Category: Cricket

Bangladesh police arrested international cricketer Shahadat Hossain’s wife on Sunday over allegations of beating and torturing their 11-year-old maid, an officer said. The 29-year-old paceman was suspended last month when police raided his house after officers found the injured and crying maid on a street in the capital Dhaka. He and his wife Nritto Shahadat had been on the run […]

Shashank Manohar is all set to take over as the BCCI president at the Board’s Special General meeting on Sunday after emerging as the only candidate, marking an unsually smooth transition of power following the demise of Jagmohan Dalmiya. All the six units of East Zone unanimously proposed Manohar’s candidature for the president’s post, reflecting former chief N Srinivasan’s diminishing […]

Former Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq was on Friday appointed temporary Afghanistan cricket coach for their upcoming Zimbabwe tour. Inzamam confirmed that he had accepted a 25-day role to coach Afghanistan on their tour of Zimbabwe, where they play five one-day internationals and two Twenty20s starting from October 16. “I have accepted the role of Afghanistan team coach only for the tour […]

DHARAMSHALA: JP Duminy launched an all-out attack on the Indian bowlers with an unbeaten 68 that got South Africa to chase down a daunting 200-run target and take a 1-0 lead in the three-match T20 series against India. Duminy’s 34-ball innings was laced with seven sixes and it did enough to overshadow Rohit Sharma’s maiden T20 hundred as South Africa […]

New Delhi: Former India batsman Ajay Jadeja has quit as coach of the Delhi Ranji Trophy team, and has said that his “opinions or inputs don’t matter” to the Delhi and District Cricket Association. Jadeja was appointed during Delhi’s controversy-filled run-up to the 2015-16 domestic season and did not travel with the side for their first Ranji game against Rajasthan […]

NEW DELHI: With Team India’s much-awaited skirmish against South Africa set to begin on Friday with the first T20 clash in Dharamshala, senior India batsman Suresh Raina has got into the groove by signing a mega deal. The player has signed a bat sponsorship agreement with a leading tyre manufacturing company for a hefty amount which, according to industry sources […]