Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni rued his team’s batting failure on a good wicket to lose the first one-dayer against the West Indies by 124 runs here but said that the visiting side were a tough team to beat. Dhoni said that a target of 322 for a win onRead More

Kochi, Marlon Samuels produced a match-winning performance to fire West Indies to victory in the first one-day international against India. The 33-year-old struck 126 not out and took two wickets on his return to the international scene as the tourists completed a 124-run victory in Kochi with nine overs toRead More

Dubai, Promising India medium pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar has emerged as one of the five players nominated for the LG People’s Choice Award ahead of the ICC annual awards. The 24-year-old bowler from Meerut has had a good run in international cricket in recent times. This year’s fifth LG People’s ChoiceRead More

New Delhi, India’s popular sports couple Dipika Pallikal and Dinesh Karthik have decided to get married mid next year after almost two years of togetherness made official with their engagement last November. Squash queen Pallikal has usually been more vocal about the celebrated relationship but this time india cricketer KarthikRead More

Karachi, The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is preparing to send suspended off-spinner Saeed Ajmal for a biomechanic test after he reported a marked improvement in his bowling action. Ajmal, who has been Pakistan’s top spinner for the last few years, was also suspended by the ICC from bowling in international cricket last month afterRead More

Siliguri, Indian football team coach Wim Koevermans on Monday stepped down from the post soon after the country suffered a defeat in an international friendly, here. After India lost to Palestine 3-2, Koevermans declared in the post-match presentation ceremony that that he would not continue as coach of the IndianRead More

London: Kevin Pietersen’s monopoly of the airwaves and printed media regarding his claims of bullying in the England cricket team’s dressing room ended abruptly on Tuesday with the leaking of an email outlining his poor behaviour on last year’s disastrous Ashes series in Australia. The England and Wales Cricket BoardRead More

  New Delhi: Virat Kohli has certainly been the most consistent batsman in the Indian team in all formats of the game, for last couple of years. But in the last away series that India played in England, he was all at sea, while facing the English seamers, especially StuartRead More

London: Nasser Hussain said there was “no way back” for Kevin Pietersen after England’s all-time leading run-scorer launched his autobiography with blistering attacks on wicketkeeper Matt Prior and former coach Andy Flower. The South Africa-born batsman, axed by England earlier this year after the team’s 5-0 Ashes thrashing in Australia,Read More

Real Madrid goalkeeper Iker Casillas admitted that there were moments when he felt like he was “the plague” at the club and that he had considered leaving Spain to play abroad. Casillas has won back his place as first choice keeper at the club this season after difficult 18 monthsRead More