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Kolkata, Nov 5: Cricket has been left overshadowed by the farewell carnival surrounding the iconic Sachin Tendulkar and India will have to keep emotions in check to ensure that they are not distracted from the task at hand against the West Indies in his swansong two-Test series starting on Wednesday. The centre stage will belong to Tendulkar, who will begin pulling the curtains down on his

Kolkata, Nov 5: Sachin Tendulkar is reportedly "unhappy" with Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) officials' attempts to go overboard with their celebrations for his 199th Test match in his farewell series against the West Indies starting from Wednesday. There were contradictory statements from two joint secretaries of CAB with Sujan Mukherjee admitting that the maestro indeed was not amused with

New Delhi, Nov 4: Indian women continued their impressive show at the Asian Champions Trophy (ACT) hockey tournament as they spanked Malaysia 5-1 to secure their place in the summit clash of the event at Kakamigahara, Japan today. After being locked 1-1 at half time, India scored four field goals after the changeover to register their second consecutive win in the four-team women's competition

Dubai, Nov 4: Virat Kohli today became the number one batsman in One-day cricket after a superb batting show against Australia in the just-concluded series, in which he scored 344 runs. Kohli had scores of 61 (in Pune), 100 not out (in Jaipur), 68 (in Mohali), 115 not out (in Nagpur) and 0 (in Bengaluru). This gave the 24-year-old a series aggregate of 344 runs at an average of 114.66, and a

Bangalore, Nov 3: Rohit Sharma was always reckoned to be a special talent, and the rapturous Diwali holiday crowd marvelled at the pristine quality of his classy double century on Saturday. The knock virtually knocked the stuffing out of a flummoxed Australian team in the seventh and final ODI at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium. The 57-run win gave India a 3-2 series win though the massive and

Bangalore, Nov 2: Indian batsman Rohit Sharma on Saturday roared his way into the history books by smashing a scintillating double century and re-wrote the record for highest number of sixes by hitting the ball 16 times over the fence on a day when quite a few other records were rewritten. Australian bowlers bore the brunt of Sharma's fury with the young batsman producing some fireworks of his own

Kolkata, Nov 2: The West Indies' practice match against the Uttar Pradesh Cricket Association ended in a draw today but Chris Gayle got some runs under his belt ahead of the two-Test series against India with an entertaining half century on the third and final day here. Gayle, who had a muted outing in the first innings, slammed a 49-ball 58 studded with 11 boundaries, while Marlon Samuels was

New Delhi, Nov 2: The Supreme Court on Friday allowed Sahara Chief Subrata Roy to go abroad and modified its order restraining him from leaving the country till the group hands over title deeds of Rs 20,000 crore to SEBI. A bench of justices K.S. Radhakrishnan and J.S. Khehar considered the application of the group seeking modification in the order in chamber. Roy's counsel and senior advocate C.A

Abu Dhabi, Nov 1: Romain Grosjean topped the times for troubled Lotus in Friday morning's opening free practice session ahead of this weekend's Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. The 27-year-old Frenchman delivered a late fastest lap of one minute and 44.241 seconds at the Yas Marina Circuit to outpace nearest rival Briton Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes by 0.19 seconds. Newly-crowned quadruple world champion

Hyderabad, Nov 1: India Cements MD and BCCI president N Srinivasan, an accused in the illegal assets case involving YSR Congress leader YS Jaganmohan Reddy, on Friday appeared before a special court here along with others charged by the CBI in the high-profile case. The CBI court on September 25 had taken cognizance of the sixth chargesheet filed by the probe agency against Jagan, Srinivasan and