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Alastair Cook duly completed a double century as England went into an early lunch on third day at the massive score of 503 for three against India in the third Test match being played at Birmingham. The overnight pair of Cook (206 batting) and Eoin Morgan (66 batting) were unseparated till lunch as the hosts [...]
England enjoyed an excellent opening day in the third Test against India as they pursued a win that would see them replace the tourists at the head of the ICC’s Test Championship table. They closed on 84 without loss in reply to India’s modest first innings 224, a deficit of 140 runs, at Edgbaston in [...]
The experienced Rahul Dravid was on Saturday recalled after almost two years while off-colour Harbhajan Singh was dropped from India’s Twenty20 and one-day squad for the upcoming series against England beginning August 31. Dravid, the lone batsman in form in the ongoing Test series, was included to provide stability to the brittle line-up which has [...]
Returning to the court after more than a month, India’s ace shuttler Saina Nehwal will have to get into rhythm quickly when she begins her campaign in the World Badminton Championship starting in London on Monday. The 21-year-old, who reached the quarterfinals in the last two editions of the mega-event, has been troubled by an [...]
In an apparent snub to the BCCI, veteran Indian batsman Rahul Dravid announced retirement from One-Day and Twenty20 cricket after the England tour in dramatic circumstances hours after he was named in the squad for the ODI series and one-off T20 International. Dravid, who on Saturday made a surprise comeback into India’s limited-overs squad for [...]
India overcame some anxious moments before suppressing a spirited the Netherlands with a nervy five-wicket victory in a World Cup Group-B match and virtually secure a quarter-final berth in New Delhi on Wednesday. After restricting the minnows to a modest 189, the fancied hosts started off with a flourish but lost wickets in a heap [...]
Electing to bat, The Netherlands were all out for 189 in 46.4 overs against India in their group B World Cup match at Feroz Shah Kotla ground in New Delhi on Wednesday. Brief Scores: The Netherlands: 189 all out in 46.4 overs. (Peter Borren 38, Tom Cooper 29; Zaheer Khan 3/20, Yuvraj Singh 2/43). India [...]
New Zealand crushed Pakistan on Tuesday in a ruthless display dominated by century-maker Ross Taylor as injury-jinxed England lost key paceman Stuart Broad for the rest of the World Cup. Taylor, celebrating his 27th birthday, scored 131 runs off just 124 balls with eight fours and seven sixes, to take New Zealand to 302 for [...]
CHENNAI: The DMK- Congress alliance appeared headed for a break with six Union ministers of the regional party set to resign on Monday even as finance minister Pranab Mukherjee appealed to Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi to reconsider his decision to pull out of the UPA government. The six ministers, including MK Alagiri , [...]
Bangalore, Mar 3 :- Stunned by Kevin O’Brien’s “brutal” hundred, Englandcaptain Andrew Strauss was “at a loss” to explain the poor fielding by his team that helped minnows Ireland script an upset win in their World Cup group match here. England dropped four catches, including that of O’Brien (113), in the three-wicket loss yesterday which [...]