Probing betting, match and spot-fixing in cricket is turning out to be a mirage like bringing back black money stashed abroad. The Supreme Court has asked the Justice Mukul Mudgal Committee to probe all the nefarious activities in the last edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL), just as it also gave the government a week's time Friday to form......
Chennai Super Kings returned to winning ways with a convincing seven-wicket win over Royal Challengers Bangalore in their Indian Premier League (IPL) match at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium here Saturday. Coming into the match, Super Kings were on a three-match losing streak and in danger of relinquishing their second spot to Kolkata Knight Riders,......
Kolkata Knight Riders captain Gautam Gambhir won the toss and elected to field first against Sunrisers Hyderabad in their Indian Premier League (IPL) match at the Eden Gardens here Saturday. While the Knight Riders fielded an unchanged side, Sunrisers brought in Jason Holder and Anirudh Srikanth in place of Aaron Finch and Irfan......
Thousands of frenzied fans Saturday bid adieu to their home team Royal Challengers Bangalore, which again lost its last league tie in the IPL-7 by eight wickets to title contenders Chennai Super Kings at the Chinnaswamy stadium here. In spite of knowing well that the hosts were out of the tournament's play-offs this year too, about 25,000 fans......
A late charge by skipper Darren Sammy allowed Sunrisers Hyderabad to overcome initial hiccups and post a challenging 160/7 against Kolkata Knight Riders in their Indian Premier League encounter at the Eden Gardens here Saturday. Sammy slammed 29 off 19 balls to follow up on Shikhar Dhawan's 31-ball 29 for the visitors, who now need to restrict......
Mumbai Indians handed Delhi Daredevils their eighth straight loss, beating them by 15 runs in their Indian Premier League (IPL) match at the Wankhede Stadium here Friday. Mumbai's third win on the trot kept them in the hunt for a playoff spot -- all be it the smallest of chances. Mumbai Indians have 12 points, the same as Sunrisers Hyderabad and......
Out of play-offs for the second consecutive year, Royal Challengers Bangalore will take on Chennai Super Kings Saturday in their last IPL-7 league tie at the Chinnaswamy stadium here, more for pride than to prove anything to its frenzied fans, who feel let down by their poor show in this tournament. With 10 points from eight losses and only five......
Rajasthan Royals' hope of making it to the play-offs suffered a set-back as they went down to Kings XI Punjab by 16 runs at the PCA Stadium here Friday. Chasing a target of 180, Rajasthan Royals managed 163 for eight in 20 overs after a late onslaught by James Faulkner (35 not out) and Brad Hodge (31). Rajasthan Royals' loss opened up the race for......
West Indies opened a training camp here Friday in preparation for the New Zealand Test series but will be without three of their Indian Premier League (IPL) stars. Opening batsman Chris Gayle, fast bowler Jason Holder and off-spinner Sunil Narine, who have all been included in the squad for the camp, are all still in India with their IPL......
Mumbai Indians were all out for 173 with three balls to spare against Delhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League (IPL) encounter at the Wankhede Stadium here Friday. Mike Hussey was the top scorer with 56 off 33 balls while Lendl Simmons (35) and Rohit Sharma (30) came up with valuable scores. For Daredevils, leggie Imran Tahir picked up three......
West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Bravo says he is close to making a full recovery from injury as he heads to Barbados Thursday to join a training camp ahead of the home series against New Zealand which bowls off next month. The One Day International (ODI) skipper, who injured his shoulder while fielding in the Indian Premier League (IPL), is......
The Indian Premier League (IPL) governing council has decided to stick with Bangalore as the venue for the June 1 final, thus ending all speculations about moving the summit clash to Mumbai, a top official said here Thursday. Earlier, it was decided that the final could be shifted to Mumbai provided the venue got the requisite clearances from the......
BCCI interim president Sunil Gavakar Thursday said a couple of cases of players being approached by "outsiders" during the ongoing Indian premier League (IPL) have been reported to the anti-corruption officials. Replying to a query whether there were cases during the ongoing IPL where players were approached by outsiders, allegedly......
Robin Uthappa struck a blistering unbeaten 83 off 51 balls to take Kolkata Knight Riders to a mammoth 195 for four against Royal Challengers Bangalore in their Indian Premier League (IPL) at the Eden Gardens here Thursday. Shakib Al Hasan also came up with a whirlwind knock of 60 runs from 38 balls. Royal Challengers pacers Mitchell Starc, Ashok......
Overcoming initial hiccups, Robin Uthappa and Shakib Al Hassan powered Kolkata Knight Riders to an imposing 195/4 against the Royal Challengers Bangalore in their Indian Premier League (IPL) encounter at the Eden Gardens here Thursday. The Uthappa juggernaut rolled on as he partnered Shakib 60 (38b 5x4 3x6) to stitch a 121-run partnership to......
Beleaguered BCCI president N. Srinivasan will have to stay away from discharging the functions as national cricketing body chief as the Supreme Court Thursday declined to hear his plea seeking restoration of his powers. The apex court bench of Justice B.S. Chauhan and Justice A.K. Sikri declined to hear Srinivasan's plea as, they said, they would......
The Indian cricket board is considering ways of helping out under-19 players in the Indian Premier League (IPL), so that they are able to handle the fame and money the tourney brings them and do not go wayward, board interim chief Sunil Gavaskar said Thursday. A year after the cash-rich league was rocked by the spot fixing scandal, that led to the......
The Indian Premier League (IPL) governing council Thursday decided to stick with Bangalore as the venue for the June 1 final, thus ending all speculations about moving the summit clash to Mumbai. "We revisited the issue out of our respect for (Mumbai Cricket Association) president Sharad Pawar, who called (IPL chairman) Ranjit Biswal. The MCA......
Kolkata Knight Riders beat Royal Challengers Bangalore by 30 runs in the Indian Premier League (IPL) at the Eden Gardens here Thursday. Chasing a target of 196, Royal Challengers Bangalore made 165 for five in 20 overs. It was Knight Riders' sixth consecutive win this season....
The Robin Uthappa juggernaut rolled on as he hit a blistering unbeaten 83 off 51 balls to power Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) to the play-offs with a 30-run win over Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in their Indian Premier League (IPL) encounter at the Eden Gardens here Thursday. Chasing an imposing target of 196, RCB could not recover from a......