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Bengaluru, Mar 1: Although Mumbai failed to make it to the final of the 2014-15 Ranji Trophy, Pravin Amre, the coach, felt his young side had shown a lot of character against Karnataka, the defending champions, to bounce back after being bowled out for just 44 in their first innings in their semifinal. Chasing a steep 445 for victory, half-centuries from Aditya Tare, the captain, Shreyas Iyer and

Bengaluru, Feb 28: Defending champions Karnataka completed the formalities to register a 112-run win over Mumbai and enter the final of the Ranji Trophy cricket tournament for the 14th time here Saturday. Mumbai, chasing a victory target of 445, were all out for 332 about an hour into the fourth and penultimate day of the semi-final when seamer Sreenath Arvind had overnight batsman Siddhesh Lad

New Delhi, Feb 28: BCCI President-in-exile N Srinivasan today tendered an "unconditional apology" in the Supreme Court for "breaching" its direction by chairing the Board's working Committee meeting on 8 February and deciding to hold its AGM on March 2 to elect new office bearers. Closing the contempt petition against him, the court allowed Srinivasan to exercise the vote of Tamil Nadu Cricket

Kochi, Feb 27: In a sensational claim, noted Malayalam singer Madhu Balakrishnan on Friday said his brother-in-law and cricketer S Sreesanth survived a murder attempt in Tihar jail where he was lodged in connection with the IPL spot fixing scam in 2013. "There was an attempt to kill Sree in Tihar jail. ...A dada...a goon...who was a murder accused...tried to hit him with a weapon that he made by

Lahore, Feb 27: Former Pakistan pacer Shoaib Akhtar has said that he has been saying for the last four years that Pakistan cricket is dying and there is need to revive it with proper and planning and sincere efforts. Talking about the poor structure of Pakistan domestic cricket, Shoaib said: “It’s not stagnation but it’s the collapse of cricketing culture. It’s a failure of Pakistan’s first-class

Kolkata, Feb 26: Tamil Nadu’s Vijay Shankar added a much-needed life into an otherwise boring batting display, with an unbeaten half-century on the opening day of their semifinal against Maharashtra in the Ranji Trophy cricket tournament here on Wednesday. Opting to bat on a dull Eden Gardens strip, Tamil Nadu’s star studded batting line-up scored at snail’s pace until Shankar hit some strokes en

Bengaluru, Feb 25: An exciting battle is on cards when a resurgent Mumbai lock horns with defending champions Karnataka in the Ranji Trophy semifinal cricket match at the Chinnaswamy Stadium here today. Sworn enemies on the cricket field, both captains Aditya Tare and R Vinay Kumar, will not spare an inch to each other. "To be honest we have come here to win. We know Karnataka has been performing

New Delhi, Feb 24: The Supreme Court Monday said exiled BCCI president N. Srinivasan should have refrained from functioning as the cricket board chief after the apex court had declared that he was in a conflict of interest situation. Referring to its Jan 2 verdict holding that Srinivasan, being head of BCCI and the owner of the Chennai Super Kings, was in a conflict of interest situation, the apex

Jodhpur, Feb 22: Legendary athlete Milkha Singh today held "politics and bureaucracy" responsible for the deplorable state of sports in the country and voiced his support for incorporating sportsmen in policy decisions. "Our system is such that politicians and bureaucrats dominate sports scenario of the country and until this would change, nobody can expect an improvement," he said at a function

Feb 22: Maharashtra and Mumbai progressed to the 2014-15 Ranji Trophy semifinals with wins over Andhra and Delhi respectively, taking the season's tally of outright results to 54 in 112 games, while Karnataka and Tamil Nadu joined them because of their first-innings leads over Assam and Vidarbha respectively. R Samarth and Akhil Herwadkar, both youngsters, made headlines with the bat, and Shardul