The South African fast bowler took his 400th wicket by removing Tamim Iqbal during the second Test match against Bangladesh in Mirpur on Thursday. Dale Steyn removed Tamim Iqbal for 6 after Bangladesh won the toss and elected to bat first in the second Test. Steyn has ....

“I had two options, either to walk away from cricket or fight back. I chose to fight back,” said left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha here on Friday. Indeed, Ojha had been through hell and is back after being suspended from bowling owing to illegal action. His five- ....

 The state of the pitch was best reflected in one of Australia’s bright pace bowling prospects, Gurinder Sandhu, actually sending down off-spin during the final hour. The unofficial ‘Test’ between India ‘A’ and Australia ‘A’ de ....

There was a major scare in the morning session when the red flag came out as Sergio Perez flipped his Force India car on turn 11, with the rear skidding out from underneath him and sending the driver into the barriers, the car then slowly toppling over. Force India blam ....

Bitten by the coaching bug and falling for the training fad, many school and college-going youngsters attend summer camps in all earnestness. Anxious parents hover around academies and sports shops worried about the outcome of such coaching camps. There is no dearth o ....

Both the franchises have rightfully been penalised for all their wrongdoing. The BCCI too has some distance to cover in terms of reforms before it can regulate this mess now. However, as with any enterprise that is of the magnitude of IPL, livelihoods of many, who ma ....

 The surface at the M.A. Chidamabaram Stadium suited Australia ‘A’s objectives. The cricketers from down under received a precious opportunity to test their skills on a typical sub-continental pitch. Paradoxically, the India ‘A’ players misse ....

 In a stinging criticism, former India captain Sunil Gavaskar on Thursday said that young left-arm spinner Axar Patel was not Test cricket material and was at best “a roller of the ball” who was very much predictable. Gavaskar said that 21-year-old spinn ....

In his third interaction in two months with the media, Patil was ecstatic about Harbhajan Singh’s strong comeback saying that “age will never be a criteria but form and fitness will be”. Patil though was a tad evasive about the name of reserve wicketke ....

But this much is sure: the world is full of fully grown men and women of more-than-average intelligence who appear to be taking adult play — call it professional sport if you wish — a little too seriously for sport’s own good. Nirmal Shekar And thi ....