Pepsi drops Ganguly, Dravid; Ishant, Rohit in
The change of guard in Indian cricket team is reflecting in the endorsement market, with soft drinks major Pepsi deciding to drop Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid as ambassadors while roping in youngsters Ishant Sharma and Rohit Sharma, in line with its brand ideology. As far as master blaster Sachin Tendulkar, who has been Pepsi’s [...]
Kapil takes legal action against India cricket board
Retired cricket great Kapil Dev has taken the powerful Indian board to court for alleged victimisation after he headed the rebel Indian Cricket League (ICL), reports said on Wednesday. Dev applied to the Delhi High Court on Tuesday after the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) stopped his pension as a former international [...]
Ishant is a dangerous bowler: Ponting
Australian captain Ricky Ponting conceded on Sunday that his tormentor Ishant Sharma is a “dangerous bowler” but stopped short of rating the Indian attack as the best he has seen in home conditions in the recent past. “Ishant has done well in the latter half of this tour so far. He is a dangerous bowler,” [...]
Ishant sends Australia crashing
Ishant Sharma ripped through the heart of Australia’s vaunted batting line-up to help India dismiss Australia for 159 off 43.1 overs in the fourth one-day international of the triangular series in Melbourne on Sunday. Sharma had Matthew Hayden , Ricky Ponting and Andrew Symonds all caught behind during an inspired spell of bowling from India’s [...]
Shaun Pollock farewelled
South Africa all-rounder Shaun Pollock was ‘emotionally drained’ after bringing the curtain down on his international career by hitting the winning runs against West Indies. In a rain-affected game in Johannesburg, the Proteas won by eight wickets to seal a 5-0 series success, but all eyes were on Pollock in his final international game. “I [...]
Dravid The Wall with Statistics
Having celeberated his 35th birthday[11/1/2008) away from his motherland, Dravid can certainly look forward-back on his many milestones that have quietly slipped into the record books, just like himself. Simple and unassuming. Not for him the brouha that others evoke from a lopsided media. His accomplishments to list a few are awesome. He is one [...]
Cash-strapped Sri Lankan Team need India’s help
Arjuna Ranatunga, the Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) chairman, has revealed his board has no money left and is banking on financial support from India to stay afloat. Ranatunga, who was appointed head of SLC by the country’s President Mahinda Rajapakse earlier this month, said the board was surviving on bank borrowings. “We are now surviving [...]
