AUSTRALIAN Steve Davis has been elevated to the International Cricket Council’s elite panel of umpires. Davis and Sri Lanka’s Asoka de Silva were promoted to increase the number on the panel from 10 to 12 in a move designed to ease the load on the leading umpires. Davis, 56, has stood in 11...
Chairman Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), Dr Nasim Ashraf, said that no financial irregularities were committed in the Board and a wrong impression was being portrayed in a section of the press in this regard. “We are running the PCB in a transparent manner and it is wrong to say that financial irregularities have...
Cricket is the game of passion and enthusiasm; almost every country participates in cricket; be it as a team or as a viewer every country has developed taste for cricket. In fact, it the charm of cricket which made it so popular all over the world; as a result popularity of cricket is increasing...
Harbhajan Singh found himself embroiled in yet another controversy after allegedly slapping Kings XI paceman S Sreesanth during their Indian Premier League encounter on Friday. The Kings XI team, led by Yuvraj Singh, is reportedly planning to lodge a complaint against the off-spinner, who later apologised to the paceman in the dressing room...
The Sri Lankan umpire Asoka de Silva and Steve Davis of Australia have been promoted to ICC’s Elite Panel, following the body’s decision to expand the pool from 10 to 12 umpires. Asoka de Silva, the former legspinner who played 10 Tests and 28 ODIs between 1985 and 1992, was one of eight...
Cricket can be dry and Ipl want to make it sexy with cheerleaders, show girls and more. Shatrughan Sinha lashed out at organisers of IPL matches for bringing cheer girls to the stadiums, making a “mockery” of cricket. IPL officials do not agree. They believe sex is part of life and cricket must...
Shane Warne cracked successive sixes off the last two balls of the innings as Rajasthan condemned Deccan to a third straight Indian Premier League defeat in a thrilling finish on Thursday. The veteran Australian struck 22 from just nine balls to lead his side to a three-wicket win. Symonds had earlier been at...
If you love cricket, really really love cricket, watching it on television just won’t do: you have to go to the ground once in a while. Being at the ground is not just about ambience and being part of the event and so on: it’s about seeing the bits of the game that...
Australia will visit Pakistan twice in the next two years after cancelling the scheduled tour in March and April over security concerns, Cricket Australia (CA) and the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said on Monday. The world champions would tour Pakistan in April and May of 2009 for five one-day internationals and a Twenty20...
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