New Delhi: Former India captain Ravi Shastri has said while Vivian Richards was the best batsman of his era, Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara have been the two most extraordinary players in the modern generation. Viv Richards was the best batsman in my era by a long way. In modern era, Tendulkar and Lara have been the two standout players, said Shastri. Having had the experience of sharing the dressing...
11:24 AM, May 27, 2008
Colombo: Sports minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage has appointed a top level probe committee to look into the deal made by the Singapore based company, Somerset Entertainment Ventures, which promoted the aborted Sri Lanka Premier League (SLPL). Sports ministry officials said that the committee would be headed by a former police chief and would consist of the Director General of sports, legal officer of the governing body Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC), a...
08:27 PM, Apr 27, 2008
Abu Dhabi: Fast bowler Jade Dernbach looked for a successful start to the one-day series against Pakistan after anchoring England's comfortable win over Lions in a practice match on Friday. The 25-year-old Surrey paceman took 3-21 to wreck England Lions for a paltry 96 before England achieved a revised target – set to give them some practice ahead of four-one-day match series against Pakistan – of 230 on three wickets....
05:34 PM, Apr 22, 2008
Dubai: Sachin Tendulkar rose three places to be the only Indian cricketer in the list of top-ten batsmen in the ICC Player Rankings for Test released here on Tuesday. Sachin is placed at 10th position along with Pakistan's Azhar Ali, who scored a match-winning 157 during the second innings of the third and final Test against England in Dubai earlier this week. India's pace spearhead Zaheer Khan remained static at...
01:18 PM, Apr 21, 2008
England have aspired to be the best Test team in the world for some time, but once they reached the top they suffered a severe bout of vertigo. The No. 1 ranked-Test team has been humiliated 3-0 in the UAE by a superb Pakistan bowling attack led, admirably, by Saeed Ajmal and Abdur Rehman. No team has stumbled so suddenly after scaling the heights of the ICC's Test rankings. As...
07:18 PM, Apr 20, 2008
Rahul Sharma is working on his bounce for the Australian tour and taking tips from the likes of Anil Kumble and Harbhajan Singh. ...
03:44 PM, Apr 13, 2008
London: England captain Andrew Strauss said on Wednesday his pace spearhead James Anderson would be fit for the fourth and final Test against India starting at The Oval on Thursday. Anderson, who complained of stiffness in his right thigh after the Edgbaston Test, attended the full nets session at The Oval and a visibly happy Strauss said he was very optimistic that Anderson would be available for selection. Anderson, who...
12:08 AM, Feb 22, 2008
New Delhi: It is simply a question of when rather than if. When will England beat this woeful India side to go 3-0 up in the series and become the top Test side in the world. England stamped their authority over the Indians, keeping them virtually out of the Birmingham Test by piling on 456 runs for the loss of just three wickets, thus taking 232 runs lead by the...
12:16 PM, Feb 20, 2008
New Delhi: Flamboyant batsman Yuvraj Singh reckons that the rough patch in his career has made him "more matured and wiser" cricketer and he is now looking to cement his place in the Test squad. The left-hander was dropped from both the One-day and Test sides last year following poor form but made a strong comeback in the World Cup, in which he emerged as player of the tournament. "Yeah...
07:07 PM, Feb 06, 2008
Colombo: Kenya captain Jimmy Kamande says the team is united and will give "110 per cent" against co-host Sri Lanka in their World Cup Group A match on Tuesday. Cricket Kenya chief Samir Inamdar is reported to have cited differences between players and coach Eldine Baptiste as the reason for the African nation's two heavy defeats against New Zealand and Pakistan. Kamande says "when the team loses, people try to...
12:47 PM, Dec 23, 2007
The Trinamool chief resigned in protest against the violence in Nandigram. ...
11:21 PM, Nov 10, 2007
The MPs staged a mass resignation in protest at Musharraf's bid to win another five-year term. ...
02:23 PM, Oct 02, 2007
Japan PM Shinzo Abe is quitting because of very little support. ...
10:55 AM, Sep 12, 2007
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair bids goodbye to 10 Downing Street on Wednesday. ...
12:25 PM, Jun 27, 2007
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The Gurjar community says it plans to go the Gandhian route. There will be no agitations for the next three months. ...
12:59 PM, Jun 25, 2007
Outgoing World Bank Prez Wolfowitz’s departure ends a potential political headache for President Bush, who had named him to the post. ...
10:48 PM, May 19, 2007
Paul Wolfowitz had come under fire for allegedly breaking World Bank rules to get his girlfriend a promotion. ...
12:48 AM, May 19, 2007
World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz will resign at the end of June, he and the bank said. ...
10:58 AM, May 18, 2007
World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz is accused of breaking rules by arranging a generous compensation package for his girlfriend. ...
03:45 PM, May 17, 2007
The White House acknowledged that World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz made mistakes in his handling of a promotion. ...
02:57 AM, May 16, 2007
