The teams placed sixth and seventh on the points table, i.e Mumbai Indians and Kolkata Knight Riders respectively, are set to clash today at the Eden Gardens. Mumbai Indians, who look like a formidable side on the paper, have not lived upto the expectations of the team and their fans. Skipper Ricky Ponting is yet [...]
Royal Challengers Bangalore take on Mumbai Indians in their first match and the second of the season, on their home turf today. While the Challengers ended at the fifth position in the previous season of the tournament, Mumbai Indians fared better, sealing the third spot on the points table.
Sachin Tendulkar Many Sachinites are glad that his retirement is only from ODIs. Perhaps the world’s best and greatest batsman, his reason for calling it a day shows how committed he is to the game. “The preparatory process to defend the World Cup in 2015 should begin early and in right earnest,” he said. He’s [...]
New Delhi: Former Pakistan captain Wasim Akram feels it is difficult for Indian selectors to give any sort of retirement advice to Sachin Tendulkar and, at the end, the batting maestro himself will have to do some assessment like Ricky Ponting did. As the pressure of retirement mounts on Tendulkar, Akram feels that Indian cricket [...]
Ricky Ponting will walk into the blue yonder at the same ground where it all began 17 years ago.
And finally Ricky Ponting has retired. It’s been an illustrious career that saw his become one of the best cricketers from Australia. Towards the end of last year there were vehement calls that Ponting retire but Punter clung on and gave a fitting reply with some stellar performances in the Tests series in India. Last [...]
Perth: Ricky Ponting, one of the finest batsmen in contemporary cricket and Australia’s middle order bulwark for years, today announced his retirement from international cricket, bringing down the curtains on an illustrious career spanning 17 years. Ponting, who will retire after the third Test against South Africa beginning here tomorrow, told a hastily-called press conference [...]
ROSEAU: Half-centuries from Ed Cowan and Ricky Ponting left Australia in control at the end of the third day of the third and final Test against the West Indies here at Windsor Park on Wednesday. Australia finished the day on 200 for six in their second innings and with a healthy lead of 310 runs [...]
SYDNEY: World Cup-winning skipper Ricky Ponting said Tuesday he intended to continue playing Test cricket for Australia despite being told he had no future in the national one-day team. Ponting said he had been informed by selectors that he did not fit into their future plans for the one-day team, but despite speculation about his [...]
SYDNEY: Players and newspapers Friday sought answers from selectors over the status of Test wicketkeeper Brad Haddin in Australia’s team for the tri one-day series against India and Sri Lanka.Vice-captain Shane Watson said Haddin deserved clarity given his service to Australian cricket, while former skipper Ricky Ponting said confusion was rife over the player’s place [...]
21 lawmakers back Chandigarh-born as top US judge
Washington: Ahead of an expected Senate vote on the nomination of Chandigarh-born Indian-American legal luminary Srikanth ‘Sri’ Srinivasan to a top US court, 21 lawmakers have penned their support for him. Srinivasan, 46, currently principal deputy solicitor general of the US last week won unanimous approval from the Senate Judiciary Committee for his nomination as [...]
It was like bereavement: Dravid on spot-fixing
New Delhi: Rajasthan Royals skipper Rahul Dravid says dealing with the turmoil caused by the spot-fixing scandal, which has left his team’s reputation in tatters, has turned out to be as tough as handling “bereavement in some ways”. “I would not lie it was a very tough phase for us. It was a blow to [...]
New mango named Nirbhaya after gang-rape victim
Lucknow: A new variety of mango, harvested at Uttar Pradesh’s famous mango centre Malihabad, has been named Nirbhaya after the 23-year-old Delhi girl who was brutally gang-raped Dec 16 last year and died of her injuries two weeks later. The new variety, its grower Kaleemullah Khan said, was his way of honouring the bravery and [...]
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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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