Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday made a strong pitch for coordinated efforts among SCO members to combat the menace of terrorism and enhance connectivity without impinging on sovereignty and territorial integrity. In his address at the annual summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in the Kazakh capital, where Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif […]
If it is cricket’s role to offer a day-long and all-consuming escape, it did the job well enough when India met Pakistan in the Champions Trophy. A crowd of 24,156 – the highest for a one-day game in Birmingham – and a television audience of about one billion watched the first fixture between the two […]
India’s Jhulan Goswami is now the leading wicket taker (181) in Women’s ODIs. She surpassed Australian Cathryn Fitzpatrick’s tally of 180 wickets in one day internationals.India fast bowler Jhulan Goswami on Tuesday created history by becoming the leading wicket-taker in the one day internationals for women’s. The right-arm medium pacer achieved the feat when she […]
Mahendra Singh Dhoni took the cricketing world by surprise again as he stepped down as captain of India’s ODI and T20 teams on Wednesday. Just like his retirement from Test cricket, nobody saw it coming especially since Dhoni was expected to carry on at least till the Champions Trophy in England. As they say, it […]
Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Chief Selector MSK Prasad were at the Vidharbha Cricket Association Stadium in Jamtha, just outside Nagpur, on Wednesday morning, in the backdrop of the Jharkhand-Gujarat Ranji Trophy semi-final match. In the evening, MSD contacted MSK and said, “OK, that’s it.” He was no longer India’s ODI and T20I captain. The meeting […]
India’s limited overs cricket will usher in a new era with the national selectors expected to name Virat Kohli as the captain when they pick the squad for three ODIs and three T20 Internationals against England here on Wednesday. Test skipper Kohli is expected to be anointed captain of the limited overs teams also, after […]
Fomer Australian captain Michael Clarke on Thursday backed Virat Kohli to lead India successfully in all formats after limited-overs cricket captain MS Dhoni stepped down from this role. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Wednesday made Dhoni’s decision public and added that he was available for selection for the upcoming India-England […]
Legendary Indian cricketer Sunil Gavaskar on Wednesday said that he was happy M S Dhoni had only quit limited overs captaincy and not retired as he felt the wicketkeeper-batsman still had a lot to offer to the Indian cricket team. “If he had quit as a player, then I would have the been the first one […]
