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World Chess Championship at Kochi from Sept 15

Staff Reporter · Mar 11, 2004 · 2 min read

KOCHI, Feb 16 (Agencies) : Top chess players of world will assemble at the World Junior Chess Championship 2004 to be held here from September 15 to 29. Nearly ...

Shane Warne denies new allegation

Staff Reporter · Mar 11, 2004 · 2 min read

SYDNEY, Feb 16 (Agencies) : Star leg spinner Shane Warne today dismissed as "rubbish and untrue" a report that he was seen with an Indian, suspected of match fi...

Wasim Akram finds Irfan Pathan a good learner

Staff Reporter · Mar 11, 2004 · 3 min read

Karachi, Feb. 20 (NNN): Former Pakistan captain and pacer Wasim Akram finds the 19-year old Indian left-arm pacer Irfan Pathan to be a mentally strong bowler an...

Vasco take on Hayward 2000

Staff Reporter · Mar 11, 2004 · 2 min read

MARGAO, Feb 20 (Agencies) : Haywards 2000 Sporting Club will lock horns with Vasco Sports Club at Nehru Stadium here in the second leg of the National Football ...

Pakistani will be at a "little disadvantage", says Anwar

Staff Reporter · Mar 11, 2004 · 2 min read

PATIALA, Feb 20 (Agencies) : Former Pakistan opener Saeed Anwar believes that the hosts would be at a "little disadvantage" as they would be under lot of pressu...

Warne scalps two in comeback

Staff Reporter · Mar 7, 2004 · 3 min read

QUEENSLAND, Feb 11 (Agencies) : Australia's Shane Warne finally bowled the first ball of his comeback from a 12-month doping ban on Wednesday, taking 2-32 in 16...

Wasim urges Indians to shun security concerns

Staff Reporter · Mar 7, 2004 · 1 min read

KARACHI, Feb 11 (Agencies) : Former Pakistan great Wasim Akram on Wednesday called on India's cricketers to put aside security concerns and press ahead with the...

Sniffer dogs to guard Indian cricketers!

Staff Reporter · Mar 7, 2004 · 1 min read

Lahore, Feb 11 (Agencies) : Keen to allay the security concerns of Indian cricket players ahead of their March-April tour to Pakistan, Pakistan's interior minis...

ICC deploys secret agents for India-Pak series

Staff Reporter · Mar 7, 2004 · 2 min read

ISLAMABAD, Feb 12 (Agencies) : Concerned over match-fixers targetting the India-Pakistan series, the International Cricket Council has decided to deploy as many...

Australia tour was profitable for me: Sehwag

Staff Reporter · Mar 7, 2004 · 1 min read

KOLKATA, Feb 12 (Agencies) : Star opener Virender Sehwag, though disappointed over sour end of the India's tour of Australia, said the tour remained "profitable...

Mumbai to run for a cause

Staff Reporter · Mar 7, 2004 · 3 min read

MUMBAI, Feb 12 (Agencies) : Just across the Arabian Sea, on Mumbai's famous Marine Drive, the ground floor at St James Court is buzzing with activity. About 50 ...

India's cricket tour to Pak still on

Staff Reporter · Mar 7, 2004 · 3 min read

NEW DELHI, Feb 12 (Agencies) : Amidst reports of uncertainty over India's cricket tour to Pakistan, a top BCCI official has asserted that the tour was "still on...

Three ACU Officials To Monitor India-Pakistan Series

Staff Reporter · Mar 7, 2004 · 2 min read

Karachi, Feb. 13 (NNN): Even as clouds over the series are still be cleared, the Anti-Corruption Unit of the International Cricket Council (ICC) has assigned th...

South Africa beat New Zealand by five wickets

Staff Reporter · Mar 7, 2004 · 3 min read

AUCKLAND, Feb 13 (Agencies) : South Africa beat New Zealand by five wickets with only two balls to spare in the first of six one-day cricket internationals at E...

Separate politics from sport: Pak Interior Minister

Staff Reporter · Mar 7, 2004 · 2 min read

ISLAMABAD, Feb 13 (Agencies) :As the much-awaited tour of Indian cricket team to Pakistan remains in doubt till the Lok Sabha elections, Islamabad today said sp...

Boards must decide on cricket tour: Pak High Commissioner

Staff Reporter · Mar 7, 2004 · 1 min read

NEW DELHI, Feb 13 (Agencies) :Pakistan High Commissioner Aziz Ahmed Khan today said a decision on India's cricket tour of Pakistan must be made by the two natio...

PCB to wait for official word from BCCI

Staff Reporter · Mar 7, 2004 · 3 min read

ISLAMABAD, Feb 13 (Agencies) :Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) today hinted it might approach the ICC for remedy if the Indian cricket team backed out of its tour o...

Jadeja confident of being back in national squad

Brett Lee Captain · Feb 24, 2004 · 19 min read

SILCHAR, Assam, Jan 30 (UNI): Former international and one of the topmiddle order batsmen Ajay Jadeja is confident of coming back to the national team again. Ja...

Women's Asia Cup hockey from Sunday

Staff Reporter · Feb 24, 2004 · 24 min read

NEW DELHI, Jan 30 (Agencies) : The tussle for continental supremacy in women's hockey gets underway when the fifth Women's Asia Cup begins at the Major Dhyan Ch...

Australia thrashes India in first of the 'best of three' finals

Staff Reporter · Feb 24, 2004 · 3 min read

Melbourne, Feb. 6 (NNN): From the start to finish, it was Australians all the way in the first of the best-of-three-finals of the V B Series as the hosts thrash...

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