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Brisbane, Nov 23: Australia shattered England’s batting with six wickets for nine runs in a stunning mid-afternoon spell before dismissing the tourists for 136 and taking a lead of 224 on day two of the first Ashes Test on Friday. Opening batsmen David Warner (45 not out) and Chris Rogers (15) backed up the bowlers and solidified Australia’s position by batting out a gloomy final session to put

Mumbai, Nov 22: Sachin Tendulkar averaging 53.78 in test cricket fell narrowly short of Vinod Kambli's test average of 54.20. Sachin's career of course spread over a staggering 200 tests while Kambli lasted 17 test matches. Common friends of both Shardashram team mates say Vinod's hurt stems from this reality. Vinod disagrees and says its Sachin who has cut off the friendship. From the time Vinod

Brisbane, Nov 21: Stuart Broad said England felt like "silent assassins" over their understated Ashes build-up after he made his loudest critics eat their words with a memorable five-wicket haul on Thursday. The paceman was dubbed a "smug Pommy cheat" by a local newspaper as the series got under way, over his decision not to walk during the last Ashes Tests, and was booed loudly by the Brisbane

New Delhi, Nov 21: India's senior women's hockey team coach Inderjit Singh Gill today passed away in a fatal road accident near Sangrur in Punjab. Gill died at the age of 59. He was a Sports Authority of India (SAI) coach who did his NIS Diploma of Coaching in 1979. Gill started his coaching career in 1986 and was working with the junior and senior women hockey teams since 1999. Gill was also part

Mumbai, Nov 20: Fifteen-year-old Mumbai teenager Prithvi Shaw created a national record today, hitting an astonishing 546 playing for Rizvi Springfield against St Francis D'Assisi Borivali in an inter-school match for the prestigious Harris Shield here today. Touted as one of the bright young prospects emerging out of Mumbai school of batsmanship, the state U-16 captain Prithvi hit 85 boundaries

Brisbane, Nov 20: Michael Clarke is giving nothing away on the eve of the Ashes. Not his starting XI, not comparisons between this and the previous series, not praise nor predictions, not even observations on England. Outwardly, the captaincy style harks back to another era, back in the mid-1980s when Australia was struggling in the international arena. And with good reason -- England is in

Muzaffarpur (Bihar), Nov 19: A case was today filed in a local court here challenging the selection of Sachin Tendulkar for Bharat Ratna and charging the Prime Minister and Union Home Minister with hurting peoples' sentiments. The iconic cricketer too has been named as an accused in the case filed under Indian Penal Code Sections 420 (offences relating to cheating and dishonesty) 419 (punishment

Dubai, Nov 19: England have a chance of displacing India from their current second position in the ICC Test Team Rankings table if they can win the upcoming Ashes series against Australia 4-0 or better. The Ashes series will offer England an opportunity to reclaim the number two spot that they held till India moved ahead of them last week following a 2-0 series win over the West Indies. While

Jammu, Nov 19: Jammu and Kashmir Sports and Youth Minister Taj Mohi-ud-Din today kicked off a signature campaign hailing the contribution of legendary cricketer Sachin Tendulkar who retired on Saturday. Taj, who was the first to put his signatures for the campaign organised by a private radio chain, complimented Tendulkar for the history of sorts he created during his 24-year career in

Austin, Nov 18: World champion Sebastian Vettel won a record eighth successive race when he triumphed in United States Grand Prix. The German Red Bull driver beat Michael Schumacher's previous record of seven wins in a row in the same season set in 2004. France's Romain Grosjean, in a Lotus, was second with Red Bull's Mark Webber taking third. Vettel's win was not only his eighth in a row, but