London: Former Pakistan captain Mushtaq Mohammad feels Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif got away lightly in the spot-fixing scam and the two should have been slapped with longer prison terms by the London Court which found them guilty. I don't feel sorry for the players being sent to the jail -- I have sympathy only for Pakistan cricket because its image has once more been dragged through the mud, Mushtaq...
04:56 PM, Mar 16, 2008
Bulawayo: Chris Mpofu took 4-92 and Vusi Sibanda hit an unbeaten half-century to spearhead Zimbabwe's fightback against New Zealand on day two of the one-off Test on Wednesday. Opener Sibanda was 53 not out to guide Zimbabwe to 82-1 at stumps at Queens Sports Club, 344 runs behind New Zealand's first-innings 426 all out. Mpofu was instrumental in dragging New Zealand back after the tourists were 275-3 at the start...
12:19 AM, Mar 15, 2008
Rajkot: Saurashtra will miss the services of of middle order batsman Cheteshwar Pujara for the first two matches of the Ranji Trophy against Orissa and Uttar Pradesh. Meanwhile, the only change in the previous year's squad came in the form of medium pacer Siddharth Trevedi, who decided to represent Saurashtra in the current season instead of playing for Gujarat. The 39-year-old Sitanshu Kotak has retained his place, while Sandip Jobanputra...
12:17 PM, Mar 14, 2008
Visakhapatnam: India colts rode on Akshdeep Nath's blistering 64-ball 81 and Baba Aparajith's all-round effort to thrash West Indies by 124 runs in the Quadrangular U-19 cricket tournament here on Saturday. Devastated after conceding 99 runs in less than eight overs towards the end, which helped the hosts set a daunting target of 316, the West Indians were all out for 191 in 43.5 overs. Such was the onslaught by ...
05:22 PM, Mar 05, 2008
Johannesburg: Indicating that all is not well as far as allegations of impropriety related to IPL bonuses paid to its chief executive, Gerald Majola, are concerned, Cricket South Africa on Friday condemned its president, Mtutuzeli Nyoka's conduct. The board condemned the behaviour of Nyoka who made serious allegations against CSA before leaving the board meeting on Thursday, shortly after its start. He refused to take any questions from board members...
08:31 PM, Feb 27, 2008
Hove: With finally a win in their bag, Team India will now be up against Kent on Friday, in their second one-day practice match and will hope to continue their winning run before the real action begins with the ODI series against England on August 31. After a dismal Test series, Team India finally managed a win in England as they rode on the fifties by Virat Kohli and Parthiv...
01:31 PM, Feb 25, 2008
Dubai: England vice-captain Alastair Cook feels that his side has the wherewithal to beat India in the upcoming four-match series and claim number one Test status. Cook said that if England play to their potential, they will be a hard side to beat on home soil. It is going to be a great summer, we need to go back to Test mode. We want to world number one in the...
12:23 PM, Feb 12, 2008
Dubai: India maintained their number one status in the latest ICC Test Rankings but lost a couple of rating points after drawing two matches in their 1-0 series triumph over a lower-ranked West Indies. Leading the points table, India now have 126 points while the seventh-placed West Indies (88) have gained two rating points despite losing the three-match series which concluded on Sunday. South Africa (117) is the second-placed team,...
03:48 PM, Feb 11, 2008
Bangalore: India's women's cricket team leaves for a tour of England on Friday hoping to claim a share of the limelight the men's team is so used to dominating. A World Cup victory earlier this year was a major accomplishment for the men's team, which will now strive to retain its top Test ranking with series in the West Indies and England. Amid the busy men's calendar, the women's team...
01:09 AM, Feb 05, 2008
Colombo: Pakistan were hardly taken as a strong World Cup contenders after the recent spot-fixing scandal but Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara described them as a tough side after they lost to the 1992 champions by 11 runs in a group A match here on Saturday. Sri Lanka are one of the leading contenders to win the World Cup but they failed to break by World Cup jinx after Pakistan...
02:19 PM, Dec 22, 2007
Hambantota: Pakistan coach Waqar Younis believes the recent spot-fixing scandal will not have a detrimental effect on their World Cup campaign which gets underway against Kenya on Wednesday. Former Test captain Salman Butt and pacemen Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif were banned on charges of corruption relating to last year's Lord's Test against England. All three also face criminal prosecution. But Waqar said his team, who are in action for...
03:43 PM, Dec 20, 2007
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06:10 PM, Aug 03, 2007
Docs have stopped an HIV woman from breastfeeding her baby. ...
12:38 PM, Jul 03, 2007
Docs in Meerut hospital refused admit woman into labour room. ...
04:46 PM, Jun 29, 2007
Mothers eating apples and fish during pregnancy could be extremely beneficial for babies, says study. ...
01:52 AM, May 22, 2007
Tending to computerised crying and burping model babies. How about that as a contraceptive measure? ...
05:39 PM, May 09, 2007
Caesarean section deliveries rate is almost as high as 65 per cent in the private hospitals in New Delhi. ...
04:03 PM, Apr 16, 2007
Long periods of bed rest affects the musculoskeletal and cardiovascular systems in pregnant women, says study. ...
11:16 AM, Mar 24, 2007
Pregnant women from mainland China are flooding across the border, to Hong Kong, to give birth to their babies. ...
07:10 PM, Feb 02, 2007
Laila Rouass has been dumped by her husband, millionaire Nasa Khan, because he not interested in becoming a father. ...
02:34 PM, Dec 23, 2006
