NEW DELHI: Record-breaking batsman Sachin Tendulkar turns 40 on Wednesday with no plans to retire despite media speculation and recent form suggesting that age is finally catching up with the “Little Master”.
Test and one-day cricket’s greatest run-scorer approaches the game with undiminished enthusiasm and insists he has much to offer [...]
MUMBAI: Mahendra Yadav (name changed), a 27-year-old from Mumbai, has been very upset in the last two days. This employee of a shipping company has lost Rs 20,000 in bets on T20 matches thanks to Mumbai Indians’ meek surrender to Rajasthan Royals on Wednesday.
“I could not believe Mumbai went [...]
GALLE: Mushfiqur Rahim on Monday became the first Bangladeshi to crack a double-century while Nasir Hossain hit a maiden ton as the tourists gained a 68-run lead in the first Test against Sri Lanka.
Skipper Rahim hit a solid 200 and Hossain an impressive 100 as [...]
GALLE: Captain Mushfiqur Rahim became the first Bangladeshi to crack a double century but was dismissed soon after lunch on the fourth day of the first Test against Sri Lanka on Monday.
Rahim was unbeaten on 198 at lunch and achieved the landmark in the second over [...]
GALLE: Mohammad Ashraful and Mushfiqur Rahim smashed impressive centuries in a record stand as Bangladesh dominated the third day of the opening Test against Sri Lanka in Galle on Sunday.
Ashraful hit an unbeaten 189 not out, the highest by a Bangladeshi in Tests, on his [...]
MELBOURNE: Every team is strong and favourite in its own backyard, therefore, to judge which team is better between India and Australia, the two teams should play on neutral venue, former cricketer Dean Jones has suggested.
The former Australian batsman said the bouncy and fast pitches will always suit Australian and [...]
CAPE TOWN: Robin Peterson and Dale Steyn led a South African fightback which left the second Test against Pakistan evenly poised at the end of the third day at Newlands on Saturday.
Pakistan were 100 for three in their second innings at the close, a lead [...]
DHAKA: West Indies captain Darren Sammy wants his players to “stay hungry” and to build on recent successes when they meet Bangladesh on Tuesday in the first of two Tests.
Sammy’s men are buoyed by victory in the World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka last month following [...]
LAHORE: The security delegation it is planning to send notwithstanding, Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Zaka Ashraf is confident that the national team would be provided well looked after during their upcoming tour to India.
Ashraf told reporters in Bahawalpur that the BCCI had assured them [...]
MUMBAI: Sachin Tendulkar roared back to form ahead of the upcoming Test series against England with a strokeful 137, while Ajinkya Rahane remained unbeaten on 105 to help Mumbai pile up 344 for four against Railways on the opening day of their four-day Ranji Trophy match on Friday.
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