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NEW DELHI: With the teams entering the final phase of their preparations for next year's World Cup, cricketing great Ian Chappell has said defending champions India, Australia and South Africa are the favourites to win the game's showpiece…
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London: Days after cricketing legend Ian Botham called for IPL to be scrapped, former England captain Geoffrey Boycott has said it is not the T20 tournament but the Indian Cricket Board wielding enormous power that is detrimental to the…
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NEW DELHI: Veteran star Leander Paes is set to combine with Rohan Bopanna for the doubles rubber during the Davis Cup tie against Serbia, Indian captain Anand Amritraj confirmed on Sunday but he says nothing has been decided on the Asian…
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Chennai: Under-fire India cricket coach Duncan Fletcher's fate at the top job is expected to be decided by the BCCI after it receives Team Director Ravi Shastri's report on the England tour, the Board said Sunday. Fletcher, who was…
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NEW DELHI: In an apparent bid to give its under-fire president N Srinivasan some time, the Board of Control for Cricket in India deferred its much-anticipated Annual General Meeting after an informal gathering of its members units…
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Melbourne : Cricket Australia (CA) Sunday announced that George Bailey has elected to stand down as Australia's Twenty20 captain. Bailey has indicated that he wants to concentrate on his preparation for the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup and…
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New York :  The 25-year-old Croat Marin Cilic reached his first career Grand Slam men's singles final after beating 17-time Grand Slam winner Roger Federer of Switzerland 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 in the US Open semi-final here. Cilic Saturday…
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New Delhi :  Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday congratulated Indian tennis player Sania Mirza for winning the US Open mixed doubles title with her Brazilian partner Bruno Soares. "Congratulations to Sania Mirza for the victory in the US…
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Crans Montana: Anirban Lahiri led a group of three Indians into the weekend rounds at the USD 3 million Omega European Masters here even as six others missed the cut. Leader on the Asian Tour Order of Merit, Lahiri, making up for his…
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DOHA: The United States-based Indian, who won a gold in the recent Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, collected two points by virtue of finishing second in the season opening leg in Doha on May 9 with a throw of 63.23m. His second best…
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