Chennai: Somerset might have lost a match that looked well within their grasp but skipper Alfonso Thomas prefers to count the positives after his side's semi-final exit from Champions League Twenty20 on Saturday. The English County side lost by 10 runs to Mumbai Indians to bow out of the event but Thomas said there are positives to be taken at the end of their campaign. Definitely we are disappointed but...
10:32 PM, Mar 07, 2008
Dubai: The ICC on Friday let off Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) with a warning for the poor quality pitch at Galle which hosted the island nation's first Test of a three-match series against Australia in August. The move follows a report submitted by match referee Chris Broad to the ICC expressing his concerns over the quality of the pitch prepared for the match which Australia won by 125 runs. The ...
09:56 AM, Mar 07, 2008
Bridgetown: Barbados Cricket Association officials (BCA) have appealed to the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) to allow the territorial boards to have first choice of selecting players for their national teams. The BCA insisted that cousins Carlos Brathwaite and Jonathan Carter must play for Barbados in this month's WICB Regional Super50 Championship. The BCA appeal came on Wednesday hours after Brathwaite and Carter were named in the 14-member Combined Campuses...
08:05 AM, Mar 07, 2008
London: Former Pakistan captain Salman Butt agreed to bat a maiden over during a cricket Test against England as part of a betting scam that may involve up to seven of the team's players, prosecutors said on Thursday. Butt and teammates Mohammed Asif and Mohammed Amir are accused of receiving money to ensure no-balls were deliberately bowled at a specified time in the fourth Test against England at Lord's last...
12:44 AM, Mar 07, 2008
London: MS Dhoni ended on the losing side for the first time in a Test series as captain of India but says the team did what best it could in the 4-0 whitewash completed by England at the Oval on Sunday. India suffered their second innings defeat in the series, going down by an innings and eight runs in the fourth Test, and Dhoni admitted that England batted them out...
06:13 PM, Feb 23, 2008
London: Sachin Tendulkar reached another milestone on Sunday when he completed 33,000 international runs in the fourth Test against England here at The Oval. Needing just five runs to reach the landmark, Tendulkar brought it up with a clip for a single off England spinner Graeme Swann, even as India stared at the prospect of a 4-0 whitewash after following on. However, the Test series against England has not been...
09:00 AM, Feb 23, 2008
Karachi: Pakistan leg-spinner Danish Kaneria on Thursday admitted in the Sindh High Court that his British lawyer has the transcripts and tapes of the investigation that the Essex police conducted on him last year but could not release it due to legal issues. Tafazzul Rizvi, the legal counsel of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), told PTI that finally Kaneria has admitted that his lawyer has the required tapes and transcripts....
10:59 AM, Feb 22, 2008
Wellington: Criticised by former and current international players for being resistant to full use of Decision Review System, the India Cricket Board has found backing from the ICC President-in-waiting Alan Isaac who feels that the technology of the referral system was not foolproof. New Zealander Isaac, current ICC vice-president and who will take over the presidency from India's Sharad Pawar next year, backed the BCCI's stance on the DRS, saying...
11:16 AM, Feb 21, 2008
Karachi: Former Pakistan captain Mohammad Yousuf has decided to retire from all forms of competitive cricket after being dropped from the list of centrally contracted players by the PCB. Sources close to the senior batsman said Yousuf has decided against taking part in any domestic or local cricket competitions as he was totally disheartened with the situation. After serving Pakistan cricket for so long, he is disheartened at the way...
08:43 AM, Feb 21, 2008
Kolkata: After slumping two losses in a row, Deccan Chargers skipper Kumar Sangakkara on Monday said his batsmen need to rethink their approach to get their campaign back on track in the ongoing Indian Premier League match. Chasing 164 for victory against Kolkata Knight Riders at the Eden Gardens on Monday, Deccan made a slow start to their innings and lost quick wickets in the beginning and towards the end...
05:43 PM, Jan 14, 2008
At 69, Pal, a chronic heart patient, is the oldest student appearing this year for Class XII exams in Tripura. ...
08:27 AM, Mar 18, 2007
Pilak, Tripura, is growing popular for its Buddhist heritage and is marked by some magnificent Buddhist temples. ...
12:33 PM, Mar 15, 2007
Sheer determination has helped a teenager from a Tripura village to overcome his childhood handicap of stammering. ...
08:31 AM, Jan 10, 2007
Tripura on Wednesday bid adieu to its last Maharaja Kirit Bikram Kishore Manikya Bahadur who died on Tuesday. ...
09:57 PM, Nov 29, 2006
