NEW DELHI: Sachin Tendulkar should not restrict himself to just highlighting issues concerning sports during his new innings in the Indian Parliament but should also work for causes related to the common man, former captain Sunil Gavaskar said on Monday.

Tendulkar on Monday took oath as a [...]

NEW DELHI: Sachin Tendulkar should not restrict himself to just highlighting issues concerning sports during his new innings in the Indian Parliament but should also work for causes related to the common man, former captain Sunil Gavaskar said on Monday.

Tendulkar on Monday took oath as a [...]

SYDNEY: Australia’s top cricketers have refused to rule out strike action if a June 30 deadline passes without a new pay agreement with the country’s cricket board, the players’ union said Monday.

NEW DELHI: Beginning his inning as a Parliamentarian, cricketer Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar took oath as Rajya Sabha member on Monday.

Sachin was nominated by the government as Rajya Sabha MP on April 27.

Since Parliament is not in session, he took oath in the chamber of the Rajya [...]

NEW DELHI: Indian cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar on Monday became the first active sportsperson to become a Member of Parliament when he took oath as a Rajya Sabha member.

Sachin took the oath in the chamber of Rajya Sabha chairman and vice-President Hamid Ansari.

On his [...]

NEW DELHI: A majority of IPL franchises are not happy with cricket board’s (BCCI) guidelines regarding off-shore ‘friendly’ matches, calling them ‘stringent and complicated.’

Two major issues that have become a bone of contention for several franchises are, BCCI’s diktat that they sign a fresh contract with the players for the [...]

HAMBANTOTA (Sri Lanka): Shahid Afridi’s superb all-round performance helped Pakistan post an easy 23-run victory over Sri Lanka in the second and final Twenty20 international and level the series 1-1.

Scorecard

Hosts Sri Lanka were shot out for 99 as they collapsed, their lowest T20 total against [...]

NEW DELHI: Whenever Sachin Tendulkar is on the field, he is curious and excited – to bat throughout the innings. But as the master blaster prepares to take oath as a Rajya Sabha member on Monday, a source to him told TOI, he is getting feelings similar to the way [...]