NEW DELHI: Former Pakistan skipper Wasim Akram feels the appointment of Virat Kohli as India’s vice-captain for the Asia Cup will “hurt” senior players such as Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir.

Kohli was on Wednesday named M S Dhoni’s deputy for the [...]

MUMBAI: The non-inclusion of Virender Sehwag in the team for Asia Cup took a curious turn on Thursday with a media report claiming that the opener had asked the BCCI for rest because of back spasms.

“I have back spasms. I need some rest. I have [...]

KARACHI: Pakistan’s teenage paceman Mohammad Aamer has decided not to appeal against a five-year ban imposed on him for spot-fixing during the 2010 Lord’s Test against England, an official said on Thursday.

The 19-year-old Aamer was released from a British prison last month after serving half of a [...]

BRISBANE: No one is talking but the ripple effects of what the national selectors back home have done to Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir are discernible as the Indian cricket team waits in suspense over whether they will make it to the finals of the tri-series.

Sehwag does [...]

WELLINGTON: New Zealand Cricket has suspended batsman Jesse Ryder and fast bowler Doug Bracewell for breaching team rules on drinking alcohol.

In a statement issued on Thursday, New Zealand Cricket said they will miss Saturday’s third one-day international against South Africa because they drank at a [...]

MELBOURNE: Despite his right foot still broken and is causing him a lot of pain, Australian speedster Brett Lee has said that he would not like to sit out of Friday’s tri-series match against Sri Lanka at the MCG.

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MELBOURNE: His team’s prospects of reaching the tri-series final have been dented after the massive loss to India but Sri Lankan captain Mahela Jayawardene on Thursday said he is glad that at least the islanders’ fortunes are still in their own hands unlike their sub-continental neighbours.

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MELBOURNE: Indian cricketers and millions of their fans would be unified in praying for an Australian victory when the hosts take on Sri Lanka in the last but the most crucial league match of the ODI tri-series on Friday.

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BRISBANE: Their fate not in their hands, India have put practice on hold depending on how the Australia-Sri Lanka match of the ongoing tri-series pans out in Melbourne on Friday.

Two days after that amazing 321-run chase inside 40 overs was scripted at Bellerive Oval, the team is [...]

NEW DELHI: Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh has completed the second cycle of chemotherapy, continuing his recovery from a rare germ cell cancer in Boston ( United States).

“Second cycle has finished today ! Had a bleomycin shot feeling weak but I’m sure tom will [...]