|
|
|
|
War exposure helped team react: J`dene!The Sri Lankan team`s exposure to the civil war back home helped them react swiftly, skipper Mahela Jayawardene said.Source: Zeecric : Cricket News | 4 Mar 2009 | 1:14 pm Not all host cities would have polls throughout: Modi !Lalit Modi said that there would be at least a 48 hour cushion between the match-day and the election-day at any city.Source: Zeecric : Cricket News | 4 Mar 2009 | 1:14 pm Kiwis take flight, cancel Pakistan tour!New Zealand have cancelled their tour of Pakistan after the deadly attack against Sri Lanka`s team.Source: Zeecric : Cricket News | 4 Mar 2009 | 1:14 pm Home Ministry asks IPL to reschedule; Modi defiant!IPL commissioner Lalit Modi has rejected the request made by Indian Home Ministry to reschedule the lucrative tournament`s dates.Source: Zeecric : Cricket News | 4 Mar 2009 | 1:14 pm Inzamam foresees a financial ruin for PCB!Former Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq has warned of the damaging financial implications to cricket in the country.Source: Zeecric : Cricket News | 4 Mar 2009 | 1:14 pm Sri Lankan team returns home after Lahore attack!Sri Lanka`s cricketers flew home on Wednesday to tearful hugs from their relatives, saying they were lucky to be alive.Source: Zeecric : Cricket News | 4 Mar 2009 | 1:14 pm Lahore terror attack not a threat to IPL: Dalmiya!Former ICC and BCCI chief Jagmohan Dalmiya said there was no threat to the hosting of Indian Premier League matches.Source: Zeecric : Cricket News | 4 Mar 2009 | 1:14 pm Pakistan could `host` Australia Tests in England!England could be the possible neutral venue for staging the Test cricket series involving Australia against Pakistan.Source: Zeecric : Cricket News | 4 Mar 2009 | 1:14 pm SL administrators face flak for sending team to Pak !Sri Lanka`s cricket administrators came under heavy criticism on Wednesday for their decision to tour Pakistan.Source: Zeecric : Cricket News | 4 Mar 2009 | 1:14 pm English cricket saddened over Pak`s `cricket isolation`!English cricket legends expressed shock and disbelief following the brazen attack on the Sri Lanka team in Pakistan.Source: Zeecric : Cricket News | 4 Mar 2009 | 1:14 pm Pakistan has become 'Talibanised': BJPThe terrorist attack on Sri Lankan cricketers in Lahore proves that Pakistan has become "Talibanised" and a failed state, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Arun Jaitley said on Wednesday.Source: Sify.com Sports | 4 Mar 2009 | 12:16 pm Pak must act decisively against terrorists: OmarJammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said here on Wednesday that the time had come when Pakistan needed to act decisively against the perpetrators of terror.Source: Sify.com Sports | 4 Mar 2009 | 12:15 pm Lahore attackers were home-grown terroristsThe attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team is proof that "the writ of our state is threadbare" and signals the requiem for international sporting events in Pakistan, a leading English newspaper said on Wednesday, with another saying the assault "highlights the folly of negotiating with those bent on destroying our way of life".Source: Sify.com Sports | 4 Mar 2009 | 12:15 pm 60 suspects held for Lahore attackAs many as 60 people have been arrested for their alleged involvement in the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team here that left eight people dead and six players and their assistant coach injured as a case was registered against the terrorists.Source: Sify.com Sports | 4 Mar 2009 | 12:13 pm Security increased around SAfrica, Australia in DurbanDURBAN, South Africa (Reuters) - Security has been increased for the South African and Australian cricket teams ahead of the second test in Durban following Tuesday's attack on the Sri Lankan side in Pakistan.Source: Reuters: Cricket News | 4 Mar 2009 | 11:17 am Lahore attack grips Pakistan, police hunt gunmenLAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani police hunted on Wednesday for the dozen gunmen who ambushed Sri Lanka's cricket team in Lahore, as the world shuddered at the nuclear-armed state's inability to contain rising militancy.Source: Reuters: Cricket News | 4 Mar 2009 | 10:37 am Pakistan has become 'Talibanised': BJPThe terrorist attack on Sri Lankan cricketers in Lahore proves that Pakistan has become 'Talibanised' and a failed state, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Arun Jaitley said Wednesday.Source: News from IndiaeNews.com | 4 Mar 2009 | 10:31 am Harbhajan unperturbed by fast tracksOn a high after taking three wickets in four successive deliveries in the first cricket one-dayer against New Zealand, Indian offie Harbhajan said he was unperturbed by the fact that tracks here would not assist spinners.Source: Sify.com Sports | 4 Mar 2009 | 10:16 am Oram apprehensive of travelling to India for IPLNew Zealand all-rounder Jacob Oram on Wednesday said he was having second thoughts about travelling to India for the Indian Premier League following the terror attack on the Sri Lanka cricket team in Lahore.Source: Sify.com Sports | 4 Mar 2009 | 10:16 am Test nations worry about Pakistan's futureThe cricket world was united in shock on Tuesday after gunmen attacked Sri Lanka's team bus in Lahore, with some countries wondering if they had played their last matches in Pakistan for a long time.Source: Sify.com Sports | 4 Mar 2009 | 10:13 am Slain Pakistani driver pays for love of cricketLAHORE (Reuters) - Driver Zafar Khan was with the New Zealand cricket team in 2002 when a suicide bomber struck outside their hotel in Karachi.Source: Reuters: Cricket News | 4 Mar 2009 | 10:01 am Chelsea and Liverpool keep United in sightChelsea narrowed Manchester United's lead in the Premier League to four points on Tuesday with a 1-0 victory at Portsmouth while Liverpool also stayed in pursuit with a 2-0 defeat of Sunderland.Source: Sify.com Sports | 4 Mar 2009 | 9:56 am Security cover was relatively relaxed: DilshanSri Lankan batsman Tillakaratne Dilshan, who narrowly escaped the Lahore terror attack, said on Wednesday that the security cover for the two-match Test series was relatively relaxed when compared to the one-dayers.Source: Sify.com Sports | 4 Mar 2009 | 9:26 am India wants Twenty20 league tweaked due to securityNEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's cricket board is looking to reschedule its popular Twenty20 league after the government, worried by Tuesday's attack in Lahore, said the security forces would be preoccupied with general elections.Source: Reuters: Cricket News | 4 Mar 2009 | 8:30 am Inzamam foresees repercussions of Lahore attackPakistan's former captain Inzamam-ul Haq fears that the country's cricket could be facing manifold repercussions, including a grave financial crisis after the terror attack on the Sri Lankan team in Lahore.Source: Sify.com Sports | 4 Mar 2009 | 7:57 am Inzamam says attack will leave PCB facing financial ruinLAHORE (Reuters) - Former Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq has warned of the damaging financial implications to cricket in the country following Tuesday's militant attack on the Sri Lankan team.Source: Reuters: Cricket News | 4 Mar 2009 | 5:37 am Home of cricket looms as possible new Pakistani 'home'SYDNEY (Reuters) - The "home" of cricket at Lord's, Edgbaston and Headingley could be possible venues for Australia's future test series against Pakistan after the British government offered to act as a temporary host to the Pakistan team.Source: Reuters: Cricket News | 4 Mar 2009 | 5:18 am Long winter looms for Pakistan cricketNEW DELHI (Reuters) - A billion fans in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka -- all test nations -- have used the game of cricket as a balm for their myriad problems.Source: Reuters: Cricket News | 4 Mar 2009 | 5:10 am Attacks threat to Pakistan's existence: AustraliaCANBERRA (Reuters) - A deadly attack on Sri Lankan cricketers proved Pakistan faced a militant threat to its very existence and not just along its troubled Afghanistan border, Australia's Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said on Wednesday.Source: Reuters: Cricket News | 4 Mar 2009 | 4:17 am Pakistan in talks to move NZ tour before attackBIRMINGHAM, England (Reuters) - The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) was already in talks about moving New Zealand's December tour of Pakistan to Abu Dhabi before Tuesday's attack on Sri Lanka in Lahore, its chairman said.Source: Reuters: Cricket News | 3 Mar 2009 | 9:25 pm SCENARIOS - Pakistan face international isolationLONDON (Reuters) - Pakistan face international sporting isolation after gunmen attacked the Sri Lanka cricket team in Lahore on Tuesday in a chilling reminder of the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre.Source: Reuters: Cricket News | 3 Mar 2009 | 7:50 pm Dalmiya condemns attack on Sri Lankan cricketersFormer International Cricket Council (ICC) president Jagmohan Dalmiya Tuesday night condemned the terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan players in Pakistan and hoped the authorities in the sub-continent would take measures so that the sport was not affected.Source: News from IndiaeNews.com | 3 Mar 2009 | 6:30 pm Separate politics from sports: Omar AbdullahJammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Tuesday called for separating sports from politics and asked Pakistan to see reason and 'correct the damage caused to it by the forces it had promoted and protected at one point in time'.Source: News from IndiaeNews.com | 3 Mar 2009 | 4:00 pm Full security for IPL, Commonwealth Games: Delhi police chiefTaking note of terror attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Pakistan, Delhi Police Commissioner Y.S. Dadwal Tuesday said his force would provide full security to matches of the Indian Premier League and the Commonwealth Games scheduled in the national capital.Source: News from IndiaeNews.com | 3 Mar 2009 | 3:31 pm Government-IPL to review fixtureThe government and the Indian Premier League (IPL) will review the schedule for the second edition of the Twenty20 league Wednesday with home ministry officials maintaining that it would ask the organisers to reschedule the tourney.Source: News from IndiaeNews.com | 3 Mar 2009 | 3:00 pm Pakistan itself to blame for terror attack, says CongressIn a stinging attack on Pakistan, the Congress party said Tuesday that Islamabad itself was to blame for the terrorist attack on Sri Lankan cricketers in Lahore and called the country the 'Somalia of South Asia'.Source: News from IndiaeNews.com | 3 Mar 2009 | 11:31 am
|