India's Virat Kohli hits a four off Sri Lanka's Nuwan Kulasekera during their ICC Champions Trophy warm-up cricket match at Edgbaston cricket ground in Birmingham, England. Virat Kohli and Dinesh Karthik smashed a century each as India warmed up their Champions Trophy campaign with a five-wic

NEW DELHI: Having avoided the media before and after the final of the Indian Premier League, India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Tuesday maintained a stoic silence on the spot-fixing scandal that has, among others, also led to the arrest of CSK's Team principal Gurunath Meiyappan. On expect

NEW DELHI: Sports Minister Jitendra Singh on Thursday said he has been forced to hang his head in shame due to the IPL spot-fixing scandal, which is becoming bigger and murkier with each passing day, insisting that a deterrent law could have prevented the credibility crisis that cricket is facin

NEW DELHI: The last one week has been a nightmare for the Rajasthan Royals. With all the chatter around the three disgraced players charged of spot-fixing, no one would have blamed Rahul Dravid and his boys if they decided to throw in the towel, especially with the Sunrisers Hyderabad turning on

While refusing to ban the remaining IPL matches, the Supreme Court Tuesday slammed the BCCI, saying spot fixing incidents had taken place due to its lackadaisical approach in reining in the erring players. An apex court bench of Justices B.S. Chauhan and Dipak Misra said that it was incumbent

HYDERABAD: The change of franchisee has proved to be a sunrise for the cricket-crazy city. In their very first season, the Sunrisers Hyderabad dished out some memorable performances on way to seal a place in the playoffs of the T20 tournament. Converting the RGIC Stadium into a fortress, the Su

NEW DELHI: Delhi Daredevils' woeful season ended with yet another disappointing loss, this time by 38 runs to Pune Warriors, to finish at the bottom of the nine-team table in the Indian Premier League on Sunday. The penultimate league match of the competition had only academic interest and th

  RCB team greeting the crowd after winning against CSK at Chinnaswamy stadium in Bangalore. Skipper Virat Kohli’s magnificent batting and short but incisive spell from Zaheer Khan kept Royal Challengers Bangalore in contention for pay-off berth as they easily beat Chennai Super Kin

NEW DELHI: Indian cricketer and Rajasthan Royals player S Sreesanth on Friday confessed to spot-fixing in the Indian Premier League (IPL), police said. "Sreesanth has confessed to spot-fixing. He was teary eyed during interrogation," a Delhi Police official said. Rajasthan Royals cricketer

MUMBAI: It takes one poor decision to ruin a good contest and that job was done on Wednesday night by umpire Sudhir Asnani. The 52-year-old from Bhopal, adjudged Rajasthan Royals' skipper Rahul Dravid out caught behind when he had missed his attempted hook off Mitchell Johnson by a good eight

CHENNAI: As expected, Chennai Super Kings brushed aside Delhi Daredevils at home on Tuesday to move on top of the T20 league table on a day CSK, Mumbai Indians and Rajasthan Royals moved into the playoffs. Captain MS Dhoni blasted 58 not out to lift CSK to a competitive 168-4. Delhi never loo

RANCHI: The Kolkata Knight Riders kept their slim chances alive by beating Royal Challengers Bangalore by five wickets, with four balls remaining, in a low-scoring game at the JSCA International Cricket Stadium in Ranchi on Sunday. A disciplined bowling performance by 'home' side KKR ensured

JAIPUR: It was desert storm at its best on Sunday. Shane Watson, helped along by Stuart Binny, smashed Chennai Super Kings bowling to pulps to take hosts Rajasthan Royals within a handshaking distance of a playoff spot. Only a mathematical equation can now keep the Royals out of the last-four st

NEW DELHI: One just got the feeling that it was going to be Virat Kohli's night on Friday. There is a familiar swagger to the Royal Challengers Bangalore skipper's footsteps when he comes out to bat at the Feroz Shah Kotla. And why shouldn't it be like that? After all, Kohli has learnt most of h

PUNE: Kolkata Knight Riders hung on to their slender hopes of qualifying for the playoffs after outplaying a listless Pune Warriors by 46 runs in their T20 league match on Thursday. The hosts' batting vulnerabilities were cruelly exposed once again as they failed to overhaul Knights' competit

HYDERABAD: The Sunrisers Hyderabad's attack, which had bamboozled visiting sides on five previous occasions and had converted the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium into a fortress, came apart on Wednesday night as the batting might of the Chennai Super Kings was felt in full measure.

A stuttering top order and a lame effort with the ball consigned Delhi Daredevils to their ninth loss in 12 matches, while Rajasthan Royals sounded a warning with a nine-wicket thumping that embellished their unbeaten home record, and propelled them to second place on the table. Royals' seventh s

MUMBAI: The Chennai Super Kings juggernaut has been halted. Chasing their eighth win in a row in the Indian T20 league, the two-time champs were humbled by 60 runs by hosts Mumbai Indians on a tricky wicket at the Wankhede Stadium, on Sunday.  The win allowed Mumbai Indians to register their