Fiery Ishant sends mighty Australia crashing

India survives a few hiccups to score a five-wicket win; Tendulkar is top scorer with 44 Melbourne: Sea gulls swooped into the arena for an afternoon feast. Ishant Sharma swooped in on the batsmen with the same intent. And he feasted. Pace...

Oz hammer India in 20-20

By RAHUL BANERJI Melbourne Twen ty20 world champions India were handed a nine-wicket hammering by World Cup winners Australia in their one-off Twenty20 International before a near full house at the Melbourne Cricket Ground here on Friday. Unable to...

Still spinning:The Harbhajan episode cannot be closed without Proctor’s dismissal as match referee

Indian Express Edit – Jan. 30, 2008 H ARBHAJAN SINGH has been cleared of charges of racism, and submitted in stead to his usual hotheadedness on the field, insult and abuse not amounting to racism. From his readiness to plead guilty to abuse on...

Racism charge against Harbhajan dropped: NDTV

Adelaide: In a crucial development, the racial abuse charge against Harbhajan Singh has been dropped. The spinner was fined 50 per cent of match fee on a lesser charge. Meanwhile, Cricket Australia said that the tour will go on and that BCCI is happy...

Bhajji in, Bucknor out – Times of India

Well, we’ve won. Not the Test series, but at least a moral victory. What has transpired in the past few days has definitely not been cricket. In the 2nd Test we played our hearts out, but the umpires gifted the match away to Australia. If that...

India stops Oz tour pending Harbhajan appeal

The Indian cricket board (BCCI) flexed its muscle in sensational fashion by suspending its team’s tour of Australia pending the outcome of Harbhajan Singh’s appeal for racially abusing Andrew Symonds, reports The Age website. The report further...

Sydney Test: UMPIRES BEAT INDIA

FINGERS THAT KILLED INDIA Australia 1st innings PONTING caught behind off Ganguly, Benson said no. He was 17, made 55. Aus could have been 55/3 SYMONDS caught behind off Ishant. Everyone but Bucknor saw, heard snick. Symonds was 30, Aus could’ve...

Yuvraj Singh & Deepika Padukone dating

Times of India Page 1 (January 5, 2007) shows the picture of Deepika & Yuvraj in a Sydney restaurant on the evening of January 4. This photo appeared in the TimesNow.tv website. By our sports reporter Sydney: Indian test cricketer Yuvraj Singh...

Harbhajan denies racism charge, Indian team furious

By our sports reporter Sydney: Indian off spinner Harbhajan has denied any racist comment against Oz player Andrew Symonds. Harbhajan and Symonds had a verbal exchange on the Sydney Cricket Ground during on the third days play of the second Test between...

India leads by 69 runs in Sydney Test

By our sports reporter India were today all out at the Sydney Cricket Ground for 532 runs in their first innings in reply to Australia’s 463 runs in the first innings. Master blaster Sachin Tandulkar remained not out for 154. India now leads with...