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Chennai, Feb 26: India clinched the first cricket Test against Australia with a comfortable eight-wicket victory to take a 1-0 lead in the four-match series here today with their spinners taking all the 20 wickets for only the third time in their Test history. The Indians took about 25 minutes in the morning to finally bring an end to the stubborn last wicket partnership between Moises Hendriques

Chennai, Feb 25: Mahendra Singh Dhoni today surpassed Sachin Tendulkar's record of highest individual Test score by an Indian captain en route his majestic 224 against Australia in the first cricket Test. Dhoni, who reached his maiden double century yesterday went past Tendulkar's 217 scored against New Zealand in 1999-00 at Ahmedabad. Dhoni reached the feat in the 144th over when he first hit a

New Delhi, Feb 25: Moises Henriques batted brilliantly in the pressure to make India bat again as he helped Australia surpass 192-run trail on the fourth day of the first Test at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. Debutant Henriques shone again with the bat in the second innings, smashing a six over long on to complete his half century. He also scored a fifty in first innings and added century

Chennai, Feb 25: India were all out for 572 in their first innings on the fourth day of the first cricket Test against Australia here today. Brief Scores: Australia 1st Innings: 380 all out India 1st Innings: 572 all out in 154.3 overs (Mahendra Singh Dhoni 224, Virat Kohli 107, James pattinson 5/96, Nathan Lyon 3/215). PTI PM PM 02251025

New Delhi, Feb 24: Indian skipper MS Dhoni slammed his maiden double ton to help India cross 500-mark in their first innings against Australia in the first Test at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on Sunday. Dhoni's previous best Test score was 148 against Pakistan. Australian pacer Moises Henriques bowled out Harbhajan Singh to give India eighth blow at the score of 406. India lost their seventh

Hong Kong, Feb 24: 101-year-old Fauja Singh, the world's oldest marathon runner of Indian-origin, retired from competitive events as a "very happy" man as he finished his last race here today. Singh, nicknamed the "Turbaned Tornado," finished the Hong Kong marathon's 10-kilometre race in 1 hour, 32 minutes and 28 seconds. But he could not meet his goal of beating his personal record of 5:40. "I'm

New Delhi, Feb 24: Nathan Lyon took his second wicket when he had Virat Kohli caught by Mitchell Starc at mid-on on the third day of the first Test at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on Sunday. Captain MS Dhoni hit his 29th half-century just before Kohli hit his fourth hundred as India crossed the 300-run mark. The milestones came soon after lunch as both batsmen, specially Dhoni took the attack

Dubai, Feb 24: India’s Sania Mirza clinched her second doubles title of the season after she combined with partner Bethanie Mattek-Sands to defeat Nadia Petrova and Katarina Srebotnik in the title clash of the Dubai Championships here on Saturday. The unseeded Indo-American duo prevailed over the Russian-Slovenia combo 6-4, 2-6, 10-7 in a tightly-contested final of the $ 2,000,000 hard court event

Karachi, Feb 23: Flamboyant all-rounder Shahid Afridi asked national selectors to not put pressure on him by making unsolicited statements and also made it clear that the decision to quit the game remains his prerogative. After recalling Afridi in the one-day squad for the series against South Africa, chief selector Iqbal Qasim had said the all-rounder will have to justify his selection by putting

Chennai, Feb 23(PTI): Australia were all out for 380 in their first innings at lunch on the second day of the first cricket Test against India, here today. With the wicket of Nathan Lyon, the umpires declared the lunch break after an extended morning session. Brief Scores: Australia 1st innings : 380 all out in 133 overs. (Michael Clarke 130; M Henriques 68; R Ashwin 7/103, R Jadeja 2/71). Ind vs