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Dubai, Dec 17: India opener Smriti Mandhana was on Tuesday named in both the International Cricket Council's ODI and T20 teams of the year, capping off a memorable season. Mandhana has Jhulan Goswami, Poonam Yadav and Shikha Pandey for the company in the ODI team of the year and all-rounder Deepti Sharma in the T20 side. The 23-year-old Mandhana has played 51 ODIs and 66 T20Is for India, besides a

Visakhapatnam, Dec 16: Virat Kohli is the cricketing equivalent of soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo for his sheer commitment towards the game even though a K L Rahul can consider himself at par with the India captain in terms of talent, feels West Indies batting icon Brian Lara. One of the greatest batsmen to have played the game and for many, the best left-hander of all-time along with Sir

London, Dec 15: Newly appointed South Africa men's head coach Mark Boucher has hinted at asking AB de Villiers to come out of retirement ahead of the ICC T20 World Cup. De Villiers is the fourth-highest run-scorer in Mzansi Super League. Boucher played with de Villiers and at present also coaches him at Tshwane Spartans. "When you go to a World Cup, you want your best players playing for you,"

New Delhi, Dec 14: Bhuvneshwar Kumar being diagnosed with a sports hernia has once again opened the Pandora's Box. While the diagnosis raises question mark over the team of specialists working at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) as they had recently given him a clean chit, it has now also come to the fore that the duo of Hardik Pandya and Jasprit Bumrah had refused to undergo rehabilitation at

Chennai, Dec 14: Mumbai pacer Shardul Thakur has been named as the replacement for the injured Bhuvneshwar Kumar for the three-match ODI series against West Indies, beginning here on Sunday. A BCCI press release on Saturday said the All-India Senior Selection Committee has named Thakur as the replacement for the injured Bhuvneshwar for the upcoming Paytm ODI series against West Indies. Bhuvneshwar

Mumbai, Dec 13: A total of 332 cricketers will be auctioned in Kolkata on December 19 for the 13th edition of the Indian Premier League to be held next year. The list of players was released on Friday. While 997 players had initially registered, the final list has been pruned after the eight franchises submitted their list of shortlisted players. Seven overseas players - Pat Cummins, Josh

Mumbai, Dec 12: KL Rahul was determined, Rohit Sharma elegance personified and Virat Kohli at his brutal best in India’s series-winning 67-run victory over the West Indies in the third T20 International here on Wednesday. The ‘Maximum City’ witnessed the maximum entertainment as the trinity of Rahul (91 off 56 balls), Rohit (71 off 34 balls) and captain Kohli (70 not out off 29 balls) contributed

Lausanne, Dec 9: Russia was banned from the Olympics and world championships in a range of sports for four years on Monday after the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) ruled to punish it for manipulating laboratory data, a WADA spokesman said. WADA's executive committee took the decision after it concluded that Moscow had tampered with laboratory data by planting fake evidence and deleting files

Thiruvananthapuram, Dec 9: Indian team's frailties while batting first were thoroughly exposed by a disciplined West Indies, which kept the three-match T20 series alive with a comfortable eight-wicket victory in the second game here on Sunday. A below-par score of 170 for 7 with only 38 runs in the final five overs was never going to be enough keeping the dew factor in mind and senior opener Lendl

Hyderabad, Dec 7: Skipper Virat Kohli stamped his authority with yet another sublime innings of career-best 94 not out as India pulled off their highest successful run chase in a T20 International to beat West Indies by six wickets in the first match here on Friday. KL Rahul also struck an impressive 62 off just 40 balls to help India chase down the target of 208 with eight balls to spare. The