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/ 31 October 2007
Delegates from dozens of nations gathered in India on Wednesday to open a World Toilet Summit aimed at finding low-cost methods to give billions of people access to sanitation. The four-day meeting and seventh such summit brought together 170 experts from more than 40 countries to swap ideas on improving basic sanitation.
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/ 31 October 2007
West Indies batsman Marlon Samuels will face an investigation by the national board over alleged links with a bookmaker during a one-day tour of India in January. The International Cricket Council said on Wednesday that investigation by its anti-corruption officials had found sufficient ground to ask the West Indies board to probe the issue further.
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/ 20 October 2007
Unprecedented crowd control measures have been put in place for Australia’s Twenty20 international against India in Mumbai on Saturday after recent incidents of racist behaviour by spectators. Mumbai police have installed nearly a dozen close circuit televisions at the Brabourne stadium to monitor the crowd and spot culprits if there are any.
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/ 19 October 2007
A racism row has refused to go away in India where fans repeatedly taunted Australia’s only black player, tarnishing the country’s sporting image. Andrew Symonds was subjected to monkey chants from the crowd during the fifth game of seven in the India-Australia one-day series and booed and mocked in the final game in Mumbai on Wednesday.
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/ 18 October 2007
Left-arm slow bowlers reaped rich harvest in the seven-match series between India and Australia, highlighted by Murali’s Kartik’s record-breaking performance in the final game in Mumbai. The 31-year-old Indian bowler scripted the team’s two-wicket consolation win in the day-night game on Wednesday with a haul of 6-27.
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/ 16 October 2007
South Africa all-rounder Shaun Pollock, his New Zealand counterpart Jacob Oram and Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar have signed up for the Indian Premier League Twenty20 series, organisers said on Tuesday. Their inclusion takes to 25 the number of foreign players who have committed to the lucrative league due to start next April.
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/ 15 October 2007
A plane carrying members of the Australian and Indian cricket teams made an emergency landing in western India on Monday after it was hit by a bird, officials said. ”Both the teams are safe,” airport director SM Borkar told reporters. The Australian team were to board another flight later in the day, officials said.
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/ 11 October 2007
Seamer Mitchell Johnson claimed his first five-wicket haul in one-day internationals to lead Australia to a crushing nine-wicket victory over India in the fifth match of the series on Thursday. The 25-year-old took 5-26 in a display of remarkable swing bowling to bundle the hosts out for 148 in 39.4 overs.
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/ 10 October 2007
When Sachin Tendulkar makes his 400th one-day international (ODI) appearance on Thursday against Australia, he will realise fan expectations have not changed since his first match in 1989. Millions of his supporters still want him to showcase the flair and flamboyance that has seen him dominate and demoralise rival attacks during an illustrious 18-year career.
Skipper Graeme Smith and four other South Africans are among 10 current internationals to have signed up for the inaugural Indian Premier League (IPL) to be played next year, organisers said on Tuesday. Building on the national team’s Twenty20 World Cup triumph, the Indian cricket board is to launch its own multimillion-dollar professional Twenty20 league.
A Mahendra Singh Dhoni-inspired India stunned Australia with a thrilling eight-run win in the fourth one-dayer on Monday, throwing the series wide open. Chasing India’s challenging 291-4, Australia made 283-7 to allow India to pull one back in the seven-match series and reduce the margin to 2-1. The first game was abandoned due to rain.
The United Nations’s nuclear watchdog head begins a long scheduled trip to India on Monday that has turned into a political flashpoint as a nuclear energy deal with the United States threatens to spark snap elections. The trip comes as India faces an informal end-October deadline to begin securing clearances to clinch the nuclear energy deal.
Australia overcame a century by Yuvraj Singh to defeat India by 47 runs in the third limited-overs international on Friday in the southern city of Hyderabad. Having set a target of 291 for India, Australia bowled the home team out for 243 thanks to paceman Brett Lee (3-37) and spinner Brad Hogg (3-46). Australia went 2-0 up in the seven-match series, with the opening match abandoned.
India’s media on Wednesday condemned fast bowler Shanthakumaran Sreesanth’s on-field tantrums after he clashed with Australian batsmen, saying there was a ”thin line between aggression and antics”. Sreesanth clashed repeatedly with the batsmen during Tuesday’s second one-day international in Kochi.
Andrew Symonds and Brad Haddin powered to 87 runs apiece to help Australia outplay India by 84 runs in the second one-dayer on Tuesday, avenging last month’s surprise Twenty20 World Championship semifinal defeat. Australia amassed 306-6 after being asked to bat first in their first full one-dayer since their return from a long break after winning a World Cup hat-trick in April.
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/ 30 September 2007
Australia underlined the strength of their reserves in a rain-abandoned first one-dayer against India on Saturday, and stand-in skipper Adam Gilchrist said their performance boded well for the future. Reserve ‘keeper Brad Haddin hit 69 and then all rounder James Hopes lashed 37 in the final overs to help revive Australia’s innings after early trouble to total 307-7.
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/ 28 September 2007
India’s version of American Idol sparked violence on Friday when police clashed with supporters of the winner, leaving at least 30 people injured. Prashant Tamang, an ethnic Nepali youth from the eastern state of West Bengal, beat Amit Paul from Meghalaya state, inflaming regional rivalries.
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/ 27 September 2007
Australia captain Ricky Ponting warned Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s celebrating Indians on Thursday that the tourists are determined to start the one-day series on a winning note on Saturday. Ponting said India would be under pressure after lifting the inaugural Twenty20 World Championship in South Africa and his side had all the resources they needed, despite missing key players.
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/ 26 September 2007
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Police battled to contain surging crowds wildly celebrating the return home on Wednesday of the Indian team after lifting the inaugural Twenty20 World Championship title against Pakistan. Thousands braved monsoon rain to greet the cricketers off a flight from South Africa which landed in Mumbai on Wednesday.
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/ 18 September 2007
Indian selectors appointed wicketkeeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni as one-day international (ODI) captain on Tuesday after Rahul Dravid abruptly quit the job last week. ”Dhoni has been appointed the captain for the upcoming one-day series against Pakistan and Australia,” board secretary Niranjan Shah told a news conference after a selection meeting.
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/ 15 September 2007
Nearly 13,5-million people have been marooned or displaced by floods in India and Bangladesh, officials said on Saturday. The flooding in South Asia caused by the June-to-September monsoon has been described as the worst in decades, with more than 2Â 200 people killed by floods and rains in India since it started.
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/ 14 September 2007
India captain Rahul Dravid is resigning from the post to concentrate on his batting, cricket board president Sharad Pawar said on Friday. ”In the last few days he has told me that captaincy was affecting his game,” Pawar told reporters. ”He said he can’t handle both the responsibilities, which were leading to small deficiencies.
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/ 12 September 2007
India’s most famous monument, the Taj Mahal, is turning yellow, and the Archaeological Survey of India has decided to give it a mud-pack beauty treatment to restore its pristine white beauty, news reports said on Wednesday. The mud packs will be left to dry for a couple of days and then be washed off.
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/ 12 September 2007
Flood waters began to recede on Wednesday in north-eastern India after heavy rains and floods inundated much of the region, displacing about three million people, authorities said. But large portions of the state of Assam were still inaccessible and rescue workers continued to try to reach marooned villagers.
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/ 11 September 2007
Soldiers in motor boats rescued thousands of marooned people and helicopters air-dropped food as the number of people left homeless after some of the worst flooding in years in India’s north-east rose to 3,5-million. About 10-million people out of the 27-million population of Assam state have been affected by flooding after rains in the past few days.
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/ 5 September 2007
India go to the Twenty20 World Championships in South Africa hoping to mould a limited-overs team for the future as time ticks away for their ageing superstars. India are bracing for the time when the brilliant trio of Sachin Tendulkar (34), Sourav Ganguly (35) and Rahul Dravid (34) end their careers at almost the same time to leave a big void in the national team.
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/ 5 September 2007
Letters written by Mother Teresa which reveal she sometimes doubted God surprised and then inspired many among her order, her successor said ahead of Wednesday’s 10th anniversary of the ethnic Albanian nun’s death. ”The sisters were surprised, I was surprised to learn how she suffered in her thirst for God,” said Sister Nirmala, the diminutive superior general.
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/ 2 September 2007
Millions across South Asia are struggling to rebuild their homes, and their lives, as receding flood waters reveal the massive devastation caused by monsoon flooding in the region. In Bangladesh, where more than 750 people died due to the flooding, about six million became homeless after surging rivers broke through mud embankments.
An Indian farmer who has fathered his 21st child at the ripe old age of 90 says he wants to carry on having children until he is 100 — but his wife is throwing in the towel. Nanu Ram Jogi is revered by the menfolk of Paanchimli village in the western desert state of Rajasthan where the nonagenarian lives with 109 members of his extended family.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) will consider whether to grant official first-class status to the rebel tours of South Africa made during the country’s apartheid era at a meeting next month, an ICC official said on Friday. Teams from England, Australia, West Indies and Sri Lanka toured South Africa in the 1980s when the country was isolated by the ICC for its apartheid policy.
Australian skipper Ricky Ponting leads the nominations for this year’s International Cricket Council (ICC) annual awards, figuring in as many as four individual categories. The 32-year-old Ponting, who led Australia to an unprecedented hat-trick of World Cup titles in West Indies in April, is in the race to retain both the Cricketer of the Year and Test Player of the Year awards.
The death toll from floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains and snow melt in South Asia since June approached 3 200 on Monday as some rivers in India continued to overflow, the government said. In the massive flood plain of the eastern Indian state of Bihar — one of the worst-hit areas — the death toll reached nearly 500 with 20-million people affected.