Cricket Mania

Indian Cricket League seeks ICC recognition

The Indian Cricket League (ICL) has written a letter to the ICC seeking recognition for their Twenty20 league and asking why they continue to be labelled as 'unsanctioned' or 'unofficial' by the BCCI. While Malcolm Speed, the ICC chief executive, confirmed that the letter had been received, Himanshu Mody, the ICL's business head, said that they have also sought a meeting on the issue.

Chanderpaul's last-ball six seals WI win

Chaminda Vaas lost his nerves, but Shivnarine Chanderpaul kept his, and struck a four and a six off the last two balls to hand West Indies a sensational one-wicket victory over Sri Lanka in the first One-day International here on Thursday. Chasing 236 for victory from their allocation of 50 overs, West Indies entered the final over at Queen's Park Oval needing 13 runs to win

SA players set to miss IPL's first week

Not ready to let their domestic tournaments suffer because of the Indian Premier League, Cricket South Africa has instructed its players to return home to play the semi-final and final of the Standard Bank Pro20 tournament before competing in the IPL.Accordingly, Graeme Smith and his colleagues will return home after the third and final Test against India to play in the domestic tournament, which means they are set to miss the first week's action in the IPL which gets underway on April 18.

Football Mania

Bayern battle into semi-finals

Favourites Bayern Munich scraped through to the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup after a heart-stopping extra-time away goals win over Getafe on Thursday.
Getafe played all but six minutes of the game with 10 men but looked to be heading for a famous victory, only for Bayern to twice come back from the dead -- first to force the game into extra time and then to snatch an equaliser to level the match 3-3.

Chelsea chairman declares his love for Lampard

Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck insists the club want Frank Lampard to stay at Stamford Bridge even though they have yet to make any move to resolve his future. Lampard, who scored the decisive second goal in the 2-0 win over Fenerbahce in the quarter-final of the Champions League on Tuesday night, put talks over a new deal on hold last summer in favour of concentrating on his game this season. But the midfielder recently expressed frustration that his personal situation had not been sorted out and called on Chelsea to end the uncertainty over his future.