On the sandy wastes of the troubled Middle East, in gangland Los Angeles or in the sun-kissed Caribbean, cricket is breaking down barriers and also creating controversial alliances. While the Ashes battle between England and Australia dominates the attention of the game’s devotees, cricket is playing the role of peace-maker in some of the [...]

Cricket is a cruel, cruel game indeed. At Cardiff, Australia came within one wicket of taking the lead in the series and just three days later, at Lord’s they were chasing the game after the first session of play itself. Ultimately, losing the Test, one is not so sure how this particular Aussie team will [...]

Surrey’s hopes for promotion in the Championship have been hit with the news that Harbhajan Singh, the India offspinner, won’t be joining the club as expected due to international commitments. It had been hoped that Harbhajan would return to The Oval following stints in 2005 and 2007 but, as happened in 2008, his commitments [...]

Australia was on a roll, having won 16 consecutive test matches in 2000-01. In the first test of the streak they beat India by a convincing ten-wicket margin at Mumbai. The second game was at the world’s biggest stadium, the Eden Gardens in Kolkata. Steve Waugh’s Aussies looked to make it 17 in a row.
As [...]

LAWYERS are hoping a major reform of Bahrain’s justice system will win back trust in the courts. The GDN reported earlier this month that a new system was being brought in to manage lawsuits, train and test legal professionals, review appeals and support mediation. Specialised courts will also be established as part of the [...]

FAWAZ Abdulla won the Bahrain Bowling League Men’s Master title after narrowly defeating Mohammed Al Jahromi by nine pins, 224-215, in the championship game of the step-ladder final at the Adhari Park bowling centre. Abdulla was the top seed after the eight-bowler round-robin which followed the tournament’s preliminary stage, earning him the direct berth in [...]

Hot dude of Indian cricket Yuvi is believed to be more than just good friends with sexy and sizzling Mandira Bedi. Buzz is that the cricketer and the commentator have been bonding big time a couple of weeks after the Indian Premiere League took off. According to sources from South Africa, Yuvraj Singh and  [...]

With the ICC bringing together the best cricket brains in the business in Oxford for its Centenary Cricket Conference to discuss the past and  future of the game, it is time to ask the cardinal question is world cricket truly at the  crossroads as is being suggested by many? With the MCC World Cricket [...]

Soruav Ganguly took pot shots at the Board of Control for Cricket in India, saying its rules were not the same for all cricketers, here today. To a query whether he could have served the Indian team well had he continued to play at the top level like Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar, Ganguly [...]

Australia captain Ricky Ponting expressed surprise on Saturday at the heckling he received from the Lord’s crowd during the second Ashes test. Ponting was jeered after he queried the umpires’ decision not to refer a low catch taken by England captain Andrew Strauss in Australia’s second innings.
He also missed a runout and a catch during [...]