New Delhi, March 23 Ending days of speculation, Delhi today got the go ahead to host the World Twenty20 semifinal as scheduled on March 30 after the embattled DDCA got the requisite clearances to use the contentious R P Mehra Block at the Feroze Shah Kotla Stadium. The match hadRead More

New Delhi, March 23 BCCI Secretary Anurag Thakur today criticised embattled Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi for saying that “a lot of people from Kashmir” had come to support his team during the World Twenty20 match against New Zealand in Mohali. “To give a statement like that is not politically correct.Read More

Tehran, March 23 Indian football team will face its toughest test in the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers when it takes on Asia’s highest ranked side Iran, sans influential striker Sunil Chhetri, at their own backyard here on Thursday. 160th-ranked India were dealt a body blow when Chhetri, the country’sRead More

Karachi, March 23 The fact-finding committee of the Pakistan Cricket Board, which is probing into the reasons for the poor show in the Asia Cup, has also been assigned to check whether there had been factions in the national team ahead of ICC World T20. According to a highly placedRead More

Mohali, March 22 New Zealand booked their place in the semi-finals of the World Twenty20 after beating Pakistan by 22 runs in their Super 10 stage match on Tuesday at the PCA Stadium here. Pakistan managed only 158 for five wickets in their 20 overs after New Zealand, who securedRead More

Mohali, Even as the dust settles over his “we got more love in India” comment, Pakistan skipper Shahid Afridi on Tuesday raked up another controversy when he remarked that “a lot of people are here from Kashmir” before the start of their World T20 game against New Zealand at PCA StadiumRead More

New Delhi, The India-Pakistan cricket rivalry can’t be without its fair share of drama, intensity and nervous moments. The India-Pakistan women’s teams’ clash in the World T20 at the Ferozeshah Kotla ground on Saturday wasn’t short of either of these essential ingredients. The game was heading towards a nail-biting finish,Read More

New Delhi, March 20 SSP Chawrasia staved off the challenge of compatriot Anirban Lahiri and South Korean Wang Jeung-hun to end a run of second-place finishes by winning his home Indian Open for his third European Tour title on Sunday. Chawrasia had finished second in the Asian Tour co-sanctioned eventRead More

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