The absence of world number one Rafael Nadal has taken the shine off the Davis Cup final and left Argentina as firm favourites to beat Spain and win the trophy for the first time.
Unbeaten at home for 10 years, Argentina now have higher-ranked players in their favour as well as the playing surface and a [...]
Shane Watson has tipped Andrew Symonds for the first Test against New Zealand that begins Thursday, though it can scuttle his chances to be in the side.
The two all-rounders are included in Australia’s 13 man-squad but it won’t come as a surprise if Symonds makes the cut at the expense of Watson for the first [...]
India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has been asked by the Ranchi District Arms Magistrate to produce a character certificate for getting a license to keep a 9mm pistol.
The Magistrate recently wrote to Dhoni that he should furnish a `Swachchhata Praman Patra` (character certificate) if he wished to procure the weapon in view of the increasing [...]
Australian bowlers tried every trick in the book to script a twist in the tale but India’s middle order batsmen did not flinch as the third Test, which will now be remembered as captain Anil Kumble’s swansong, ended in a drab draw in New Delhi on Sunday.Only an extraordinary batting collapse could have forced a [...]
Peyton Manning sat in with the Tennessee Titans‘ defensive line meeting Wednesday. Not in person, but as a life-size decal stuck on the wall.
The Titans know only too well that getting to the two-time MVP is never easy. They’ve sacked him only 11 times in 13 games against the Indianapolis Colts, but that remains the [...]
The Australian media sees Zaheer Khan’s confrontation with Matthew Hayden in the Mohali Test as not in the ’spirit’ Indian captain Anil Kumble talked of during the summer’s controversial series Down Under.
In a scathing attack on the Australian team after the Sydney Test, Kumble said ‘only one team played in the spirit of the game’ [...]
Indian paceman Zaheer Khan was today fined 80 per cent of his match fee for violating the ICC Code of Conduct by running towards Australian opener Matthew Hayden and shouting at him after his dismissal on the fourth day of the second cricket Test here. Zaheer was found guilty of Level 2 charge under clause [...]
If the FIFA World Cup 2006 could go carbon neutral, why can’t the cash-rich Indian Premier League - the Twenty-20 fiesta that’s now one season old - be accountable for the environmental damage it contributes to is a question that has led two students to chalk out a detailed roadmap for a green IPL.
Their report, [...]
Australian captain Ricky Ponting said Thursday that the drawn Bangalore Test against India had left a bad taste in his mouth despite his maiden century on Indian soil.
Looking forward to making the most at the second Test match that begins at the Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) stadium here Friday, Ponting said that his team was [...]
Lou Piniella plans on managing the Chicago Cubs next year and could stay around longer.
“I’ve got a year to go on my contract and we’ll see where it goes from there,” the 65-year-old said before Wednesday’s game against the New York Mets. “But I’m not looking five or six years ahead or four or five [...]