Scotland Yard To Question Tainted Cricketers On Friday...
Scotland Yard detectives will question three Pakistan cricketers at the centre of the match-fixing scandal on Friday, The Daily Telegraph reports from London. Salman Butt, Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif are due to be individually interviewed under caution by police, ...
Dhoni Will Face Challenge Ahead With Retirements...
Kolkata: With the young crop of Indian cricketers falling short of expectation, skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni would face a big challenge especially after the retirement of the senior players, former captain Sourav Ganguly said on Thursday. "Dhoni's biggest challenge will ...
Tainted Trio Opted Out Not Dropped: Pak High Commissioner...
London:Pakistan High Commissioner Wajid S Hasan on Thursday said Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamir were not dropped for the series against England but opted out due to the "mental torture" they are facing after being accused of involvement ...
Hughes Recalled For India Tour; Haddin Out...
MELBOURNE : Opener Phillip Hughes and offspinner Nathan Hauritz have been recalled for Australia's tour to India next month, but wicketkeeper Brad Haddin will continue to be sidelined with an injured elbow. Australia will play two tests and three limited-overs ...
Shane Warne Calls For Life Ban On Tainted Cricketers...
Australian leg spinner Shane Warne has called for a life ban to be imposed on any cricketer found guilty of match-fixing. Warne says, the tainted trio Mohammad Asif, Mohammad Amir and Pakistan captain Salman Butt, should face the sternest punishment ...
Umar Akmal Hit In Nose During Practice...
TAUNTON, England : Pakistan batsman Umar Akmal has been ruled out of Thursday's warmup match against Somerset after being hit in the nose by a ball during practice. Akmal received medical treatment on site after being hit by a bowled ...
Pakistan's Tainted Trio Dropped...
Taunton (England) : Under pressure from the ICC and England Cricket Board, Pakistan on Thursday dropped the tainted trio of Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamir from the Twenty20 and one-day series against England starting Sunday. The three are ...
Veena Hands Over Proof Of Asif's Links With Bookies To...
Lahore: Pakistani cricketer Mohammad Asif's ex-girlfriend, actress-model Veena Malik, has handed over "proof" of his alleged links with Indian bookies to an official of the ICC's Anti-Corruption Unit. Hasan Raza, who is a top official of the ICC's Anti-Corruption Unit ...
Indian Betting King Dinesh Kalgi Made 3,500 Calls To Pakistan...
Ahmedabad: The needle of suspicion in the Pakistani cricket matchfixing incident in London has begun pointing to betting king Dinesh Kalgi, who is presently out on bail, says a Mirror report. Following the biggest match-fixing scandal by Pakistani cricketers coming ...
Saurabh Tiwary Keyed Up To Perform In Champions League...
Jamshedpur : Member of India ODI squad for tri-series in Sri Lanka and Jharkhand Ranji skipper Saurabh Tiwary today said he would have to perform consistently in the upcoming Champions League beginning in South Africa next week. "It (Champions ...
ICC Official In Pakistan, To Meet Veena Malik: Reports...
Karachi: A senior official of International Cricket Council's anti-corruption and security unit has reached Pakistan in connection with the ongoing investigations into allegations of 'spot-fixing' against three members of Pakistan team in England, reports said. Television channels reported that Reza ...
Pakistan's Credibility In Cricket Reaches Breaking Point...
Karachi: The corruption scandal that exploded this week is the latest damaging blow to Pakistan cricket and former players fear it could be the one that finally crushes the credibility of the sport in the South Asian nation. Over the ...
Two More Aussies Lee, Johnson Reveal They Were Approached By...
Melbourne: The murky saga of bookies making approaches to cricketers widened with revelations that two more Australians, fast bowlers Brett Lee and Mitchell Johnson, had confronted an alleged Indian bookmaker during the Ashes in England last year. All-rounder Shane Watson ...
I-T Finds Lalit Modi Link To 80cr Private Jet Deal...
Former Indian Premier League commissioner Lalit Modi seems to be avoiding repeated summons from Income Tax department, reports Times of India. The report says, investigators are closing in on Modi’s links with an alleged payoff in terms of a facilitation ...
Pietersen Announces His Ouster From Squad Via Twitter...
London: Even as ECB plans to ban English cricketers from using social networking sites, former captain Kevin Pietersen used Twitter to announce his ouster from England's ODI and Twenty20 squads against Pakistan next month. The dashing right-handed batsman has failed ...
