NEW JERSEY: Edison township has granted the Edison Cricket Club (ECC) a home ground in Edison. Announcing the grant, ECC president Atul Huckoo thanked town Mayor Jun Choi and said the Internal Revenue Service has formally granted ECC a non-profit organization status.

NEW DELHI: Temperamental off-spinner Harbhajan Singh was banned for a minimum of 11 IPL matches for slapping his India teammate S Sreesanth and will subsequently forfeit match fees amounting to Rs three crores, the highest in cricket's history.

NEW DELHI: KPS Gill's 15-year tenure as the hockey boss came to an unceremonious end with the Indian Olympic Association removing him by suspending the IHF and appointing an ad-hoc committee to run the establishment.

NEW DELHI: Indian hockey has plunged into a fresh controversy with its Secretary General K Jothikumaran resigning hours after a sting operation by a television news channel showed him accepting bribe money to get a player included in the senior team.

NEW DELHI: The issue of an Indian Hockey Federation official caught on camera while allegedly accepting bribe echoed in Parliament with members demanding stern steps, including a legislation, to bring sports bodies under the government's watchful eye to weed out corruption.

NEW JERSEY: The Cricket League of New Jersey, the largest body of cricket enthusiasts in the state, held its annual meeting here on April 6 to induct its new seven member teams and to finalize new cricket principles in its rule book.

CHICAGO: The dream of bringing the game of cricket to Skokie, a Chicago north side suburb, has now come true. After a huge support from the park districts and an overwhelming response from the community, a cricket practice facility located at Hamlin Park in Skokie has been identified and established, according to Babu Verma, a community activist from Skokie.

KARACHI: In a sensational revelation, banned Pakistani pacer Shoaib Akhtar said he was approached by match fixers during tours of India and South Africa but insisted that he never took up their offer of under-performing for money.

HEDERABAD: Chetan Anand's dream of claiming his first Grand Prix title was crushed with the final match defeat at Yonex Sunrise India Grand Prix Gold badminton tournament against Thailand's Boonsak Ponsana here.

BEIJING: Olympic chiefs will this week discuss scrapping international torch relays for future Games, following protests that have disrupted the run-up to the Beijing event, officials said.