Mumbai: The Bombay High Court Monday issued a notice to the BCCI seeking reply to a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) that alleged the board had not paid over Rs 5 crore to police for providing security for the IPL matches played at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai in 2010. A division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice NM Jamdar was hearing a PIL filed by one...
04:38 PM, May 08, 2008
Wellington: New Zealand Cricket boss David White has admitted that there is positive tension between national coach John Wright and director of cricket John Buchanan, but does not believe that it will affect Wright's contract. Following New Zealand's 0-1 defeat to South Africa in the recent Test series there is plenty of speculation over the future of Wright, whose contract as head coach expires in August after New Zealand return...
04:31 PM, May 07, 2008
Sharjah: Afghanistan's first-ever one-day international against Pakistan achieved what no other sport had managed - support from the once cricket-hating Taliban, an official said on Saturday. Friday's match was a big milestone for Afghanistan, so much so that the Taliban sent a message of support, saying they are praying for the success of the team, Omar Zakhilwal, president Afghanistan Cricket Board told reporters. Although Afghanistan lost by seven wickets in...
06:47 PM, Apr 22, 2008
Perth: The impregnable defence that earned him the sobriquet of 'The Wall' is suddenly looking shaky in the ongoing Test series against Australia and experts are at a loss to explain just what is Rahul Dravid doing wrongly to get out bowled. For 15 years and 162 Tests, Rahul Dravid has risen to be the second highest scorer in Test history on the basis of his technique. Any condition, any...
04:50 PM, Apr 08, 2008
In case anyone missed the hubris, India still consider themselves the No. 2 ranked Test team in the world. It is a precarious claim, but after the past two days including nearly six sessions when India managed just one wicket while conceding 622 runs it should be condemned as absurd. Following on from the 4-0 whitewash in England, India's list of overseas woes continued to leave its unflattering mucous trail...
02:32 PM, Apr 07, 2008
The battle to secure a place in the Ranji Trophy Plate Division final kicks off on Wednesday as Maharashtra take on Himachal Pradesh in Pune and Vidharbha face Hyderabad in Nagpur. The winners of these two semi-finals will progress to the final and earn the right to play among the big boys of the Elite Division next season. The four semi-finalists have done well to reach this far over the...
05:07 PM, Apr 01, 2008
New Delhi: Let it be... let it be 99! The 100th might be a cherry on top but this cake needs no garnishing. The sweetness of success has beautified it, 99 times over. Even if that 100th topping were never to arrive, just let it be. The misfortune on that last mile, the last lap may put him on a higher altar. No, it's not that he shouldn't get it,...
03:35 PM, Mar 19, 2008
Sydney: The Sydney Cricket Ground will become only the third venue to host 100 Test matches when Australia play India in January. The SCG will follow Lord's in England and the Melbourne Cricket Ground, which have also reached the mark, when it is used for the second Test against India starting on January 3. The SCG Trust said on Monday it is planning to mark the occasion throughout the five...
02:59 PM, Mar 19, 2008
Kolkata: Former Test players from Bengal are eagerly awaiting for Sachin Tendulkar to reach the coveted milestone of 100 international hundreds at the Eden Gardens. The Eden Gardens wicket of late has been a batsman's paradise and in the last Test played here, seven players from India and South Africa got hundreds and Tendulkar was one of them. Former India wicketkeeper Deep Dasgupta said for some selfish reason the cricket-crazy...
05:47 PM, Mar 18, 2008
Kolkata: Even Sachin Tendulkar's impending 100th international century failed to generate interest among the cricket lovers of the city as on the first day of sale less than 100 tickets were booked for the second Test between India and the West Indies, beginning in Kolkata on November 14. According to figures available from the Cricket Association of Bengal, 98 tickets were sold from the counters, marking a poor response for...
09:26 AM, Mar 18, 2008
Chennai: The picture of which two teams from Group A will qualify for the semifinals of the Champions League Twenty20 will more or less get clear after the two key encounters on Tuesday. In the first match of the day, Caribbean side Trinidad and Tobago will take on the South African outfit Cape Cobras while in the second game defending Champions Chennai Super Kings will be up against the Aussie...
12:23 AM, Mar 06, 2008
Hyderabad: Kolkata Knight Riders come into the match after two back to back defeats and are badly in search of a win when they take on an equally desperate South Australian Redbacks in their next Champions League Twenty20 match, here on Tuesday. Redbacks are coming into the match after suffering a heavy 50-run defeat against Warriors and on the other hand Kolkata have lost twice against Somerset -- in qualifying...
02:54 AM, Mar 04, 2008
Bangalore: In a nail-biting contest, Warriors of South Africa beat the Royal Challengers Bangalore by three wickets in their Champions League T20 match at the Chinnaswamy stadium here on Friday. Chasing a modest target of 173, Warriors cruised to victory on the last ball of the last over by scoring the winning two runs for the loss of seven wickets. Warriors were in doldrums at 82 for four in the...
02:42 PM, Mar 03, 2008
Hyderabad: Alankara Silva and Janaka Gunaratne took 3 wickets each as Ruhunu XI beat Leicestershire Foxes by 4 runs in the fifth qualifying match of the Champions League Twenty20 at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad on Wednesday. Both teams came in looking for their first win, hoping to make it big enough to spoil the party for Kolkata Knight Riders and Somerset, who won their first games and were...
05:29 PM, Mar 01, 2008
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New Delhi: The buzz around the England-India Test match at Lord's is heating up, and with it the Satta Bazaar. Bets are already being placed on match winners and individual scorers - and the stakes are high on Sachin Tendulkar's hundredth 100. For every rupee bet on Sachin's 100th century, one will get a return of Rs. 3.60 paise. But bookies feel there's a greater chance that Sachin will score...
06:04 PM, Feb 14, 2008
Karachi: Pakistan's cricket chief Ijaz Butt is expected to meet top International Cricket Council (ICC) and English board officials on the sidelines of the 2,000th Test that will feature England and India at Lord's later this week. The details of a proposed visit of an ICC task force to Pakistan are expected to be hammered out in the meetings, according to a report in The News on Monday. The PCB...
11:06 AM, Feb 13, 2008
Melbourne: It is meant to cut down errors but former Australian umpire Daryl Harper believes technology is "not the aid it is claimed to be" for on-field officials in international cricket. The retired umpire, who quit prematurely after some bloopers by him in the just-concluded India-West Indies series drew criticism from India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, said technology is hard to rely on. "When a batsman plays a shot well...
01:04 PM, Feb 12, 2008
New Delhi: India are scheduled to host Pakistan for a Test series in 2013, the first time after 2007, according to ICC's draft Future Tours Programme which would be finalised in the world body's annual conference in Hong Kong starting on Sunday. Beyond the 2013 tour, particulars of other series between the two countries were vague with neither the host nation nor the number of games were specified in the...
10:33 PM, Feb 06, 2008
Perth: Former South Africa coach Mickey Arthur believes Cricket Australia (CA) has ruined its chances of returning to the number one ranking with its increasing obsession towards Twenty20 format. The 43-year-old added that the governing body is just paying lip service to its mission statement about the "primacy of Test cricket". Arthur, who is currently coaching Western Australia, is one of many state coaches who have been left bemused by...
08:14 PM, Feb 06, 2008
Dubai: Sachin Tendulkar on Friday lost the coveted number one spot in the ICC Test rankings to South Africa's Jacques Kallis but Rahul Dravid, adjudged man-of -the-match for scoring a century in the first Test against West Indies, returned to the top-20 after jumping nine places. According to an ICC media release, left-hander Suresh Raina, too, moved up 26 places to be placed 61st after his after his useful knock...
07:57 PM, Feb 06, 2008
