Pakistan’s 18 Hockey Players Resign & PHF sacks officials after poor WC

Following Pakistan’s miserable show in the Hockey World Cup, the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) sacked its selection committee, team management, coach Shahid Ali Khan and manager Asif Bajwa on Thursday.
The 18-member strong squad took up moral responsibility for the poor show and all the players resigned later.
“Yes we have resigned. We have taken this decision [...]

Lifetime All Format International Cricket Ban On Yousuf and Younis

By SUNIL Sonkar
Karachi, March 10 — Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) put an end to the careers of former Pakistan cricket team captains Mohammad Yousuf and Younis Khan on Wednesday and has also imposed one-year ban on Shoaib Malik after the disastrous tour of Australia of the team.

In all the three cricket formats in Australia the [...]

Kapil Dev enters the Hall of Fame

India’s only world cup winning captain and all-round legend Kapil Dev has entered the International Cricket Council’s Hall of Fame. ICC in association with the Federation of International Cricketers’ Associations (FICA) honours the masters of the game by giving them a place in the Hall of Fame.
ICC president David Morgan presented Kapil Dev with a [...]

Karun Chandhok gears up for a tough debut in Bahrain

This weekend Karun Chandhok will become only the second Indian driver to participate in a Formula 1 Grand Prix when he gets to race for Hispania Racing. He will be racing with Bruno Senna for the Spain-based team.
Securing a spot in the elite list of drivers by itself is a great achievement, but Karun Chandhok doesn’t have enough [...]

First Win For Argentina In Hockey World Cup

By SHUBHAJIT Chakraborty
New Delhi, March 7 – Argentina has registered their first victory in the hockey World Cup, scored over New Zealand with a lone goal in the Pool A match.

In the 55th minute of the match Argentina striker Facuda Callioni scored the winning goal. However, the country is already out of semifinal race after [...]

India Defeated By Spain 5-2 In Hockey WC

By SUNIL Sonkar
New Delhi, March 04 — India lost to Spain by 5-2 in the Pool B of Hockey World Cup on Thursday at Major Dhyanchand Stadium. Spain dented the semi-final berth hope of India with their spectacular win.

At the end of the first-half host India failed to score out of penalty corner and trailed [...]

Australia Defeats India By 5-2 At Hockey World Cup

By SUNIL Sonkar
New Delhi, March 02 — After the mega win of India with 4-1 against arch-rivals Pakistan, the team was thrashed by Australia by 5-2 on Tuesday in the hockey World Cup at Major Dhyan Chand Stadium.

The Australians displayed a triumphant performance by dominating the game throughout. Glenn Turner scored two goals and one [...]

India And Pakistan Players Suspended For Fowl Play In Hockey World Cup

By SHUBHAJIT Chakraborty
New Delhi, March 1 – India striker Shivendra Singh and Pakistan goalkeeper Irfan Muhammad suspended for three and one matches respectively for violations in the hockey World Cup.

Shivendra was accused for hitting Pakistan’s Fareed Ahmed above the eye in Sunday’s league clash between arch rivals. He was given suspension for three matches by [...]

India Crush Arch-Rival Pakistan With 4-1 In Hockey WC Opener

By SUNIL Sonkar
New Delhi, Feb. 28 — India beat Pakistan with 4-1 in the hockey World Cup on Sunday at the Major Dhyan Chand Stadium. Two goals was scored by Sandeep Singh.

The one goal of Pakistan was earned by Sohail Abbas through penalty corner in the 60th minute bringing sigh of relief.
In the first-half India [...]

Sports Minister Stopped From Visiting India By Gilani

By SUNIL Sonkar
Islamabad, Feb. 27 — Sports minister of Pakistan Aijaz Hussain Jakhrani has been barred by Pakistan premier Yousuf Raza Gilani from attending hockey World Cup opening ceremony in Delhi on Sunday, reports media in Islamabad on Saturday.

Aijaz Hussain Jakhrani was scheduled to visit the country on the occasion of opening ceremony of hockey [...]

Bharat Ratna For Tendulkar, Proposes Maha Govt

By SUNIL Sonkar
Mumbai, Feb. 26 — Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar may get India’s highest civilian honour, ‘Bharat Ratna’. Maharashtra Government decides to seek this honour for little master who has made India proud with his performances over two decades.

Sachin Tendulkar scored 46 ODI hundreds and 47 test hundreds. He became the first batsman in the [...]

Record Breaking 200 in ODI By Little Master

By SUNIL Sonkar
Gwalior, Feb. 24 — Sachin Tendulkar creates history with super double century in ODI on Wednesday and took India to mammoth 401. He became the first cricketer in the world to score 200 runs, breath-taking unbeaten, in one-day internationals.

Tendulkar played heart-stopping knock and reached the mark in just 147 in the second one-day [...]

Talkatora Stadium Inaugurated For Commonwealth Games

By SHUBHAJIT Chakraborty
New Delhi, 24 Feb. – The renovated Talkotora stadium is all set for Commonwealth Games. The upgraded stadium was inaugurated by Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit. A special sports facility block was also made and opened at the same day.

The stadium has all modern facility and renovated with state-of-the-art facilities. It has an [...]

IPL-3 Will Not Be Moved From India: Lalit Modi

By SHUBHAJIT Chakraborty
London, Feb. 23 – Despite the strong security fears of players’ associations of England, Australia and South Africa, Indian Premier League commissioner Lalit Modi rejected such move to shift the tournament to another country. It was reported that ECB security advisor Reg Dickason observed an independent report, which claimed that safety of cricketers [...]

Play IPL At Your Risk Says England, South Africa, Australia cricket board to players

London/ Melbourne, Feb. 21 — Three cricket boards, England, South Africa and Australia, warned their players to take part in the Indian Premier League (IPL) third edition at their own risk.
Daily Telegraph newspaper reports that the players’ unions in England, South Africa and Australia states state the safety of the players cannot be guaranteed. The [...]

Indian Hockey Again Gets Trapped In Controversy

By SUNIL Sonkar
Chandigarh, Feb. 20 — Another controversy mounted up for the Indian hockey on Saturday with organisers of a charity event claiming that a demand of Rs 5 crore has been made by the players to feature in the matches. However, the national team members have denied the allegation.

Member of the organiser committee of [...]

Protect Every Player; India Took Vow to Host Major Sports Events

By NIMY Sara Joy
New Delhi, Feb. 17 – After the German Bakery bomb blasting in Pune, security fears coming out of the situation as India has to host major sports events like World Cup and Commonwealth Games this year.
As the last week bombing points out the faults in security, Home Minister P Chidambaram said, the [...]

Deccan Chargers Issue Notice To IPL

By SUNIL Sonkar
New Delhi, Feb. 15 — Deccan Chargers have slapped notice to IPL following their decision to shift the Twenty20 matches of season 3 out of their home ground, Hyderabad due to Telengana crisis.

Deecan Chargers said in the notice that Indian Premier League has ignored the safety assurances given by the Andhra Pradesh government.
The [...]

Tight Security; India- South Africa Second Test under Threat

By NIMY Sara Joy
Kolkata, Feb. 14 – Security tightened in Eden Gardens, Kolkata as the India- South Africa opening day of the second and final test today. The terror attack in Pune- which lead to the death of nine and around 50 injured Saturday- made the immediate security arrangements in Kolkata.
West Bengal government could [...]

Andhra Govt Says Deccan To Boycott IPL

By SUNIL Sonkar
Hyderabad, Feb. 10 — After the announcement of shifting opening match of Indian Premier League out of Hyderabad, the state government had asked on Wednesday Deccan Chargers, the local team, to boycott this T20 event if the organisers does not implement their original schedule.

K Venkat Reddy, sports minister of Andhra Pradesh, said that [...]