Kanpur, Oct 26: Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Vice President Rajiv Shukla has admitted that cramped game schedules are making players fatigued.

Lahore, Oct 25 : The visiting South African cricket team has expressed regret over the shift of venue of the fifth One-day International (ODI) to Lahore following security concerns shown by them in

Sydney, Oct.25 : A Jamaican Government pathologist insists that former Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer died of pesticide poisoning.

Sydney, Oct.24 : There have been plenty of light moments in the cricket life of Ricky Ponting, too, and one of them surrounded his first involvement with Shane Warne at the Australian Cricket Academy in Adelaide during the winter of 1992, of how the aspiring spin-king tried to lead him astray even though his then captain-to-be was a teenager at the time.

In his book, Ponting reveals that despite their age difference — Ponting was 17 and Warne almost 23 — "he headed in my direction and we shared some time together".

Writes Ponting in his Captain’s Dairy for 2007: "He was the bloke responsible for my nickname 'Punter', assigned to me because of my habit of sneaking down to the TAB on Monday and Thursday nights to have a bet on the greyhounds.