Sports / Cricket

Q-Chem clinch close win 17 Mar 2013 - 12:47 am

Doha: Badar pulled off a stirring all-round show to steer Q-Chem to a narrow one-wicket win against Khan Eleven in the Qatar Airways...

Irked Warne urges less formal approach for positive results 13 Mar 2013 - 11:49 pm

LONDON: Australia’s selectors need to adopt a less formal approach to bring the best out of the players even if it means allowing...

‘Attitude’ problem reason for sackings: Team coach 13 Mar 2013 - 11:49 pm

SYDNEY: Australia coach Mickey Arthur yesterday said a team culture including unacceptable “back-chat” and “attitude” forced him to controversially axe four players for...

We have confidence: Cook 13 Mar 2013 - 11:46 pm

England’s cricket team players pose for a team photograph before a training session at the Basin Reserve in Wellington yesterday. England will play...

ICC offers helping hand to nations 13 Mar 2013 - 11:45 pm

DUBAI: The West Indies Cricket Board and Zimbabwe Cricket have both been given financial support by the International Cricket Council (ICC) in an...

Dhawan set for Test debut against Aussies 13 Mar 2013 - 11:45 pm

NEW DELHI: Shikhar Dhawan looks set to open the batting for India in place of Virender Sehwag in the third Test against Australia,...

New Zealand look to contain ‘genius’ Cook 13 Mar 2013 - 11:45 pm

WELLINGTON: New Zealand skipper Brendon McCullum yesterday praised the “genius” Alastair Cook, saying that England’s free-scoring captain was second only to Australian legend...

New World Cup chairman appointed 13 Mar 2013 - 11:44 pm

SYDNEY: Cricket Australia and New Zealand Cricket yesterday appointed Ralph Waters as chairman of the organising committee for the 2015 World Cup after...

Unchanged New Zealand seek consistency 13 Mar 2013 - 11:44 pm

WELLINGTON: New Zealand will stick with the same team that drew the first test against England and are likely to ask the tourists...

England turn attention to NZ Test 13 Mar 2013 - 12:09 am

WELLINGTON: Wicketkeeper Matt Prior says England are aware of Australia’s disciplinary problems but are focused only on their next Test against New Zealand....

Watson wants to play for Australia again 13 Mar 2013 - 12:09 am

SYDNEY: Suspended Australia vice-captain Shane Watson is determined to play for his country again and dismissed yesterday suggestions that he had a poor...

Eight centuries as Test ends in draw 13 Mar 2013 - 12:08 am

GALLE: Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara yesterday rattled up his second century against Bangladesh in the drawn opening Test, which saw a record-equalling eight...

SA give contracts to four new players 13 Mar 2013 - 12:08 am

CAPE TOWN: South Africa have given national contracts to four new players - Dean Elgar, Rory Kleinveldt, Marchant de Lange and Aaron Phagiso...

‘Fast bowling rebirth offers hope for West Indies’ 13 Mar 2013 - 12:06 am

Bridgetown, Barbados: West Indies head coach Otis Gibson says fast bowling is experiencing a rebirth in the Caribbean and he has expressed confidence...

Rahim leads Bangladesh run-spree 12 Mar 2013 - 08:07 am

Bangladeshi captain Mushfiqur Rahim raises his bat and helmet in celebration after scoring a double century during the fourth day of the opening...

Australia sack four players 12 Mar 2013 - 08:03 am

Chandigarh: Australia yesterday dumped four cricketers, including vice-captain Shane Watson, for a breach of team discipline thus leaving them out of reckoning for...

Watson contemplating retirement 12 Mar 2013 - 07:59 am

Australian batsman David Warner and Shane Watson in action in the first Test match of the four-match Test series against India in Chennai...

Zimbabwe hope to make up for lost time in Test arena 12 Mar 2013 - 07:55 am

BRIDGETOWN: Zimbabwe’s stuttering return to Test cricket continues in Barbados today when they start their first series in more than seven years against...