Pankaj Advani defeated Ehsan Heydari Nezhad of Iran 6-4 in the final to win the inaugural Asian Snooker Tour title, in Bengaluru, on Thursday. India's ace cueist and 21-time World billiards and snooker champion, won 52-40, 66(58)-0, 1-63(62), 78-4, 35-47, 0-51, 47-35, 38-39, 53(49)-35, 51(50)-20.
The International Cricket Council will be hoping to end the impasse surrounding the future of this year's T20 World Cup in Australia and sort the nomination process for its next chairman when the board members meet virtually on Wednesday.
Terming the 2002 incidents of Godhra and subsequent riots as a "national tragedy of gargantuan proportions", Sibal said the petitioner is concerned with how the majesty of the law will deal with such issues when men "behave like animals".
After her detention on Saturday, she had been taken to the Santacruz police station in Mumbai for informing the local police about her detention.
The charge sheet has been filed in a case registered on November 7 last year, they said.
India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Bangladesh can beat each other on their day
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ehsan Mani is against the idea of someone from among the 'big three' nations of India, England and Australia becoming the next ICC chairperson, saying it would be "healthier" for the game to select someone from other boards.
PCB Chairman Ehsan Mani's comments came a day after Cricket Australia chairman Earl Eddings conceded that the global T20 showpiece seems "unrealistic" as it will be difficult to fly in 16 teams to the country.
'Modiji did not say anything so that there was no influence. He endured all this silently'
PCB CEO Wasim Khan told the media that he and Chairman Ehsan Mani would be meeting with Misbah very soon to discuss his performance.
Kin of the 2002 Gulberg Society massacre victims and eye-witnesses on Saturday contested a special court's conclusion that firing by former Congress MP Ehsan Jafri acted as a catalyst for mob fury.
Danish Kaneria is desperate to return to the cricketing fold and is even keen on playing domestic cricket.
The Pakistani Taliban have sacked their official spokesman for issuing threats to Afghan Taliban, signalling internal fissures within the ranks of the terror outfit.
The action came after Amit Shah accused Teesta of giving baseless information to the police about the 2002 Gujarat riots.
The inaction or failure of some officials of one section of the administration cannot be the basis to infer a pre-planned criminal conspiracy by the authorities or to term it as a state-sponsored crime against the minority community, the Supreme Court said on Friday while upholding the SIT's clean chit to then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi and 63 others in the 2002 riots.
PCB chairman Ehsan Mani told a National Assembly standing committee meeting that the board paid each West Indian player around $ 25,000 to come for the tour.
Despite persisting questions among peer officers in the army about his professional competence and ethics, after his recent 'triumphal' Kabul sojourn, Faiz Hameed remains the hot favourite of both General Bajwa and Prime Minister Imran Khan, notes Rana Banerji, who headed the Pakistan desk at the Research and Analysis Wing.
BCCI chief Ganguly and secretary Jay Shah were to attend the ACC meeting. But, over the last few days, around 730 cases of coronavirus were reported in the UAE, creating panic among travellers and locals.
A local court on Tuesday ruled that Zakia Jafri, whose husband and former Congress Member of Parliament Ehsan Zafri was killed in the Gujarat riots, has lost the right to file a protest petition against the Special Investigation Team's report giving a clean chit to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, due to lapse of time.
Three cricketers have been reprimanded for breaching the ICC Code of Conduct during their teams' quarter-finals in the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup 2012 in Townsville on Monday.
PCB chairman Ehsan Mani said that the five-match series is scheduled to be held in UAE sometime in late March and early April and PCB was trying to persuade the Australians to play two games in Pakistan.
As many as eight rounds were fired from Jafri's gun, killing one and injuring 15, the order said.
Pakistan's centrally-contracted cricketers will contribute Rs 5 million to the national government's emergency fund to combat the coronavirus pandemic. Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Ehsan Mani on Wednesday said apart from centrally-contracted players contributing Rs 5 million, the employees in the board, up to the senior manager level, will contribute their one day's salary.
Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan told the Pashto-language Khyber Television channel that the bodies of the slain Frontier Constabulary personnel had been dumped at Spin Tul, an area near North Waziristan Agency.
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday approved the national cricket team's tour of England from the end of this month. The clearance from Imran, also a former Pakistan captain, came when Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ehsan Mani met him in Islamabad and updated him on the cricket matters.
Mani said if the Indian team visits its neighbours, it will be a 'big breakthrough' for Pakistan cricket.
'If the conditions change and we can have the Asia Cup, it must be held as earnings from it are distributed as development funds to member countries for next two years'
Pakistan seam bowler Ehsan Adil will miss the ongoing one-day international series in Bangladesh due to a hamstring injury and has been replaced by Umar Gul, the country's cricket board said on Saturday.
PCB Chairman Ehsan Mani had insisted that although the PCB had suffered losses because of absence of series against India but it can live without playing them. The PCB also faced financial disagreements with its last broadcaster over the unscheduled home series against West Indies etc.
Wasim at one stage asked Babar and Misbah whether the players felt the tour should be called off in the given conditions.
Ehsan Mohammad Tufel Qureshi was found guilty of complicity.
The ICC Board of Directors meeting on Monday ended up being a damp squib after they failed to reach consensus over Shashank Manohar's replacement as the next chairman of cricket's global governing body.
Sacked Sarfaraz Ahmed had the chance to make a graceful exit as PCB had advised him to step down as captain in all three formats but the wicketkeeper-batsman turned down the suggestion.
Reminded that India had planned to host a home series against England and also the Indian Premier League in the first quarter of 2021, Khan said a clear picture would come only by April.
He was elected as a local body councillor in 1976 in Bharuch Municipal body of Gujarat at the age of 25 years and became the political secretary of Sonia Gandhi and remained a bridge during UPA-I tenure between the party and the government.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India is likely to back the candidature of New Zealand's Greg Barclay over Singapore's Imran Khwaja in the elections for ICC chairman, a post vacated by India's Shashank Manohar after two terms in July this year.
Hailed as the 'Asian Bradman', former Pakistan captain Abbas was inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame alongside legendary South African all-rounder Jacques Kallis and former Australian captain Lisa Sthalekar.
Pakistan batsman Ahmed Shehzad has been banned for four months for violating anti-doping regulations after he tested positive for a prohibited substance in May, the country's cricket board (PCB) said on Friday.
The PCB chief said it was their right to demand this assurance and no one can keep Pakistan out of the World Cup.
