Indian Cricket News
Remorseless Hayden relishing bad reputation
Matthew Hayden’s recent comments about Harbhajan Singh have upheld his reputation as Australia’s most unforgiving on-field sledger. By David Hopps.
Matthew Hayden has escaped with a reprimand from Cricket Australia after a Brisbane radio interview in which he vilified the Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh as an “obnoxious weed” and happily imagined teaching their spindly, young fast […]
Second Round auction next week: Modi
The Cricket Board-floated Indian Premier League (IPL)will conduct a second players’ auction next week to enable franchises, that have money left after the initial auction held on February 20, from the five million USD cap, supplement their player base.
“We plan to hold an internal players auction next week with only the team mangement who have […]
India has the last laugh after a bitter summer: Aussie media
Australian media again highlighted off spinner Harbhajan Singh as India claimed epoch-making tri-series victory at Brisbane and described the young side’s feat as having “the last laugh after a bitter summer of explosive tensions”.
Harbhajan, who had hit headlines throughout the long tour for being at the centre of off-field controversies, proved to be the nemesis […]
Indian Premier League: Good bye sports
Whatever maybe the outcome of this “Great Tamasha,” it is bound to change the face of cricket and could well entice cricketers to put a price on their heads as TV channels and other stake holders come out with innovative methods to reap profits.
And now for 44 days from April 18, India’s great cricket tamasha […]
Lalit Modi’s IPL threatens English cricket
The full scale of the threat to English cricket posed by the billion-dollar Indian Premier League was revealed to The Daily Telegraph yesterday when the man leading the revolution said “the majority of the England players have been in contact with us”.
Lalit Modi, the chairman of the IPL, has stood by a deal with the […]
Hayden admits being ‘insensitive’
Australian opener Matthew Hayden has admitted being “insensitive” in making the ‘obnoxious little weed’ remark against Harbhajan Singh but said it was not against the spirit of cricket and did warrant a reprimand.
“I can see that my comments were insensitive but they were not intended to be denigrating and especially not contrary to the spirit […]
Bhajji’s an obnoxious weed: Hayden
Harbhajan Singh on Tuesday came under fresh verbal abuse from another Australian — opener Matthew Hayden, who labelled the Indian off-spinner an “obnoxious little weed”.
Hayden unleashed a stinging verbal attack on Harbhajan on the same day former Aussie Test firebrand Rodney Hogg demanded India stop moaning about trivial on-field clashes, according to a report in […]