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India cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has gone in to bat for tiger conservation in a north Indian state, local media reported said on Monday.

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Cricket has drawn Pakistani society together but now shows apparently disparate elements are more similar than people think, writes Osman Samiuddin for the Observer. Cricketers have come from places much smaller than Asif and Amir, from poorer backgrounds, and gone through entire lives – let alone a career – without a scandal to stain them. Pakistan’s players do not get paid as much as counterparts around the world, it is being said. This is true. They have also missed out on the life-changing riches of the Indian Premier League. But…

Aiming for the sky: Sachin Tendulkar

Santosh Desai, writing in the Times of India, examines some of the reasons that may have contributed to what he says is an “unhappy form of arrogance” on the part of Indian cricketers in recent times. Some cricketers in particular seem to possess advanced degrees in scowling, and for some reason this is seen as a sign of ‘attitude’, which by today’s yardsticks is a good thing to have. We see a reflection of this unhappy form of arrogance both on the field and off it, in the way they…

Seniors in the Indian team continue to back the young batsmen in the side to deliver

Virat Kohli, the Indian batsman, has been fined 15% of his match fee for breaching the ICC Code of Conduct during his team’s ODI against New Zealand in Dambulla on Wednesday

Despite two flop shows in the tournament, the Indian team’s morale ahead of the crunch match against New Zealand seems to be pretty high

When I bumped into Mahinda Pethiyagoda, a lean 56-year-old with an accountant’s air about him, the first thing he spoke about on learning I am Indian was an obscure three-day match in 1974. “Gavaskar… Wadekar, I bowled against them when they toured Sri Lanka,” he recalled with obvious pride. That was the only official first-class match Pethiyagoda played. In these days of the IPL and billion-dollar television deals, cricketers can make a pretty pile through the game. It wasn’t always so, especially in Sri Lanka where even as late as…

NEW DELHI: Cricket legend Kapil Dev yesterday led glowing praise for golfer Arjun Atwal, who became the first Indian to win a title on the USPGA Tour.