Cricket

UPA govt. was involved in all the recently unearthed scams, including spot- fixing in the Indian Premier League (IPL), and the involvement of some of its ministers would emerge, Janata Party leader Subramaniam Swamy said here Wednesday.

The incidents of spot fixing in IPL cricket matches have come to the light recently. Delhi police have arrested 3 players Sreesanth, Ankit Chavan, and Ajit Chandila from Rajasthan Royal team. 7 bookies are als aarrested

Javed Miandad, former captain of the Pakistan cricket team has been granted an Indian visa to attend the final ODI between the arch-rivals on January 6 despite his controversial family ties to Dawood Ibrahim, India’s and the world’s most wanted terrorist and the key accused in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case.

With the bilateral cricketing ties resuming after five years, the image of the Indian flag on the official website of Pakistan cricket board might create more problems as the flag is displayed with 'saffron' down.

Islamabad (Pakistan) : The Taliban on Saturday described the Pakistani cricket team's tour of India as a "disgusting gesture" and held out threats of violence against India.

Pakistani cricket fans may get multiple-city visas; India trying to operationalising new visa regime, even though 1283 Pakistanis who came to India during 2007 cricket series, are missing !

New Delhi : Hindu families from Pakistan have strongly opposed the revival of cricket series between the two nations as they had to face harassment and humiliation if India won the game.

Cricket between Indian and Pakistan is nothing but the stomping on memories of 26/11 attack. Crowds at a Roman circus had a greater sense of self-esteem than those who will pack the cricket stadia this December.

Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray today said the BCCI should be "publicly whipped" for the decision to resume bilateral cricket series with Pakistan. Thackeray said in an editorial in party mouthpiece 'Saamana'.

Strongly opposing the BCCI's decision for Indo-Pak series to be held later this year, VHP today accused the cricket body for "compromising" with the nation's security and asked "patriotic" Indian players to refuse to play any match with Pakistan.

After all, isn't cricket a religion in India and isn't it true that cricket is more important than the thousands who have died in terrorism and who at the end of the day are a mere statistic!

New Delhi : India-Pakistan bilateral cricket ties are set to resume with Pakistan reported to tour India for a three-match one-day series in December 2012.

India had begun cricket diplomacy with Pakistan in 2005, culminating in then Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf's visit to Delhi to watch the Indo-Pak final ODI at Firoz Shah Kotla stadium. The development reveals how elements in Pakistani establishment and LeT used cricket diplomacy to prepare for terror attacks on India.

In past few days, columns of many newspapers are filled with news related to ‘Indian Premier League (IPL)’; about Mumbai Cricket Association banning film star Shahrukh Khan for 5 years for his misbehavior.

While many Indians are busy in celebrations of India's win in Cricket World Cup, on the other hand, on average, 47 farmers have been committing suicide every single day in the past 16 years in our shining India.