastest World Cup hundred of all time, off just 50 balls, as associate nation Ireland stunningly defeated Test giants England by three wickets to throw Group B wide open at the Chinnaswamy Stadium Wednesday. Together with several...
08:40 PM, Dec 24, 2007
Mumbai: India's opener Virender Sehwag has missed practice for a second consecutive day after he picked up a knee injury during his scintillating 175-run knock in the World Cup opener against Bangladesh. Sehwag had suffered the injury on Saturday, which left him requiring a runner, during the 140-ball knock when he scored his highest one-day score. Sehwag did not join his team mates in Bangalore on Wednesday for the batting...
11:11 PM, Dec 20, 2007
Anil Kumble also bagged the man of the match award. ...
12:20 PM, Nov 26, 2007
