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/ 20 February 2011
New Zealand crushed Kenya on Sunday in an embarrassingly one-sided World Cup mismatch.
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/ 20 February 2011
New Zealand crushed Kenya by 10 wickets in a grossly lop-sided Group A match for a perfect start to their World Cup campaign on Sunday.
Wankhede Stadium, venue for the Cricket World Cup final on April 2, has not met fire safety standards, the chief fire officer for Mumbai said.
In the north wheat is a staple food, whereas the rest of its cuisine is usually spicy, with a strong emphasis on milk-based dishes.
The 10th cricket World Cup opened in a blaze of colour on Thursday, launching a gruelling 49-match, six-week sporting marathon.
SA’s Graeme Smith and India’s Mahendra Singh Dhoni joined a chorus of World Cup skippers predicting a closely contested tournament.
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/ 17 February 2011
India will look to settle an old score against a confident Bangladesh when the co-hosts meet in the opening match of the World Cup on Saturday.
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/ 16 February 2011
The ICC has banned tweeting during World Cup games to ensure illegal bookmakers do not use the views of players and staff on Twitter as betting guides
Six weeks of Cricket World Cup action gets under way on Saturday, with the 2011 tournament tipped to be the most open in history.
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/ 14 February 2011
Special police teams set up to prevent gambling on cricket — but bookmakers will take bets on the move to avoid arrest.
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/ 12 February 2011
Morne Morkel grabbed three wickets and Jacques Kallis hit an unbeaten 49 as SA raced to an emphatic eight-wicket win over Zimbabwe on Saturday.
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/ 12 February 2011
From a "21 runs to win off one ball" equation in 1992 to a final played in virtual darkness, the World Cup has had its fair share of controversies.
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/ 11 February 2011
Alcohol causes nearly 4% of deaths worldwide — more than Aids, tuberculosis or violence, the World Health Organisation warned on Friday.
India and Pakistan have agreed to resume peace talks that were broken off by New Delhi after the 2008 Mumbai attacks, Indian sources said on Thursday.
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/ 7 February 2011
International Cricket Council (ICC) chief executive Haroon Lorgat favours legalisation of sports gambling in India.
South African Kevin Anderson beat India’s Somdev Devvarman in the final of the SA Open on Sunday at Montecasino.
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/ 4 February 2011
Financially risky for CSA, it raises more questions about Majola’s subsequent bonus from the league
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/ 2 February 2011
A total of 3 600 couples got married en masse in western India on Wednesday in a ceremony designed to raise awareness about poor farmers.
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/ 31 January 2011
The Indian cricket board has nominated Bangalore’s Chinnaswamy Stadium as a replacement venue for the World Cup match between India and England.
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/ 29 January 2011
Over the last two decades, there is very little missing from Sachin Tendulkar’s list of achievements as a batsman.
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/ 24 January 2011
WikiLeaks has provided yet another way for South Africans to obsess about what others think about us, writes <b>Verashni Pillay</b>
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/ 23 January 2011
Yusuf Pathan’s blistering century proved in vain for India as South Africa won the fifth and decisive one-day international by 33 runs on Sunday.
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/ 22 January 2011
South Africa levelled the one-day series at 2-2 by beating India by 48 runs on the Duckworth-Lewis method after bad weather ruined the fourth match.
Proteas coach Corrie van Zyl says SA had a bad experience on Saturday at the Wanderers, but they are a good team and can turn things around.
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/ 16 January 2011
India levelled the one-day series at 1-1 after paceman Munaf Patel clinched a thrilling one-run win over South Africa on Saturday.
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/ 15 January 2011
Fast bowler Lonwabo Tsotsobe’s second successive four-wicket haul helped South Africa to bundle out India for 190 on Saturday.
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/ 15 January 2011
A stampede of pilgrims returning from one of India’s most popular Hindu festivals killed at least 102 people and injured 44 others, police said.
South Africa’s fast bowlers struck early to set up a comprehensive 135-run win in the first one-day international against India on Wednesday.
The fine-tuning of the Proteas for the Cricket World Cup could be hampered by the injury to Jacques Kallis and the moist conditions at Kingsmead.
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/ 11 January 2011
Cold weather has killed nine homeless people in India, bringing the death toll from three weeks of near-freezing temperatures to 116.
SA and India enter a five-match one-day international series at Kingsmead on Wednesday with at least half an eye on the Cricket World Cup.
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/ 10 January 2011
Drowning in cardboard, <b>Verashni Pillay</b> ponders the sound and fury of business networking.