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New Delhi, Aug 12: Mahendra Singh Dhoni might be closing in on a dubious captaincy record held by Stephen Fleming, the coach of the Chennai Super Kings, and West Indies’ Brian Lara. Fleming and Lara have the highest 16 overseas Test losses as skipper. After the humiliating defeat in the Manchester Test, Dhoni has lost 13 away Test matches, just three short. After losing a Test match in New Zealand

Wroclaw, Aug 11: Deepika Kumari-led women archers clinched the recurve team gold after routing Mexico 6-0 in the final as India returned with five medals in the Archery World Cup Stage IV in Wroclaw, Poland on Sunday (Aug 10). Deepika herself won three medals as she also bagged a bronze each in recurve women's individual event and recurve mixed team pair event with her partner Jayanta Talukdar

Aug 11: India's abject cricket in every department of the game should not compromise the part played in England's revival by a collection of fresh faces. Enthusiasm is a great gift. From it comes energy, application and courage. After Lord's, where England themselves surrendered pathetically, the dressing-rooms would have reflected the emotional whirl of professional sport. One team rampant, the

New Delhi, Aug 10: Star grapplers Sushil Kumar and Yogeshwar Dutt have decided to skip the FILA World Wrestling Championships to be held next month in Tashkent, Uzbekistan to avoid injuries and preserve themselves for the upcoming Asian Games. Sushil and Yogeshwar, who won a gold each in men's 74kg and 65kg freestyle in the recently-concluded Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, will not take part in

Manchester, Aug 10: Jubilant with his teams’ thumping win at Old Trafford on Saturday, England skipper Alastair Cook expressed surprise at India’s abject surrender in the fourth Test, which allowed the hosts to take a 2-1 lead in the five-match series. Getting behind a 215-run lead, the visitors were shot out for just 161 runs in the post-tea session on day 3 as they went on to lose by an innings

Manchester, Aug 8: England fast bowler Stuart Broad took six wickets to skittle out India for 152 and the hosts finished on 113 for three in reply to take control on an absorbing opening day of the fourth test on Thursday. Broad and James Anderson reduced India, who won the toss, to eight for four and only a defiant 71 by the touring side's captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni saved them from complete

Manchester, Aug 7: Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Wednesday came out fighting once again in the James Anderson-Ravindra Jadeja case, firmly stating that he stands by what he said during the whole saga and that they brought forward "something that was unacceptable". Ahead of the fourth Test versus England, starting here tomorrow, all the talk continued to be about the incident that has

Dubai, Aug 6: In yet another blow for India, the ICC today rejected BCCI's review plea on Judicial Commissioner's verdict pronouncing James Anderson not guilty in his altercation with Ravindra Jadeja, saying that it was satisfied with the manner in which the decisions have been reached. A miffed BCCI had yesterday requested ICC CEO Dave Richardson to appeal against the verdict of Judicial

London, Aug 6: After details of the spat between James Anderson and Ravindra Jadeja were leaked on Monday, former England player David Lloyd has said that MS Dhoni and Jadeja are superstars only at home and should be ready for "heaps of stick" during the fourth Test at Manchester. Excerpts from the hearing conducted by ICC's judicial commissioner Gordon Lewis' have revealed that Anderson not only

New Delhi, Aug 6: India might have failed to break their Commonwealth Games title jinx for the second consecutive time but captain Sardar Singh has a lot of positives to take from the event and said the silver medal was a "well-deserved" achievement for the past masters of the game. Sardar said the young side can be "proud of their achievement" in the just-concluded Glasgow Games despite losing 0