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Sydney, May 15: Cricketing legends Sachin Tendulkar and Shane Warne are set to join hands for a Twenty20 league project that will rope in former stars and will be hosted in non-cricketing venues in the US. Tendulkar and Warne have offered 28 ex-players contracts worth 25,000 US Dollars a match for the league planned in atleast three US cities starting September, according to a report in 'The

New Delhi, May 15: Olympic medallists Abhinav Bindra and Gagan Narang failed to qualify for the final round of men's 10m Air Rifle event while Jitu Rai progressed to the qualification round in 50m Pistol on the opening day of the International Shooting Sport Federation World Cup at Fort Benning, United States on Thursday. Bindra, India's only individual Olympic gold medallist in 2008 Beijing Games

Madrid, May 14: Real Madrid boss Carlo Ancelotti said he isn't the man to judge whether he will stay in charge of the Spanish giants next season after Juventus dumped the holders out of the Champions League. The Italian champions will face Madrid's eternal rivals Barcelona in the final on June 6 after former Real striker Alvaro Morata struck the vital away goal to secure a 1-1 draw in the second

London, May 13: England director of cricket Andrew Strauss said Tuesday that Kevin Pietersen was "not part of our plans for the summer", saying there was a "massive trust issue" between the England and Wales Cricket Board and the controversial batsman. However, Strauss stopped short of saying there was no way back into the international set-up for fellow former England captain Pietersen, adding:

Dubai, May 12: India have benefitted from the annual update of ICC Test Rankings as it gained four points and two places to occupy fourth in the latest chart issued on Monday. In the annual update, the results from 2011-12 have been dropped from the calculations and outcomes from the 2013-14 series weighted at 50 per cent. Thus, India’s heavy defeats against England and Australia in 2011-12 no

Mumbai, May 12: The IPL has successfully entered into its 8th season and the craze for the game remained steady in the country from its inception. Though there have been many allegations on the players, betting process and the middle-men, it hasn't effected the game until now. A final report about the bookies role in IPL is long due and Lalit Modi's latest controversial tweets about Supreme Court

Kolkata, May 10: Batting for the resumption of Indo-Pak cricketing ties, PCB chief Shaharyar Khan today said that Pakistan are ready to host a series in the UAE in December. The series, which will involve three Tests, five ODIs and two T20s, is part of the MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) signed between the two boards in 2014 and Shaharyar is keen to abide by it. "We resume the India-Pak series

Madrid, May 10: Barcelona was one victory away from clinching the Spanish league title after Real Madrid fell four points adrift on Saturday, when Cristiano Ronaldo missed a penalty in a 2-2 home draw to Valencia. Barcelona cruised to a 2-0 win over Real Sociedad at Camp Nou to put the pressure on Madrid with only two more rounds to play. Madrid appeared set to keep pace after Gareth Bale and

Bhubaneswar, May 10: India finally stamped their dominance against Japan, winning the fourth and the final match 4-0 and claiming the hockey Test series 3-0 at the Kalinga Stadium here on Saturday. Young striker Akashdeep Singh (27th and 53rd minutes), drag-flicker V.R. Raghunath (26th minute) and Dharamvir Singh scored the goals for India. Japan too had their chances but they floundered. Halfway

Dhaka, May 9: Pakistan finally ended the victory drought on its Bangladesh tour, winning the second and final test by a massive 328 runs Saturday to take the series 1-0. The test was Pakistan’s last chance to salvage a miserable tour after being swept in the one-day internationals, losing the Twenty20, and conceding a draw in the first test in Khulna. Leg-spinner Yasir Shah returned figures of 4