Yup, it seems that the red light has gone on for the Umpire Decision Review System that initially received so much support from players and cricket boards alike. Despite Dave Richardson, the ICC’s general manager of batting his heart out to try and keep the system alive it has just not taken off and is [...]

For a generation of loyal Indian cricket fans who saw India lift the world cup at Lords he was the boy who had the potential to replace Sunil Gavaskar, For the next generation he was an icon and inspiration who carried their national side on his young herculean shoulders single-handedly and for the Dhoni-Yuvraj-smitten latest [...]

Indian cricket is as unpredictable off the field as it is on it and the selection of mercurial (on the borderline of crazy) Sreesanth seems to be another twist in its ever vibrant tale. Announcing the squad for the first two tests against Sri Lanka that will commence at Ahmadabad in less than a week, [...]

Illegal whaling ships have been roaming the oceans of the world literally scotch-free for the last couple of decades and most often the only little hindrance they get is from those tiny little ships that have brave volunteers from ‘eco-friendly’ groups trying hard to stop the fast paced giants. Well, finally the huge ships and [...]

Playing a 7-match one-day series in this time and age seems a bit outdated, even boring perhaps and that is the general feeling going around both within the players and the spectators despite the two best teams in the world going head on. With cramped international schedule and growing demand on players’ fitness, it seems [...]

Don’t you know how to use Twitter? Don’t you understand the concept of real-time web? Or even don’t know what Twitter is? How about doing a course (with a certificate and everything) on the most talked about “social system” nowadays?
More than something that looks like a joke, courses on how to use Twitter are becoming [...]

Two books translated to English with lectures and speeches from the former-president’s Jiang Zemin are among the official releases in the Frankfurt Book Fair. The largest commercial event of the literary world has China as the honored country, what already provokes enough controversy _ China censures about 600 books a year, foreign publications are forbidden [...]

While Australia’s stock market lost 59 percent and a 5.7 percent unemployment rate also assailed the country, it is ‘the only developed country to avoid technical recession.’ Australia has breezed through the global economic downturn ahead of any other developed country.
The country’s ‘stock market has bounced back almost 30 percent since mid-July, home prices are [...]

Four selections of Europe conquered their vacancy on this Saturday, after the next to the last round of the preliminary rounds for the World Cup of 2010. Denmark, Serbia, Germany and Italy didn’t give chances to their opponents and stamped their respective passports. Of the nine groups, only two will still need to define which [...]

According to a recent report by Survival International, a London-based group that advocates for native cultures, ‘native peoples are suffering a swine flu infection rate four to five times higher than that of the general population.’ Native-rights groups assert that the world’s indigenous people such as tribes are at ‘greatest risk from the swine flu [...]