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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 [...]
Leg-spinner Piyush Chawla triggered a dramatic batting collapse as India swept to an impressive 38-run victory over Australia in a World Cup warm-up game at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore on Sunday. Chawla ripped through the Australian middle order with 4-31 after Ricky Ponting’s side had looked on course for a comfortable win. Experienced off-spinner [...]
International Cricket Council chief executive Haroon Lorgat today virtually ruled out any possibility of an India match being held at the Eden Gardens though the three World Cup fixtures at the venue next month are expected to be held as per schedule. “I have received a preliminary report (after yesterday’s inspection) and the progress has [...]
New Delhi, Feb 8 : Sachin Tendulkar says he, too, has sledged, but only once, and that as part of team strategy. The batting maestro needled Australian fast bowler Glenn McGrath by telling he would go after his bowling and the ploy worked. “I have never sledged per se merely for the sake of sledging. [...]
Former India captain Sourav Ganguly will not be part of IPL-4 starting on 8th April and K’taka batsman Manish Pandey cannot play the first four matches for his new franchise Sahara Pune Warriors for breaching player guidelines, the league’s Governing Council said. IPL’s Governing Council stalled what could have been a back-door entry for Ganguly [...]