David Hussey during his match-winning 31 against Delhi Daredevils Tuesday night hit two sixes to become the leading six hitter in the Indian Premier League.
Hussey has hit 17 sixes in the IPL, eclipsing Adam Gilchrist's tally of 16. Hussey also extended his record for most career sixes in Twenty20 to 63.The following are the other statistical highlights of the match:Kolkata Knight Riders' 133 for six is their lowest score in 20 overs - their previous lowest was 137 for 8 against Mumbai Indians at Kolkata, April 29. Delhi Daredevils (110) recorded their lowest total in the IPL, e..
Shoaib Akhtar made an impressive debut as he spearheaded Kolkata Knight Riders' win over Delhi Daredevils by 23 runs in an important Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 match here Tuesday.
The controversial Pakistani fastbowler wrecked the Daredevils top order with his raw pace and picked up four for 11 from his three overs to wrap up their innings for 110 runs in 17.5 overs. Knight Riders, after winning the toss, were restricted to 133 for the loss of six wickets in 20 overs at the Eden Gardens.With the win, Knight Riders consolidated their position in the IPL as they have five win..
With their 23-run win over Delhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 match Tuesday night, Kolkata Knight Riders consolidated their position and made their claim strong for a semi-final berth.
The standings have been tabulated under, matches played, won, draw, loss, tied, points and net run rate:T M W L T Pts NetRR Rajasthan Royals 9 7 2 0 14 +0.592Kings XI Punjab 9 6 3 0 12 +0.458Chennai Super Kings 9 6 3 0 12 +0.104 Kolkata Knight Riders 9 5 4 0 10 +0.619Delhi Daredevils 9 4 5 0 8 +0.291Mumbai Indians 7 3 4 0 6 -0.455Deccan Chargers 9 2 7 0 4 -0.3..
David Hussey during his match-winning 31 against Delhi Daredevils Tuesday night hit two sixes to become the leading six hitter in the Indian Premier League.
Hussey has hit 17 sixes in the IPL, eclipsing Adam Gilchrist's tally of 16. Hussey also extended his record for most career sixes in Twenty20 to 63.The following are the other statistical highlights of the match:Kolkata Knight Riders' 133 for six is their lowest score in 20 overs - their previous lowest was 137 for 8 against Mumbai Indians at Kolkata, April 29. Delhi Daredevils (110) recorded their lowest total in the IPL, e..
Shoaib Akhtar made an impressive debut as he spearheaded Kolkata Knight Riders' win over Delhi Daredevils by 23 runs in an important Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 match here Tuesday.
The controversial Pakistani fastbowler wrecked the Daredevils top order with his raw pace and picked up four for 11 from his three overs to wrap up their innings for 110 runs in 17.5 overs. Knight Riders, after winning the toss, were restricted to 133 for the loss of six wickets in 20 overs at the Eden Gardens.With the win, Knight Riders consolidated their position in the IPL as they have five win..
With their 23-run win over Delhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 match Tuesday night, Kolkata Knight Riders consolidated their position and made their claim strong for a semi-final berth.
The standings have been tabulated under, matches played, won, draw, loss, tied, points and net run rate:T M W L T Pts NetRR Rajasthan Royals 9 7 2 0 14 +0.592Kings XI Punjab 9 6 3 0 12 +0.458Chennai Super Kings 9 6 3 0 12 +0.104 Kolkata Knight Riders 9 5 4 0 10 +0.619Delhi Daredevils 9 4 5 0 8 +0.291Mumbai Indians 7 3 4 0 6 -0.455Deccan Chargers 9 2 7 0 4 -0.3..
The following is the final scoreboard of the Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 match in which Kolkata Knight Riders' defeated Delhi Daredevils by 23 runs here Tuesday.
SCOREBOARD:Match No.35, Indian Premier League, Kolkata Knight Riders vs. Delhi Daredevils, Eden Gardens, Kolkata, May 13, Kolkata Knight Riders innings:Salman Butt c McGrath b Mahesh 48Akash Chopra c Maharoof b Sangwan 13Sourav Ganguly b Mahesh 7David Hussey c Tiwary b Maharoof 31Tatenda Taibu run out (Dilshan/de Villiers) 7Laxmi Ratan Shukla c Gambhir b Maharoof 10Wriddhiman Saha not out 5Iqbal Abdulla not ou..
Kolkata Knight Riders defeated Delhi Daredevils by 23 runs in an important Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 match at the Eden Gardens here Tuesday.
Opting to bat first, Knight Riders scored 133 for the loss of six wickets in 20 overs. In reply, Daredevils were all out for 110 in 17.5 overs.
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The following is the scoreboard of Kolkata Knight Riders' innings against Delhi Daredevils in an Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 match here Tuesday.
SCOREBOARD:Match No.35, Indian Premier League, Kolkata Knight Riders vs. Delhi Daredevils, Eden Gardens, Kolkata, May 13, Kolkata Knight Riders innings:Salman Butt c McGrath b Mahesh 48Akash Chopra c Maharoof b Sangwan 13Sourav Ganguly b Mahesh 7David Hussey c Tiwary b Maharoof 31Tatenda Taibu run out (Dilshan/de Villiers) 7Laxmi Ratan Shukla c Gambhir b Maharoof 10Wriddhiman Saha not out 5Iqbal Abdulla not out 1Extras (lb 3, ..
Kolkata Knight Riders defeated Delhi Daredevils by 23 runs in an important Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 match at the Eden Gardens here Tuesday.
Opting to bat first, Knight Riders scored 133 for the loss of six wickets in 20 overs. In reply, Daredevils were all out for 110 in 17.5 overs.
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The following is the scoreboard of Kolkata Knight Riders' innings against Delhi Daredevils in an Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 match here Tuesday.
SCOREBOARD:Match No.35, Indian Premier League, Kolkata Knight Riders vs. Delhi Daredevils, Eden Gardens, Kolkata, May 13, Kolkata Knight Riders innings:Salman Butt c McGrath b Mahesh 48Akash Chopra c Maharoof b Sangwan 13Sourav Ganguly b Mahesh 7David Hussey c Tiwary b Maharoof 31Tatenda Taibu run out (Dilshan/de Villiers) 7Laxmi Ratan Shukla c Gambhir b Maharoof 10Wriddhiman Saha not out 5Iqbal Abdulla not out 1Extras (lb 3, ..
Interest will revolve around the return of Sachin Tendulkar and whether the master batsman can explode into form after sitting out seven games when the Mumbai Indians take on the Chennai Super Kings under lights in the Indian Premier League (IPL) at the Wankhede Stadium Wednesday.
The protracted period of rest has helped the Mumbai Indians captain recover fully from his groin injury and his return should further lift the team, which has rallied admirably under Shaun Pollock after a poor start to record three wins on trot. Tendulkar himself will be keen to get back into the thick of things an..
Disciplined bowling by Delhi Daredevils helped them restrict Kolkata Knight Riders to 133 for the loss of six wickets in a crucial Twenty20 match in the Indian Premier League (IPL) here Tuesday.
For the hosts, opener Salman Butt was the top scorer with 48 while Yo Mahesh and Farveez Maharoof picked up two wickets each for the Daredevils at the Eden Gardens.
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Interest will revolve around the return of Sachin Tendulkar and whether the master batsman can explode into form after sitting out seven games when the Mumbai Indians take on the Chennai Super Kings under lights in the Indian Premier League (IPL) at the Wankhede Stadium Wednesday.
The protracted period of rest has helped the Mumbai Indians captain recover fully from his groin injury and his return should further lift the team, which has rallied admirably under Shaun Pollock after a poor start to record three wins on trot. Tendulkar himself will be keen to get back into the thick of things an..
With the absence of Harbhajan Singh, Mumbai Indians captain Sachin Tendulkar said he was confident that veteran Sri Lankan Sanath Jayasuriya would fill the gap, continuing to provide his team the much needed thrust in the spin department in their key clash against Chennai Super Kings at the Wamkhede Stadium here Wednesday.
'Sanath will be a key bowler for us tomorrow. In the last three matches that we won, our seam attack did a great job, while Sanath got important breakthroughs in the match against Kolkatta. I expect him to continue in the same manner,' said Tendulkar here Tuesday..
Five players of Kolkata Knight Riders have been asked to leave because coach John Buchanan felt they did not have any realistic chance to play in the Indian Premier League, the team management said Tuesday.
Team manager Joy Bhattacharya denied rumours that the step was taken to cut down on players' cost and clarified that there was no discrimination among players.'It is not right to say it's a cost cutting measure. We have never made any discrimination among players. If skipper Sourav Ganguly was given a laptop, the same was given to all the other players. If Sourav was given ..
Close on the heels of release of its music album for the IPL Cricket team Chennai Super-Kings, BIG Music has come up with a music video, incorporating a zany number 'Kricket Se Aap Ko Kya Mila'.
The music video, entitled 'Kricket Se Kya Mila', was released Monday evening by Bollywood actor Sikander Kher here. The Britain-based rap artist, Hard Kaur, was also present at the release function.Penned by Deepa Singh and Ketki Limaye, and composed by Abhishek Arora, the whacky satirical number has been rendered by Sunil Grover.The music video, produced and directed by Jigsaw P..
Unlike beleaguered Bangalore Royal Challengers skipper Rahul Dravid, his Deccan Chargers counterpart V.V.S Laxman maintained Tuesday that his team is not under pressure and that the owners have been supportive despite the team's poor performance in the Indian Premier League (IPL).
The bottom placed Royal Challengers' owner Vijay Mallya has already sacked the team's chief executive Charu Sharma for poor performance. Mallya also stirred a controversy by saying that he regrets his decision to allow Dravid and Sharma to pick the players in the auction.Laxman, who is in the same bo..
Kolkata Knight Riders captain Sourav Ganguly won the toss and elected to bat against Delhi Daredevils in an important Twenty20 match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) at the Eden Gardens here Tuesday.
Knight Riders' Shoaib Akhtar and young spinner Iqbal Abdullah will make their debut in the IPL. Local boy Manoj Tiwari has been included in place of Dinesh Karthik for Delhi DaredevilsTeams:Kolkata Knight Riders: Sourav Ganguly (captain), Aakash Chopra, Salman Butt, David Hussey, Wriddhiman Saha (wicketkeeper), Tatenda Taibu, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Shoaib Akhtar, Ishant Sharma, Ashok Dinda, ..
Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) captain Sourav Ganguly visited Kalighat Kali temple Tuesday to pray for the victory of his team against Delhi Daredevils at the Eden Gardens here in their Indian Premier League (IPL) encounter.
Though Ganguly did not speak to the media on his way back from the temple, one of his friends told reporters: 'The temple-visit is a personal belief and decision of Ganguly. If KKR wins Tuesday evening, then it will be easy for the team to make it to the Twenty20 semi-finals. 'On behalf of the entire team, he went to pray for their victory.'
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Ace Indian shuttler Anup Sridhar and National Champion Saina Nehwal will spearhead India's challenge at the $200,000 Aviva Open Singapore badminton tournament to be held here June 10-15.
Both Sridhar and Nehwal will be participating in the men and women singles category of the Super Series event, which has attracted more than 200 entries from all over the world. Peter Hoeg Gade of Denmark, Taufik Hidayat of Indonesia, Malaysian Lee Chong Wei and Wong Choon Han, Chinese Xie Zhongbo and Guo Zhendong and Thailand's Boonsak Ponsana are the heavyweights in the men's field, while En..
Wild card entry Ashutosh Singh justified the confidence the organisers reposed in him by pulling off a thrilling three-set victory over temperamental eighth seed Russian Alexandre Kudryavtsev in the first round of the $50,000 SAIL Open ATP Challenger at the DLTA complex here Monday.
National grass court champion Ashutosh beat the Russian 6-3, 6-7(6), 7-6(6) in a hard-fought encounter that lasted nearly three hours on a day when no other Indian, including Prakash Amritraj, could cross the first hurdle. Ashutosh matched the Russian stroke for stroke and engaged him in long rallies. His serve w..
He flew in here secretly and managed to stay closetted in a five-star hotel for over 24 hours without a prying eye catching him. But star Indian cricketer Mahindra Singh Dhoni's hush-hush mission in the city was out when he was about to leave Tuesday amid rumours that he had come for a rendezvous with a girl friend.
Confirming Dhoni's visit to this city of archaeological marvels, an executive of Hotel Rama International said the batting wizard arrived from Delhi Sunday evening, checked into a wing where entry was sealed for other customers. He checked out Tuesday morning.'He w..
Ashwin Sundar, the 18-year old from Chennai, driving for team Ma-Con made a less than happy debut in the Formula Volkswagen ADAC series in Germany over the weekend, finishing 13th in the second race after retiring from the previous outing.
Ashwin had qualified 10th for the first race and fifth for the second in the double-header Round One of the championship.In Race One, he moved to the seventh spot by the first corner when the car in front spun leading to a collision. 'I had nowhere to go as I was too close to the car in front of me. I made contact and that was the end of the race,..
The Sudhir Nanavati commission, appointed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India to probe the incident of Harbhajan Singh slapping Santakumaran Sreesanth, Tuesday submitted his report to the Board's Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) here.
The report will be submitted to Board president Sharad Pawar, who is also the chairman of the three-member Board's disciplinary committee, president-elect Shashank Manohar and Chirayu Amin being the other members. The committee will decide on the quantum of punishment for Harbhajan. 'I have submitted my report to Board's CAO Ratna..
The Sudhir Nanavati commission, appointed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India to probe the incident of Harbhajan Singh slapping Santakumaran Sreesanth, Tuesday submitted his report to the Board's Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) here.
The report will be submitted to Board president Sharad Pawar, who is also the chairman of the three-member Board's disciplinary committee, president-elect Shashank Manohar and Chirayu Amin being the other members. The committee will decide on the quantum of punishment for Harbhajan. 'I have submitted my report to Board's CAO Ratna..
Leander Paes and his new partner Tommy Robredo of Spain had to stretch themselves to the extreme to enter the second round of the doubles event in the Hamburg Masters tennis tournament in Germany.
Unseeded Paes and Robredo defeated the Czech-Russian duo of Tomas Berdych and Dmitry Tursunov 6-1, 5-7, 10-8 in the super tie-breaker Monday night.The Indo-Spaniard pair will next face the third seed Israeli combination of Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram who got a first round bye. The other Indian in the fray Mahesh Bhupathi and Mark Knowles of Bahamas, seeded fourth in the tournament, too were handed..
The following is the sports schedule for May 13, 2008:
Cricket: Indian Premier League: Delhi Daredevils vs.Kolkata Knight Riders (Eden Gardens, Kolkata); Preview of Mumbai Indians vs. Chennai Super Kings (D.Y. Patil Stadium, Mumbai)Tennis: SAIL Open ATP Challenger (R.K. Khanna Tennis Stadium, New Delhi)Hockey: Azlan Shah Cup Olympics: Torch relay
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Kings XI Punjab's fast bowler Irfan Pathan Monday became the second bowler after Delhi Daredevil's Glenn McGrath to bowl two maiden overs in a match in the Indian Premier League (IPL) .
Pathan, however, picked up one wicket as Kings XI defeated Bangalore Royal Challengers by nine wickets here at the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium.The following are the other statistical highlights of the match:Kings XI Punjab's nine-wicket win is their biggest victory margin in the IPL, eclipsing their seven-wicket win against Deccan Chargers at Hyderabad on May 1,2008.Kings XI have now won..
Kings XI Punjab's fast bowler Irfan Pathan Monday became the second bowler after Delhi Daredevil's Glenn McGrath to bowl two maiden overs in a match in the Indian Premier League (IPL) .
Pathan, however, picked up one wicket as Kings XI defeated Bangalore Royal Challengers by nine wickets here at the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium.The following are the other statistical highlights of the match:Kings XI Punjab's nine-wicket win is their biggest victory margin in the IPL, eclipsing their seven-wicket win against Deccan Chargers at Hyderabad on May 1,2008.Kings XI have now won..
Maria Kirilenko is ranked 26 on the WTA computer but if her exploits on the tennis court are anything to go by, she is going to be a major attraction at the prestigious Bangalore Open, Tier II – event. At the Bangalore Open, starting just in a week's time, Maria could find herself as a strong contender who will challenge the Williams sisters – Venus and Serena and other major ..
The confusion over Adam Gilchrist's participation in the lucrative Indian Premier League (IPL) continues with Australian cricket board denying that it had cleared the retiring hard-hitting batsman-stumper to play in the April tournament promoted by its Indian counterpart.
According to a report in The Age Sunday, while there was no suggestion that Cricket Australia (CA) would stop Gilchrist ..
Generating unusual bounce, lanky Indian speedster Ishant Sharma turned in his career-best bowling performance to grab four wickets as world one-day champions Australia were skittled out for 159 in 43.1 overs in the Commonwealth Bank Triangular Series here Sunday.
Ishant, who has impressed all on this tour, could have ended with a six-wicket tally but for two dropped catches. He, nevertheless, en..
Defending champion Roger Federer survived an epic third-round encounter in the Australian Open with a 6-7 (5/7) 7-6 (7/1) 5-7 6-1 10-8 win over Janko Tipsarevic on Saturday. The world number one, who has not lost in Melbourne since defeat to Marat Safin in the semi-finals three years ago, appeared to be heading for a shock early exit as a foot injury and a red-hot opponent threatened to derail his..
Australian tennis players Mark Philippoussis indicated that his injury-interrupted career may be over and that the priority in his rehabilitation was to return to a normal lifestyle, the media reported here Wednesday.
'I'm doing a lot of work in the swimming pool and I want to get in the gym. It's more for myself to get healthy and strong, and if I feel like I want to get back on ..
Cars kitted with the new standard electronic control unit (ECU), minus traction control and other driver aids, marked the start of the 2008 Formula One season, which got underway with the official test session in Jerez, Spain, Monday.
According to information received here, Force India opened their session with test driver Vitantonio Liuzzi lapping one minute, 23.035 seconds, that placed him 11t..
Australian captain Ricky Ponting believes the umpires on the Elite Panel of the International Cricket Council (ICC) are overworked, resulting in their making mistakes.
Ponting has called for an overhaul of the ICC umpiring panel by expanding it, to avoid the mistakes that blighted the second Test in Sydney, reports Herald Sun.
He wants the 10-member Test umpiring panel enlarged amid fears t..
Yuvraj Singh continues to be an enigma, his poor Test record not matching his performance in the two shorter versions of the game. An average of 32.84 in 22 Test matches does not do justice to his promise and exciting stroke play.
Yuvraj has played more Tests overseas, 14, for an aggregate of 559 runs, averaging 29.42 an innings. In eight Tests at home he has averaged 38.25, aggregating 459 runs..
A court here Wednesday issued notice to tennis star Sania Mirza for allegedly dishonouring the national flag of India during her visit to Australia during Hopman Cup matches.
Chief Judicial Magistrate Ajay Shrivastava accepted a petition in this regard from a lawyer. The case was filed Jan 3.
'The next date of hearing has been fixed for March 10 and Sania will have to obtain a bail by t..
Off-spinner Harbhajan Singh has denied racially abusing Andrew Symonds but will still have to attend the hearing of the International Cricket Council (ICC), which has been put off till Sunday.
The ICC Saturday said the charge comes in the wake of an alleged incident during third day's play of the second Test against Australia at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) Friday.
The hearing was sch..
Indian off-spinner Harbhajan Singh dismissed Ricky Ponting for the eighth time Saturday and Australia were 90 for two in their second innings at lunch on the fourth day of the second Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) here.
The hosts have an overall lead of 21 runs after recovering from a 69-run deficit on the first innings as they made 463 and India replied with 532.
Harbhajan, who has ..
Australia have a tremendous record at the Sydney Cricket ground, where they have won 51 of their 95 Tests for a winning percentage of 53.68. They have lost 27 games and only 17 of their games have ended in draws.
India have played Australia eight times at the SCG, losing three times. Their only win came in 1978, when they won by an innings and two runs.
On their last tour to Australia, India..
India's most successful cricket coach John Wright feels that Virender Sehwag's return to the side as an opener could ease the mounting pressure on Rahul Dravid.
Wright, former New Zealand captain, who was in charge of the India team on their successful tour down under four years ago, was not willing to add to Dravid's pressure by publicly analysing his much-scrutinised performance..
India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni said here Sunday that his ankle would be all right when the Test series against Pakistan begins in Delhi next week.
Dhoni twisted his left ankle while attempting to turn for a second run during his 24-run knock in India's 31-run defeat to Pakistan in the fifth and final match at the Sawai Man Singh Stadium.
"It is nothing serious. I will be ok..
A downcast Pakistan are pinning their hopes on defeating a reshuffled India in Sunday's inconsequential final one-dayer to gather momentum before the test series starting next week.
"If their regular combination doesn't play we will definitely get some psychological advantage," Pakistan batsman Misbah-ul Haq told reporters on Saturday.
"We hope we can win this match ..
After a match winning knock of 77 runs in India's 46-run win over Pakistan in the third one-day international (ODI) here Sunday, Yuvraj Singh has now set his eyes on the Test cricket arena.
'I would like to do well in Test cricket,' Yuvraj said after being named Man of the Match.
Yuvraj last turned out for a Test against the West Indies in 2006. He has so far played in only 19..
India defeated Pakistan by 46 runs in the third One-day International and took a 2-1 lead in the five-match series at the Green Park cricket stadium here Sunday.
Put in to bat first, India made 294 for six in 50 overs and in reply Pakistan were all out for 248 in 47.2 overs. Pakistan's Salman Butt was top scorer with a valiant 129.
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A little over a year ago when Anil Kumble was asked at a press conference how he felt at not having captained India in Tests, his reply and his facial expressions said it all: he regretted having missed the coveted honour.
On Thursday night he was perhaps the happiest person when he was appointed to that post, fulfilling perhaps his last ambition as a professional cricketer.
The ace leg-spin..
Sachin Tendulkar has declined to take up India's Test captaincy and asked the cricket board to appoint a young player for the upcoming home series against Pakistan, a BCCI official confirmed Tuesday.
Ratnakar Shetty, chief administrative officer of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), told IANS that Tendulkar has 'orally told' BCCI president Sharad Pawar of his decisi..
Even as Sachin Tendulkar Tuesday refused to captain the Indian Test cricket side, National Cricket Academy (NCA) chairman Ravi Shastri Tuesday said that elevating Mahendra Singh Dhoni as the Test captain would not be apt now.
Shastri said that though finding a new captain for the Indian Test side was the job of the selectors, he would not mind having two captains for the team - one to lead the T..
Australia and Sri Lanka will be battling for a new trophy named in honour of the two highest wicket-takers in world cricket history - Shane Warne of Australia and Muttiah Muralitharan of Sri Lanka.
Cricket Australia and Sri Lanka Cricket announced the Warne-Muralitharan trophy Saturday for the Test series beginning Nov 8 at the Gabba in Brisbane to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Australia-Sri..
Shoaib Akhtar hit the gym straight after bowling his 10 overs against Delhi during Pakistan's tour opener at Ferozeshah Kotla here Friday.
The Pakistan tearaway went for some weight training and worked out at the Kotla gym for 30 minutes while his teammates preferred to rest in the dressing room.
Akhtar, 32, was taken to the gym under tight security and the whole area was cordoned off ..
Jyoti Randhawa started and finished his round with birdies and in between had an eventful round as he finished with a first round of two-under 68 at the Par-70 Pula Golf Club Thursday.
Randhawa, who skipped last week's Portugal Masters, overcame a double bogey on 14th during his round, as he had five birdies, one bogey and one double bogey.
The Hero Honda Indian Open winner, Randhawa wa..
Sir Alex Ferguson believes his current crop of stars can go on to establish Manchester United as the world's undisputed top club.
Not content with breaking Chelsea's stranglehold on the English Premier League title last season, United spent more than 50 million pounds over the summer to build on the success.
New signings Owen Hargreaves, Nani, Carlos Tevez and Anderson have already..
The Pakistan Cricket Board Thursday suspended pacer Shoaib Akhtar for 13 One-day International matches and fined $56,000 on indiscipline charges included hitting teammate Mohammed Asif.
Shafqat Naghmi, the board's chief operating officer and chairman of the disciplinary committee said Akhtar was found guilty of four breaches of the code of conduct and would be under a two-year observation.
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Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds was taunted with 'monkey chants' by a section of the crowd during the fifth one-day international of the Future Cup series at the Reliance Stadium here Thursday.
The burly all-rounder was taunted when he was fielding in the deep and the organsiers had to intercept by flashing the International Cricket Council (ICC) anti-racism code on the big scree..
Australian quickie Mitchell Johnson and opening batsman Adam Gilchrist soured master blaster Sachin Tendulkar's 400th one-day international appearance as the visitors registered a facile nine-wicket win over India in the fifth match of the Future Cup here Thursday.
Australia achieved the paltry target of 149 in just 25.5 overs with nine wickets in hand at the Reliance Stadium here. With the..
Even as the India cricket team celebrated their historic semi final win over Australia in the inaugural ICC Twenty20 Championship here, they were informed of fines against the team and player Shanthakumaran Sreesanth.
There was a slight damper on the triumph when Sreesanth was fined 25 percent of his match fee for breaching the ICC Code of Conduct during the game, with a warning that he could ha..
It will be a dream India-Pakistan final in the Twenty20 World Championship of cricket in Johannesburg on Monday.
In the semi-finals Saturday night, India stunned World Cup winners Australia by 15 runs at a boisterous Kingsmead ground here while Pakistan defeated New Zealand by six wickets in the first semi-final earlier in the day in Durban.
The all-Asian final will be a big solace for India..
Fourth seed Russian Maria Kirilenko set up a title clash with Mariya Koryettseva of Ukraine in the final of the Sony Ericsson WTA Tier III Sunfeast Open 07 here Sunday. The match that Kirilenko dished out against second seed Daniela Hantuchova of Slovakia Saturday would be remembered for its tremendous rearguard action. The Russian won 4-6, 6-2, 6-1, a sweet revenge for the defeat on all three oc..
