Sydney: Indian batsman Virat Kohli was fined 50 percent of his match fee after making a finger gesture to the crowd during the second Test against Australia in Sydney, team officials said on Thursday. Kohli was pictured in Thursday's newspapers showing home fans his middle finger during Wednesday's second day of the match and subsequently received a level-two offence sanction by match referee Ranjan Madugalle. India team media manager GS...
02:05 PM, Apr 07, 2008
Nagpur: Fighting half-centuries from Andre Botha and Kevin O'Brien helped Ireland score a nail-biting four-wicket win over Zimbabwe in their warm-up tie ahead of the cricket World Cup here on Wednesday. Chasing 245 to win, Ireland were slow but steady and achieved the target with three balls to spare at Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium. Zimbabwe's decision to bat backfired as they were reduced to 12 for three inside 10 overs...
12:04 AM, Dec 15, 2007
Karachi: Banned Pakistani cricketers Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammed Amir have been sacked by their employee - National Bank - one of the leading teams in the country's domestic circuit. The three players had their contracts terminated by the bank in backdate recently. "Their contracts ended on 31st December, 2010 and we waited until February 5 for the decision of the International Cricket Council (ICC) anti-corruption tribunal to come...
05:18 PM, Dec 14, 2007
Dubai: South Africa's Morne Morkel and Johan Botha ran through Pakistan's brittle line-up to bowl them out for 248 on the third day of the first Test at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Friday. The Proteas were 139-2 in their second innings after taking a first-innings lead of 132. Morkel polished off the tail to end with five wickets after Botha's three started the slide. At stumps, Hashim Amla...
04:40 PM, Nov 05, 2007
London: Move aside the Glenn McGraths and Muttiah Muralitharans, the only bowler who has tested Sachin Tendulkar to an extent that the Indian batting icon didn't know what to do while facing him was stunningly the late Hansie Cronje. The ex-South African captain, who died in a plane-crash after being banned for match-fixing, was the one man Tendulkar found hard to deal with and bowling technique had nothing to do...
01:34 AM, Oct 30, 2007
Experts say courts, on the sting basis, can take suo moto cognizance. ...
12:52 PM, Oct 27, 2007
London: Three Pakistan cricket players questioned by British police over claims they were involved in a fixing scandal will return home on Friday, the London legal firm representing them said. The Metropolitan Police has been notified that Mohammad Aamer, Mohammad Asif and Salman Butt will return to Pakistan later this morning, said a statement from Addleshaw Goddard. Police had questioned Test team captain Butt and bowlers Aamer and Asif over...
02:01 AM, Oct 13, 2007
New Delhi: The normal contour of eyebrows is bound to hit surprise-expressing curves when cricketers question International Cricket Council’s (ICC) corruption-handling competence. And if that’s the case, then we don’t need to join dots to conclude that the prevalent air may carry match-fixing and its litter to the Champions League in South Africa. What casts an even darker shadow on the Champions League is that it's an extended version of...
11:40 PM, Oct 12, 2007
An exclusive show ‘The Big Media Debate’ on CNN-IBN. ...
03:03 AM, Sep 30, 2007
Rashmi Singh had been persuaded by the main accused to participate in the sting operation. ...
07:31 PM, Sep 15, 2007
The direction follows a PIL on the fake sting operation on a Delhi teacher. ...
12:41 PM, Sep 12, 2007
Politician tipped of cops after fake reporters offered him bribe. ...
07:53 AM, Sep 11, 2007
The reporter, Prakash Singh, is currently in the custody of Delhi Police. ...
05:24 PM, Sep 10, 2007
The sting had shown Khurana pushing her students into prostitution. ...
03:52 PM, Sep 10, 2007
They say the sting was carried out at the behest of an ex-colleague of Khurana. ...
01:41 PM, Sep 10, 2007
The pressure is now on broadcasters to evolve a content code. ...
09:53 AM, Sep 09, 2007
A sting operation can become an exercise in trapping an innocent person. ...
09:24 AM, Sep 08, 2007
Maths teacher Uma Khurana was sacked, humiliated. ...
09:22 PM, Sep 07, 2007
The 'victim' Rashmi Singh is actually an aspiring journalist. ...
08:04 AM, Sep 07, 2007
Order suspending R K Anand and I U Khan revoked after TV channel refuses to share raw footage of ‘sting operation’. ...
08:27 PM, Jun 19, 2007
