Cricket
A sport originating in a small Hampshire village in seventeenth-century England, cricket was introduced to South Asia by the British in the early eighteenth century. The first recorded cricket...
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Cricket
About 500 years ago, a group of Englishmen began playing a little game using a bat, a ball, and a few sticks with pieces of wood on top of them. Little did they know that in a few short cent...
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SYDNEY, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Australian cricket authorities
came under fire on Friday for preventing some news
organisations from covering the first test match against Sri
Lanka, as a boycott of the ...
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Percy Sonn, the president of the International Cricket Council who was instrumental in fighting racial segregation in the sport, died Sunday of complications following colon surgery. He was 57. Son...
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They congregate on patios, slip into stairwells and, if they're crunched under foot, oh do they stink. Crickets are here in force, annoying Texans earlier than usual _ thanks to the year's wet weat...
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Muslims joined Christians in observing a minute of silence, lighting candles and offering prayers in a memorial for slain Pakistani cricket coach Bob Woolmer on Sunday.About 200 people, including c...
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Sydney (dpa) - Australia's bratty world-champion cricket team is
learning that winning is not everything.
After not giving visitors India a sporting chance of evenin...
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New Delhi (dpa) - The four-match series between world champions
Australia and cricket's financial powerhouse India challenged
cricket's reputation of being a gentleman's gam...
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The seats fill up quickly at Eight Mile Creek.It's not even 11 a.m., and the Australian restaurant on Little Italy's Mulberry Street is packed _ Australians and South Africans, an Indian or two, ev...
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Prime Minister John Howard said Sunday the Australian government has banned the country's cricket team from touring Zimbabwe in September because he does not want to support the regime of a "grubby...
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A British forensic laboratory said Tuesday it is analyzing toxicology tests done on the slain coach of Pakistan's national cricket team, but has not yet reached any conclusions on whether poison wa...
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