Cricket

A tribal girl, working as a daily wage earner in Odisha’s mineral rich Joda in Keonjhar district, also doubles up as a wicketkeeper and batswoman for Jharkhand’s Under-23 women’s cricket team. Meet Pinky Tirkey, who, defying all odds, has…

Bhubaneswar: Former Odisha cricket captain and the first IPL player from the state, Haladhar Das announced his retirement from all format of the game on Sunday. He announced it in a line letter to the secretary of Odisha Cricket…

Bhubaneswar: Subhransu Harichandan, a student of the SOA Deemed to be University, has been found place in Odisha Under-19 cricket team for the current season. Harichandan, who is a student of the Institute of Business and Computer Studies…

Rourkela: Police busted a cricket betting racket with the arrest of five persons at Basanti Colony here late on Tuesday. Those arrested during the raid around 12.30 am have been identified as Uma Singh of Udit Nagar, Manprit Singh of…

Virat Kohli will lead the Indian squads for the Test, ODI and T20I series in West Indies, starting on August 3, the Board of Control For Cricket in India (BCCI) announced on Sunday. Rishabh Pant has been selected as the first-choice…

Zimbabwe were suspended from the International Cricket Council (ICC), with the world governing body saying the country’s cricket administration was not free from government interference. The ICC Board unanimously decided on Thursday to…

England, known to be the favourites before the World Cup began seven weeks ago, lifted the crown though the cliff-hanger of a controversy-ridden final could have gone New Zealand’s way as well. It was New Zealand-born Ben Stokes who played…

Bhawanipatna: India crashing out of World Cup 2019 after losing to New Zealand in the semi-final on Wednesday was a bitter pill to swallow for millions of Indian fans across the globe. But it was more so for a youth in Kalahandi district.…

New Zealand won the semi-final match by just 18 runs in what was an extremely close battle at Lord's. The match, that became a two-day affair courtesy the rain, did not start on a very optimistic note for the Kiwis. They set a modest score…

As India squares up against New Zealand in the semifinal of the cricket World Cup at Manchester on Tuesday, after a fine run in the competition despite a suspect middle order, the exploits on this global platform of a bunch of no-hopers 36…