Pakistan speedster Shoaib Akhtar who was admitted to a local private hospital with a chest infection is feeling better, the team management said today. "He is better," media manager Ehsan Malik said. Malik said the attending doctor would reassess Shoaib's condition at 1600 hrs a

The 2nd Test match between India and Pakistan will be held here as scheduled from November 30, despite an e-mail threat to disrupt the match and kill the Pakistani cricketers. "The match will be held as scheduled," West Bengal Home Secretary Prasad Ranjan Roy told newsmen here to

With only three days to go for the start of the second Test against India, Pakistan speedster Shoaib Akhtar is down with a viral infection and has been taken to a local hospital for a check up. Pakistan team media manager Ehsan Malik said that Akhtar has throat infection and fever. "

BCCI office bearers will meet in Kolkata, on December 1, where Gary Kirsten's appointment as India's cricket coach could be ratified. "The BCCI office bearers will meet in Kolkata on December 1 where the issue of the new coach will certainly come up. The members would be briefed on al

Former Pakistan captains today expressed anguish over the first Test defeat to India in New Delhi with Rameez Raja accusing some players of only playing to maintain their places in the team. Rameez said there was a need for radical steps to be taken to overhaul the Pakistan crick

Sachin Tendulkar today overtook Australian great Allan Border to become the second highest runscorer in the history of Test cricket. Tendulkar, who is unbeaten on 32 in the second innings of India's first Test against Pakistan at Ferozeshah Kotla, now tallies 11,183 runs in 141 T

Former Pakistani captain Aamer Sohail today joined the debate over Yuvraj Singh's exclusion from the Indian Test team, saying the middle-order batsman needed to have an edge over other contenders to cement his place in the side. Despite hitting match winning knocks in the recent one-day seri

A convincing series triumph over Pakistan in the three-Test cricket series starting tomorrow would take India to third spot in the ICC Test championship table. A 3-0 or 2-0 series win over their arch rivals will lift Anil Kumble's team above South Africa to third place behind Austral

Delhi pacer Ishant Sharma was today added to the Indian squad for the first cricket Test match against Pakistan starting here tomorrow as cover for injuries to the pace duo of S Sreesanth and R P Singh. The Delhi pacer's induction comes a day after Munaf Patel was brought into the side foll

Despite the 2-3 reversal in the one-day series, Pakistan speedster Shoaib Akhtar believes his team can give India a run for its money in the three-Test series starting in Delhi tomorrow. The flamboyant paceman said the hosts were the better outfit in the ODI rubber, but Pakistan would make

The match-up between Australia's bowling attack and India's star-studded batting line-up will decide the fate of the upcoming Test series Down Under, Sri Lankan captain Mahela Jayawardene has said. After the retirement of legends Glenn McGrath and Shane Warne, the Aussie bowling has a new l

Yuvraj Singh may have set the shorter version of the game alight to emerge as India's middle order mainstay but the dashing left-hander would spend the first cricket Test against Pakistan warming the bench with VVS Laxman in action, hinted captain Anil Kumble. Addressing his first pre-matc

The 3-2 ODI series win over Pakistan has propelled India to fourth in the ICC one-day Championship table, overtaking Shoaib Malik's men, who have dropped a couple of rungs to sixth in the latest list. Mahendra Singh Dhoni's side is now just four rating points behind third-placed New Zealan

Indian batsman Yuvraj Singh was fined 20 per cent of his match fee for showing dissent at the umpire's decision of giving him out during the fifth and final cricket one-dayer against Pakistan here. The punishment was handed down by ICC match referee Roshan Mahanama following a hearing after

After failing to make much impact in the ODI series, flamboyant all-rounder Shahid Afridi was today left out of the 14-member Pakistan cricket squad for the three-match Test series against India starting November 22. Apart from Afridi, three others -- Fawad Alam, Rao Iftikhar and Imran Nazir

Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni today expressed surprise at his Pakistani counterpart Shoaib Malik's decision to bat first in the fourth one-dayer which the hosts won to clinch the five-match series here. "I was surprised to see Shoaib batting first. I had seen the wicket ye

Pakistani fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar has expressed desire to meet Bolywood star Sanjay Dutt, who is in a jail in Pune as both are said to be good friends. Shoaib's agents in India have conveyed his desire to Dutt's sister Priya and are making arrangements for the meeting, media reports said

The rebel Indian cricket league has succeeded in signing up two more Pakistan test players, Taufiq Umar and pacer Shabbir Ahmed. The two along with allrounder, Abdul Razzaq and Imran Farhat leave tonight for India to play in the ICL which kick off later this month. The joining of opener Tauf

Terming the fourth cricket one-dayer as a "crucial" match, middle order batsman Robin Uthappa said a confident India would like to clinch the series against Pakistan here tomorrow. Uthappa said the match could go either way but the Indians were deriving confidence from the fact t

In a gag order, Chief Selector Dilip Vengsarkar has been asked by the BCCI not to interact with the media, a few days after he was banned from writing syndicated columns. Vengsarkar, a former India captain who has often found himself in trouble for his comments in the media on selection ma

Former Pakistani captain Rameez Raja feels the ongoing one-day cricket series between India and Pakistan is lacking in intensity and playing fast bowler S Sreesanth could pep it up. Rameez rated the India-Pakistan matches above the Ashes but said the current one was not as exciting as it g

A buoyant India will look to wrap up the five-match one-day cricket series against Pakistan when the arch rivals clash in the fourth tie which promises to be another high-scoring tussle here tomorrow. India displayed excellent temperament to win the previous match at Kanpur and take 2-1

Fans can look forward to a run feast when India takes on Pakistan in the fourth cricket one-dayer here with the pitch curator promising a high-scoring game. Madhya Pradesh Cricket Association's Chief curator Samundar Singh Chauhan said he has prepared a perfect batting wicket for the match

BCCI office bearers, headed by President Sharad Pawar, will meet tomorrow in Delhi with the long-pending matter of appointment of a coach for the Indian team topping their agenda. The naming of a coach has been kept pending since the decision of previous incumbent Greg Chappell not to s

The national selectors will meet here this evening to name India's new Test cricket captain amid indication that Mahendra Singh Dhoni will be given the job in the longer version as well. With Sachin Tendulkar turning down the offer and suggesting that "a youngster" be given th

Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik today got a thumbs up from his coach Geoff Lawson who said the youngster was "getting better as a captain with every game". Lawson said both India and Pakistan have two young captains and they needed to be given some time to mature in their rol

Having gained the psychological advatage by easily winning the first match, a confident India go into the second cricket one-dayer against arch-rivals Pakistan here tomorrow, seeking to keep the momentum going with another convincing performance. The five-wicket triumph in the first one-da

Battered by formidable Australia in the recent one-day series, Indian cricketers used the opening day of the camp today to rejuvenate themselves ahead of the tough engagements against Pakistan. The two-hour session at the floodlit Eden Gardens saw ageing warhorses Sourav Ganguly and

Salman Butt signalled his return to form with a belligerent 83 as Pakistan warmed-up for its cricket series against India with a facile six-wicket win against Delhi here today. After restricting the hosts to 213 for 9 in 50 overs, Pakistan romped home with 7.2 overs to spare with

Shoaib Akhtar's erratic temperament has often come as embarrassment to Pakistan but captain Shoaib Malik and coach Geoff Lawson today threw their weight behind the enigmatic speedster and hoped the pacer to fire on all cylinders in the cricket series against India. Shoaib is just back