JOHANNESBURG: South Africa will host India in a one-off Twenty20 international at the Wanderers stadium here on Ma
ISLAMABAD: Indian High Commissioner Sharat Shabarwal on Monday called on Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani and
NEW DELHI: A strong 5.2-magnitude earthquake struck close to the Indian capital on Monday, with powerful tremors s
The Independent's Asia Correspondent Andrew Buncombe is based in Delhi. His dominion ranges over India, Pakistan, Burma, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, occasionally parts of South East Asia and …
India has denied as “factually incorrect” a report that US special forces were stationed in the country as part of counter-terrorism cooperation.
Ian Chappell, writing in Mid-Day, says as India’s tour of Australia wore on, Tendulkar’s form deteriorated; the Australian bowlers eventually got inside his mind and along with thoughts of his century this was too much for him to process. What could’ve been a glorious farewell tour of Australia for Sachin Tendulkar has turned into an ongoing tale of missed opportunities leading to frustration all round. With each failure to score his coveted one-hundredth international century Tendulkar’s become more desperate to the point where, when he was run out at the…
DUBAI: India s Mahesh Bhupathi claimed his 50th doubles title on Saturday when he and compatriot Rohan Bopanna cli
How Virat Kohli deals with his new responsibility as vice-captain will be crucial to an Indian team in transition, writes Sanjjeev Karan Samyal in the Hindustan Times.The 4-0 Test whitewash and the tri-series flop make it clear the current squad has no future. Indian cricket is in crisis. From the depths of doom and gloom, everyone is hoping that a new world will emerge. Virat is the man who has shown the potential to become the player around whom the nucleus of the future team can be built. Dileep Premachandran…
Most cricket fans remember Mick Lewis, the former Australia fast bowler, for his 0 for 113 in the famous 438 chase in the deciding ODI between South Africa and Australia in Johannesburg six years ago. He talks to Aditya Iyer about that spell, in the Indian Express. “I bowled six perfect yorkers in my final over, but still went for 17. If any of those inside edges or french cuts went an inch this way or that, Boucher would have been bowled or caught by Gilly,” he says. “That’s the…
The US is strongly supportive of India`s investment in the civil nuclear power, and its support to the NGOs goes for development and democracy programmes, the Obama Administration has said.