Cricket

Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and VVS Laxman had slammed India’s tactics after the defeat to New Zealand in the first semi-final of this World Cup on Wednesday. On Thursday, Sunil Gavaskar joined...

After all the blame was piled on Dhoni on Wednesday night, some fans saluted India's World Cup winning captain, who may have escaped more Twitter wrath because of the suspected 'umpiring error'....

In the late ’60s-early ’70s, the world had already woken up to the South African government’s Apartheid policies; international boycotting on the field of sports had also started. But it was an ...

Virat Kohli’s aggressive on-field demeanour has polarised opinions, but the India captain feels that for him, aggression is a “form of enjoyment”. “I don’t think I need to behave myself just...

The group stage is done, all that remains now is the business end of the World Cup 2019. The top four sides have done what was needed to qualify, in New Zealand’s case only just, and their ranks by ...

Jimmy Sinclair is inarguably the first in the list of great South African all-rounders such as Mike Procter, Eddie Barlow, Clive Rice, Lance Klusener and Jacques Kallis, but remains one of those playe...

Harold Dennis ‘Dickie’ Bird set the benchmark for umpiring for over two decades, earning the respect of the greatest cricketers.On Saturday, Bird (a remarkably fit and alert 86 year old) spoke to ...

Octogenarian Harold Dennis ‘Dickie’ Bird, a legend among umpires, has told The Telegraph he’d “love” to officiate in this age and time.“Of course, I’d love to umpire in the present times...

Sushant Singh Rajput couldn’t play like Mahendra Singh Dhoni, but he played Dhoni well.It was quite a transition that Sushant had to undergo, after all it’s not easy to portray the character of In...

Former West Indies captain Darren Sammy has revealed that an IPL teammate, who addressed him with a racist nickname, has reached out to assure him that he was “operating from a place of love” and ...