NEW DELHI: Former captain Sunil Gavaskar on Tuesday slammed the proposed rotation of the top-order batsmen in the Indian team in the cricket tri-series in Australia, saying that it suggested that the players were unfit.

Opening batsman Virender Sehwag on Tuesday said in Perth ahead of [...]

NEW DELHI: Former IPL commissioner Lalit Modi on Tuesday claimed that the auction for the 2009 edition of the cash-rich T20 tournament was “rigged” in favour of Chennai Super Kings whose owner, N Srinivasan, is now the president of the Indian Cricket Board.

Srinivasan, however, rubbished [...]

DUBAI: Sachin Tendulkar rose three places to be the only Indian cricketer in the list of top-ten batsmen in the ICC Player Rankings for Test released on Tuesday.

Sachin is placed at 10th position along with Pakistan’s Azhar Ali, who scored a match-winning 157 during the second innings [...]

NEW DELHI: Sahara Group’s chief Subroto Roy on Tuesday said that he is open to negotiations with the BCCI as far as his IPL team Pune Warriors is concerned but made it clear that the group is no longer keen in sponsoring the Indian cricket team.

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PERTH: Plagued by poor batting form for long, a jittery India will need to strike the right combination and lift the standard of their game as they strive to bring their ODI tri-series campaign back on track when they take on Sri Lanka at WACA on Wednesday.

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PERTH: Mostly a failure this Australian summer, dashing Indian opener Virender Sehwag will return to the team for Wednesday’s match against Sri Lanka after being ‘rested’ from the opening ODI and has vowed to be his usual attacking self in the ongoing tri-series.

Sehwag was ‘rested’ from the [...]

NEW DELHI: Indian opener Virender Sehwag on Tuesday wished teammate Yuvraj Singh, who is undergoing treatment in the US for a malignant tumour between his lungs, a speedy recovery.

“I have heard that Yuvraj is taking chemotherapy. We are hoping he would be fine and fit when he [...]

MUMBAI: It is not lung cancer but a rare form of the disease called germ cell seminoma that prompted cricketer Yuvraj Singh to fly to the US.

The confusion in the Indian press arose perhaps due to the fact that the 30-year-old all-rounder has a cancerous [...]

PERTH: Back at the helm after almost three years, Mahela Jayawardene is seeking to restore Sri Lanka’s pride Down Under following a mixed tour of South Africa.

Seeking to take his side in the “right direction”, Jayawardene waxed eloquent while speaking on the sidelines of his team’s first [...]

NEW DELHI: Indian cricket board president N Srinivasan finally broke his silence on Sahara India’s team Pune Warriors’ walk-out from the IPL auction on Monday and hinted at a possible end of the impasse by saying BCCI is open to dialogue with Sahara to ‘sort out the differences’. [...]