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Bangalore, (IANS) An aggressive half-century by skipper Virat Kohli (56 not out, 29b, 6×4, 4×6) carried Royal Challengers Bangalore to a 24-run win over league leaders Chennai Super Kings here Saturday and kept their play-off hopes alive in the Pepsi IPL tournament. Put into bat after a delayed start due to rains that reduced the [...]

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Bangalore, (IANS) The last league tie of the Pepsi IPL-6 between hosts Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) and Super Kings Chennai (CSK) was reduced to eight overs after heavy rains delayed its start by three hours at the Chinnaswamy stadium late Saturday. “Both teams will play eight overs each instead of the stipulated 20 overs as [...]

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Mumbai(IANS) Intensifying the probe into the IPL spot fixing scam, Mumbai police Saturday seized mobiles, iPhones and laptops of cricketer S. Sreesanth and his bookie relative, while Delhi Police quizzed the three arrested players jointly and a BCCI investigator joined the proceedings. Police are also scanning the diaries of Sreesanth which contain significant information pertaining [...]

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Mumbai/New Delhi, (IANS) Intensifying the probe into the IPL spot fixing scam, Mumbai police Saturday seized mobiles, iPhones and laptops of cricketer S. Sreesanth and his bookie relative, while Delhi Police quizzed the three arrested players jointly and a BCCI investigator joined the proceedings. Police are also scanning the diaries of Sreesanth which contain significant [...]

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New Delhi, (IANS) For fast bowler S. Sreesanth, it was two days of sleepless nights and no bath as the disgraced cricketer was not “comfortable” with the bathroom. Alone in the small cell of the Delhi Police, he mostly looks glum, depressed and breaks down often during questioning, police sources said Saturday. On the second [...]

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New Delhi, (IANS) Three Rajasthan Royal players, S. Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankit Chavan, arrested for alleged spot fixing in IPL cricket matches, were Saturday questioned in each others presence by Delhi Police, an official said. The suspects confessed their crime but blamed each other for dragging them into spot fixing, police sources said. The [...]

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Dharamsala, (IANS) Kings XI Punjab made 183/8 against the Mumbai Indians in an Indian Premier League tie at the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium here Saturday. Azhar Mahmood (80) and Shaun Marsh (63) struck a 148-run partnership for the third wicket while pacer Lasith Malinga was the pick of the bowlers with three wickets.

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(NVOnews.com): When entertainment becomes national obsession it is natural that more and more celebrities would be caught with their pants down––may be literally too. So apparently there is nothing unusual or surprising when cricketers like Sreesanth and others are arrested on the charge of betting. After all only recently other sportsmen were caught in a [...]

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New Delhi: The mother of Dec 16 gang rape victim Friday pleaded, with tears in her eyes and folded hands, to the fast-track court to “give justice to her daughter”. The mother of 23-year-old physiotherapy student, who was gang-raped by six men in a moving bus on Dec 16 last year, appeared before Additional Sessions [...]

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New Delhi, (IANS) Rajasthan Royals cricketer Ankeet Chavan was the first to break down under interrogation by Delhi Police and has accepted his role in the spot-fixing scandal that rocked the Indian Premier League (IPL) Thursday. “One of the cricketers, Ankeet Chavan, has accepted that he made a mistake,” a Delhi police official told IANS. [...]

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New Delhi:Sreesanth spot fixing allegations in IPL seems to have been proved right as the cricketer while talking to a Malyalee television channel said that “It was my mistake”. Sreesanth said this outside a court where he was taken. The cricketer was not allowed to speak further as he was taken away by police personnel. [...]

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Dharamsala, (IANS) Kings XI Punjab kept their faint hopes of making the play-offs alive by beating Delhi Daredevils in the Indian Premier League here Thursday. Contributions from skipper Adam Gilchrist (42), Shaun Marsh (45) and David Miller (44 not out) ensured Punjab post 171 for four. The bowlers were able to restrict Delhi to 164 [...]

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IPL match fixing 2013 controversy is going to unravel many truth about it. Updates suggest that Rs 60 lakh was paid for a fixed over. To be true, this much money can be tempting to anyone Mumbai/New Delhi: Rs 60 lakh for a fixed over is such a huge amount of money that it can [...]

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There is fast paced development following latest IPL 2013 match fixing allegations and the arrest of three players and seven bookies. BCCI has suspended Indian star player Sreesanth and two other cricketers who were the part of IPL team Rajasthan Royals. The three players were arrested in a late night raid conducted by Delhi Police’s [...]

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