'We used to get Rs 250 for a Test match, and if the match was over in 4 days, 50 rupees were cut.'
IMAGES from Day 3 of the opening Test played between Australia and Pakistan in Perth on Saturday.
Markram ton and spin twins see South Africa to ODI win over Australia
South Africa shredded through the Indian batting line-up to claim victory by an innings and 32 runs in the first Test.
Dharmendrasinh Jadeja took 7/32 as Saurashtra thrashed Rajasthan by 218 runs.
Half-centuries from captain Uday Saharan and Sachin Dhas steered India to their ninth Under-19 World Cup final.
According to the commission, businesses urgently need to upgrade to Internet protocol version six or IPv6, a new version of the Internet's addressing protocol, which will hugely increase the number of available addresses.
Young turks Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shubman Gill made the difference with the bat, while Jasprit Bumrah was devastating with the ball.
The team's fourth-place finish in the FIH Qualifiers dashed their hopes of Olympic qualification.
Hardik Pandya will miss their World Cup match with England as he continues to recover from a left ankle injury
Suryakumar Yadav chilled in the pool ahead of India's second T20I against West Indies on Sunday.
With the series already in the bag, India will be eager to perfect their freshly-baked T20 template as a team and hope that skipper Rohit Sharma's bat finally fires when they face Afghanistan in the third and last match of the rubber in Bengaluru on Wednesday.
There is an authenticity and sense of purpose about Dry Day which is appealing, observes Deepa Gahlot.
IMAGES from the match between Australia and The Netherlands, played in New Delhi on Wednesday.
Athletics superpower Russia is running out of time to eradicate doping and may not be able to send a track and field team to this year's Rio Olympics, Dick Pound, chair of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) independent commission, said on Wednesday.
It means there are two players from India inside the top 10 for fielding ratings, with Australia the only other side to have Warner (third) and Glenn Maxwell (eighth) among the top 10.
Bullets fly, the noise becomes unbearable and the plot finally ends with the hero doing an unbelievable leap on to the ski of the helicopter aka Schwarzenegger, flown by our pretty heroine. UFF UFF! Squirming in my seat, I ponder over what I have been through, sighs Air Commodore Nitin Sathe (retd).
With the United States stepping up drone strikes on the Waziristan region in recent days, Pakistan's Defence Minister Ahmed Mukhtar has said his government was running out of patience and Washington must not test its limits.
Images from Day 2 of the second Test between India and England at Visakhapatnam.
Nagal got the Chinese engaged in baseline fight from the beginning and drew the first blood in the very first game of the match.
23 wickets and several records fell on the opening day of the second and final Test in Cape Town on Wednesday.
Petrol pumps in many cities witnessed long queues on Tuesday as people came to fill up their vehicle tanks fearing shortage of fuel amid the protest by truck drivers against a provision in the new penal law on hit-and-run accident cases involving motorists.
The 28-year-old has had to deal with his share of injuries since making his international debut back in 2017.
Senior Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has backed Alex Carey's decision to run out a wandering Jonny Bairstow on the final day of the second Ashes Test.
The 13,000-strong UNRWA staff in Gaza includes teachers, doctors, nurses, pharmacists, warehouse workers, logisticians, technicians and drivers.
Rohit Sharma and Ravindra Jadeja slammed centuries under pressure in a 204-run partnership as India recovered from a jittery start to pile 326/5 on the opening day of the third Test.
Paris is, and will continue to be, dogged by the usual gripes about staging the greatest show on earth.
According to CoWIN data, only 73 vaccination centres are currently active in India, of which 32 are government-run.
IMAGES from the ICC World Cup match played between Australia and Bangladesh in Pune on Saturday
India wicketkeeper batter Richa Ghosh on Friday said playing as per merit of the ball and being judicious helped the hosts gain advantage over Australia in the ongoing one-off Test in Mumbai.
Shai Hope powered West Indies to a thrilling four-wicket victory over England
IMAGES from the World Cup match played between England and Afghanistan in Delhi on Sunday.
India edged South Africa by two wickets to advance to their ninth Under-19 World Cup final.
Ben Stokes and his team-mates have their task cut out as they look to emulate Alastair Cook-led England's historic India series win in 2012.
In the current scenario, form in the IPL will carry a lot of weight for selection in the Indian team bound for USA and Caribbean.
After agonizing over this for weeks, he made a decision. When they met after work one evening, he startled her by blurting out, 'I think we should break up.' A moving excerpt from Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's An Uncommon Love: The Early Life of Sudha and Narayana Murthy.
Spinner Deepti Sharma bagged her maiden five-wicket haul in Tests to put India in control on Day 2 of the one-off Test.
Jasprit Bumrah took 6/61 as India crushed South Africa by seven wickets to level the two-match series 1-1.
Men's cricket team clinched the gold medal on its Asian Games debut after their final against Afghanistan was called off due to rain
Smriti Mandhana hit a fluent half-century as India continued to hold the upper-hand against Australia, on Day 2 of the one-off Test.
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