Melbourne, Dec. 26 (ANI): Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Asif has said he was unfairly treated for testing positive to steroids.
The controversial quick has vowed to “tell everything” about his drug dramas.
Banned for a year for testing positive to the steroid nandrolone during the inaugural Indian Premier League in 2008, Asif has only just returned to [...]

Melbourne, Dec. 26 (ANI): Australian openers Shane Watson and Simon Katich fell agonisingly short of centuries, but their side was in a commanding position against Pakistan on the first day of the first Test of the series at the MCG here.
Australia were 3-305 at stumps on the first day after Watson and Katich posted a [...]

Guwahati:It was a good toss to lose for Australia as their new ball bowlers struck early, reducing India to 27/5 inside 9 overs.
India were bowled for 170 runs in the sixth ODI at Guwahati on Sunday morning, failing to survive their full quota of 50 overs.
Even for this moderate total, India had Ravindra Jadeja and [...]

Guwahati: A disastrous start with the bat by India helped Australia wrest early advantage at the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium here on Sunday.
After skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and elected to bat in this do-or-die match, India made the worst possible start as the opener Virender Sehwag and one-drop batsman Gautam Gambhir fell cheaply. [...]

Guwahati, Nov 7(ANI): On the eve of sixth one-day international between India and Australia, Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni admitted that this was one series where the middle-order has not performed consistently.
Addressing the media in Guwahati on Saturday, Dhoni said: “This is one of the series where the middle order has not performed consistently, where [...]

Guwahati, Nov 7(ANI): On the eve of the sixth ODI between India and Australia, Chief curator of Assam Cricket Association (ACA) Sunil Kumar Barua said that he hopes the game would be a high-scoring tie.
Barua said that a lot of effort has been put in to make the Nehru Stadium track conducive for a [...]

Sydney, Nov 7 (ANI): Australian skipper Ricky Ponting hopes that luck will continue to favour him against dangerous Virender Sehwag, who has not been so successful in the ongoing seven match series so far.
Australia have escaped lightly in their dealings with Sehwag so far this series, and captain Ricky Ponting is hoping [...]

Melbourne, Nov 7 (ANI): Skipper Ricky Ponting asked his team to be brave and face the might of Sachin Tendulkar and India in the nail biting fifth ODI at Hyderabad, which Australia won by three runs.
An emotional pre-match talk from Ponting was the catalyst for a remarkable match as the Australians [...]

Sydney, Nov 7 (ANI): Australian opener Shaun Marsh, who scored run-a-ball 112 against India in the fifth ODI says Sachin Tendulkar’s spectacular ODI innings stealing his thunder didn’t bother him, as he ended up on the winning side.
“It doesn’t really both me … we won!” said Marsh, who scored his [...]

Hyderabad, Nov 5(ANI): Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar on Thursday became the first batsman ever to score 17,000-runs in one-day internationals, when he reached seven runs during the fifth ODI against Australia at Hyderabad.
Widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket, Tendulkar crossed the 17,000-run mark during his [...]

Mumbai, Nov 5(ANI): Sarfaraz Khan, a 12-year-old schoolboy who has broken master blaster Sachin Tendulkar’’s record by scoring 439 runs in the Harris Shield tournament conducted for schools in Mumbai, has said that he is thankful to god for the achievement.
Addressing the media on achieving the rare feat in Mumbai, Sarfaraz said: [...]

Melbourne, Nov.5 (ANI): The crowded international cricket program is unsustainable, the chief of the players” union, Paul Marsh, has said, adding that the injuries hitting the national squad at present, could affect team composition and performance in both the short and long term.
””If you ever needed evidence of the impact of such [...]

Australians have levelled the series at 2-2, after a spirited bowling performance. Chasing a moderate total of 250, India got off to a flier thanks to Sehwag, but once he fell the scoring rate dropped drastically.
Tendulkar looked on course for a big one until he was given out unfortunately. Bollinger was the pick of the [...]

Mumbai, Nov 2(ANI): The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) today opened its global bidding process by inviting bids from various companies to sponsor the four national teams, including the premier men’s outfit.
The BCCI has invited bids for sponsoring the senior men’s, India A, men’s under 19 and the women’s [...]

Mohali, Nov 2(ANI): Australian skipper Ricky Ponting’s decision to open the batting in the third ODI of the seven game series against India may develop into something more lasting.
Ponting has indicated that he would maintain the spot for the rest of the series, starting with the fourth game in Mohali.
“The reason I [...]

Mohali, Nov 2(ANI): Injured Australian all rounder James Hopes has been ruled out of the seven match ODI series against India after failing to recover from a hamstring strain.
Hopes had damaged his hamstring during the first match of the series in Vadodara and tried in vain to recover until medical staff decided [...]

New Delhi, Nov 1(ANI): Indian batsmen Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir, who sustained injuries during the third ODI against Australia, are doubtful starters for the fourth ODI to be played at Mohali on November 2.
Sehwag was struck on his left foot by a Peter Siddle yorker and Gambhir was hit below the ear by a [...]

Chandigarh, Nov 1(ANI): The Crime Branch of Chandigarh Police on Sunday said that it had cracked a major cricket-betting racket and arrested four bookies in the city.
Addressing the media in Chandigarh, Superintendent of Police (Crime) of Chandigarh Police, Madhur Verma, said: “The arrested persons were operating from a rented house and they were caught red-handed [...]