Australian skipper Michael Clarke is ready for another litmus test having conceded that the conditions at the PCA Stadium here are pretty "similar" to the ones they encountered in the first two Tests of the four-match series. ...
03:48 PM, Mar 13, 2013
It's been learned that the Uppal curator had given the Indian team two pitches to choose from, and it took MS Dhoni & Co just one training session on Thursday to make up their mind and point at the drier of the two surfaces. ...
09:46 AM, Mar 01, 2013
On each of the first four days of the Nagpur Test, during the post-play press conference, a senior English journalist asked the same question. "Is ...
11:02 AM, Dec 21, 2012
Mukherjee, unhappy at being sidelined, had decided to go on a month's medical leave in the morning. ...
06:12 PM, Dec 01, 2012
Dhoni is at the centre of criticism for asking for turners after India's thumping win against England at Ahmedabad. ...
03:11 PM, Nov 22, 2012
Dhoni is at the centre of criticism for asking for turners after India's thumping win against England at Ahmedabad. ...
03:11 PM, Nov 22, 2012
MS Dhoni's demand to doctor the pitch suggests "if the pitch doesn't suit us, we can't win," feels the former Australia skipper. ...
03:19 PM, Nov 21, 2012
Former chief of the ground and pitches committee of the Indian cricket board, feels the decision to prepare seamer-friendly tracks for the Ranji Trophy is a step in the right direction. ...
06:23 PM, Nov 10, 2012
Berry says Australia's Test team are being undermined by the pitches used in domestic cricket which overwhelmingly favor fast bowlers. ...
12:33 PM, Nov 05, 2012
Ahead of the 2nd Test between India and New Zealand, Narayan Raju has promised a sporting deck. ...
05:00 PM, Aug 29, 2012
New Delhi: On the fifth day of the London 2012 Olympics, Google posted a new sport-specific doodle dedicated to hockey, that also happens to be India's National Game. Here are the top 10 interesting facts about the doodle and London 2012 Hockey events that you should know: 1. The doodle features a female player, holding a hook-shaped stick, playing on a hockey pitch. The doodle looks simple; neither the letter...
01:33 PM, Aug 01, 2012
New Delhi: On the fifth day of the London 2012 Olympics, Google has posted a new doodle dedicated to hockey, that also happens to be India's National Game. The doodle features a female player, holding a hook-shaped stick, playing on a hockey pitch. The doodle looks simple; neither the letter 'L' of Google has been replaced with the hockey stick nor the two Os of 'Google' have been replaced with...
12:08 AM, Aug 01, 2012
Indian skipper said the pitch, not rash shots, was responsible for India's batting collapse in the second ODI. ...
10:31 AM, Jul 25, 2012
The good friends from the days of 'Om' in 1995 - Upendra and Shivarajakumar both at the helm of Kannada cinema worked together as actors in 'Preethse' - a bumper crop for producer Rockline Venkatesh. Quite often they meet and good friends in the industry are well known fact. The other day Upendra came for the audio release of 'Shiva' in Chitradurga to wish his good friend Shivarajakumar. After the...
04:24 PM, Jul 05, 2012
'Supermen Of Malegaon' will be released on June 29, 2012. The film has been directed by Faiza Ahmad Khan and produced by Chung Yong Park, Hee Yah Ong, Junichi Katayama and The Asian Pitch. It stars Farogh Jafri, Nazir Shaikh, Shafique, Shakeel Bharati and Akram Khan. Mollywood actor Shafique Shaikh, the lead actor of Malegaon Ka Superman, died of mouth cancer. Director Khan talks about what inspired the film. What...
02:55 PM, Jun 18, 2012
Gdansk (Poland): Spain was considering filing an official protest to UEFA over the state of the pitch at Gdansk's PGE Arena after Italy's refusal to consent to extra watering left it dry for their opening European Championship game. Spain coach Vicente del Bosque as well as players Andres Iniesta, Xavi Hernandez and Cesc Fabregas all complained about the turf following Sunday's 1-1 Group C draw, which affected the defending champions'...
08:23 PM, Jun 11, 2012
Budapest: World football governing body FIFA's medical experts said they wanted a defibrillator at every game at FIFA tournaments as well as players to undergo medical exams before games to prevent on-pitch cardiac arrests. Speaking at a press conference after FIFA's second medical conference in Budapest, executive committee member Dr Michel D' Hooghe said: "The main word on the agenda of every medical conference is always prevention." The high number...
07:40 PM, May 26, 2012
"The boys played good cricket," Sangakkara said after his side finished eighth in the IPL this season. ...
10:36 PM, May 20, 2012
How can we expect the Virat Kohlis, Suresh Rainas and Rohit Sharmas, who have been fed on ODI and T20 staple diet, to come good ...
12:28 PM, Jan 12, 2012
Tiruchirappalli: Tamil Nadu Minister for Environment and Pollution Control and Minorities Welfare N Mariam Pitchai died in a road accident in Tiruvelangurichi, about 40 km from Tiruchirappalli, early on Monday morning. Minister for Sports and Youth welfare NR Sivapathy was also injured when their vehicle collided with another moving ahead of their convoy while they were proceeding to Chennai after garlanding the statue of community leader Perumpidugumutharyar, police said. The...
08:54 AM, May 23, 2011
