Lahore, Nov 13 : India’s decision to cancel their junior hockey team’s visit to Pakistan is giving jitters to the cricket establishment which is fearing that the BCCI can pull out its team from Test and ODI series.

Former captains Javed Miandad and Rashid Latif fear that M S Dhoni’s men would also be asked to pull out of the Test and ODI series scheduled next year.

Washington, Nov 13: Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch has been reportedly sold to an investment firm.

The troubled singer – who saved the 2,800-acre Californian estate from auction earlier this year after striking a deal with an investment company – has now officially passed the property deeds over to Sycamore Valley Ranch Company LLC.

The company’s bosses will rename the property in a joint venture with the pop star, according to reports.

Santa Barbara public records confirm Michael is no longer the owner of the ranch, reports Contactmusic.

Sydney, Nov. 13: Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting says the current over-rates controversy ranks with last summer''s Sydney Test turmoil as his toughest time in cricket.

"(Sydney) was probably the most difficult time I''ve had to deal with as an Australian captain and an Australian player and I''m probably confronting the other one right at the moment," the Sydney Morning Herald quoted Ponting, as saying.

Wellington - Greenpeace, an international environmental organization, hailed the beginning of the end of Japanese whaling in the Antarctic on Thursday following news reports of the first cut in the season's target kill for 21 years.

A Greenpeace statement quoted Japan's Asahi Shimbun newspaper as saying that Japan cut its target of whales to be caught in the Southern Ocean for its so-called scientific programme this year by 20 per cent.

San Francisco - Drummer Mitch Mitchell, who with Jimi Hendrix founded the Jimi Hendrix Experience in the 1960s, has died at the age of 61.

The last surviving member of the trio was found dead Wednesday in a hotel room in Portland in the north-western US state of Oregon, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported.

He died of natural causes, the local medical examiner said.

A week earlier, he had performed as part of the Experience Hendrix Tour, a tribute to Hendrix, in Seattle and Portland, where the West Coast leg of the tour ended.