A defamation case, filed against India’s cricket coach Greg Chappell for his controversial comments against the country’s parliamentarians, was today withdrawn by the petitioner.
The ninth judicial magistrate at Alipore Court, who was scheduled to hear the matter today, accepted the application for withdrawal of the case as “not pressed.” Petitioner cum lawyer Somnath Dey filed […]
India’s stand-in captain Virender Sehwag today said that the win in Twenty-20 international against South Africa would lift the morale of the struggling team and give the players a much-needed boost for the rest of the tour.
“We will take the confidence from this match into Sunday’s game (fifth and final ODI),” Virender Shewag said after […]
A fitness crisis was brewing in the bowling department for India with Ajit Agarkar and Munaf Patel picking varying kinds of injuries on the tour of South Africa.
Agarkar was most certainly out for a month after suffering a groin injury in the twenty-20 international at Johannesburg yesterday while Patel was hoping to recover from a […]
Visiting Indian cricket team beat South Africa by six wickets in the Standard Bank Pro20 match here on Friday to record their first victory of the tour.
Dinesh Karthik scored the winning run off the second last ball of the match.
Playing in their first 20-over match and chasing a modest total of 127 to win, India […]
With Sourav Ganguly’s return to test squad, wife Dona is all smiles . “He has been trying for this for the last 10 months and was meanwhile playing domestic cricket. This is an opportunity for him to prove himself again,” she says.
Does his inclusion mean that Sourav’s critics have been hushed up? Dona’s quick in […]
Former cricket captain Sourav Ganguly says he is a changed man, far removed from the time he whipped off his shirt after an Indian victory in England - and that he is ‘absolutely ready’ for the Test series in South Africa, for which he has been recalled after nine months in the wilderness.
His exclusion from […]
AUSTRALIA’S loss of the Ashes was taken as a personal insult by Ricky Ponting. Revenge has become his driving force, more than he’s letting on.
Beating England isn’t enough. He wants to pummel them. He wants to hurt them as they hurt him.
The stigma of being the Australian captain who lost the urn will never completely […]
Pit your wits and skills in the Ashes Aussie Nobbler game as you aim to get our team through the Australian outback to the test.
The Australian Tour bus has broken down so nobble those Aussie hitch-hikers on the way but avoid the crocodiles, eagles and kangaroos as they’ll damage the coach.
When you’ve played the game, […]
Fast bowler Steve Harmison has hit back at his critics following his unflattering figures of 1-177 in England’s 277-run defeat in the first Ashes Test in Brisbane.
Harmison came under intense scrutiny and put himself through intensive bowling sessions ahead of the second Test at the Adelaide Oval.
The Durham paceman has been backed by his team-mates […]
ELIZABETH JACKSON: As the second Ashes test unfolds at the Adelaide Oval, the coveted prize itself sits on display in a special exhibition across town at the South Australian Museum.
But the tale accompanying the Ashes Urn isn’t a conclusive one; just what’s in the urn and the legend of how it began is far from […]
All’s well with the world and, please God, the Adelaide Test outcome won’t upset this.
Two good friends of mine, both cricket fans, were together at a meeting last Friday afternoon as the Australian batsmen in Brisbane took the home total beyond 500 runs.
Both were of one mind. We should aim for five straight Test victories, […]
DON’T think for a moment that the Ashes is all about cricket. Derek Pringle, the former England player and correspondent for London’s Telegraph, is investing almost as much energy in his blog, “on wine down under”, for the paper’s website as his excellent cricket reports. Documenting the country’s wine offerings is a serious business, demanding […]