Canadian rocker Bryan Adams made it a night to remember, headlining a glitzy opening ceremony that officially opened the 2011 World Cup in Dhaka on Thursday.
This edition of the 50-over big bash will be Sachin Tendulkar’s last. He holds every conceivable batting record in one-day and Test cricket and is the only player ever to score 200 runs in the 50-over version of the game.

Ads featuring Mahendra Singh Dhoni are set to the flood TV screens during the cricket World Cup in the subcontinent next year.

This weekend at the Asian Games saw competitors — dancers really — take the floor and waltz their way to a bunch of medals.
Their event was Dancesport, an obscure discpline that combines five forms each of ballroom shuffles (waltz, tango, Viennese waltz, slow foxtrot and quickstep) and Latin

There’s no Commonwealth Games this time around — no collapsing beds or bridges — to vie for eyeballs with India’s Test preparations like it did when the Aussies came calling a month back.

Questions over Sunil Gavaskar’s role in the consortium powering the Kochi franchise had added a new dimension to the IPL governing council meeting in Nagpur on Wednesday, which till this weekend was just limited to deciding the fate of the faction-ridden team.

When Australia arrived here in 2008, they were not just planning to keep possession of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, they were talking of putting daylight between themselves and the rest of the Test-playing community.

Despite being told off by the Supreme Court for holding more than one post in the Indian cricket setup, Mr N. Srinivasan is set to make a smooth transition from board secretary to president-elect at the BCCI’s 81st AGM in Mumbai on Wednesday.

The International Cricket Council’s move on Friday to suspend Pakistan’s Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir under its anti-corruption code comes at the end of a turbulent decade that has seen the governing body playing catch-up with shady characters and gullible players, when it should have been rounding up culprits and weeding out corruption.

It was as if he had written the script for his swansong himself.

India cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni tied the knot with childhood friend Sakshi Singh Rawat on Sunday in a private ceremony near Dehra Dun, attended only by close relatives and few India teammat