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New Delhi, Nov 15: N Srinivasan, the ICC chairman and BCCI president-in-exile, Indian Premier League CEO Sundar Raman, Srinivasan's son-in-law and Chennai Super Kings team principal Gurunath Meiyappan, Raj Kundra, co-owner of Rajasthan Royals, and three international cricket players are among those that India's Supreme Court has disclosed as having been probed by the Justice Mukul Mudgal Committee

Nov 14: Australia fast bowler Mitchell Johnson has won the top ICC awards for 2013-14, being named the Cricketer of the Year, as well as Test Cricketer of the Year. South Africa's AB de Villiers was named ODI Cricketer of the Year, while Australia's Aaron Finch won the T20 performance award for his 156 off 63 against England at the Rose Bowl in August. England's Gary Ballance was named Emerging

Kolkata, Nov 14: Cricket fans would have by now rote-memorized the records Rohit Sharma broke with his milestone innings of 264 at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata. But while the innings re-wrote some records in Rohit's name, the 153-run margin of India's victory in the fourth ODI against Sri Lanka on Thursday is the same as the games India won when Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag scored double

Kuala Lumpur, Nov 13: The Indian boxer who refused to accept her Asian Games bronze medal in protest against the result can expect a heavy punishment, the head of the sport’s governing body International Boxing Association (AIBA) said on Wednesday. L Sarita Devi lost in the semifinals of the women’s lightweight competition at Incheon, South Korea, in September, and tried to give her medal to her

Nov 11: Indian captain Virat Kohli had someone special in the stands when he hit his half-century in the match against Sri Lanka at Rajiv Gandhi stadium on Sunday 9 November night – Bollywood actress and rumoured girlfriend Anushka Sharma. Anushka Sharma was seen cheering Virat Kohli when he scored a run off De Silva to complete his 50 and also became the quickest batsman to score 6,000 runs in

Nov 10: Clinical India notched up another resounding win to humble a hapless Sri Lankan side by six wickets and clinch the five-match series in the third One-Day International at Hyderabad on Sunday. If the bowlers, led by Umesh Yadav (4-53) and Axar Patel (3-40), set up the win by restricting the visitors to 242 all out on a good batting track, then the Shikhar Dhawan (91 off 79 balls) inspired

London, Nov 9: Sachin Tendulkar may have written off England's chances of winning next year's World Cup but that hasn't stopped the India great urging his compatriots to broaden their horizons with a spell in English county cricket. England have never won the World Cup in nearly 40 years of trying and, having lost five out of their last six one-day international series, few expect them to end that

New Delhi, Nov 8: Olympic bronze medallist boxer M C Mary Kom on Friday came out in support of the controversial pregnancy tests conducted by Sports Authority of India on World Championships-bound women pugilists, saying that it was good for the safety of the players. She said that conducting the tests was not a new development as she herself had undergone the same. "I myself has undergone these

New Delhi, Nov 8: "I've learnt from Anand but I think I showed him in a way that although he has taught me many things in the past, now it's probably my turn to teach him." These were Magnus Carlsen's exact words after defeating Vishwanathan Anand in the FIDE World Chess Championship Match that was held in Chennai last year. The final scoreline read Carlsen-6.5: Anand-3.5. Carlsen won 3 games and

Mumbai, Nov 7: International Test debuts can be intimidating and Sachin Tendulkar could not have imagined a tougher one when he padded up against pace legends Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis in 1989 - the experience leaving him so scarred that he doubted his ability to continue at the highest level. In his just-released autobiography 'Playing It My Way', Tendulkar reveals how it was baptism by fire