Sri Ram Sene chief says his outfit will disrupt Valentine's Day celebration. ...
08:36 AM, Feb 04, 2009
The Ram Sena is calling Valentines Day, 'anti-Indian culture' and has warned people of attacks. ...
08:49 PM, Feb 03, 2009
The moral police are out there across the country all year round. ...
12:12 AM, Jan 28, 2009
Nottingham: England's hat-trick hero Stuart Broad on Saturday said that his feat would mean nothing if his side fails to win the second cricket Test and take a 2-0 lead over the Indians in the series. It won't mean anything if we don't win this Test. We need to post a big score. Somebody needs to get a big hundred and so tomorrow is a huge day, said Broad, who...
04:25 PM, Feb 16, 2008
London: Sachin Tendulkar was left stranded on 99 international hundreds after falling for 12 in India's second innings in the first Test against England at Lord's here on Monday. Tendulkar, whose 51 Test hundreds and 48 in one-day internationals are both world records, was lbw to England paceman James Anderson to end a scratchy 85 minute innings where he faced 68 balls and struck just the one boundary. His exit,...
02:19 AM, Feb 15, 2008
London: A sixth Test hundred by England wicketkeeper Matt Prior, and an unbeaten 74 by Stuart Broad put the hosts in a commanding position in the Lord's Test, after a hostile spell of fast bowling by Ishant Sharma led to an Indian fightback on day four of the Lord's Test on Sunday. At stumps, India were 80/1 having lost Abhinav Mukund (12), and still 378 away from their victory target...
11:21 PM, Feb 14, 2008
London: A staunch opposer of the Hawk-eye technology, the BCCI could be persuaded to allow its usage in the Decision Review System by batting legend Sachin Tendulkar who has been convinced about its utility by the innovation's inventor. Hawk-Eye inventor Paul Hawkins met Tendulkar before the start of India's ongoing Test series against England and claims to have removed all doubts from the batting maestro's mind about the system. The...
10:12 PM, Feb 14, 2008
CNN-IBN's expert Sanjay Manjrekar also said it won't be wise to rule India out of the Lord's Test despite conceding big lead. ...
09:53 PM, Feb 14, 2008
London: Former England captain Nasser Hussain feels Kevin Pietersen has removed all doubt about how good a player he is with the clever double hundred that has put his team in command of the ongoing first cricket Test against India at Lord's. If there was any doubt going into this game about how good a player Kevin Pietersen is, that innings has surely put it to bed, Hussain wrote in...
06:49 PM, Feb 14, 2008
Wellington: Recently retired Australian state cricketer Damien Wright has been appointed New Zealand bowling coach, replacing South Africa's Allan Donald. Wright took 406 wickets in 123 first class matches for Tasmania and Victoria states in a career which stretched from 1997 to 2008. He also played for Scotland, Worcestershire, Somerset, Sussex, Northamptonshire and Glamorgan, as well as three matches for Wellington province in New Zealand's domestic Twenty20 competition last season....
03:06 PM, Feb 14, 2008
Lahore: International cricket could return to Sharjah after eight years as the PCB is planning to send a team of experts to the venue to assess whether it can host a Test during Pakistan's series against Sri Lanka this year. A board official confirmed that the Emirates Cricket Board had sent a request to the PCB that they were keen on hosting one of the three Tests against Sri Lanka...
01:46 PM, Feb 14, 2008
Karachi: Pakistan pacer Mohammad Amir could have escaped with a two-year ban instead of the five years he is serving right now for his involvement in spot-fixing, had he accepted the plea bargain offered initially by the ICC's anti-corruption tribunal. Sources close to the player disclosed that during the hearings of the ICC anti-corruption tribunal in Dubai and Doha late last year and in early 2011, Aamir's lawyer was given...
11:49 AM, Feb 14, 2008
London: England's man of the day Jonathan Trott believes that first Test is evenly poised and expected India to make a strong comeback on the second morning on Friday. The game is even really. India will obviously try to make inroads as a bowling unit, while we - who played pretty well today - have a lot of hard work tomorrow, stated Trott who, including his unbeaten 58 on Thursday,...
11:33 AM, Feb 14, 2008
London: India coach Duncan Fletcher claimed the loss of opening bowler Zaheer Khan to a leg injury cost the visitors the chance of having a very good day in the opening Test against England. Khan was easily India's best bowler at Lord's on Thursday before he went to hospital for a scan on his left leg. He took both wickets as England reached 127-2 before rain ensured just over half...
09:38 AM, Feb 14, 2008
In what could be Tendulkar's last visit to Lord's, he stands a chance to score his 100th ton at the home of cricket. ...
02:32 AM, Feb 14, 2008
New Delhi: Any path-breaking triumph will inspire future generations and so did the historic 1971 series victories over the West Indies and England, says former India captain Bishan Singh Bedi and a member of the two teams. As India get ready to play their 100th Test match against England at Lord's on Thursday, the legendary left-arm spinner recalled the historic twin triumphs under Ajit Wadekar. 'To put it in Ajit...
03:50 PM, Feb 13, 2008
Lahore: Pakistan cricket team manager Intikhab Alam is optimistic about the national team's future in the Twenty20 cricket as he feels there is a flood of talent in the country. Intikhab, who is supervising the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) fast track camp in Lahore, said there were chances that the youngsters could be shortlisted to prepare a specialist T20 squad for next year's World Cup in Sri Lanka in September....
11:39 AM, Feb 13, 2008
Gautam Gambhir told CNN-IBN that Ishant Sharma is a very good bowler and will pick more than 300 wickets for India. ...
01:25 PM, Feb 12, 2008
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Roseau, Dominica: Shivnarine Chanderpaul seemed to have saved his best for a special occasion as his match saving innings of 116 against India in the third Test turned out to be one of his better efforts taking into consideration the team's situation at that point of time. Chanderpaul walked into the middle in the third Test against India with scorecard reading 40 for three. He stayed steadfast at crease for...
10:47 AM, Feb 12, 2008
Mumbai: The Indian squad for the four-Test series against England, which is the first part of their forthcoming tour, will be picked on July 2, Cricket Board sources said on Thursday. The squad would be picked in Chennai on July 2, BCCI sources told PTI. Incidentally, July 2 is the last day of the scheduled second India-West Indies Test in the current series and would be played at the Kensington...
12:29 PM, Feb 06, 2008
