Cricket

Australia’s Steve Smith and retired South African batsman AB de Villiers are the two batsmen Team India leg-spinner Kuldeep Yadav finds most challenging to contain.  Yadav, who went throu...

Sir Garry Sobers too paid rich tributes from his Barbados residence. “Well, indeed he was one of the greatest cricketers of all time, though I would not like to get into comparisons. He was alr...

The cricket fraternity paid glowing tributes to Everton Weekes, who died on Wednesday at the age of 95. Viv Richards, one of the greatest to have played the game and who too hails from the Caribbean,...

It was fitting that Everton FC won their crucial English Premier League tie against Leicester City on Wednesday. Soon after the match ended with the Toffees winning 2-1, news broke that the West Indie...

Shashank Manohar, the International Cricket Council (ICC)’s first independent chairman, has stepped down after two tenures at the world governing body. Deputy chairman Imran Khawaja will act in ...

Everton Weekes, the West Indies legend whose two hundreds in the Calcutta Test of 1948 were among his world record of five consecutive centuries, passed away in Barbados on Wednesday. He was 95. Week...

Nitin Menon, the youngest member in the ICC elite panel of umpires, considers the Ashes series as the ultimate challenge but he says the biggest challenge in prevailing circumstances is to ensure that...

“The pressure of playing for India is one, but also leading India is another and the way he (Kohli) has done it, so consistently for a long time. And taking over from (MS) Dhoni — the lead...

India’s Nitin Menon on Monday became the youngest member to be included in the International Cricket Council (ICC)’s elite panel of umpires, replacing England’s Nigel Llong for the 2...

Cricket legend Ian Botham has claimed he got infected by Covid-19 early this year, but mistook it for “a bad case of flu”.  The contagious disease has infected over 10 million people ...