NEW DELHI, Jan 25 (Reuters) – For a month, a nation of
1.2 billion cricket crazy fans woke up at an ungodly hour,
crawled out of the blanket’s warmth and switched on their
televisions hoping to watch India’s favourite sons winning their
first test series in Australia.

With captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and his Indian team
hurtling from one humiliation to another in Australia, most have
stopped this self-flagellation.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – With Pakistan shedding their notorious unpredictability and Australia coming to terms with a tricky transition, test cricket hierarchy in the next couple of months might look more like a banana republic… ripe for a coup.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) dangles an annual $175,000 carrot for whichever team tops test rankings on the April 1 cut-off date and table-toppers England were justified in believing they could be cashing the cheque in a few months.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – With Pakistan shedding their notorious unpredictability and Australia coming to terms with a tricky transition, test cricket hierarchy in the next couple of months might look more like a banana republic… ripe for a coup.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) dangles an annual $175,000 carrot for whichever team tops test rankings on the April 1 cut-off date and table-toppers England were justified in believing they could be cashing the cheque in a few months.

NEW DELHI, Jan 22 (Reuters) – With Pakistan shedding
their notorious unpredictability and Australia coming to terms
with a tricky transition, test cricket hierarchy in the next
couple of months might look more like a banana republic… ripe
for a coup.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) dangles an annual
$175,000 carrot for whichever team tops test rankings on the
April 1 cut-off date and table-toppers England were justified in
believing they could be cashing the cheque in a few months.

NEW DELHI, Jan 22 (Reuters) – With Pakistan shedding
their notorious unpredictability and Australia coming to terms
with a tricky transition, test cricket hierarchy in the next
couple of months might look more like a banana republic… ripe
for a coup.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) dangles an annual
$175,000 carrot for whichever team tops test rankings on the
April 1 cut-off date and table-toppers England were justified in
believing they could be cashing the cheque in a few months.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Italy’s World Cup-winning captain Fabio Cannavaro, former Argentina skipper Juan Pablo Sorin and Frenchman Robert Pires are set to feature in an Indian soccer competition that hopes to replicate the success of cricket’s Indian Premier League.

Some 30 players and six coaches from abroad will be auctioned off in Kolkata for the Feb 25-April 8 league, one of the organisers told Reuters.

NEW DELHI, Jan 16 (Reuters) – Italy’s World
Cup-winning captain Fabio Cannavaro, former Argentina skipper
Juan Pablo Sorin and Frenchman Robert Pires are set to feature
in an Indian soccer competition that hopes to replicate the
success of cricket’s Indian Premier League (IPL).

Some 30 players and six coaches from abroad will be
auctioned off in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata for the Feb
25-April 8 league, one of the organisers told Reuters.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s one-match ban means the India captain will have time for an introspective look as to where and when his Midas touch deserted him as his team mates battle to avoid a series whitewash against Australia in Adelaide.

Dhoni, who will miss next week’s fourth test after the ICC banned him because of India’s slow over rate in the third test defeat in Perth Sunday, has enjoyed a fairytale rise from the cricketing backwaters of the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand.

NEW DELHI, Jan 16 (Reuters) – Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s
one-match ban means the India captain will have time for an
introspective look as to where and when his Midas touch deserted
him as his team mates battle to avoid a series whitewash against
Australia in Adelaide.

Dhoni, who will miss next week’s fourth test after the ICC
banned him because of India’s slow over rate in the third test
defeat in Perth on Sunday, has enjoyed a fairytale rise from the
cricketing backwaters of the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Karun Chandhok will race in this year’s FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) while continuing to try and secure a reserve role in Formula One, the Indian driver said on Thursday.

Chandhok said the sportscar series would give him the chance to compete regularly while he explores test driving possibilities with a couple of Formula One teams including Caterham, the former Team Lotus who hired him last year.