Batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar has been named as the most influential person in Indian sports in the annual Sports Illustrated Power list. The top 50 rates Tendulkar as the number one influencer in India, followed closely by IPL Chairman Lalit Modi at second spot and liquor baron Dr Vijay Mallya in third. Union Agriculture …

Former India captain Kapil Dev has been inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame. The 51-year-old played 131 Tests and 225 ODIs across a 16-year career, and is best remembered for leading India to victory in the 1983 World Cup. Kapil made his international debut in a one-dayer against Pakistan in Quetta in October [...]

Milestone man Sachin Tendulkar re-wrote the record books on Wednesday, hammering the first double century in the history of one-day cricket to add another feather to his well-adorned cap. The capacity crowd at the Captain Roop Singh Stadium witnessed history on Wednesday as Tendulkar, statistically the greatest batsman the ga…

New Delhi, Dec. 31 — Feel good about this. Against all expectations, India clung on to the title of the No 1 Test cricket team in the world as 2009 readied to melt into 2010 on the penultimate day of the year. At Kingsmead, Durban, in the Test between England and South Africa, Graeme Swann, [...]

CHENNAI, India (Reuters) – Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has been banned for two one-day international matches for his team’s slow over rate in Friday’s second ODI against Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka squared the five-match series 1-1 by winning the day-night game in Nagpur by three wickets with five balls rem…