LONDON, June 6 (Reuters) – Iron man Nicolas Mahut began
exorcising his grasscourt demons by racing into the second round
of the Queen’s Club tournament in just 70 minutes on Monday and
immediately made a heartfelt plea to Wimbledon organisers.

Mahut was left feeling sore, tired, ragged and delirious 12
months ago after he was locked in battle for 11 monumental hours
with American John Isner in a first round match that spanned
over three days on Wimbledon’s Court 18.

MUMBAI (Reuters) – Only one person in the world was not surprised when England and India shared a 676-run feast at the World Cup that ended with a heart-stopping tie off the last ball.

Shane Warne is a man who could do wonders with the ball but who could have guessed the Australian spinning genius was also an amazing soothsayer?

MUMBAI, Feb 28 (Reuters) – Only one person in the world was
not surprised when England and India shared a 676-run feast at
the World Cup that ended with a heart-stopping tie off the last
ball.

Shane Warne is a man who could do wonders with the ball but
who could have guessed the Australian spinning genius was also
an amazing soothsayer?

MUMBAI (Reuters) – Warring cricket officials, the shortage of public tickets for India’s high-profile matches and violent clashes between fans and baton-wielding police took the spotlight away from the players at the World Cup on Thursday.

On a day when the cricket community should have been hailing Imran Tahir’s four-wicket haul on his ODI debut and AB de Villiers’s brilliant century as South Africa thumped West Indies by seven wickets, the World Cup looked like it was turning into another public relations disaster for India.

MUMBAI (Reuters) – Warring cricket officials, the shortage of public tickets for India’s high-profile matches and violent clashes between fans and baton-wielding police took the spotlight away from the players at the World Cup on Thursday.

On a day when the cricket community should have been hailing Imran Tahir’s four-wicket haul on his ODI debut and AB de Villiers’s brilliant century as South Africa thumped West Indies by seven wickets, the World Cup looked like it was turning into another public relations disaster for India.

MUMBAI (Reuters) – The Cricket World Cup’s top official was severely criticised on Thursday after police battered hundreds of fans with bamboo sticks outside Bangalore’s M Chinnaswamy Stadium as anger at the lack of tickets on sale for the clash between India and England boiled over.

In a memo leaked to the media, the governing body of the sport (ICC) accused its own president Sharad Pawar of mismanagement and said he was “threaten(ing) to undermine” the whole tournament with the way tickets were being distributed — or rather not being distributed — in India.

MUMBAI, Feb 24 (Reuters) – The Cricket World Cup’s top
official was severely criticised on Thursday after police
battered hundreds of fans with bamboo sticks outside Bangalore’s
M Chinnaswamy Stadium as anger at the lack of tickets on sale
for the clash between India and England boiled over.

In a memo leaked to the media, the governing body of the
sport (ICC) accused its own president Sharad Pawar of
mismanagement and said he was “threaten(ing) to undermine” the
whole tournament with the way tickets were being distributed –
or rather not being distributed — in India.

MUMBAI (Reuters) – Tickets for the Cricket World Cup final will be sold via a ballot after the official website crashed under the pressure of huge traffic.

“There will be a ballot and we’re working with the BCCI (Indian cricket board) and our official online ticket agents Kyazoonga to finalise all the details. They will still be sold via the website,” an ICC spokesman said.

MUMBAI, Feb 22 (Reuters) – Tickets for the Cricket World Cup
final will be sold via a ballot after the official website
crashed under the pressure of huge traffic.

“There will be a ballot and we’re working with the BCCI
(Indian cricket board) and our official online ticket agents
Kyazoonga to finalise all the details. They will still be sold
via the website,” an ICC spokesman said.

MUMBAI (Reuters) – Not a single ticket for the Cricket World Cup final to be held in Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium on April 2 was sold to the public after the official website crashed, the ICC told Reuters on Tuesday.

Tickets were put on sale at 0730 GMT on Monday via the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) official ticketing partner Kyazoonga.com, but the website buckled under the pressure of huge traffic, sparking furious complaints from fans.