“It’s just another game. I don’t know what Mr Roy (team owner and Sahara’s Managing Worker Subrata Roy) has said. But I have a contract for three years. I don’t know what he said. I don’t

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Sourav Ganguly may give up the Pune Warriors captaincy after this season and take up a mentoring role in 2013, franchise owner Subroto Roy has said. Ganguly, 39, has been in indifferent form this seas

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Although it is just one of the IPL's innumerable league games, the match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Pune Warriors at Eden Gardens has attracted special attention because of one player. Sourav G

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Q. Captain Ganguly must be pretty satisfied after beating Dhoni? Sourav : Oh! Why would I defeat Dhoni, we defeat Chennai. Pune Warriors beat Chennai Super Kings. Q. What are you saying?! Don’t you

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Sachin Tendulkar has stepped down as Mumbai Indians captain ahead of the IPL 2012 season-opener against Chennai. Harbhajan Singh, who was Tendulkar's deputy, has been appointed captain by the franchis

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Former Indian Premier League commissioner Lalit Modi has confirmed that he will appeal against the verdict that favours former Kiwi cricketer Chris Cairns.

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Pakistan's cricket board on Sunday expressed disappointment with Bangladesh for considering appealing an incident in the last over of the Asia Cup final which they believe cost them the match.

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Tired by the incessant questions about his retirement, Sachin Tendulkar has insisted that the decision to quit cricket is his alone and it would be "selfish" to make an exit when he was "on top" of hi

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Explosive batsman Yusuf Pathan on Saturday got engaged to a physiotherapist named Afreen at a very private ceremony at his farmhouse in Nadiad, 60km from Vadodara.

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New Delhi: India's star cricketer Yuvraj Singh, who was undergoing treatment for rare germ cell cancer in Boston, was discharged from hospital Sunday after he completed his third and final cycle of ch

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Yuvaraj singh has completed his chemotherapy and is expected to return to India in the first half of April. He was admitted to hospital for his last cycle of chemotherapy and has now been discharged.

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The International Cricket Council (ICC) is investigating claims that Indian bookmakers are fixing the results of England county games and international fixtures, Britain's Sunday Times reported.

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A quote which truely describes him... People say Sachin is God... Ganguly is the God of off side... Laxman is the God of 4th innings... But when the doors of the temple are closed, even God is behind

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Rahul Dravid's retirement from international cricket was announced at his home ground, the Chinnaswamy Stadium, in a function room filled with more than 200 people. Family, team-mates

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Rahul Dravid is likely to announce his retirement on Friday. Dravid, 39, has called a press conference in Bangalore that will also be attended by N Srinivasan, the BCCI president.

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Former India captain Kapil Dev, who feels Sourav Ganguly can be a good coach, has lashed out at current skipper MS Dhoni as well as the selection process in place for the Indian team.

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Runako Mortan, the West Indies batsman, has died in a road accident on Sunday, police have confirmed. Morton, 33, crashed into

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Innings Dot balls 4s 6s PP1 PP2 PP3 Last 10 overs NB/Wides Australia 138 25 5 68-0 40-1 (21-25) 36-1 (33-37) 91-2 0/5 Sri Lanka 142 24 4 69-2 17-1 (21-25) 68-0 (36-40) 76-4 2/11

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Dav Whatmore and Julien Fountain have signed two-year contracts with the PCB

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Virender Sehwag had asked the selectors and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to rest him for the forthcoming Asia Cup, contrary to media reports that the opener was dropped. It is lear

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Indian cricketer Yuvraj Singh has completed the second cycle of chemotherapy, continuing his recovery from a rare germ cell cancer in Boston (United States).

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Virender Sehwag has been rested from India's one-day squad for next month's Asia Cup, with Virat Kohli taking over as vice-captain. Sachin Tendulkar has been picked for the tournament, while allrounde

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The Man of the Match is Kohli: "To be able to chase 320 in 40 overs in a must win game, and put that sort of a batting effort together was a great team effort. I committed a few mistakes in the last g

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On a tour of many disappointments for India, Tuesday's contest against Sri Lanka offers them a chance, albeit an extremely difficult one, of prolonging their fight to

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Ricky Ponting has confirmed that he will play on in Test cricket but has conceded that his one-day international career is over.

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A combination of a flat pitch and especially small boundaries provided the ideal opportunity for a powerful batsman to break a record at sold-out Seddon Park. And Richard Levi, playing only his second

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Ben Hilfenhaus and Brett Lee splintered India to return Australia to the top of the table with a 110-run victory that reaped a bonus point at the Gabba. On a day when Ricky Ponting and Sachin Tendulka

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Andrew Symonds, the former Australia allrounder, has announced his retirement from professional cricket, citing family reasons. His contract with the Mumbai Indians extends through the 2012 IPL season

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India will replace bowling coach Eric Simons with former Queensland fast bowler Joe Dawes at the end of the tour of Australia. Simons' contract, which expires at the end of the tour, will not be renew

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Australia captain Michael Clarke has been ruled out of Friday's triangular series match against Sri Lanka in Sydney with a right hamstring injury, Cricket Australia said on Monday.The selectors will n

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Yuvraj Singh has been diagnosed with cancer and is currently undergoing chemotherapy in the United States of America. A member of Yuvraj's medical team informed ESPNcricinfo that Yuvraj's condition is

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Q. What Happened? Dada : No idea,all were getting ready For auctions,suddenly we heard. Q. Why this decision? Dada: Can’t understand,only heard dat a lot of proposals went frm our side, BCCI hear

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Mitchell Marsh dismissed Virat Kohli to give Australia second breakthrough against India in the second T20 international at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Friday.

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Mohammad Amir, the Pakistan fast bowler, has been released from Portland Young Offenders Institution in Dorset after serving half of a six-month sentence for his part in a spot-fixing scam.Amir is exp

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"I just said my statement. The best thing about statements is, you can assume it the way you want to."That was MS Dhoni's response when told how his statement that he might have to give up Test cricke

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England suffered one of their most disastrous batting collapses in Test history as they disintegrated against Pakistan's spinners to lose the second Test in Abu Dhabi and with it the series. Pakistan

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Rahul Dravid has said that he has not made a decision on whether to retire or not. There had been reports in the media about Dravid's imminent retirement after the defeat in Adelaide, which prompted t

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Once again Australia are on top at the end of a day. But India will take heart from the fact that they put up a good fight. India started the day at 61/2 and collapsed to 111-5 before lunch.

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Four weeks ago, the first Test started in Melbourne on Boxing Day amid great expectations of a closely-fought tour and India's best chance of pulling off a series win in Australia. Now after three Tes

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Tillakaratne Dilshan has stepped down as Sri Lanka captain in all three formats, a day after the ODI series against South Africa concluded.

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George Bailey (capt), David Warner (vice-capt), Travis Birt, Dan Christian, Xavier Doherty, James Faulkner, Aaron Finch, Brad Hogg, David Hussey, Brett Lee, Mitchell Marsh, Shaun Marsh, Clint McKay, M

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has played his last game for Victoria after announcing his retirement from domestic one-day cricket. Hodge, 37, stepped down from the first-class arena in 2009-10 but continued to be part of Victoria'

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Chris Gayle has been retained by Royal Challengers Bangalore for the next two IPL seasons. The Royal Challengers had first rights to Gayle's services after he represented them as a replacement for Dir

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Australia opener David Warner says Sachin Tendulkar is the only in-form batsman in a struggling Indian line-up in the ongoing Test series but he expects the rest to show some aggression in the fourth

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"We have let the entire nation down and I will be the first one to accept it. There is a backlash which is happening back home and we are ready to accept it. We have given the opportunity to people (t

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Squad: MS Dhoni (capt & wk), Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Sachin Tendulkar, Suresh Raina, Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja, Manoj Tiwary, Parthiv Patel (wk), Zaheer Khan, Umesh Yadav, Ir

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Former skipper Sourav Ganguly said age is catching up with Dravid and Laxman and India must look for their alternatives before the next series abroad.

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"What India now need to do very, very quickly is to look forward and not backward. If it unfortunately means that we have to say goodbye to some of the players who have served the country for so long

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Virender Sehwag and Rahul Dravid have denied media reports of a rift in the Indian team over MS Dhoni's leadership and a lack of unity when under pressure. Reports suggested the team was split over Dh

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Sri Lanka collapsed to their lowest one-day score of 43 on Wednesday when they lost by 258 runs to South Africa in the first one-day international at Boland Park.

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The 'big-4' of India's batting department need to fire in unison to fish the team out of troubled waters if the visitors want to make a comeback in the third cricket Test against Australia, starting F

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"Of course (I'm ready). I don't want to be unprepared. My preparation has to be 100 per cent. It doesn't matter if I am playing or not," Rohit said.

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"I love the aggression of our fast bowlers. I love the way they served it up to the Indian tailenders during our strong victory in Melbourne," Clarke wrote in his column for The Daily Telegraph.

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What promised to be the most gripping day of the Melbourne Test ended in an anti-climax with Australia crushing India by 122 runs.

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Good news for India team, their bowling spearhead Zaheer Khan and fellow pacer Ishant Sharma appeared to be fit to play in the opening Test against Australia beginning in Melbourne, on Monday.

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Michael Clarke (capt), Ed Cowan, David Warner, Shaun Marsh, Ricky Ponting, Michael Hussey, Daniel Christian, Brad Haddin, Peter Siddle, James Pattinson, Ben Hilfenhaus, Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon

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Former Australian opener Matthew Hayden has revealed that he will quit all forms of competitive cricket after the end of the Big Bash Twenty20 tournament to draw curtains on his illustrious career spa

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The player auction for the 2012 IPL will be held on February 4, the governing council has announced. The players from the Kochi Tuskers Kerala franchise, which was terminated earlier this year, will b

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Thank you for inviting me to deliver the Bradman Oration; the respect and the regard that came with the invitation to speak tonight, is deeply appreciated. I realise a very distinguished list of gent

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Selectors might be forced to axe Ricky Ponting or Mike Hussey from the Australian cricket team for the upcoming four Tests against India after their dismal show in the just-concluded series with New

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Virender Sehwag’s world-record 219 against the West Indies in the Indore ODI on Thursday has not only made his teammates and fans proud, but also his former skipper Sourav Ganguly. “It was an incr

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Irfan's inclusion is the only change to the ODI squad for the home series against West Indies, which India lead 2-1. Rahul Sharma, Ajinkya Rahane and Manoj Tiwary, none of whom have played a game in t

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Veteran Indian batsman Rahul Dravid was named captain of the Indian Premier League team Rajasthan Royals filling up a post left vacant by retired Australian spin legend Shane Warne earlier this yea

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Former India captain Sourav Ganguly feels India's pace spearhead Zaheer Khan needs to bowl a lot in order to be fully fit for the first Test against Australia starting on the Boxing Day.

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India 270 for 5 (Kohli 117, Rohit 90*) beat West Indies 269 for 9 (Rampaul 86*, Simmons 78, Yadav 3-38) by five wickets

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India 482 (Ashwin 103, Tendulkar 94, Dravid 82) and 242 for 9 (Kohli 63, Sehwag 60) drew with West Indies 590 (Bravo 166, K Edwards 86, Powell 81) and 134 (Ojha 6-47, Ashwin 4-34)

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Squad: MS Dhoni (capt &wk), Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, VVS Laxman, Virat Kohli, R Ashwin, Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav, Varun Aaron, Rohit Sharma, Pragyan Ojha, Pra

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Virender Sehwag is set to lead India in an ODI for the first time since December 2009, after the selectors decided to give MS Dhoni a break for the five-match series against West Indies. Sachin Tendu

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Records / Test matches / Batting records / Most runs in career

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India 281 for 3 (Dravid 82, Tendulkar 67*, Gambhir 55) trail West Indies 590 (Bravo 166, Edwards 86, Powell 81, Ashwin 5-156) by 309 runs

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West Indies 267 for 2 (Brathwaite 68, Edwards 65*, Barath 62, Bravo 57*) v India

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Mickey Arthur, the former South Africa coach, has been appointed the new coach of Australia, a role with wide-ranging responsibilities after its redefinition under the recommendations of the Argus rev

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Australia 296 (Watson 88, Hughes 88, Steyn 4-64) & 310 for 8 (Khawaja 65, Ponting 62, Haddin 55, Philander 5-70) beat South Africa 266 (de Villiers 64, Kallis 54, Prince 50, Siddle 3-69) & 339 (Amla 1

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Ajantha Mendis has been included in Sri Lanka's 16-man Test squad for the tour of South Africa in December ahead of the offspinner Suraj Randiv. There was no place for senior batsman Thilan Samaraweer

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Australian fans on Sunday mourned the death of Peter Roebuck (55), a former player regarded by newspaper readers across three continents as one of the best writers and commentators on cricket of his g

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Australia needed a last-wicket partnership of 26 runs on Thursday to avoid the record for the all-time lowest team total in test cricket, finally collapsing to 47 all out on a chaotic second day of th

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Reiterating its stand on the contentious Sports Bill, the BCCI on Thursday said that until and unless it’s reservations were addressed by the sports ministry the bill will not acceptable even in the

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A London court has handed out jail terms to the three players and their agent found guilty in the spot-fixing case, drawing the curtains on one of cricket's most sordid and shameful sagas. Salman Butt

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In a development that is likely to have ramifications for far and long for cricket, the jury that heard the spot-fixing trial on Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif has found the duo guilty. The now defunct

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The relationship between former Kolkata Knight Riders coach John Buchanan and Sourav Ganguly was one of the talking points of the Indian Premier League. In his book, The Future of Cricket: The Rise of

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Star Indian cricketer Gautam Gambhir entered into wedlock with Delhi-girl Natasha Jain on Friday in a quiet ceremony which was attended by only close family members and friends. Gambhir and Natasha w

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While admitting that England were thrashed in the recent one-day series by India, off-spinner Graeme Swann has rejected accusations that the visitors went over the top in sledging of Indian players, e

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The one-day rankings two contrasting players share third place in the batting table with MS Dhoni and Jonathan Trott level on points. Dhoni was named Man of the Series against England having not been

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Reigning ICC World Twenty20 champion England was unveiled as the number-one ranked side in the shortest format of the game as the Reliance ICC Twenty20 International (T20I) team rankings were launched

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Greg Chappell has accused Australia’s top cricketers of being too conservative and defensive as they try to cling on to seven-figure contracts. Australia’s outgoing selector and national talent ma

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It took India nearly 22 years of playing ODI cricket to cross 300 for the first time in a match and they were the last major cricket team to reach that score. Even Zimbabwe had achieved the feat many

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Although disappointed with Chennai Super Kings' ouster from the Champions League T20, India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni feels that it will be a "blessing in disguise" ahead of his team's important OD

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A day after claiming that he saw Sachin Tendulkar’s legs trembling while facing Shoaib Akhtar, Pakistan’s former captain Shahid Afridi has now stated that he did not intend to question the Indian

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Cricketer Yuvraj Singh has turned out to be the highest income tax payer in non-corporate tax category in the Chandigarh region with an advance tax payment of Rs 1.75 crore for the assessment year 201

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Offspinner Harbhajan Singh has been left out of India's squad for the first two ODIs against England on October 14 and 17. Karnataka medium-pacer S Aravind and Punjab legspinner rahul sharma have rece

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Mumbai Indians have been permitted to field five overseas players in a team during their Champions League Twenty20 games because several of their Indian players have suffered tournament-ending injurie

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Former captain Rahul Dravid is all set to bid adieu to One-Day Internationals and India hope to end their nightmarish English summer on a winning note at the final match here on Friday.

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it was on the cards with the rain playing hide and seek as the fourth ODI between England and India ended in a tie according the D/L method.

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India landed in England on July 13. Over the last two months they have lost eight players to injuries, many others have lost form, and an equal number didn't even bring it to begin with. Their No. 1 r

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ngland 218 for 7 (Kieswetter 51, Bopara 40, Ashwin 3-40) beat India 234 for 7 (Jadeja 78, Dhoni 69, Anderson 3-48) by three wickets (D/L method)

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50 overs India 274 for 7 (Parthiv 95, Kohli 55) v England

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Ryan Harris bowled Australia to within sight of victory on the third day in Galle, but a fighting half-century from Mahela Jayawardene ensured the match would spill into the fourth day. Sri Lanka need

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Big Picture Autumn is closing in and the football season is in full swing. A major Test series has been wrapped up with aplomb, and now attention turns to a lengthy round of what might, in some quarte

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Pakistan 116 for 1 (Hafeez 79*) trail Zimbabwe 412 (Mawoyo 163*, Cheema 4-79, Ajmal 4-143) by 296 runs

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