It was once famously said that the selection of the India team aroused more interest than a cabinet reshuffle. That opinion is not valid anymore because the team gets picked every two weeks nowadays, and selection decisions cause only a minor stir.
A baby-faced boy seemed to have emerged as answer to India’s quest for a wicketkeeper. Nayan Mongia was fading out and the likes of Sameer Dighe, Vijay Dahiya, Ajay Ratra were being tried without much success.
Star spinner Harbhajan Singh today rubbished reports that India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his deputy Virender Sehwag had a tiff over Amit Mishra’s exclusion from the Mirpur Test against Bangladesh.
Injured Rahul Dravid’s absence from next month’s Test series against South Africa was a “big blow” for the team, but India are a confident lot after starting the year on a winning note against Bangladesh, said opener Gautam Gambhir in Chennai on Sunday.
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s Cara Black and Leander Paes of India won the Australian Open mixed doubles title Sunday, defeating Russian Ekaterina Makarova and Czech Republic’s Jaroslav Levinsky 7-5 6-3.
Unlikely to get much help from the dusty Indian tracks, South African pacer Morne Morkel says he would have to strike early to unsettle the formidable batting of the hosts.
India won the first medal of the 11th South Asian Games with the womens cycling team bagging the gold in the time trial competition Saturday.
Pakistans hockey captain Zeeshan Ashraf believes that the teams recent record against India makes them favourites to win their opening match of the World Cup beginning February 28 in New Delhi.
The Aircel-Professional Golf Tour of India (PGTI) has announced the PGTI Players Championship at the Tollygunge Golf Club February 2-5.
Think of Mohammad Kaif and the memory that flashes across the mind is that of July 13, 2002. Needing 326 to win the NatWest Trophy final against England, India were in the doldrums at 146 for five after 24 overs, before Kaif and Yuvraj Singh scripted a…