The biggest compliment Lalit Modi got is from the man he reduced from a king to a commoner in the Indian cricket board, Jagmohan Dalmiya. Dalmiya may have hated Modi for the methods he has adopted to get rid of him, but after the first year of the Indian Premier ...

The franchisees were more judicious in their bidding at the auction for the third edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) in Mumbai Tuesday. They did their home work and knew exactly what their requirements were. The talking point, however, is the Pakistani players missing from the Twenty20 bash. The ...

Indian cricket board president Shashank Manohar has found a novel way to punish under-performers. He sacked bowling coach Venkatesh Prasad and fielding coach Robin Singh for the Indian team's failure to make the semi-finals of the World Twenty20 Championship and the Champions Trophy. Now, when the Board of Control for Cricket ...

Just when the Berlin Wall was being broken down 20 years ago, the cricketing world started talking about a boy wonder who would rise to be a cricketing colossus. Two decades in sport is more than a generation and Sachin Tendulkar carries on and on - not wanting to think ...

Port-of-Spain, Oct 24(IANS) Faces were seen streaming with tears. The loud noises from the bars throughout Trinidad and Tobago were simmering down as the match progressed. Most government offices and corporate and business staff sat in bars, television rooms and other public places giving moral support and praying as the match ...

Karachi, Oct 20 (IANS) Jamshed Dasti, the parliamentary sports committee chief who ignited a storm by hurling match-fixing charges at the Pakistan cricket team earlier this month, says that he wants to ensure that cricket is run in a professional manner in the country. Dasti told reporters here Tuesday that he ...

New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) Sri Lankan spinner Ajantha Mendis says no spinner can replicate his unique carrom ball that has bamboozled world's top batsmen including Sachin Tendulkar. Mendis, who will be turning out for Sri Lankan team Wayamba Elevens in the Champions League Twenty20, seems to have inspired other ...

New Delhi, Sep 25 (IANS) The lengthening shadows of the Mumbai terror attacks vanished for a while as well-heeled Indians and Pakistanis talked cricket, Jinnah and nostalgia, barely three days before their foreign ministers meet in New York in a bid to thaw the deepening freeze in bilateral ties. The occasion ...

Chandigarh, Sep 3 (IANS) Off-spinner Harbhajan Singh has probably created more hullabaloo on and off the field than any other celebrity cricketer in India, and this time controversy has come riding on the back of his new Rs.1 crore Hummer SUV. Bhajji - as he is popularly known - has ...

Kolkata, Aug 17 (IANS) Irfan Pathan may be disappointed at being left out of the Indian squad for the Sri Lanka tri-series and the Champions Trophy, but the Baroda pacer has taken up the challenge to lift his performance and force a recall into the national side. "I never run away ...