The place abounded with fascinating tales from the cricket field but we were venturing into a zone of intrigue and uncertainty, expectations fired by the excitement of seeing some legends of the game. They had long retired but it did not matter. Meeting them in perso ....

Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews won the toss and asked West Indies to bat first in the first ODI of the series at R. Premedasa Stadium on Sunday. Sri Lanka handed ODI caps to all-rounders Shehan Jayasuriya and Danushka Gunathilaka. Jayasuriya has represented Sri Lank ....

Popularly known as ‘captain cool’, the Chennai Super Kings skipper has hardly lost his bearing on and off the field and the humble cricketer from Jharkhand is of the opinion that the Indian Premier League and all such T20 leagues of the world have led to a g ....

A wave of crests and troughs is what Bhambri has gone through. It started in early 2014 when he was hovering around the 200-mark in ATP singles rankings. And when the dust settled on the $50,000 KPIT ATP Challenger here on Saturday he had ensured his entry into the top ....

Once freed from the Robben Island prison, Mandela, known as ‘Madiba’, called upon the sporting bodies to unite in South Africa and went out of the way to bring about a cricketing relationship between what was in 1992 called Mandela’s rainbow nation and ....

Call it an embarrassment of riches in the batting unit or a tactical necessity. As far as Ravi Shastri is concerned, it is not an issue that will cause unrest in the dressing room. If a century can’t cement your place in the side, then Shastri needs to explain thi ....

Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq, who won his sixth successive toss in a test match and opted to bat, top scored with 71 with seven fours and two sixes before falling to Anderson with the second new ball. Anderson combined with Stuart Broad who took 2-13 off 13 overs t ....

And it earned him a sliver of satisfaction in defeating Hamilton, who has beaten him to the season championship the past two years. “Muchas gracias!” the German shouted. “This is the best podium of the year.” Rosberg started from the pole a ....

 The relief week for Mumbai in the Ranji Trophy gave the pocket sized Thakur an opportunity to show his mettle and he largely succeeded capturing four wickets with the new ball — two in the last session on Friday and two in his opening burst on Saturday. Nath ....

He recalled the “Kapil can’t get another Test fifty” remark from Sunil Gavaskar. “It was for my good. He was challenging me to raise my game. I got a fifty in the next match (a sterling 79-ball 69 in his next innings at Bombay against Pakistan) a ....