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Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) President N Srinivasan speaks during a news conference at the BCCI head office in Mumbai,...

SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom: England’s Tim Bresnan (pictured left) has insisted the prospect of becoming a father for the first time is not proving...

SOUTHAMPTON, United Kingdom: New Zealand batsman Grant Elliott hopes his side can learn from their recent history as they seek to win their...

BIRMINGHAM, United Kingdom: Virat Kohli and Dinesh Karthik both hit centuries as India warmed up the forthcoming Champions Trophy with an impressive five-wicket...

New Zealand’s Martin Guptill (right) who scored a century embraces team-mate James Franklin after New Zealand won the first one-day international cricket match...

LONDON: Former Ireland seamer Boyd Rankin was called up yesterday into England’s one-day squad for the remaining two matches of their series with...

Sydney: Australia will reclaim the Ashes against all odds if Kevin Pietersen’s knee injury keeps the England batsman out of the series, spin...

NEW DELHI: Batting superstar Sachin Tendulkar yesterday called cricket’s betting and spot-fixing scandal “shocking and disappointing”, becoming India’s first big-name player to speak...

DHAKA: The International Cricket Council is probing allegations of match-fixing in Bangladeshi cricket with former national captain Mohammad Ashraful (pictured below) among those...

Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the Indian skipper, smiles during a press conference in Birmingham, England, yesterday in this photograph released by International Cricket Council...

McCullum wants ODI relief against England LONDON: New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum (pictured right) hopes a change of format and the introduction of...

  LONDON: England captain Alastair Cook expects New Zealand to be far stronger in an upcoming one-day series after inflicting Test humiliation upon the...

  NEW DELHI: Indian cricketer Ankeet Chavan, arrested on suspicion of spot-fixing earlier this month, has been granted conditional bail so he can get...

  LONDON: New Zealand great Daniel Vettori said he was looking forward to returning to international action in the first one-dayer against England at...

LONDON: The International Cricket Council’s (ICC) cricket committee said yesterday countries could risk losing their Test status unless they played a “minimum number...

Captain Alastair Cook holds the trophy after hosts England defeated New Zealand 2-0 in the Test series at Headingley cricket ground in Leeds,...

LAHORE, Pakistan: Pakistan umpire Asad Rauf yesterday denied spot-fixing allegations made against him during the Indian Premier League, as Delhi’s sports ministry urged...

  LONDON: Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting has back-tracked on his own suggestion he’d return to Test cricket as an emergency Ashes call-up by...