Ronaldinho danced, danced and danced. It was 5.15 am in Castelldefels, near Barcelona, and the player was far from calling it quits after a night of partying. Source: Sify.com Sports | 3 May 2008 | 12:16 pm
Mumbai Indians face a stern test as they strive to keep their Indian Premier League (IPL) hopes alive when they clash with in-form Delhi Daredevils at the newly-built DY Patil stadium on Sunday. Source: Sify.com Sports | 3 May 2008 | 11:41 am
It may still be a batsmans game (which version of cricket is not?), but there is a place for the bowlers in Twenty20, writes Partab Ramchand. Source: Sify.com Sports | 3 May 2008 | 11:38 am
Deccan Chargers captain V.V.S. Laxman won the toss and chose to bowl against Bangalore Royal Challengers in an Indian Premier League match at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium here Saturday. Source: News from IndiaeNews.com | 3 May 2008 | 11:00 am
Maria Sharapova hit out at the ruling body of women's tennis (WTA) on Friday for making her take part in a publicity shoot on the eve of the Italian Open. Source: Sify.com Sports | 3 May 2008 | 10:31 am
Football star David Beckham, considered a super dad, is causing a stress epidemic among British fathers who cannot live up to his standards. Source: Sify.com Sports | 3 May 2008 | 10:28 am
Chennai Super Kings will continue their aggressive approach despite their defeat to the Delhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League (IPL), skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni said on Friday night. Source: Sify.com Sports | 3 May 2008 | 9:51 am
Riding on his superb bowling performances during a brief stint in the Indian Premier League (IPL), pace spearhead Brett Lee emerged as the richest Australian cricketer from the tournament and returned home with 80,000 dollars per scalp for his four wickets. Source: Sify.com Sports | 3 May 2008 | 9:48 am
Mumbai Indians face a stern test as they strive to keep their Indian Premier League (IPL) hopes alive when they clash with in-form Delhi Daredevils at the newly-built D.Y. Patil stadium Sunday. Source: News from IndiaeNews.com | 3 May 2008 | 9:30 am
Manchester United and Chelsea, who meet in next month's Champions League final in Moscow, will focus on matters much closer to home this weekend when they renew their battle for the Premier League title. Source: Sify.com Sports | 3 May 2008 | 7:36 am
Skipper Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir put on a century partnership
for the first wicket to power Delhi Daredevils to a commanding
eight-wicket win against hitherto unbeaten Chennai Super Kings in the
Indian Premier League Twenty20 tournament here Friday night. Source: Sify.com Sports | 3 May 2008 | 4:10 am
Delhi Daredevils moved to the top spot in the Indian Premier League (IPL) standings after they beat Chennai Super Kings by eight wickets Friday night. Source: News from IndiaeNews.com | 3 May 2008 | 1:00 am
Chennai Super Kings will continue their aggressive approach and their defeat to Delhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League (IPL) was not the 'end of the tournament', skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni said Friday night . Source: News from IndiaeNews.com | 3 May 2008 | 1:00 am
CHENNAI: State Bank of India and Madras Sporting Union emerged winners on the opening day of the semifinal league phase of the Champion Club football tournament here. SBI defeated Tuticorin Port Trust 3-0 while Madras Sporting Union beat ... Source: The Hindu - Sport | 3 May 2008 | 12:00 am
Mumbai: The former Indian cricket coach, John Wright, says he would rather look at the brighter side of the Harbhajan Singh-S. Sreesanth spat and feels that while it cannot be condoned, it showed the passion with which the duo plays the game. ... Source: The Hindu - Sport | 3 May 2008 | 12:00 am
Karachi: Banned pacer Shoaib Akhtar’s never-ending woes have been compounded further with the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman, Nasim Ashraf, on Friday slapping a Rs. 220 million defamation suit against him. The defamation ... Source: The Hindu - Sport | 3 May 2008 | 12:00 am
HUBLI: SDM (Dharwad) beat CCK by 150 runs in the KSCA first division cricket league here on Friday. The scores: SDM 335 for seven in 45 overs (Dheeraj Shabadi 73, Nitin Bhille 65, T. Habib 61 ... Source: The Hindu - Sport | 3 May 2008 | 12:00 am
HYDERABAD: The Hindu entered the final of the inter-media cricket tournament organised by the Press Club of Hyderabad when it beat Vaartha by 29 runs in the semifinals on Friday. The ... Source: The Hindu - Sport | 3 May 2008 | 12:00 am
Perinthalmanna: Muthoot Ernakulam CC will meet BPCL Kochin Refineries in the final of the Dr. M.S. Nair memorial all-Kerala cricket tournament here. Manikantan lashed an unbeaten 66 as Muthoot upset favourite State Bank of Travancore ... Source: The Hindu - Sport | 3 May 2008 | 12:00 am
New Delhi: Sandeep Singh made a comeback in the 18-member Indian team announced on Friday for the Azlan Shah hockey tournament in Ipoh with juniors making up half the squad. Eight players, who are presently in Australia for the second ... Source: The Hindu - Sport | 3 May 2008 | 12:00 am
BANGALORE: Mark Of Gibraltar, Noble View, Equidae and Royal Chief impressed when the horses were exercised here on Friday morning (May. 2) Inner sand 800m: Buddy Brothers (rb) 51.5, 600/39. Strode out well. ... Source: The Hindu - Sport | 3 May 2008 | 12:00 am
NEW DELHI: Karnataka’s Arjun Bharat and R.U. Anantharam, along with Tamil Nadu’s M. Arvind, maintained their all-win sequence to share the lead after five rounds of the Parsvnath National under-9 chess championship here on Friday. ... Source: The Hindu - Sport | 3 May 2008 | 12:00 am
Three-time defending champion Rafael Nadal defeated Juan Ignacio
Chela 6-4, 6-2 to advance to the semifinals of the Barcelona Open. Source: Sify.com Sports | 2 May 2008 | 7:21 pm
Kolkata Knightriders team coach John Buchanan Friday washed his hands off the on-field controversy surrounding beleaguered team captain Sourav Ganguly, saying that it was 'not a team issue'. Source: News from IndiaeNews.com | 2 May 2008 | 4:30 pm
Deccan Chargers and Kings XI Punjab were fined $1,000 for slow over rate for the game played in Hyderabad Thursday in the Indian Premier League (IPL). Source: News from IndiaeNews.com | 2 May 2008 | 4:00 pm
Chennai Super Kings scored 169 for the loss of six wickets against Delhi Daredevils in a Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 match at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium here Friday. Source: News from IndiaeNews.com | 2 May 2008 | 4:00 pm
Rahul Bajaj clinched his maiden golf title by winning the LG Jaypee Amateur Golf Tournament at the Jaypee Greens Golf Resort in Greater Noida, Friday. Source: News from IndiaeNews.com | 2 May 2008 | 3:30 pm
Newly appointed hockey selectors Friday dropped nine players from the team that played in the four-nation tournament in Australia while including seven junior players for the Azlan Shah tournament in Ipoh from May 8. Source: News from IndiaeNews.com | 2 May 2008 | 3:30 pm
Smarting from the comprehensive seven-wicket defeat against the Kings XI Punjab tonight, Deccan Chargers captain VVS Laxman said losing wickets in a heap in the last five overs did his side in. Source: Zeecric : Cricket News | 2 May 2008 | 10:56 am
Mumbai Indians team coach Lalchand Rajput today said the team had put the slap-gate involving Harbhajan Singh and S Sreesanth behind them and was trying to continue the winning momentum after clinching their first victory in the Indian Premier League. "We have left it behind us. Source: Zeecric : Cricket News | 2 May 2008 | 10:56 am
Shaun Marsh sizzled on his Indian Premier League debut and blasted unbeaten 85 off 62 balls as Kings XI Punjab thumped Deccan Chargers by seven wickets with seven balls to spare to coast to their third win of the tournament. Source: Zeecric : Cricket News | 2 May 2008 | 10:56 am
The Chennai Super Kings may have been unbeaten in the IPL so far but Mahendra Singh Dhoni`s men are certainly not invincible and they will find the going tough against Delhi Daredevils after the exit of their star Australian players, feels Delhi team`s coach T A Sekar. Source: Zeecric : Cricket News | 2 May 2008 | 10:56 am
Boeta Dippenaar criticised South Africa`s racial quota system on Thursday and urged his country to revamp the policy or risk losing more top players like Kevin Pietersen. Source: Zeecric : Cricket News | 2 May 2008 | 10:56 am
`Spirit of the game` controversy cropped up again as captain of Rajasthan Royals Shane Warne slammed his Kolkata Knight Riders counterpart Sourav Ganguly for not playing cricket in spirit of the game. Source: Zeecric : Cricket News | 2 May 2008 | 10:56 am
West Indies all-rounder Dwayne Bravo today said took inspiration from Sachin Tendulkar`s pre-match pep talk for his match-winning 64-run knock against Kolkata Knight Riders two days ago. Source: Zeecric : Cricket News | 2 May 2008 | 10:56 am
Sourav Ganguly hit back at Shane Warne by saying that complaining a dropped catch is not against the spirit of the game. “Is complaining a dropped catch against the spirit of the game?”, asked a visibly upset Kolkata Knight Riders` captain. Source: Zeecric : Cricket News | 2 May 2008 | 10:56 am
Former International Cricket Council President Jagmohan Dalmiya today described the entire chain of events leading to the removal of ICC Chief Executive Officer Malcolm Speed as "unfortunate", saying the world body`s image has taken a "beating". Source: Zeecric : Cricket News | 2 May 2008 | 10:56 am
Sourav Ganguly`s captaincy in the Indian Premier League is yet to impress his Kolkata Knight Riders teammate Umar Gul, who reckons the the left-hander has to learn some more before he can emulate his success as India`s ODI skipper. Source: Zeecric : Cricket News | 2 May 2008 | 10:56 am
