India

The anti-corruption unit of cricket's ruling body, the ICC, will investigate allegations about 15 foreign players made in an official Indian report on match-fixing, the International Cricket Council said on Friday.

The resumption of public hearings into match fixing allegations against disgraced former South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje has been delayed until November.

Tax officials questioned India's former cricket captain Mohammed Azharuddin and all rounder Ajay Jadeja on Tuesday after their return from London, an official said.

Organisers lost over $2 million when benefit cricket matches involving Indian, South African and Sri Lankan players were called off following the recent match fixing controversy.

The start of the Asian rugby union championship was thrown into disarray by the last-minute withdrawal of the Thai team on Saturday.

The biggest event on the domestic golf tour, the Indian PGA Championship, has now become a specially sanctioned event of the Asian PGA tour, officials said on Tuesday.

Prospects of India playing a test match in Pakistan after 12 years have brightened after New Delhi invited Islamabad to hold peace talks last week, officials said on Sunday.

The four bids so far submitted for the sponsorship of the Indian cricket team are not satisfactory, the treasurer of the country's cricket board (BCCI) has said.

ITC Ltd , India's largest cigarette maker, has invited proposals to take over its sponsorship of the nation's cricket team following a government move to discourage tobacco advertising.

Indian hockey authorities have sacked chief coach Vasudevan Baskaran and dropped three senior players after their disappointing seventh-place finish at the Sydney Olympics.

Malaysian sports officials were dumbfounded after the country lost its bid to host the 2006 Asian Games to Qatar.

Indian internet firm Satyam Infoway has struck a deal to acquire sports portal Kheladi.com for $1.3 million, to be paid mainly through an issue of shares.

A panel of legal experts will decide the future of South African cricketers Herschelle Gibbs, Henry Williams and Pieter Strydom after publication of an interim report on match-fixing next week.

Former South Africa cricket captain Hansie Cronje confessed on Thursday to approaching two team mates about fixing a one-day match against India this year and admitted accepting nearly $100,000 from bookmakers since 1996.

India's cricket team will not take part in the next Commonwealth Games, Suresh Kalmadi, president of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA), has announced.

India are to introduce a contract system with graded payments for their national cricketers that will fulfil a long-standing demand.