FM to meet heads of public sector banks for talks on recent interest hike. ...
11:37 AM, Aug 13, 2008
Perth: Australia have rested weary fast bowlers Peter Siddle and Ben Hilfenhaus for the third cricket Test against Australia which starts at the WACA ground on Friday. The Australian selectors have included a four-pronged pace attack of Mitchell Johnson, Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and John Hastings in their 12-man squad for the match, in the additional absence of paceman James Pattinson, who has a side strain. Allrounder Shane Watson is ...
02:51 PM, Jul 24, 2008
Centurion: A semi-final berth seems like distant possibility for Auckland Aces but the New Zealand side will look to keep itself in the calculations by taming the demoralised Perth Scorchers when the two teams lock horns in their final round-robin Champions League Twenty20 match here on Tuesday. Auckland had not put a foot wrong in the tournament till they faced the Titans. The New Zealand side started its campaign on ...
11:13 AM, Jul 10, 2008
New Delhi: Former India batsman and DDCA vice-president Chetan Chauhan will continue to be the chairman of the selection committee, while Vijay Dahia has been retained as coach of the Delhi team for the 2012-13 domestic season. Besides Chauhan, the committee will comprise of Rakesh Shukla, Nikhil Chopra, Bantu Singh and Sidharth Verma. Sunil Dev will be the selector-cum-convenor Sanjeev Sharma has been named Dahia's assistant, while Manoj Kapoor will ...
09:11 AM, Jun 11, 2008
The allrounders Faf du Plessis and Chris Morris have been called up to a 15-member squad for the unofficial Twenty20 series against Zimbabwe and Bangladesh next month. Johan Botha will lead the squad in the absence of AB de Villiers who is one of four players being rested, along with Jacques Kallis, Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel, all of whom featured extensively in the recently concluded IPL. The inclusion of ...
11:30 AM, May 28, 2008
Kolkata: Despite a miserable stint in IPL 5 where his team Pune Warriors finished with the wooden spoon, Sourav Ganguly has not ruled himself out of the next edition, saying he would not even be 40 during season six. After a decent start to IPL 5, Ganguly went through a lean patch both as a batsman and a skipper, and his captaincy of late was subject to speculation with reports ...
10:25 AM, May 26, 2008
Court will hear an application by Vikas Yadav in the Nitish Katara murder case. ...
10:03 AM, May 22, 2008
Mumbai: Mumbai Indians captain Harbhajan Singh rued the reprieve given to Chris Gayle early in Royal Challengers Bangalore's run chase, which he felt cost his side their IPL 5 match on Wednesday as they lost by nine wickets for their fifth loss in the tournament. Gayle was dropped when he was on 21 by Dwayne Smith off the bowling of RP Singh, and the RCB opener went on to score ...
09:16 AM, May 21, 2008
Kolkata: A beaming Kolkata Knight Riders co-owner Shah Rukh Khan can't stop raving about his team's skipper Gautam Gambhir as he feels the batsman has lifted the side magnificently after three seasons of incessant controversies. The left-handed opener has led by example, being the leading scorer for Kolkata this season with 421 runs. On Saturday, in their match against the Sourav Ganguly-led Pune Warriors, it was no different as Gambhir's ...
08:38 AM, May 20, 2008
Pune: The Mumbai Indians skipper Harbhajan Singh and Lasith Malinga bowled an inspired spell to script an amazing one-run win over Pune Warriors India in an Indian Premier League match in Pune on Thursday. After winning the toss and batting first, Mumbai were restricted to just 120 for 9 in their 20 overs. However, they made a terrific comeback to win the contest on the last ball of the match, ...
09:53 AM, May 19, 2008
Lahore: Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq has said that he has no intentions of stepping down as skipper and was keen to lead the national team in all three formats of the game, including in the Twenty20 World Cup in Sri Lanka in September. I don't want to confine myself to only playing Test matches. I know I am good enough for all three formats and I am looking forward to leading ...
10:11 AM, May 16, 2008
New Delhi: Ishant Sharma, the India and Deccan Chargers fast bowler, has been ruled out of the fifth season of the IPL after undergoing surgery earlier this month and now faces a six-month lay-off. According to reports, Ishant had postponed the surgery despite being advised to go under the knife during Indias tour of England last years. Ishant was apparently keen to travel to Australia and thus chose to delay ...
10:24 AM, May 07, 2008
Charlestown: Former West Indies batsman Runako Morton was laid to rest here, following a five-hour service that was attended by several dignitaries and former cricketers. Morton died two weeks ago in Trinidad and Tobago when the car he was driving crashed into a utility pole along the Solomon Hochoy Highway in Chase Village in central Trinidad. He was 33. The Elquemedo Willett Park was filled with hundreds of mourners on ...
08:51 AM, May 05, 2008
Mumbai: West Indies cricket legend Vivian Richards has walked out to bat for Sachin Tendulkar amidst calls for the 'little master' to retire from international cricket. Richards, who celebrates his 60th birthday on Wednesday, told MiD DAY from Antigua: You have to be patient with him. Sachin has been around for so long that when he goes, he is going to be sadly missed. So, while you have him now, ...
11:25 AM, May 01, 2008
Melbourne: Dumped from the one-day squad, former Australian skipper Ricky Ponting said it might actually help him prolong his Test career as he would be able to maintain the highest fitness levels. The two-time World Cup winning captain was axed after a string of low scores in the ongoing tri-series against Sri Lanka and India. Ponting hoped that the selectors' decision would positively impact his Test career. Yeah it might ...
10:34 AM, Apr 30, 2008
Napier: Morne Morkel took five wickets and Hashim Amla hit 92 runs as South Africa coasted to a six-wicket, series-clinching win over New Zealand in the second one-day cricket international on Wednesday. Morkel (5-38) and Lonwabo Tsotsobe (3-43), provoked a collapse which saw New Zealand slump from 163-2 in the 33rd over to be all out for an inadequate 230 in 47.3 overs. With the win, South Africa takes a ...
08:42 AM, Apr 29, 2008
Islamabad: Former Pakistan pacer Shoaib Akhtar escaped unhurt after his car rammed into the barricades of the Prime Minister's Secretariat here Saturday night. Akhtar was heading towards his house from a five-star hotel when he lost control of the vehicle after reaching the PM secretariat. The car rammed into one of the barricades placed in front of the secretariat, the Express Tribune reported. The front portion of the car was ...
09:48 AM, Apr 28, 2008
Chennai: Central Zone expectedly entered the Duleep Trophy cricket final on the basis of the 110-run first innings lead as the semi-final game against South Zone ended in a tame draw here on Tuesday. Central, resuming their second innings at 378 for five, batted till lunch before declaring at 530 for eight while South survived some anxious moments before finishing on 152 for two when the match was called off ...
11:44 AM, Apr 21, 2008
Durban: Kumar Sangakkara's 108 put Sri Lanka in complete control of the second Test against South Africa on Wednesday and on course for a breakthrough first win in the country. Sangakkara's 28th Test century and first in South Africa propelled Sri Lanka to 256-7 in their second innings and a huge lead of 426 with three wickets in hand and two days still to play at Kingsmead. The stylish left-hander ...
09:08 AM, Apr 04, 2008
The Indian paceman is racing against the clock to get himself fit for the Boxing Day Test against Australia. ...
10:08 AM, Apr 01, 2008
