England produced an all-round performance as they outclassed Australia by seven wickets to win the World Twenty20 for their first major world title, at the Kensington Oval here Sunday. Young Craig Kieswetter (63 off 49 balls) and experienced Kevin Pietersen (47 off 31 balls) gave a powerful performance with the ...

Michael Hussey produced a breathtaking 24-ball 60 to give Australia a sensational come-from-behind three-wicket victory over Pakistan in the second semi-final of the World Twenty20. Hussey blasted off-spinner Saeed Ajmal for three sixes in the last over in which Australia needed 18 runs to chase down a tough target of ...

Lalit Modi, the suspended chairman and commissioner of the Indian Premier League (IPL), has tossed the ball back into the cricket board's court by seeking a pile of documents to firm up his answers to the charges slapped on him. Modi, who was to appear in person at the headquarters ...

England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) chairman Giles Clarke is facing a possible legal action from sports marketing giant IMG for his allegations that the company was involved in planning an unofficial Twenty20 league in England. Clarke had sent an e-mail to the Board for Cricket Control in India claiming ...

Lalit Modi, the suspended chairman and commissioner of the Indian Premier League (IPL), is suing Giles Clarke, chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), for defamation on "unfounded charges" that he was behind a planned unofficial Twenty20 league in England. Modi said Saturday that he was appalled at ...

Fixtures of the World Twenty20 which begins here Friday at the Providence Stadium, Guyana, with last year's finalists Sri Lanka taking on New Zealand. April 30: Group B - New Zealand v Sri Lanka, Providence Stadium, Guyana April 30: Group D - West Indies v Ireland, Providence Stadium, Guyana May 1: ...

The Indian cricket board Monday charged its vice president Lalit Modi on several counts of financial impropriety, including allegations of bid rigging, and appointed another vice-president and corporate honcho Chirayu Amin as interim president of the high profile Indian Premier League (IPL). Indian cricket board president Shashank Manohar, using his constitutional ...

Chennai Super Kings overcame a resolute Sachin Tendulkar, playing with five stitches on his right hand, and a sensational Kieron Pollard to beat Mumbai Indians by 22 runs in a nail-biting final to win the Indian Premier League at a packed D.Y. Patil Stadium at Navi Mumbai Sunday night. Super ...

High on form, Mumbai Indians will take on gutsy Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Premier League (IPL) final here Sunday amid the murky row which has cast a shadow over cricket's biggest money spinner. The happening of the last couple of weeks overshadowed the cricketing action with several financial ...

Sachin Tendulkar turns 37 Saturday and Bollywood actors expressed their love and gratitude for the cricketing genius and wished him a long innings at the crease. "Wish you a very happy birthday and we wish to see many more hundreds, many more 200s actually," Shilpa Shetty, owner of Rajasthan Royals IPL ...