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To bring in context to the bilateral Test series, the ICC announced the World Test Championship where the top nine Test playing nations will play six other teams, three home series and three away over a period of two years. At the end of the two years, the top two teams will play the final in England. So, India start their World Test Championship adventure in an away series against West Indies....

Andaman and Nicobar teenager Deborah bagged the gold in Time Trial while Manorama Devi won two silvers in Scratch and Point. Haryana’s Dilawar Singh added the third silver in Point race. The performance of the Indian contingent has attracted the Korean Cycling Federation who have invited both Deobrah and Manorama Devi to train with their national squad. “Indian cycling has been on the rise and these results are very encouraging for all of us....

Kila has covered coaching assignments in Holland, Japan, New Zealand and most recently in Ghana as the Head Coach of the U19 team and coordinator of the U17, U15 and U13 teams at the West African Football Academy (WAFA), formerly known as the Feyenoord Ghana Academy. “My main objective is to train and coach the youth teams at Bengaluru FC and to develop the skills of these youngsters so that they become professional players capable of playing for the first team....

Squad Goalkeepers: Peter Thangaraj (Madras Regimental Centre, Services), Shankar Subramaniam Narayan (Caltex, Bombay). Defenders: Syed Khwaja Azizuddin (Hyderabad City Police), Abdul Latif (Mohammedan Sporting Club), Mohammed Abdul Salaam (Bengal), Ahmed Hussain (Bengal). Midfielder: Mariappa Kempiah (Mohun Bagan AC), Noor Mohammed (Hyderabad City Police), Nikhil Nandy (Eastern Railway SC, Bengal), Bir Bahadur Gurang (East Bengal Club). Forwards: P.K. Banerjee (Bengal), Chuni Goswami (Mohun Bagan AC), Dharmalingam Kannan (Hyderabad), D. Damodaran (Bengal), M....

The club is learnt to still be in talks with Chhibber over the potential move for the Indian Women’s League, which is expected to be held in May. Chhibber, 21, played for India Rush Soccer Club last season but the club finished bottom of the table. Before that, Chhibber played for FC Pune City and led them to the semifinals of the inaugural edition of the Indian Women’s League....

At the start of day three, a dramatic series was perfectly balanced at 1-1 as India resumed 248-6, still 52 behind Australia’s 300 all out. Ravindra Jadeja struck four fours and as many sixes in a swashbuckling 63 to propel his side to a useful but not decisive lead of 32 before he, Umesh Yadav and Ravichandran Ashwin took over with the ball. The trio took three wickets apiece as Australia crumbled to 137 all out, Glenn Maxwell’s 45 the best they could muster as the pressure told on the tourists, who saw their hold on the Border-Gavaskar Trophy slip away....

England had plundered close to 400 against Afghanistan just four days prior and the underdogs could have been forgiven for fearing another onslaught when Virat Kohli won the toss and opted to bat at the Rose Bowl. But their attack, superbly led by front-line spin trio Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Mohammad Nabi and Rashid Khan, kept India’s much vaunted line-up in check as the 2011 champions were held to just 224-8....

In Varanasi, a city regarded as the spiritual capital of the nation, the situation has gotten so bad that local crematorium workers have said the demand for wood is four times higher than the usual rate. “As long as I’ve worked here, I’ve never seen so many dead bodies coming in. The last month has shocked me,” a man working at a crematorium site in Varanasi told CNN. “The three main suppliers have run out of wood....

The navy said it had maritime patrol aircraft, helicopters and three warships scouring the sea in search of those that remained to be rescued. The cyclone was one of the most powerful storms to hit the region in over 20 years, with winds of up to 130 miles per hour when it hit late Monday. For more reporting from the Associated Press, see below: Both barges were working for Oil and Natural Gas Corp....

Shiva Thapa The young boxer was the only Indian to qualify for the Olympics at the AIBA Asian and Oceanic Olympic qualification event last month in China, and is ranked third in the world in his category. The No. 3 Bantamweight has made an Olympic appearance before, at London 2012, and had then become the youngest Indian boxer to qualify for the Olympics. Unfortunately for Thapa, he lost out in the first round of the London Olympics to Oscar Valdez Fierro, but only 18-years-old at the time, proved his talent on the world stage....

Ankit Jain now makes his living through a means known to few yet in India. An avid poker player, he quit his plush, handsomely rewarding investment banking job and took to playing poker professionally, for a living. A little known, yet growing sport in India, poker is now turning into the next big wave in the young sports circles in major cities of India, with players vying for tournament ranks as well as for raking in huge pots in cash games....

Cricket Australia XI scored 544 runs in its innings after a washout due to rain on the first day Wednesday, after battering the Indian spin bowlers. India had scored 358 runs, giving the Australians a big lead. And India lost its star teenage batsman, Prithvi Shaw, on Friday after he rolled his left ankle while fielding. He will not play in the first test beginning next Thursday in Adelaide....

Skipper Virat Kohli will return to lead the Indian side for this series, while Shahbaz Nadeem is the lone player who has been omitted from the team that squared off against South Africa last month. India have made a bright start to their quest of winning the ICC World Test Championship with a 2-0 away series win against West Indies followed by a 3-0 whitewash against South Africa at home, and they will be keen to hold on to their top position on the points table with a series win against their neighbours....

While the spin bowlers Graeme Swann and Monty Panesar played a crucial role in helping England achieve a famous series win over India in India, it was their captain, Alastair Cook, who had the lion’s share in their magnificent triumph. Cook took over the English captaincy from Andrew Strauss after the latter retired from international cricket following a home series loss against South Africa in the summer of 2012 and the tour to India in November later that year was Cook’s first assignment as the English captain in Tests....

The year 2020 comprises a lot of T20 matches as all the nations gear up for the upcoming T20 World Cup. Both India and Sri Lanka have won the title once each, and will be hoping to add a second trophy to their cabinet this year. Sri Lanka have been one of India’s fiercest rivals on the cricket field, but the Men in Blue have ruled the proceedings in the shortest format of the game....

After winning the toss and electing to bat first, the hosts would have been looking for a good start but the opposite happened as they lost their first three wickets for just seven runs. Only Jermaine Blackwood’s fifty and some lower-order heroics propelled them to nearly 200. In response, India’s opener began positively and got off to a good start. Although Shikhar Dhawan fell as the partnership was 13 shy of a century, Rahul and Cheteshwar Pujara saw India till the end of day’s play without any further loss and end on 126/1....

India recently announced teams for both the T20 series and the ODI series. Dropping a couple of names from the last T20 series against Bangladesh, the selectors have brought back some experienced names, especially in the bowling department. Having shown exceptional form in Test Cricket, Mohammed Shami got his place back in the limited-overs cricket, for the first time since the Cricket World Cup in July. Bhuvenshar Kumar was recalled after recovering from injury, while Sanju Samson replaced an injured Shikhar Dhawan....

Play was expected to start 30 minutes before regular time to compensate for the lost overs on Monday due to rain. India declared at 500 for nine wickets in their first innings, while the West Indies, behind by 304 runs, are yet to begin their second essay. –IANS pur/dg 0 votes

Rahul asserted, “To all those guys who have been branded as Test players before, I want to tell that there will be coaches and players in the dressing room who can tell you that you are not good enough for a certain format. I never thought that they were right. I knew I was blessed with certain skills.” He became the first Indian batsman to score a century on ODI debut during the opening match of the 3-match series against Zimbabwe in Harare....

The only hiccup was when Leander Paes dropped his serve once, but the veteran guided his partner Sanam Singh led India to a 6-2, 6-1, 6-4 win over Indonesian pair David Agung Susanto and Elbert Sie as the hosts took an unbeatable 3-0 lead in the Davis Cup Asia-Oceania Group I relegation play-off here Saturday. While the Indian victory was a foregone conclusion and was achieved in just 81 minutes, the only point of interest was whether the unheralded Indonesian combo would be able to stretch their opponents, and they did not come even close to it....