World Cup cricket

Syndicate content

ICC reprimands furious Ponting

Feb. 23: Australian skipper Ricky Ponting has been reprimanded by the International Cricket Council after damaging a television set in the dressing room following his dismissal during his side’s victo

Afridi’s Pak pack a punch

Feb. 23: Shahid Afridi took five wickets and Umar Akmal scored one of four half-centuries as Pakistan crushed Kenya by 205 runs to get their World Cup campaign off to a flying start on Wednesday. Ken

AB devilry floors WIndies

Feb. 24: South Africa got their campaign off to the prefect start, cruising to a seven-wicket victory over the West Indies at the Kotla here on Thursday.

Chasing 223 to win after debutant Imran Tahir

Sreesanth beamer knocks down Yuvi

Feb. 24: The scene around the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium resembled a battlefield — a precursor to the big bash between India and England on February 27. Four days before their first major hurdle, the seri

Would Ricky have smashed own TV?

The World Cup has started off on a sour note. The incident involving Australia captain Ricky Ponting and the lathicharge on the Bengaluru crowd were incidents the tournament could have done well witho

Associates need more chances

To conduct the next World Cup without the Associate Members (the five non-Test playing nations in the current edition) is not a step in the right direction. The focus has been on globalisation and the

Sachin switch whips up frenzy

Feb. 23: It’s a well-chronicled fact that Sachin Tendulkar is ambidextrous. On Wednesday at the M. Chinnaswamy stadium, the Little Master, who is keeping a nation waiting with bated breath over his re

Want to do it for country: Shahid Afridi

Feb 22: Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi vowed on Tuesday to win the World Cup for millions of weary fans back home who lost out on the showpiece when their country became a no-go zone.

International c

Beleaguered Pak seek fresh start

Feb 22: Pakistan coach Waqar Younis believes the recent spot-fixing scandal will not have a detrimental effect on their World Cup campaign which gets underway against Kenya here on Wednesday.

Former

Time to deliver, asserts Kallis

Feb. 22: Nothing has haunted the South Africans more than the chokers’ tag at preceding World Cups. Jacques Kallis, the only surviving member of the 1996 World Cup squad in the current lot, on Tuesday

No Articles Found

No Articles Found

No Articles Found

I want to begin with a little story that was told to me by a leading executive at Aptech. He was exercising in a gym with a lot of younger people.

Shekhar Kapur’s Bandit Queen didn’t make the cut. Neither did Shaji Karun’s Piravi, which bagged 31 international awards.