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Colombo, Jul 11: Angelo Mathews is reconsidering his role as Sri Lanka captain after the one-day series loss to Zimbabwe which he considers one of the lowest points in his career, the 30-year-old has said. Sikandar Raza`s stellar all-round display guided Zimbabwe to their first one-day international series win over hosts Sri Lanka with a nervous three-wicket victory in the fifth and final match at

New Delhi, Jul 11: BJP leader Subramanian Swamy today moved the Supreme Court seeking e-auctioning of media rights for the Indian Premier League. A bench comprising Chief Justice J S Khehar and Justice D Y Chandrachud said, "We will think over it". Swamy, who has filed the fresh PIL on the issue, sought urgent listing of it saying it has been held by the apex court that the e-auctioning is the

Jul 11: The Indian cricket board's Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) had decided to put the announcement about the new Indian cricket team coach on hold as they wanted to consult team captain Virat Kohli and 'people who matter'. CAC member and former India captain Sourav Ganguly announced in Mumbai on Monday that the announcement had been kept on hold as the people who would take Indian cricket

Kingston, Jul 10: India's top-scorer Dinesh Karthik rued the dropped catches that proved decisive in his team's nine-wicket loss to the West Indies in a one-off Twenty20 match, acknowledging a chance that he himself spilt. In the sixth over, Lewis went for a lofted straight drive off Bhuvneshwar Kumar but a mix-up between skipper Virat Kohli and Mohammad Shami saw the opportunity go waste. Four

Kingston (Jamaica), Jul 9: Skipper Virat Kohli might open the innings when India take on the West Indies in a one- off Twenty20, aiming to finish their Caribbean sojourn on a high despite the threat posed by Chris Gayle's return to the home team. After winning the five-match ODI series 3-1, India will certainly have an upperhand despite the presence of Gayle, who can single-handedly swing fortunes

Leicester, Jul 9: India's four-match winning streak in the Women's World Cup was brought to a crashing halt with a 115-run loss against South Africa, following an abject batting surrender here on Saturday. The star South African performer was captain Dane van Niekerk who first made a valuable 57 off 66 balls to guide South Africa to 273 for nine before taking four wickets with leg-spin to help her

Leicester, Jul 8: A confident India will seek to extend their unbeaten run to five matches and secure a semifinal spot when they take on South Africa in the ICC Women's World Cup here tomorrow. India are on a rampaging run having beaten England, West Indies, Pakistan and Sri Lanka convincingly to be second in the standings behind Australia. South Africa, on the other hand, are fifth with two wins

New Delhi, Jul 7: Age is just a number if the going is good. But if it's not the case, then the number 36 - whether age or the waistline - can always lead to some amount of self doubts. On his 36th birthday, Mahendra Singh Dhoni finds himself standing at crossroads of an illustrious career - just four matches short of a mammoth 300 ODI games. One of the best finishers of the game, played perhaps

Kingston, Jul 7: Skipper Virat Kohli led from the front with a fluent century as India on Thursday wrapped up the five-match series 3-1 with a convincing eight wicket win over West Indies. Asked to bowl, comeback man Mohammed Shami bagged four wickets as an under-fire India produced a disciplined bowling effort to restrict West Indies to a modest 205 for nine. Playing only his second ODI after a

Sydney, Jul 6: Australia`s players on Thursday boycotted this month`s Australia A tour to South Africa, escalating a bitter pay dispute which threatens to derail senior tours to Bangladesh and India as well as this year`s home Ashes. The Australia Cricketers` Association (ACA) said the players were unavailable to tour South Africa for the Australia A team without an agreed pay deal or new