Pak tainted trio to face trial

The tainted Pakistan trio of Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir will face a trial after they were charged with conspiracy to obtain and accept corrupt payments by the UK prosecution service in the spot-fixing scandal that rocked world cricket last year. The three cricketers, who have been ...

Somdev storms into South African semis

India's Somdev Devvarmn has stormed into the semi-finals of the singles event at the ATP South African Open Tennis tournament, ousting Rik de Voest of South Africa, 3-6,7-6, 6-1 at the Montecasino entertainment centre in Johannesburg on Friday. Somdev will now face South Africa's l...

Afridi to lead Pak WC team

Pakistan has named experienced all-rounder Shahid Afridi as the captain of the national team for the ICC cricket World Cup beginning on February 19. The Pakistan Cricket Board said in a statement today that Afridi would lead the team while Test captain and another front-runner for the job, Misbah-ul...

Players can be thrown out of WC for ambush marketing: ICC

The International Cricket Council has cracked the whip on players indulging knowingly or unknowingly in ambush marketing, by threatening to throw them out of the World Cup starting in Dhaka on February 19.ICC's legal head David Becker said in a memo to all international players and cricket ...

Somdev, Martin bow out of SA open

Somdev Devvarman and David Martin have bowed out of the doubles event of the South African Tennis Open championship. In the quarter-final in Johannesburg, the Indo-American pair fought valiantly before losing 7-6, 3-6, 10-12 to the Slovakian-Israeli pair of Karol Beck and Dudi Sela.In the 442,500 U....

3 Pak cricketers charged with corruption

British prosecutors today charged three Pakistani cricketers with taking bribes to fix incidents in an international match in England last year. Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir are accused of fixing certain incidents, such as the bowling of no-balls at pre-agreed times, during the fourt...

Maken announces coaching centre in Imphal

Sports Minister Ajay Maken has announced setting up of a coaching centre in Imphal and also sanctioned a football academy to Dimapur in Nagaland. He made these announcements today during a workshop on 'Youth and Sports development in North-Eastern region' in New Delhi. Addressing t...

PCB to retain Shahid Afridi as captain to lead its team in cricket World Cup

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has decided to retain Shahid Khan Afridi as captain to lead its team in the cricket World Cup, starting from February 19 in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Pakistan team manager Intikhab Alam disclosed this while talking to media after Pakistan won an ODI series aga...

ATP South Africa Tennis: Somdev- David Martin storm into doubles QFs

ICC World Cup 2011 trophy handed over to B'desh

The ICC World Cup 2011 trophy was handed over to the Bangladesh Cricket Board last evening at the Sher-e-Bangla Stadium in Mirpur on the outskirts of Dhaka. The cup which arrived in Dhaka by a special flight from India was taken around the city in a colourful road show before being handed over to th...