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Irfan Pathan, the Indian allrounder, has downplayed the Indian board's request to prove his fitness to confirm his place in India's World Cup squad

The Pakistan Cricket Board's move to invite former greats for delivering pep-talk to the World Cup-bound players has not found favour from Javed Miandad, who thinks it's too late to organise such meetings

Ramesh Powar, the Indian offspinner, has said he did not expect to be picked for World Cup after not getting enough opportunities to prove himself in the lead-up matches

Rahul Dravid refused to be drawn into further controversy over the leaked report from Chetan Desai, the tour manager to South Africa

The Indian board (BCCI) has come to the defence of Chetan Desai, the manager of the Indian team on the tour of South Africa, and said that it would seek an explanation from Rahul Dravid for his outburst against him

Shahid Afridi, Pakistan's mercurial allrounder, faces the prospect of missing a large proportion of the World Cup after being charged with bringing the game into disrepute in the first one-day international against South Africa at Centurion

The Indian board today appointed a four-member committee to resolve the vexed issue of sharing the live feed of cricket matches between Nimbus, the rights owner, and public broadcaster Prasar Bharti.

India face a gruelling schedule till the summer of 2008

The Indian squad for the upcoming cricket World Cup in the Caribbean would be selected on February 12 in Mumbai

The Eden Gardens in Kolkata has been confirmed as the venue for the first one-dayer between India and Sri Lanka on February 8

Prasun Mukherjee, the Kolkata Police Commissioner, has been elected President of the Cricket Association of Bengal

Captain Piyush Chawla and medium pacer Abu Nechim shared eight wickets to bundle out New Zealand for 147 and power India to a comprehensive victory by an innings and 50 runs in the first four-day Under-19 match at Lincoln today

The BCCI's Technical Committee will meet in Chennai on January 20 to discuss the ICC rules and regulations on the domestic Twenty20 tournament in April

Yuvraj Singh has targeted the last two one-dayers against West Indies to stage his international comeback

Sreesanth revealed the story behind the famous impromptu dance after he had hit Andre Nel for a six during the first Test in Johannesburg

The batting was the reason India finished on the runner-up's podium. They asked all the right questions with the ball but the batting never really came together as a unit, writes Allan Donald

Sourav Ganguly has said India have a chance to win the third Test and clinch the series against South Africa because it won't be easy for them to achieve the target on the final day of the match

Nobody knows it better than the top five Indian batsmen that they have let down their side badly. The management would surely show more guts in putting Sehwag on the bench for Cape Town

Thirty probables for the Cricket World Cup and a team for India's first two one-dayers against the West Indies will be selected at Rajkot on January 12

If an opposition cannot be put away from a position in which India was in, then the hopes recede faster than the sum in your wallet in a club, writes Allan Donald