All spectators to be photographed at Eden Gardens

Kolkata: An unprecedented three-layered security ring, comprising 5,000 police personnel, new gadgets and sniffer dogs will be thrown around the Eden Gardens for the second India-Pakistan Test starting here on Friday, Police Commissioner Goutam Mohan Chakrabarty said on Wednesday.
In view of the security threat to the players and also the volatile political situation in Bengal, the [...]

Docs say Akhtar’s OK, the man says he’s not

New Delhi: “I am feeling quite sick and very weak,” said Shoaib Akhtar, speaking in an unusually feeble, raspy mumble as he was transferred back to the team hotel in Kolkata on Wednesday evening, after a 24-hour stay in hospital.

The Apollo Gleneagles Hospital spokesperson — where Akhtar was admitted on Tuesday evening with a severe [...]

England team hold firm despite bomb blasts

England’s cricket team refused to hit the panic button and alter their tour itinerary for the Test series in Sri Lanka, despite yesterday’s bomb blasts in Colombo.
Michael Vaughan’s team were travelling overland to Kandy for the opening Test on Saturday when the first, a suicide bomb, killed one and injured two others. Later a remote- [...]

Kapil Dev insists Indian league will succeed

Former India captain Kapil Dev admits he will be nervous prior to the start of tomorrow’s Indian Cricket League because, in his own words, the event is a baby he has helped father.

 

Positive: Kapil Dev feels people have the wrong impression of ICL

Since its inception the ICL has met with obstacles, most notably the Board [...]

ICL camp upbeat ahead of launch

Walk into the Tau Devi Lal Stadium in Panchkula and you’d think a rock concert is about to hit town. Volunteers go about their work in a relaxed atmosphere – light towers being set up, temporary stands erected, lawn-mowers puffing away – and it’s tough to miss a big dais mounted at the end of [...]

‘We need a spinner for Test cricket’

AS STUART MacGill consulted a specialist about his hand in Sydney, his Australian teammate Mike Hussey said Australia should continue to employ a frontline spinner for the Boxing Day Test. Moreover, he hopes that spinner is MacGill.
MacGill saw a specialist about the hand and wrist problem that caused him to experience numbness during the Hobart [...]

ICL Twenty20 promises to be a winner with star performances

Chandigarh :  The opening ceremony of the Indian Cricket League Twenty20 Cricket Championship on Friday promises to be a spectacular show. The event, to be held at the Tau Devi Lal Stadium in Panchkula will see performances by filmstars like Kareena Kapoor, Yana Gupta, Aamir Khan and Akshay Kumar just before the first match between [...]

Aamir, Akshay and Kareena add to glamour ICL

Chandigarh  - The Indian Cricket League (ICL) is conceived as package of cricket and entertainment and nothing can add more punch to an evening of fun and frolic than the presence of film stars.
The ICL, a venture of Essel Group, will have a touch of glamour when their Twenty20 tournament gets under way at [...]