Cape Town: Auckland Aces opener Lou Vincent said the win over Kolkata Knight Riders in a Champions League Twenty20 match here was long-awaited sweet revenge for his side after the IPL team had shunted it out of the event’s last edition with narrow victory. Auckland beat KKR by seven wickets last night to extract revenge [...]
Cape Town: A narrow 14-run defeat has not been an ideal start for the former champions Chennai Super Kings and they will look to make amends in their bowling when they taken on impressive Highveld Lions, here tomorrow. Save a mini mid-innings collapse, Chennai batted well in yesterday’s loss against Sydney Sixers but bowling was [...]
Centurion: Jacques Rudolph led Titans’ dominant all-round display with a 59-ball 83 to prope-l the home team to a convincing 39-run win over Perth Scorchers in the Champions League Twen-ty20 opener here on Saturday. Sent into bat, Titans posted a challenging 163 for four, and then rode on Cornelius de Villiers’ three wickets to restrict [...]
Sent into bat, DD posted 160 for eight and then restricted KKR to 108 for seven on a pitch which assisted pace bowling though it had uneven bounce. Centurion: Delhi Daredevils produced a superb bowling show as they crushed Kolkata Knight riders by 52 runs in their opening Champions League Twenty20 match here today. Sent [...]
Johannesburg: Injuries ravaged his body but retired Australian fast bowler Brett Lee says he never thought of cutting down pace and he wants to pass on this “never say die attitude” to the next generation before quitting cricket completely. “My love and passion for the game helped me overcome the tough phases. The day will [...]
Karachi: Starved of international cricket on home turf, Pakistan’s Test and one-day captain Misbah-ul-Haq said it is unfair to deprive his team of a chance to compete in front of its own due to the lingering security concerns of international sides. “We are a big Test-playing country and it is not fair for us as well as [...]
New Delhi: Former Pakistan skipper Wasim Akram has said in-form Virat Kohli should not be rushed into Indian captaincy but advised Mahendra Singh Dhoni to relieve himself of the burden of leading the side in at least one of the three formats. “As far as blooding young Virat Kohli as a captain in smaller formats [...]
Dubai: The International Cricket Council (ICC) today suspended the six umpires caught in a TV sting, which alleged that they were willing to fix Twenty20 matches, pending the completion of an inquiry against them. “The International Cricket Council (ICC) and its relevant Full Member Boards have agreed not to appoint any of the umpires named [...]
Johannesburg: After 20 days of high voltage cricket ended in title triumph for the West Indies, it will be an opportunity for some of the Indian boys, who missed the semifinal berth in the ICC World T20, to redeem themselves when the Champions League Twenty20 kicks off here tomorrow. The league will witness four Indian [...]
Colombo: Skipper Mithali Raj was the highest placed Indian in the latest ICC T20I Women’s Rankings as she remained static in the third position in the batting chart even as Jhulan Goswami fell a place to be fourth in the bowling list. Mithali has 656 points while Goswami has 645. Harpreet Kaur (ninth) and Poonam [...]
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Humorist Jaspal Bhatti, had he been alive, would have found stunning material for a flop show in the BJP’s behaviour of late. How the ‘national opposition party’ turned into a ‘notional’ party is a story worth caricaturing with potential for record viewing-rate.
Chinese president Xi Jinping is a chemical engineer. No wonder he knows the chemical formula to pursue his country’s global ambitions. If anybody in India believed Xi would extend a warm friendship to this country, he should be naive. He has been on a global Sino initiative to widen the Chinese visions of the century. [...]
“India is China’s important neighbour. (The purpose of) my current visit to India is three-fold — to increase mutual interest, intensify cooperation and to face the future,” said Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during his visit to India. To this the Indian prime minister’s response could n0t have been more fitting that “the rest of the [...]
Adopt and restore a lake is new mantra
It’s interesting that the Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority (HMDA) has invited interested individuals, voluntary and corporate organisations to adopt lakes in and around the city in order to protect and preserve water bodies. Last week, HMDA Commissioner Neerabh Kumar Prasad said 176 lakes in the jurisdiction of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) and another [...]
About Traditional Russian values
Russia has decided to review its adoption pact that it has with France after the latter legalised gay marriage. This is in the wake of the statement of the Russian president Vladmir Putin which he made last month that Russia could change its adoption agreements with the countries which allowed gay marriage that goes against [...]
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