Archive for October 5th, 2007
Chak de India: Hockey vs cricket
SEPTEMBER 2007 will definitely go down in the history of Indian sports as an important month that gave India dual achievements of clinching Hockey Asia Cup and T20 Cricket World Cup. As we keep tab on the sports news, it is well known that the young turks of Indian cricket team did a fantastic job [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 6 so far )‘I dream of an India that is more than hope’ : Sachin
Sachin Tendulkar, the world’s greatest batsman, writes his first-ever signed piece exclusively for HT. Here’s how he Imagines his India …
My dreams began young. But I always planned on things one step at a time. I think, later, that made all the difference, between just imagining and realising that that imagination needed a focus.
I began [...]
England notch up first ODI win in Sri Lanka for 25 years
Dambulla (Sri Lanka): England recorded their first one-day cricket international win on Sri Lankan soil in 25 years when they beat the hosts by 65 runs in the second game and leveleld the five-match series 1-1.
England, who last beat Sri Lanka on the island in a limited overs match in February 1982, set a competitive [...]
Symonds and Lee lead Aussies to victory
It doesn’t seem to matter much to Australia as they scotched talk the newly-crowned Twenty20 champions were a match for them with a 47-run victory at the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium today.
Allrounder Andrew Symonds (89 off 67 balls) continued to take out his anger on the home side with a brutal knock as Australia posted an [...]
Klusener hits out at CSA
Durban, Oct. 5 (PTI): Former all-rounder Lance Klusener has hit out at Cricket South Africa for its “crazy decision” of threatening to ban him from the playing in the domestic matches to prevent him from joining the Indian Cricket League.
“It’s a crazy decision. It would deprive the young players here of my input, whether on [...]
Free hit rule will kill bowlers, fears Ranatunga
Colombo, Oct. 5 (PTI): Cricket is a game where the dice is heavily loaded in favour of the batsmen and the new ‘Free Hit’ rule would just kills the bowlers, fears former Sri Lanka captain Arjuna Ranatunga.
Ranatunga feels the new rule would leave the bowlers at the mercy of the batsmen and that’s just not [...]
Kallis scores consecutive tons and says T20 break was a big help
Younis Kahn’s potent bat gives Pakistan a glimmer of hope.
Jacques Kallis, after scoring his second century in a single Test, yesterday admitted that not playing in the Twenty20 World Cup had probably helped his game.
The South African allrounder followed up his first-innings 155 against Pakistan in Karachi with an unbeaten 100 in the second innings [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Nimbus claims right to T20 league
MUMBAI: The new blockbuster cricket format Twenty20 coupled with BCCI’s home league, Indian Premier league (IPL), may cause a friction between the sport broadcast community and the cricket board. For BCCI, the agenda is clearly to maximise revenue from both the properties. But the more contentious issue is who will own the broadcast rights.
Sports [...]
Rebel pair free to play at home
Chris Harris and Hamish Marshall are free to play domestic cricket in New Zealand this summer despite signing for the rebel league in India.
Harris wants to play for Canterbury and Marshall as an overseas player for Northern Districts. Their path was cleared yesterday by New Zealand Cricket chief executive Justin Vaughan.
Despite clear objections to [...]
Clash of the Titans
As the clouds burst, the crowds gather. It’s an hour before the kick-off of Kolkata’s biggest sporting event and the rain keeps pouring. The pitch at the cavernous Salt Lake Stadium is now little better than a mud pit, pockmarked by spreading pools of brackish water and streaks of brown slush.
Were this a cricket match, [...]
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