Left-arm quick bowler Ashish Nehra returned four for 40 as India were crowned Asia Cup champions for the fifth time after they beat Sri Lanka by 81 runs in the 2010 final in Dambulla. India produced a solid batting effort to post 268 for six and set defending champions Sri Lanka a challenging target but [...]
India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Monday regained the number-one batting position while his team returned to the second spot in the ICC ODI Championship after back-to-back victories in the ongoing Asia Cup in Sri Lanka. Dhoni, who had started the tournament in third place trailing number-one ranked Michael Hussey of Australia by eight ratings [...]
Mohali and Bangalore will host the two Test matches in the high-profile series between India and Australia in October, the Cricket Board said on Thursday. The opening Test of the short rubber would be played from October 2-6 at Mohali while the second Test at Bangalore would be conducted between October 10-14, as per the [...]
Sachin Tendulkar is going to fly high quite literally and give Top Gun a new meaning. The master blaster is soon to become an officer of the Indian Air Force with the Air Headquarters having finalised plans to make him an honorary Group Captain and the President having given her nod for the same on [...]
Indian Premier League (IPL) franchisees and Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) officials met on Thursday to discuss a range of issues including player retention, salary cap and the format of the tournament for the next season. The meeting was chaired by new IPL chairman Chirayu Amin, who has replaced the suspended Lalit [...]
Indian badminton ace Saina Nehwal put behind a nervy start to clinch the second Super Series title of her career by winning the Singapore Open with a straight-game triumph over qualifier Tzu Ying Tai in the finals on Sunday. Top seed Saina took just 33 minutes to beat Chinese Taipei’s Tai 21-18, 21-15 at the [...]
Out of contention in singles, Sania Mirza was off to a winning start in women’s doubles event as the Indian and her Dane partner Caroline Wozniacki notched up a straight-set victory to enter the second round of the Wimbledon. Sania, who lost in the very first round of the singles event, and Wozniacki beat local [...]
Pacer Farveez Maharoof took a hat-trick before half-centuries from Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene guided Sri Lanka to a comfortable seven-wicket win over India in the final group game of the 2010 Asia Cup in Dambulla. Sri Lanka took four wickets in four balls as they bowled India out for 209 and they eased to [...]
Shahid Afridi hammered a 52-ball century and three other batsmen scored half-centuries as Pakistan beat Bangladesh by the huge margin of 139 runs in their final match of the Asia Cup in Dambulla. After Pakistan hammered 385 for seven batting first, Bangladesh never threatened to get close to the total and eventually saw out their [...]
Harbhajan Singh hit the penultimate delivery of the final over for a six as India sealed a fine three-wicket win over Pakistan in game four of the Asia Cup in Dambulla. Opening batsman Salman Butt and wicket-keeper Kamran Akmal scored half-centuries before Pakistan were bowled out for 267 and despite half-centuries from Gautam Gambhir and [...]
Sri Lanka made it two Asia Cup wins out of two with a comprehensive 126-run dismantling of Bangladesh in the third game of the 2010 competition in Dambulla. Sri Lanka confirmed their position as favourites to win the Asia Cup as a strong batting performance saw them pile up 312 for four and Bangladesh were [...]
The promoters of Kings XI Punjab have applied to the Cricket Board seeking permission to sell 93 per cent of their stake in the Indian Premier League franchisee and the matter would come up before the IPL’s Governing Council meeting later this month. “The matter of sale of stakes in the Kings XI franchisee would [...]
Jamaican triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt will not compete in the New Delhi Commonwealth Games from Oct 3-14 because they are too late in the year, coach Glen Mills said. “It was not part of our schedule,” Mills said via telephone from Jamaica. Mills said Bolt had known for several months that he would not [...]
India’s three-match Test series against Sri Lanka have been pushed back by eight days from original July 10 start to accommodate the team management’s request for a three-day practice game. Subsequently, the dates for the tri-series, involving India, Sri Lanka and New Zealand, have also been changed with the first match starting on August 10 [...]
Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his Sri Lankan, Pakistani and Bangladesh counterparts on Thursday batted for the United Nations Children’s Fund’s healthy hat-trick scheme focussing on providing sanitation, nutrition and access to school for the girl child in South Asia. Gathered here for the ongoing Asia Cup cricket tournament, Dhoni, Kumar Sangakkara, Shahid Afridi [...]
Suspended IPL Commissioner Lalit Modi on Tuesday submitted his reply to the third showcause notice issued to him by the BCCI alleging irregularities in awarding theatrical rights during the third season of the Twenty20 event, his legal counsel said. “Modi e-mailed his reply to the BCCI tonight. I will submit the hard copy of his [...]
Indian cricket team will play a Twenty20 International against South Africa at the the FIFA World Cup stadium in Durban. The Moses Mabhida Stadium, where Germany pounded Australia 4-0 in a World Cup match on Sunday, will host the only Twenty20 International match of the series, Cricket South Africa announced. In another significant development, CSA [...]
Arguably the most accomplished batsman of contemporary times, Indian icon Sachin Tendulkar still has unfulfilled dreams, one of them being to win the World Cup for his team when the event comes to Asia next year. Tendulkar, the highest run-getter in the Test and one-day format of the game, hopes to play in the final [...]
Virender Sehwag took four for six and Gautam Gambhir stroked a half-century as India cruised to a six-wicket victory over Bangladesh in the second game of the 2010 Asia Cup in Dambulla. Sehwag’s career-best effort helped India bowl Bangladesh out for 167 and the match was completed with some 116 balls to spare – which [...]
Sri Lanka beat Pakistan by 16 runs in the opening game of the Asia Cup in Dambulla despite an outstanding 68-ball century from Pakistan skipper Shahid Afridi. Afridi blasted 109 in 76 balls before his side were dismissed for 226 in reply to Sri Lanka’s 242 for nine in an action-packed curtain-raiser to the four-team [...]