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Sydney, Mar 26: Being Australia's cricket captain is widely seen as the second most important job in the country behind the prime minister. Many would argue it holds even more prestige. In an astonishing development, the captain said he hatched a plot to tamper with the ball in the third Test against South Africa, which saw team-mate Cameron Bancroft use yellow sticky tape on Saturday in Cape Town

Cape Town, Mar 26: Stand-in Australia captain Tim Paine described a "bizarre, strange and horrible" 24 hours that culminated in his side suffering a 322-run defeat to South Africa in the controversial third test at Newlands on Sunday. Australia have been engulfed in a ball-tampering scandal which prompted regular captain Steve Smith and his deputy David Warner to resign earlier on Sunday and could

Cape Town, Mar 25: Australia's Steve Smith and David Warner have stepped down as captain and vice-captain following the ball-tampering scandal in South Africa, Cricket Australia said in a statement on Sunday. Wicketkeeper Tim Paine, 33, would step in as acting captain for the remainder of the ongoing third test against South Africa, CA added. Smith said he was embarrassed and took responsibility

Dehradun, Mar 25: India pacer Mohammed Shami has escaped with minor injuries after being involved in a road accident while travelling from Dehradun to New Delhi. Shami, who is in the Delhi Daredevils IPL team, was returning to New Delhi from Dehradun in a car yesterday when it collided with a truck. Shami sustained minor injuries and got a few stitches on his head. He is out of danger and

Melbourne, Mar 25: Cricket Australia will not rule on Steve Smith's future as captain until it completes a probe into stunning ball-tampering revelations that have plunged the test team in crisis, CEO James Sutherland said on Sunday. Sutherland's comments came as a shocked nation digested reports from South Africa that Smith and senior players conspired to change the condition of the ball using

The 2018 ICC World Cup qualifiers will come to an end on Sunday when the West Indies take on second-seeded Afghanistan in the final at the Harare Sports Club in Zimbabwe. This is the West Indies' maiden appearance in the World Cup qualifying event after they failed to qualify directly for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 by finishing outside the top eight on the ODI Team Rankings at the September 30

Cape Town, Mar 25: The reputation of Australia's cricket team is in tatters after captain Steve Smith confessed to coming up with a plan with senior players to cheat South Africa by tampering with the ball in the third Test. Smith and Cameron Bancroft, the fielder chosen to carry out the tampering, admitted to cheating after Bancroft was caught on television using a piece of sticky tape to rub

Kolkata, Mar 24: Wriddhiman Saha presented another dimension to his batsmanship as he geared for the upcoming Indian Premier League hitting 14 sixes in a 20-ball hundred during a T20 inter-club game. Wriddhiman, playing for Mohun Bagan against Bengal Nagpur Railways (BNR) at the Kalighat ground scored an unbeaten 102 off 20 balls with the green and maroon brigade chasing down a target of 152 in

Deharadun, Mar 24: A day after being given clean chit by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) the match-fixing allegations levelled against him, Indian fast bowler Mohammed Shami on Friday said that the last 10-15 days had been a kind of mental torture for him. "It was a family issue. False allegations were levelled against me. It is a kind of mental torture. So, last 10-15 days were

New Delhi, Mar 24: India captain Virat Kohli is all set to play County cricket in his bid to prepare for the upcoming Test series against England in August-September. While it is yet to be ascertained which county Kohli will represent, it could be Surrey in all likelihood. "Virat will be playing for a division one county side for sure. I wouldn't like to add anything more to it. There were talks