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Sri Lankan player under ICC investigation

The ICC's anti-corruption unit has been monitoring the unusual activities of a leading Sri Lankan player after team members alerted their skipper Kumar Sangakkara of his late-night activities with a m

Pak envoy, team members, PCB call emergency meet

PCB officials, Pakistan envoy to UK and members of team management huddled for a emergency meeting as a British Tabloid came out with another set of revelations that a fourth player is under ICC probe

Changed format proposed for 2011 IPL season

The IPL Governing Council met here on Sunday and decided to introduce a changed format involving a total of 74 matches during the expanded fourth edition of the twenty20 extravaganza.

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Kamran Akmal was 'Kami' for bookie Majeed

Text messages retrieved from Mazhar Majeed's mobile phone indicate his close ties with Pakistani wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal, who was nicknamed 'Kami' by the alleged match-fixer.

British tabloid 'The

Player hid cell phone in helmet: Former Pak cricketer

A former Pakistani Test cricketer has alleged that a national player had hidden a mobile phone inside the right earpiece of his helmet while waiting to bat during an international match.

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Dawood calls all shots: Pak bookie

Karachi, Sept. 4: A Pakistani bookmaker has revealed that most of the bookies involved in match-fixing are ultimately answerable to India’s ‘most wanted man’, the Karachi-based underworld don Dawood I

KP set to face music after Twitter tirade

Cardiff, Sept. 4: Kevin Pietersen is to face disciplinary action over his foul-mouthed Twitter tirade following his dropping from the England Twenty20 and one-day squads.

Pietersen, never before axed

Don’t legalise betting in India: Kumble

Bengaluru, Sept. 4: Former Indian skipper Anil Kumble, a gentleman, if there was one on the cricket field in recent times, said the International Cricket Council’s decision to suspend three Pakistan p

No charges pressed on trio

London, Sept. 4: Pakistan Test skipper Salman Butt and fast bowlers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir were grilled for so long on Friday by the Scotland Yard investigative team in connection with the sp

Afridi says ‘sorry’ for fixing scandal

Cardiff, Sept. 4: Pakistan one-day captain Shahid Afridi apologised here on Saturday for the ‘spot-fixing’ row engulfing the tourists. Test captain Salman Butt and bowlers Mohammad Amir and Mohammad A

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