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India overcame some anxious moments before suppressing a spirited the Netherlands with a nervy five-wicket victory in a World Cup Group-B match and virtually secure a quarter-final berth in New Delhi on Wednesday. After restricting the minnows to a modest 189, the fancied hosts started off with a flourish but lost wickets in a heap [...]
Electing to bat, The Netherlands were all out for 189 in 46.4 overs against India in their group B World Cup match at Feroz Shah Kotla ground in New Delhi on Wednesday. Brief Scores: The Netherlands: 189 all out in 46.4 overs. (Peter Borren 38, Tom Cooper 29; Zaheer Khan 3/20, Yuvraj Singh 2/43). India [...]
New Zealand crushed Pakistan on Tuesday in a ruthless display dominated by century-maker Ross Taylor as injury-jinxed England lost key paceman Stuart Broad for the rest of the World Cup. Taylor, celebrating his 27th birthday, scored 131 runs off just 124 balls with eight fours and seven sixes, to take New Zealand to 302 for [...]
CHENNAI: The DMK- Congress alliance appeared headed for a break with six Union ministers of the regional party set to resign on Monday even as finance minister Pranab Mukherjee appealed to Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi to reconsider his decision to pull out of the UPA government. The six ministers, including MK Alagiri , [...]
NEW DELHI/KOLKATA: The Election Commission has announced astaggered, six-phase schedule for Bengal’s high-voltage assembly elections, which will begin on April 18 in the north and end on May 10 in the Maoist-infested forest constituencies West Midnapore. The city will go to polls during the third phase, on April 27, along with the two suburban districts [...]
India and England set alight the World Cup after a record-breaking run-feast ended with a dramatic tie off the last ball in their Group B ICC Cricket World Cup match at the M Chinnaswamy stadium in Bangalore on Sunday. India appeared to have set a daunting 339-run winning target in the Group B match but [...]
AB de Villiers smashed an unbeaten century and debutant Imran Tahir scalped four wickets as South Africa launched their cricket World Cup campaign with a comfortable seven-wicket win over West Indies in a Group-B league match here today. The South Africans first restricted the Caribbeans to 222 all out and then relied on de Villiers’ [...]
Title aspirants India will have revenge on their minds when they launch their 2011 cricket World Cup campaign against co-hosts Bangladesh in the tournament-opener in Mirpur on Saturday, fully aware that any slip-up could prove costly. Minnows Bangladesh had ensured India’s early exit in the first round of the 2007 edition at the Caribbeans and [...]
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina declared the event open amid thundering cheers from a packed crowd at the renovated Bangabandhu stadium, marking the return of the showpiece event to the sub-continent after a gap of 15 years. The evening sky lit up with spectacular fireworks as the high-profile 14-team competition was declared open in front [...]
After creating a flutter by claiming that India were not “mentally prepared” for the pre-World Cup warm-up matches, cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni today said his comments were misconstrued and he did not imply that the team was battling fatigue. “It was not fatigue at all. It is the mental preparation level…to be in the [...]