London: Rajeev Shukla, minister of state of parliamentary affairs, will be the new chairman of the Indian Premier League (IPL). He will replace acting chairman Chirayu Amin who filled the post after Lalit Modi was sacked by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). According to sources, BCCI offered Shukla the post considering [...]
Mumbai: This season’s Champions League T20 event will see cricket take another technological leap with the introduction of high-definition pinhole cameras in players’ sunglasses. The cameras will provide viewers with a unique first-person perspective, enabling them to see a match from the player’s point of view. Attempts are being capture images of team huddles, celebrations [...]
WHAT can one say about India? Right now, the answer is glaringly obvious. Find a better bowling attack if you want to win even a single game in this series. The one that they have now frightens nobody, including my famous and longsuffering grandmother. That is all the more tragic, since the young batsmen that [...]
ANOTHER game, lot of hopes and the result was no different. This tour has turned out to be a nightmare to say the least. When the bowlers did well in patches, the batsmen let us down and when the batsmen did reasonably well, the bowlers contributed in the downfall. I was disappointed with the bowling [...]
London: India’s makeshift opener Ajinkya Rahane has recovered from the minor ankle injury he picked up during the Southampton game and is eager to keep his run of good scores going. “The ankle is fine and I’m fit to play. In the three matches that are left, I’m hopeful we’ll pull off wins,” the in-form [...]
London: It’s one down, three to go in the India-England ODI series. Having lost the Southampton match by seven-wickets after the series opener at Chester-le-Street got rained out, the Indians are under tremendous pressure to make a mark in the contest. It’s now almost imperative that India win the third ODI here on Friday, a [...]
London: India are mulling changes in the team combination ahead of the third ODI, with the management eager to give seamer RP Singh a go ahead of Vinay Kumar, and also keen on giving allrounder Ravindra Jadeja a game. RP — who had a rusty fourth Test at the same venue — was even given [...]
Mumbai: Sachin Tendulkar, who is still a safe bet in terms of being India’s batting mainstay, has not only sunk a million hopes but has left punters reeling for leaving the English shores without his hundredth hundred. According to a reputed bookie from central Mumbai, while bookmakers’ earnings shot through the roof, punters were badly [...]
Not often do you see a team strolling to a stiff target in a 23-over game. That is exactly what England did in the last match in almost 10 overs at Southampton after India had set them an impressive 189 to chase in 23 overs. Just in case we had forgotten, that match reminded us [...]
Southampton: Barely six months after winning the World Cup, skipper MS Dhoni looked helpless with his pace attack here in the second Onedayer here at the Rose Bowl stadium on Tuesday night. Probably for the first time in the series he admitted that his bowlers are struggling due to lack of pace. “The outfield was [...]