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After Lord's, India gear up for Trent Bridge

Stunned by the humiliating defeat at the Lord's, India will have to quickly get their act together as they go into the second Test against England on Friday with a serious threat to their status a...

Posted On: Jul 28, 2011 | Comments : 0

Lifter Renubala returns CWG gold

Disappointed at being overlooked for an Arjuna Award, weightlifter Renubala Chanu on Monday returned her 2010 Commonwealth Games (CWG) gold medal to the sports ministry saying she will quit the sport ...

Posted On: Jul 26, 2011 | Comments : 0

England team unchanged for 2nd Test against India

Celebrating a massive triumph in the series opener, England on Tuesday named an unchanged 12-member squad for the second cricket Test against India to be played at Trent Bridge from July 29. Pacer Tim...

Posted On: Jul 26, 2011 | Comments : 0

Four reasons why India lost the Lord's Test

Spirit was willing but the flesh was weak. Perhaps it sounds biblical, but there can't be a better way to abridge India's state during the five days at Lord's that got construed as the 200...

Posted On: Jul 26, 2011 | Comments : 0

'India turned up with totally inadequate preparation'

In a scathing criticism of India's performance in the opening Test, former English captain Nasser Hussain said Mahendra Singh Dhoni's men don't seem to value their number one status given ...

Posted On: Jul 26, 2011 | Comments : 0

Dhoni facing one Test ban over slow over-rate

Indian cricket captain M.S. Dhoni is facing a one-match Test ban unless his team manages to increase their bowling over-rate in the ongoing Lord’s Test against England. According to reports, Ind...

Posted On: Jul 25, 2011 | Comments : 0

Force India Show A ‘Wonderful Team Performance’ in Germany

Force India team principal Vijay Mallya hailed the German Grand Prix as a ‘wonderful team performance’ after Adrian Sutil collected eight points to move the team up to seventh place in the...

Posted On: Jul 25, 2011 | Comments : 0

India are very ragged: Nasser Hussain

Former England captain Nasser Hussain has called India a "ragged" side, whose players are not well looked after due to the IPL, and insisted that this would precisely be the reason why the E...

Posted On: Jul 25, 2011 | Comments : 0

England v India: first Test, day four report

Lord’s has hosted 123 of the 2,000 Tests ever played but it cannot have seen many with such an exciting denouement as this where all three results are still possible. An England win or the draw,...

Posted On: Jul 25, 2011 | Comments : 0

Mahendra Singh Dhoni forced to bowl after India's gamble backfires

There has been a destructive bowling spell in Test cricket by a wicketkeeper, but you have to go back to Alfred Lyttelton in 1884 to find it, so when Mahendra Singh Dhoni unstrapped the pads and bowle...

Posted On: Jul 23, 2011 | Comments : 0
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