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Aug 15: Team India take on England in the fifth and final Test match of their Test series at The Oval. Trailing by a 1-2 margin , the tourists have the last chance to get their act together and draw level in this series. India will play the final Test at The Oval starting August 15 on this trip. While they started off on a positive note in this Test series with a draw at Trent Bridge and a rare

New Delhi, Aug 13: India offspinner R Ashwin will receive the prestigious Arjuna Award, thus becoming the 46th Indian cricketer to receive the honour which was instituted in 1961 by the Indian government to recognise outstanding achievement in national sport. Ashwin made a return to India's Test XI during the recent three-day defeat to England at Old Trafford, scoring 40 and 46 not out but going

Aug 13: The Indian women take on the English for a one-off Test match starting on August 13. This will be the first Test which the Indian women will play since 2006. Incidentally, that the last was against England women as well. Shiamak Unwalla wonders whether having a one-off contest is actually worth it. The Indian men’s team have played 94 Test matches since the year 2006. The Indian women’s

New Delhi, Aug 12: Former India captain and legendary batsman Sunil Gavaskar had a miraculous escape in a road accident while travelling from Manchester to London after the conclusion of the fourth Test on Sunday. The driver of his Jaguar car swerved to the right but failed to avoid a collision with another vehicle that hit them from the opposite direction. Gavaskar was travelling in the car with

New Delhi, Aug 12: Mahendra Singh Dhoni might be closing in on a dubious captaincy record held by Stephen Fleming, the coach of the Chennai Super Kings, and West Indies’ Brian Lara. Fleming and Lara have the highest 16 overseas Test losses as skipper. After the humiliating defeat in the Manchester Test, Dhoni has lost 13 away Test matches, just three short. After losing a Test match in New Zealand

Wroclaw, Aug 11: Deepika Kumari-led women archers clinched the recurve team gold after routing Mexico 6-0 in the final as India returned with five medals in the Archery World Cup Stage IV in Wroclaw, Poland on Sunday (Aug 10). Deepika herself won three medals as she also bagged a bronze each in recurve women's individual event and recurve mixed team pair event with her partner Jayanta Talukdar

Aug 11: India's abject cricket in every department of the game should not compromise the part played in England's revival by a collection of fresh faces. Enthusiasm is a great gift. From it comes energy, application and courage. After Lord's, where England themselves surrendered pathetically, the dressing-rooms would have reflected the emotional whirl of professional sport. One team rampant, the

New Delhi, Aug 10: Star grapplers Sushil Kumar and Yogeshwar Dutt have decided to skip the FILA World Wrestling Championships to be held next month in Tashkent, Uzbekistan to avoid injuries and preserve themselves for the upcoming Asian Games. Sushil and Yogeshwar, who won a gold each in men's 74kg and 65kg freestyle in the recently-concluded Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, will not take part in

Manchester, Aug 10: Jubilant with his teams’ thumping win at Old Trafford on Saturday, England skipper Alastair Cook expressed surprise at India’s abject surrender in the fourth Test, which allowed the hosts to take a 2-1 lead in the five-match series. Getting behind a 215-run lead, the visitors were shot out for just 161 runs in the post-tea session on day 3 as they went on to lose by an innings

Manchester, Aug 8: England fast bowler Stuart Broad took six wickets to skittle out India for 152 and the hosts finished on 113 for three in reply to take control on an absorbing opening day of the fourth test on Thursday. Broad and James Anderson reduced India, who won the toss, to eight for four and only a defiant 71 by the touring side's captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni saved them from complete