LONDON: Ricky Ponting has revealed he might not be able to resist the lure of the Ashes if Australia asked him to come out of Test retirement.

The combative 38-year-old, who quit the international scene in December, is the most successful captain in Test history but lost three [...]

NAGPUR: Former Vidarbha and Railways all-rounder Baburao Yadav, who was detained for questioning on Monday by Delhi Police in the spot-fixing case, said that he was innocent.

Yadav, also an ex-Indian Cricket League (ICL) player, in fact made the surprising claim that he was helping the International Cricket [...]

MELBOURNE: Reacting to David Warner’s twitter rant against two journalists, former Australia Test batsman Mark Waugh on Monday said that some players are getting ahead of themselves and need to pull their heads in.

“It’s a pretty inexperienced squad (Australia national team)…there’s not many senior players…we lost Mike Hussey [...]

MUMBAI: His team will not get the home advantage in the IPL playoff stage, but Mumbai Indians captain Rohit Sharma is unfazed, insisting that his side is good enough to be a winner anywhere.

“We will be playing out now. Each and every game from now (is away from [...]

MUMBAI: Having snatched victory from the jaws of defeat against Sunrisers Hyderabad, heavyweights Mumbai Indians would have their tails up when they take on Rajasthan Royals in their final Pepsi IPL home game on Wednesday.

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The positives from the match against SRH at their impregnable bastion, [...]

Delhi Daredevils mentor Vivian Richards walked into the TOI office and immediately seemed to roll back time. There it was, the characteristic swagger, that laidback charm, that compact frame.

Even the adulation and excitement he generated seemed straight out of the 1980s. As Guest Editor of Times Sport, the

MUMBAI: Australian pace great Dennis Lillee had said left-arm seamer Mitchell Johnson is a once in a generation bowler after he had dismantled India in a Tri-series encounter at Kuala Lumpur in 2006.

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Another legendary Aussie quickie, Brett Lee, feels [...]

MUMBAI: Going through a lean phase, Kings XI Punjab skipper Adam Gilchrist called form a “rubbish word” and said his decision to sit out of the IPL match against Mumbai Indians was taken keeping in mind the team balance.

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MUMBAI: Saturday’s 58-run win over the fancied Royal Challengers Bangalore made a few things about the Mumbai Indians clear: that this starstudded outfit is almost unstoppable when it plays at its best. That it may just have hit top gear at the perfect time in the competition, [...]

MUMBAI: Sachin Tendulkar, one of the greatest batsmen the game has ever seen, today said it was important to have heroes in life and he himself wanted to be a combination of his childhood idols Vivian Richards and Sunil Gavaskar.

“Every person likes his own identity and [...]