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Mumbai, Oct 23: Former India captain Sourav Ganguly on Wednesday took over as the BCCI's 39th president, becoming the biggest name to head the world's richest cricket board. The 47-year-old Ganguly was officially entrusted with the task of heading Indian cricket for the next nine months at the BCCI's General Body meeting here, ending a tumultuous 33-month reign of the Supreme Court-appointed

Ranchi, Oct 22: An exultant India coach Ravi Shastri on Tuesday said Rohit Sharma has shown himself to be of different class in the newly-acquired role of a Test opener, acclimatising exceptionally well to the challenges posed by the position. India wrapped a 3-0 whitewash of South Africa by winning the third and final Test by an innings and 202 runs on the morning of day four here. "Ajinkya

New Delhi, Oct 22: A formidable Indian team ticked all the boxes with ease as it completed a 3-0 rout of an out-of-sorts South Africa with an innings and 202 runs victory in the third and final Test on Tuesday. With another 120 points in the ongoing World Test Championship, India now sit pretty on top of the table with 240 points as the formalities were completed within the first two overs of the

Karachi, Oct 21: Pakistan's former stalwarts on Sunday lashed out at the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) for acting in haste in removing Sarfaraz Ahmed as captain in all three formats of the game. Most of the former captains and players termed the removal of Sarfaraz on Friday as unjust. Not surprisingly the head coach and chief selector Misbah-ul-Haq and bowling coach Waqar Younis were also targeted

Ranchi, Oct 20: Mayank Agarwal, Virat Kohli, and Rohit Sharma have become the first three Indian batsmen to score a double century in the same Test series. The unique record was created on Sunday after Rohit smashed his first double ton in the longest format of the game. Interestingly all the double hundreds were slammed in a different Test match. Mayank smashed his first double ton in the first

Ranchi, Oct 20: Indian opener Rohit Sharma smashed his first Test double century against South Africa here on Sunday. With this feat, the flamboyant batsman became the 24th Indian to score a double ton in the longest format of the game. Displaying a scintillating performance, the right-handed batsman smashed 28 fours and six sixes in his innings before getting out at 212. India resumed play from

New Delhi, Oct 19: The celebrated M C Mary Kom on Saturday said boxing is not Abhinav Bindra's "business to interfere", expressing her displeasure at the Olympic champion's backing of Nikhat Zareen's demand for a trial bout against her. On Thursday, Bindra backed Zareen's demand for a trial bout against the six-time world champion before India's squad for next year's Olympic Qualifiers is decided

Ranchi, Oct 19: Opening batsman Rohit Sharma on Saturday broke the record for registering the most number of sixes in a bilateral Test series. Rohit achieved the feat on the first day of the third and final Test against South Africa at Ranchi. Rohit has now smashed 16 sixes in the entire series. Rohit went past West Indies' batsman Shimron Hetmyer who had registered 15 sixes in the series against

New Delhi, Oct 18: Indian boxers packed quite a heavy punch at the Asian Junior Championships, clinching a bumper tally of 21 medals, including six gold and nine silver, to end with the best medal haul among 26 competing countries in Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. The Indian men's squad fetched two gold, three silver and an equal number of bronze, while the women claimed four gold, six silver and

Lahore, Oct 18: Pakistan sacked Sarfaraz Ahmed from his post as Twenty20 and Test skipper on Friday, a week after he led the side to a shocking 3-0 home defeat against an inexperienced Sri Lanka. The showdown Lahore gave the visitors their first Twenty20 series win against Pakistan in seven attempts while missing 10 of their top players — including regular T20 skipper Lasith Malinga, who refused