Bangalore: Rajasthan Royals all-rounder Stuart Binny said his team is not the underdogs ahead of Saturday's match against Royal Challengers Bangalore at the Chinnaswamy Stadium here. "We are a very relaxed team. We don't have big names in our side, we don't have guys who can demolish teams in T20 cricket, but we are a unit that is very balanced. We've got a good set of bowlers and a lot...
12:24 AM, Apr 20, 2013
Bangalore: Two teams riding high on confidence after their brilliant start in IPL 6 will lock horns to reach the summit of the points table. League leaders Rajasthan Royals will take on second-ranked Royal Challengers Bangalore in a much-awaited match at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium on Saturday. Rajasthan are coming off a thumping win over Mumbai Indians while RCB beat Delhi Daredevils in a Super Over thriller in their previous...
10:30 PM, Apr 19, 2013
New Delhi: Mumbai Indians off-spinner Harbhajan Singh has said that the toughest challenge for him is to bowl to an unknown batsmen in Twenty20 cricket as not many are aware about their nature of play. "It is the toughest to bowl against batsmen who you do not have an idea about. You do not know their style of play and what kind of strokes they play to score their runs,...
02:23 PM, Apr 18, 2013
Jaipur: Having slumped to their worst defeat in the tournament, Mumbai Indians' skipper Ricky Ponting has admitted that his and Sachin Tendulkar's poor form has affected the team's performance in the ongoing Indian Premier League. Opening the batting, Ponting and Tendulkar have just managed two half-century stands together out of five games. As a matter of fact, on three occasions Mumbai lost their first wicket in the opening over. Chasing...
02:23 PM, Apr 18, 2013
Sachin Tendulkar is struggling, Ricky Ponting is all at sea, but Rahul Dravid - 40 and retired - is not short of impact. Leading Rajasthan Royals in IPL 6, Dravid is making his critics eat their words by scoring runs and leading like a man on a mission. No body gave Rajasthan a chance to be sitting on top of the table after two weeks of IPL 6. Not many...
11:27 AM, Apr 18, 2013
Jaipur: Rajasthan Royals offspinner Ajit Chandila is known for the hat-trick he took last IPL; but he would have any day traded that with what he achieved on Wednesday evening - getting batting legends Sachin Tendulkar and Ricky Ponting out. "You can take my hat-trick. These two wickets matter a lot more to me than my hat-trick last year ... It is like a dream come true for me. Taking...
10:25 AM, Apr 18, 2013
Jaipur: Not often do you see a side winning by 87 runs in Twenty20 cricket, but that's what Rajasthan Royals did on Wednesday evening against Mumbai Indians to get A+ rating from skipper Rahul Dravid for their allround show. Opting to bat first, Rajasthan posted a healthy 179 on the board thanks to opener Ajinkya Rahane who carried his bat with a 54-ball 68, useful 30s by Shane Watson and...
09:40 AM, Apr 18, 2013
Jaipur: Accusing BJP leaders of tarnishing image of Rajasthan, Congress on Wednesday said the opposition leaders' statements reflected their "frustration". PCC president Dr Chandrabhan said that the BJP leaders in Suraj Sankap Yatra were making statement to hurt the image of the state which, he said, was on development path due to better financial management by the Congress government. "The BJP leaders are making such statements which are not in...
01:42 AM, Apr 18, 2013
Jaipur: In the 11 previous matches in which they made 170 or more batting first, Rajasthan Royals had never lost in the IPL. True to history, that trend was maintained Wednesday at their home fortress of the Sawai Mansingh Stadium where they piled up 179 for 3 and defended that to beat Mumbai Indians by a whopping 87 runs. It was Mumbai's heaviest defeat ever in terms of runs. Having...
11:17 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Jaipur: A couple was intercepted with gold jewellery worth Rs 1.39 crore at the Sanganer airport in Jaipur. The couple, hailing from Phalodi area in Jodhpur district, had come from Hyderabad on Tuesday and the jewellery was found during the scanning of their bags, officials said. On being questioned, they failed to produce the relevant documents regarding the jewellery, they said. They were interrogated till late Tuesday night after which...
02:49 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Jaipur: Rajasthan Governor Margaret Alva on Tuesday sought a report from the state government over an accident in a tunnel here two days ago in which passers-by ignored a man's pleas for help after a truck mowed down his wife and infant daughter, officials said. The accident in Jaipur occurred in the kilometre-long Ghat Ki Guni tunnel on Sunday. Guddi Devi and her eight-month-old daughter Arushi were killed when a...
05:42 AM, Apr 17, 2013
Udaipur: Former BJP President Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday expressed confidence that his party will come back to power in poll-bound Rajasthan. Gadkari, who was here to address a public meeting of the first phase of the Suraj Sankalp Yatra, told reporters that "if people want to see Rajasthan as a developed state, then they must bring back BJP to power". Campaigning for the party during the yatra along with state...
11:16 PM, Apr 16, 2013
Jaipur: Rajasthan Royals wicketkeeper Dishant Yagnik on Tuesday said his team will be banking heavily on its medium pacers when it take on the heavyweights Mumbai Indians in the IPL match on Wednesday. "Undoubtedly they (MI) are a very good team. Along with Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore, Mumbai Indians too are very strong. But we are confident that we can get the better of them," said Yagnik...
09:40 PM, Apr 16, 2013
New Delhi: A 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit the Iran-Pakistan border on Tuesday afternoon, killing at least 40 people in Iran and five in Balochistan province of Pakistan, reports said. The epicentre of the quake lay 86 km east-south east of Khash, Iran, near the country's border with Pakistan, the US Geological Survey (USGS) website said. Experts say that this is the worst earthquake to have hit Iran in the past...
04:45 PM, Apr 16, 2013
Jaipur: A 26-year-old woman and her 8-month-old daughter in Jaipur died waiting for help on a busy road after their bike was hit by a speeding truck. The traumatised father and the young son who survived, stood by crying for help, only to see several cars and vehicles pass them by without offering any assistance. Shocking CCTV pictures of Kanhaiya Lal and his four-year-old son desperately crying for help minutes...
10:22 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Jaipur: A young man who works at the Ghati Ki Guni tunnel traffic control booth and was the first one to come forward to help the Jaipur family that lost two members in a road accident on Sunday, blamed public apathy for the delay in help. "The accident happened at 2.13 pm. I saw the CCTV footage and rushed to help the family. But nobody on the road came forward...
04:59 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Jaipur: A 26-year-old woman and her 8-month-old daughter were killed when the motorcycle they were riding on was run over by a speeding truck in Jaipur on Sunday. While the woman's husband and son escaped with minor injuries, their cries for help were ignored by the passersby and motorists and car drivers. The video of the incident, captured on CCTV camera, shows the public apathy towards accident victims. The visuals...
04:20 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Jaipur: Rajasthan Royals skipper Rahul Dravid is extremely pleased with the team effort in their six- wicket win over Kings XI Punjab, here. Chasing a modest 125 on a difficult wicket, Rajasthan won by six wickets. "It was Sreesanth who got us early wickets and Chandila too did a fairly good job opening the attack. Our rest of the bowling and the fielding was also good and we could restrict...
11:08 AM, Apr 15, 2013
Kadi: India is home to the largest child labour force in the world, say child rights groups. Underpaid, overworked and going largely unpoliced, millions of India's children are at work every day when they should be at school. CNN-IBN traveled to Gujarat's cotton district to find that the use of child labour, brought from Rajasthan, is simply routine. At first glance it's an image of 'Vibrant Gujarat' with 350 cotton...
09:25 AM, Apr 15, 2013
Jaipur: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Sunday accused the BJP state president Vasundhara Raje of misleading people of the state during her 'Suraj Sankalp Yatra'. Addressing a public meeting in the third phase of Congress' 'Sandesh Yatra' in Shahpura area in the district, Gehlot claimed that Raje during her tenure as Chief Minister "looted" the state and is now misleading people. "She does not know the meaning of Suraj...
01:45 AM, Apr 15, 2013
