Melbourne : New Zealand spin great Daniel Vettori has tipped Kane Williamson to succeed retiring Brendon McCullum in all three formats of the game, insisting that the star batsman would take his country’s cricket to great heights.Williamson was named as the skipper of his national side for next year’s World T20 in India after McCullum […]
London : An Australian female cricketer has been handed a two-year suspended ban after being found guilty of placing bets, totalling only Aus nine dollars, on the 2015 men’s World Cup final. According to the Guardian, Angela Reakes breached Australia’s anti-corruption code after he placed bets on the Player of the Match award in the […]
Johannesburg : FIFA’s embattled president Sepp Blatter and his UEFA counterpart Michel Platini have been banned from all football-related activities for eight years on Monday.Blatter and Platini were serving a 90-day provisional ban handed by the FIFA’s ethics committee over claims that the latter had received a ‘ disloyal payment ‘ of 1.35 million pounds […]
New Delhi : Indian batting all-rounder Yuvraj Singh, who was recalled to the Twenty20 squad for the series against Australia, has expressed his disappointment for not being included for the ODIs. “To be honest, I’m a bit disappointed that I am back only in the T20I squad, not for the ODIs. However, there’s happiness that […]
Dubai : The International Cricket Council (ICC) has issued an official warning to Jamtha Stadium, Nagpur under the ICC Pitch Monitoring Process after the third Test between India and South Africa received negative reviews.The sanction took into consideration the fact that there had been no concerns about the performance of the pitch after any of […]