Virat Kohli didn’t have an outing to remember against Ireland, but as they say, big players save their best for the last and it doesn’t get bigger than India vs Pakistan at a World Cup. Kohli, who came out to open with skipper Rohit Sharma in India’s first match of the T20 World Cup, lasted…
Things in India and Pakistan come to a standstill when it is about a game of cricket between the two estranged neighbours, and the Group A match at the T20 World Cup in New York on Sunday is no different. Besides pride and progress in the tournament at stake, an India vs Pakistan encounter is…
Opinions fly thick and fast when the context is cricket’s biggest rivalry — India vs Pakistan. On Sunday, the sport’s traditional foes will face off once again to write another chapter in the history of their famous encounters, and the excitement is fast approaching its match-day crescendo. Pakistan’s upset defeat against USA may have disappointed…
…But Rohit & Co. have experience of playing on tricky NY pitchNEW YORK: The hotels in the Nassau County area in Long Island are filling up fast. The local authorities have organized a watch-party for all those who have not got tickets for the India-Pakistan clash in a sprawling park not too far away from…
Doubts rise ahead of India-Pakistan blockbuster as new drop-in pitch behaves erratically, leading to fear of injury and low-scoring gamesNEW YORK: In all the euphoria of cricket coming to America, there now appears to be a cloud of doubt hanging over the most crucial component of the sport, the pitch. In two back-to-back games at…
Pakistan will take on USA on Thursday to open their T20 World Cup campaign, but it’s the match againt archrivals India on June 9 that the players and fans have their eyes on. “Poori duniya iss cheez ka intezar karti hai (the whole word waits for this),” said Pakistan skipper, Babar Azam, on Star Sports…
NEW YORK: Westbury is a small Long Island station where people aren’t used to this. On Wednesday morning, regular commuters travelling to New York City suddenly found themselves submerged in a deep blue sea.Cricket has come to New York, and the big boys who are carrying the cross and helping the sport find a footing…
NEW DELHI: India captain Rohit Sharma was not pleased with the disconcerting bounce on the new drop-in pitch at Nassau County ground, which left him with a bruised right bicep ahead of the crucial T20 World Cup game against Pakistan in New York on Sunday.However, key pacer Jasprit Bumrah might appreciate such conditions, which are…
NEW YORK: “This is long from over,” Donald Trump, the former president and current felon, declared Thursday, moments after a Manhattan jury convicted him on 34 counts of falsifying records to cover up a sex scandal. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, is banking on the jury not having the final word on the case. He…
NEW DELHI: Donald Trump was found guilty in a criminal trial on all 34 counts of falsifying documents to conceal a payment made to porn star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election.The guilty decision is historic as Trump is the first US president to be found guilty of a crime. The verdict was reached after…
