NEW DELHI: The clamour for revival of Indo-Pak bilateral cricket is growing with every passing day, but Indian batsman Gautam Gambhir is not overtly excited about it as he feels playing against the arch-rivals is no different from taking on a Bangladesh or an Australia.

“For me,

NEW DELHI: The clamour for revival of Indo-Pak bilateral cricket is growing with every passing day, but Indian batsman Gautam Gambhir is not overtly excited about it as he feels playing against the arch-rivals is no different from taking on a Bangladesh or an Australia.

“For me,

DUBAI: The International Cricket Council has chosen Sri Lanka’s star pacer Lasith Malinga as the official event ambassador for the World Twenty20 Championships to be held in the island nation from September 18 to October 7.

“Malinga, was selected as the Event Ambassador in recognition of his skills [...]

PALLEKELE: Pacemen Umar Gul and Mohammad Sami each took three wickets as Pakistan posted a comfortable six-wicket win over Sri Lanka in the first one-day international in Pallekele on Thursday.

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Man-of-the-match Gul finished with 3-24 and Sami with 3-19 before Pakistan achieved a rain-revised target of [...]

BANGALORE: The Union sports ministry on Thursday refuted Indian cricket board’s (BCCI) charge that the government hadn’t sent official forms for nominating cricketers for this year’s Arjuna and Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna awards. The controversy has been simmering for the past few days, with the Board confirming that it hadn’t nominated any cricketer for [...]

BIRMINGHAM (England): West Indies star batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul has undergone a hospital scan after suffering soreness in his side, a team spokesman confirmed Thursday.

Fortunately for the tourists, Thursday’s first day of the third and final Test against England at Edgbaston was washed out completely, meaning they were not [...]

NEW DELHI: After making it amply clear that BCCI was left out when various awards nominations were sought from sports bodies, the sports ministry has now claimed that it indeed sent a letter to the Indian Cricket Board (BCCI).

Rahul Bhatnagar, joint secretary of ministry of youth affairs [...]

DUBAI: Chief executive Haroon Lorgat has hit back at suggestions of bias over the ICC’s plan to retain the Duckworth-Lewis method of deciding interrupted matches instead of adopting an alternative system from India.

Mr V Jayadevan, who devised the alternative VJD method, has written to International Cricket Council (ICC) [...]