Melbourne, March 20 Fernando Alonso felt lucky to be alive after walking away from a spectacular crash that left his obliterated McLaren scattered across the Albert Park circuit and brought a halt to the Australian Grand Prix on Sunday. Alonso’s right wheel clipped Esteban Gutierrez’s Haas at high speed goingRead More

Kolkata, March 20 Emerging as India’s hero in the crunch World Twenty20 clash against Pakistan, batting star Virat Kohli said he felt emotionally overwhelmed to have done it in front of the iconic Sachin Tendulkar. Kohli paid his respect to Tendulkar as he bowed down to the master blaster afterRead More

Kolkata, March 20 In awe of Virat Kohli’s batting genius in the World Twenty20 win over arch-rivals Pakistan, Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni said the elegant right-hander’s willingness to take challenges head on sets him apart from others. In a low-scoring tense encounter last night, Kohli played the sheet-anchor roleRead More

New Delhi, Yogeshwar Dutt bagged an Olympics quota and the gold medal in the men’s 65kg freestyle category at the ongoing Asian qualifying tournament on Saturday. Dutt easily overpowered his opponents enroute the final where Katai Yeerlanbieke of China forfeited the bout to hand the Indian the gold. Having defeated KimRead More

Kolkata,Normally, MS Dhoni doesn’t make sweeping and pompous statements. In the run-up to the World T20, the Indian skipper, however, did make a few statements that seemed a little out of character, reeking of overconfidence, and maybe a bit of arrogance too. During the Asia Cup, high on the team’sRead More

Kolkata, Sri Lanka fast bowler Lasith Malinga has been ruled out of the remainder of the World Twenty20 after failing to recover from a knee injury. Malinga (32), missed Thursday’s win over Afghanistan and will return home on Friday. “Sri Lanka team management on tour have observed that Malinga who’sRead More

Kolkata, Many would have smirked secretly when Asghar Stanikzai, the Afghanistan skipper, on the eve oftheir opener against Sri Lanka, asserted that they could beat the defendingchampions. Well, the Afghans didn’t beat them but were not outplayed either. In fact, until quite late in the second innings, they were in theRead More

New Delhi, Mindful of the storm triggered by her male counterpart Shahid Afridi’s comments about being loved more in India, Pakistan women’s cricket team captain Sana Mir today said her team is adored more back home because it seldom gets a chance to play on its own turf. Afridi courted aRead More

Kolkata, Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi led by example as his team put a tumultuous build-up behind them to launch their bid for a second World T20 title with a 55-run victory against qualifiers Bangladesh on Wednesday. Pakistan posted 201/5 at Kolkata’s Eden Gardens after opting to bat first and restricted theirRead More

Nagpur, So, what are the implications of India’s stunning defeat to New Zealand? In less than 90 minutes of their batting innings, India, the overwhelming favourites, had been left to salvage their wrecked ship. The morale-crushing 47-run loss to Black Caps has come as a bolt from the blue for theRead More