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Bengaluru, Feb 25: An exciting battle is on cards when a resurgent Mumbai lock horns with defending champions Karnataka in the Ranji Trophy semifinal cricket match at the Chinnaswamy Stadium here today. Sworn enemies on the cricket field, both captains Aditya Tare and R Vinay Kumar, will not spare an inch to each other. "To be honest we have come here to win. We know Karnataka has been performing

New Delhi, Feb 24: The Supreme Court Monday said exiled BCCI president N. Srinivasan should have refrained from functioning as the cricket board chief after the apex court had declared that he was in a conflict of interest situation. Referring to its Jan 2 verdict holding that Srinivasan, being head of BCCI and the owner of the Chennai Super Kings, was in a conflict of interest situation, the apex

Jodhpur, Feb 22: Legendary athlete Milkha Singh today held "politics and bureaucracy" responsible for the deplorable state of sports in the country and voiced his support for incorporating sportsmen in policy decisions. "Our system is such that politicians and bureaucrats dominate sports scenario of the country and until this would change, nobody can expect an improvement," he said at a function

Feb 22: Maharashtra and Mumbai progressed to the 2014-15 Ranji Trophy semifinals with wins over Andhra and Delhi respectively, taking the season's tally of outright results to 54 in 112 games, while Karnataka and Tamil Nadu joined them because of their first-innings leads over Assam and Vidarbha respectively. R Samarth and Akhil Herwadkar, both youngsters, made headlines with the bat, and Shardul

New Delhi, Feb 21: Star batsman Virat Kohli became the second most followed Indian sportsperson on 'Facebook' behind iconic Sachin Tendulkar as he crossed the 20-million mark, the social networking site said. 26-year-old Kohli, the first Indian batsman to score a century against arch-rivals Pakistan in a World Cup match in the 76-run victory on February 15, currently has 20,002,000 followers on

Cuttak, Feb 20: Gautam Gambhir's hot-headed nature has seen him get into altercations with Shahid Afridi, Shane Watson and Virat Kohli on the field. On the fourth day's play of the Ranji Trophy quarterfinal clash between Delhi and Mumbai at the DRIEMS College Ground in Tangi on Thursday (February 19), Shardul Thakur joined that list. Set a target of 441 in just over five sessions, Delhi started

Dubai (UAE), Feb 19: Former Indian captain Anil Kumble is all set to become the 77th member of the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame after his name was inducted in the prestigious list during India's World Cup game against South Africa at Melbourne on Sunday. Kumble, who is now the Chairman of the ICC Cricket Committee, is the fourth India cricketer to be inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame after

Karachi, Feb 19: Pakistan's tainted former captain Salman Butt has apparently made his first full confession of guilt to the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) in the infamous 2010 spot-fixing scandal. Butt who was banned along with Muhammad Asif and Muhammad Aamir in the aftermath of the spot-fixing scandal that broke out when Pakistan was touring England made the confession during a meeting with PCB

Feb 18: There was something different about Virat Kohli at the Adelaide Oval on February 15. Actually, there were several things different about him at a venue that he can now claim to have made his own with a third international ton in three innings this Australian summer. For one thing, the lynchpin of the Indian batting wasn't at his very best. He has called his 22nd One-Day International

Canberra, Feb 18: Shakib Al Hasan on Wednesday became the first Bangladesh batsman to score 4,000 runs in One-Day Internationals (ODIs). The left-handed batsman reached the milestone in their World Cup opener against Afghanistan at the Manuka Oval here. The top all-rounder is closely followed by opener Tamim Iqbal who has accumulated 3,990 runs in 136 ODIs. Bangladesh were struggling when Shakib