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MUMBAI: A day after Mumbai police claimed to have successfully cracked the J Dey murder case, they said the senior journalist was supposed to have met Dawood Ibrahim aide Iqbal Mirchi during his visit to England last month. However, they suspect, the meeting never took place. It has been reported that one reason fugitive don [...]

Duncan Fletcher has been appointed as coach of Indian Cricket Team for a period of two years today, at the Working Committee meeting of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Duncan Fletcher’s first task will be to lead Indian Team when they tour to England in July this year. An all-rounder – [...]

Lahore, Sep 28 (ANI): Test cricketer Mohammad Asif, one of the Pakistani players implicated in spot fixing, has now fixed his wedding celebrations, which will be held on September 30. Asif, currently under provisional suspension by the International Cricket Council (ICC), is set to bring home Karachi girl Sana Hilal as his bride, The News [...]

Sydney, Sep 28 (ANI): After appointment of Troy Cooley as the head of Cricket Australia’s Centre of Excellence in Brisbane, the Australian team is in need of a new bowling coach. Cooley, a part of the Australian team since ending a successful stint as England bowling coach in 2006, will take part in the job [...]

London, Sep 28(ANI): Former cricket legend Ian Botham has predicted that England would beat Australia in the battle for the Ashes with out-of-favour batsman Kevin Pietersen being one of the key trump cards. “I think England will win the Ashes and I think they might win it in a bit of style. I do think [...]

Lahore, Sep 28 (ANI): Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ijaz Butt has rubbished speculations that the PCB was on a warpath with the International Cricket Council (ICC) and other cricket boards, and defended his decision of not suspending the three Pakistani cricketers implicated in spot-fixing scandal. “We have our reservations over our decision to suspend [...]

Islamabad, Sep 28(ANI): Suspended Pakistan trio of Test captain Salman Butt, Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif have been selected as reserves for their regional teams for a domestic Twenty20 tournament next month. During the recent tour of England, the International Cricket Council (ICC) had suspended the trio for their alleged involvement in a 150,000-pound betting [...]

Washington, Sept 28 (ANI): Acupuncture does not appear to help in stroke recovery, reveals a new study. Acupuncture is often used to supplement traditional stroke rehabilitation, although its effectiveness is uncertain. This study, perhaps the most comprehensive to date as it includes trials published in English language and Asian journals, was a systematic review conducted [...]

Lahore, Sep 28 (ANI): Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ijaz Butt is leaving for England today, and is expected to hold meetings with the lawyer of the three players- Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamer- implicated in spot-fixing allegations. During his four to five day long trip, Butt will be meeting Elizabeth Robertson, the [...]

Sydney, Sep 27 (ANI): Former girlfriend of Pakistani pacer Mohammad Asif, Veena Malik, has revealed that a death threat was delivered in person to her parents’ home last week, days after she received one of her own for providing the ICC with phone records showing Asif in regular contact with an alleged Indian bookmaker. Asif [...]

London, Sept 27 (ANI): Late British composer Sir Edward Elgar, who is well known for his classical music, was the one who penned the world’s first football chant. Elgar, who composed ‘Land of Hope and Glory’, composed ‘He Banged The Leather for Goal’ more than 100 years ago in honour of his beloved Wolverhampton Wanderers. [...]

New Delhi, Sept.27 (ANI): Around 550 athletes and officials are expected to arrive in Delhi today to participate in the XIX Commonwealth Games 2010 Delhi. The largest contingent is from South Africa with 113 athletes and officials followed by Scotland with 77 athletes and officials those who arrive today. Among the other large contingents arriving [...]

Lahore, Sep 27(ANI): Pakistani batsman Azhar Ali, who scored 291 runs at an average of 26.45 in the recent Test series against Australia and England, feels that he could have done a lot better during the tour. Azhar’s highest score of 92 not out at The Oval had laid the foundations for Pakistan’s four wicket [...]

London, Sep 27(ANI): Former Australian umpire Darrell Hair has termed Pakistan cricketers as “cheats and liars”, and criticised the International Cricket Council (ICC) for not taking action against fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar for ball tampering. Hair, who stood in 78 Tests and 135 ODIs, said that he feels vindicated following Pakistan’s troubled tour of England, [...]

London, Sep 27 (IANS) English footballer Peter Crouch is reportedly set to tie the knot with his model girlfriend Abbey Clancy next year. The couple’s relationship appeared to have hit a rocky patch following newspaper stories claiming that Crouch had bedded Spanish prostitute Monica Mint during a friend’s stag party. However, now it has been [...]

London, Sep 21(ANI): Pakistan’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Wajid Hasan, has said that the relations between Pakistan and Britain would not be damaged by the cricket-fixing row. “Will this row sour our relationship? My answer is certainly no. This is a separate matter. Our relationship with the UK was not made overnight. It [...]

Washington, Sept 21 (ANI): A new study has found that the seasonal flu vaccine is associated with a 19pc reduction in the rate of first heart attack and early vaccination in the fall further increases the benefits. As heart attacks increase significantly in winter when pneumonia and flu are prevalent, it has been suggested there [...]

Karachi, Sept 21 (ANI): Pakistan’s Cricket Board chairman Ijaz Butt has come under stinging criticism from his predecessors for accusing the English players of throwing a match for an “enormous” amount of cash. Former PCB chief Khalid Mahmood slammed Butt’s remarks as “most ridiculous,” adding that if he had any evidence, he should have shared [...]

London, Sep 21 (ANI): England cricketer James Anderson has become the first professional player to feature on the cover page of gay magazine Attitude. Good-looking Anderson posed nude for October’s issue of the magazine and insisted that there was no homophobia in the game. “There”s a perception of lots of committees and old men being [...]

Melbourne, Sep 21 (ANI): West Indian legend Sir Garfield Sobers has said that Australian great Shane Warne has been overrated as a bowler. Sobers made this claim in a book released in England titled “In a League of Their Own: 100 Cricket Legends Select Their World XI”. Sobers used his foreword to overcome the notion [...]