With just 2 weeks left for the Cricket World Cup to kick-off, private direct-to-home (DTH) operators DishTV and TATA-Sky have announced attractive offers on their dishes, with the promise of enhanced viewership experience. Both companies are hoping to hard sell their products in the run-up to the World Cup, especially in the Metro cities that [...]
India’s Saurav Ghosal, ranked 46th in the world, lost to higher ranked Olli Touminen of Finland 5-11, 3-11, 8-11 in the men’s main draw at the Bear Sterns Tournament of Champions, a press release from the Squash Rackets Federation of India (SRFI) said here today.Touminen is ranked 18th in the world. In the qualifying rounds, [...]
Young middle order batsman Dinesh Karthick said his match-winning half-century that helped India beat the West Indies at Cuttack was crucial in winning him a berth in the World Cup squad.”Definitely my chances increased after I got runs (top-score of 63)in the Cuttack game (on January 24).I really started believing thenthat I will make  the [...]
Chennai Port Trust has extended its reign on the all-India Major Ports carrom title winning the team championship in the ninth edition of the event here on Saturday.Chennai defeated Mumbai Port Trust 2-0 in the final.Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust blanked Vishakapatnam 2-0 to take the third place. In the individual men’s singles event, second seeded [...]
India’s national selectors announced that the same 15 players who formed the squad for the Rajkot one-dayer against Sri Lanka would travel to the West Indies for the forthcoming World Cup. The selectors stuck to a conservative approach and pulled no major surprises. “Most of the squad selected themselves, based on merit and their performance,” [...]
After experiencing success in Germany, UK, Japan, Singapore and several other countries, Britain’s leading re- school physical play programmed — Tumble Tots – has launched its first centre here, and is already a hit with kids and their parents. The programmed divided into three segments namely Gym babes, Tumble Tots and Gym bobs cater to children [...]
On Wednesday, Tendulkar batted like Sachin again. With a sumptuous 76-ball century against West Indies that was aesthetic, intelligent, the maestro was rocking once again and in the mood for World Cup. India’s Sachin Tendulkar admitted his man-of-the-series performance against West Indies came at just the right time with the World Cup looming. His unbeaten [...]
Played at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai, on 27 January 2007 – day/night (50-over match) Result West Indies won by 3 wickets (with 38 balls remaining) West Indies in India ODI Series – 3rd ODI India v West Indies 2006/07 season  India innings R AR Uthappa c Simmons b Gayle 70 G Gambhir c Simmons [...]
The cricket coach Greg Chappell was on Monday man-handled at the Biju Patnaik Airport in Bhubaneswar by a fan protesting the non-inclusion of cricketers from Orissa in the team.  The man, identified as Biranchi Maharana, was among a crowd of cameramen and photo-journalists and suddenly rushed towards Chappell as he was on his way [...]
Port Elizabeth: They say when the wind sweeps into the stadium from the drylands of the west, it turns the pitch at St. George’s park dry. And when the wind comes in from the south-easterly direction, it carries with it moisture from the sea. The spinners would benefit in the first scenario, and the pacmen, [...]
SCOREBOARD Sri Lanka: U. Tharanga c Akmal b Razzaq 38, S. Jayasuriya b Anjum 48, M. Jayawardene c Farhat b Malik 31, K. Sangakkara c Anjum b Malik 39, M. Atapattu (run out) 36, T. Dilshan b Afridi 3, F. Maharoof b Razzaq 22, C. Vaas b Razzaq 15, M. Muralitharanlbw b Hafeez 0, L. [...]