Sports

Melbourne, Feb 18: If your dream is to dine with Sachin Tendulkar then be ready to shell out big bucks as Sydney's most iconic restaurant is offering an exclusive dinner with the Little Master priced at 1,500 to 3,000 Australian dollars with just a few seats up for grabs. The VIP dinner which will be only attended by over 60 people will be held on February 26 after the India-South Africa match on

Kolkata, Feb 18: India will require a sum of Rs 7,000 crore to create block and village level basic sports infrastructure across the country. Government intends to create sports infrastructure that can be connected to each village to spot the talents at the remotest. "We will need Rs 7,000 crore to create sports infrastructure at block level across the country," Union Minister of State of Sports

Bengaluru, Feb 17: It took some time coming, but by far, the biggest surprise package of this year’s Indian Premier League (IPL) player auctions in Bengaluru turned out to be a local boy. Konganda Charamanna (or KC) Cariappa, a very highly-rated mystery spinner in the Karnataka cricket circuit, was purchased by defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) for a whopping Rs.2.4 crore. An unknown

Bangalore, Feb 16: Flamboyant all-rounder Yuvraj Singh on Monday emerged as the costliest cricketer in the IPL 8 players’ auction, bought for a record Rs16 crore ($2.57 million approx) by Delhi Daredevils in Bangalore. Yuvraj, who carried a base price of Rs2 crore, was sold for the highest ever price in IPL history after a fierce tug of war for his services between Delhi Daredevils (DD) and Royal

Bengaluru, Feb 16: The Indian Premier League (IPL) auction ahead of the eighth season started off here Monday with a big surprise as South African opener Hashim Amla remained unsold. Amla, with a base price of 200 lakh, was the first player to go under the hammer but remained unsold. Amla, who is currently on national duty with South Africa in the World Cup, averages an incredible 55.93 in 108 One

Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 14: With the 35th National Games coming to a close, the Kerala government has been cited by the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) which termed the event the best ever held. The Games began with the opening ceremony Jan 31 and the closing ceremony is to take place here later Saturday. "For us (IOA), athletes are of prime importance and not a single athlete or official has

Sydney, Feb 13: Eight Pakistan players, including maverick former captain Shahid Afridi, have been fined for breaching a team curfew ahead of their crucial World Cup game against India, sources told AFP today. They have also been warned that a repeat offence will see them kicked out of the tournament which starts on Saturday. "Eight of the Pakistan players, which also included former captain

Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 12: Samata Rane and Puja Shapurkar claimed gold medals for Karnataka at the National Games judo competitions on Wednesday. Samata defeated Delhi’s Kalpana Devi in the women’s 52kg category final. She had entered the gold medal round after scoring over Haryana’s Mukesh in the semifinal and Deepa Choudhary of Uttarakhand in the first round. In the 57kg category final, Puja

Feb 11: The International Cricket Council had a "far better idea" of the people involved in match-fixing and would do everything in their power to ensure the "sickness" of corruption did not affect the World Cup, Chief Executive Dave Richardson said on Wednesday. The sport has been blighted by reports of match-fixing in recent years, though Richardson said the governing body's Anti Corruption and

New Delhi, Feb 11: We know India's bowling is weak, we know Virat Kohli is a class act, we know Rohit Sharma can be dangerous on his day, we know that Ajinkya Rahane is developing into a superb bat but we have no real idea of what's going wrong with Mahendra Singh Dhoni - and he isn't going to be telling anyone anytime soon. The Indian skipper is short of runs and going into the two big games