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Perth (Australia), Dec 16: Australian batsman George Bailey equalled Brian Lara's Test record for most runs off an over against England in Perth on Monday. Bailey matched the feat when he took the same tally off paceman James Anderson in the final over of Australia's second innings on the fourth day of the third Test. Bailey's 4,6,2,4,6,6 matched West Indies great Brian Lara's record of most runs

Lucknow, Dec 16: Narendra Singh Dhoni, elder brother of Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, joined the Samajwadi Party on Sunday. Dhoni met SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav at his residence in Lucknow and expressed the desire to join the party and strengthen it in Jharkhand where assembly election, along with Lok Sabha elections, are due next year. NS Dhoni had joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in

Dec 15: The Indian team's poor record away from home in Test cricket is the fault of the players and not the coach, spin bowler Ravichandran Ashwin said recently. According to Sport24, Ashwin pointed out that as players they had to accept the failure and admit that they failed as a group. He added that the team has to accept it rather than saying that the coach has not had a great record. Fletcher

Benoni, Dec 15: Indian cricket fans the world over will possibly experience a sense of emptiness during the course of the first Test against South Africa in Johannesburg starting December 18. Picture this: the visitors are 12/2 on Day One. They could well be. And all eyes will be on the ‘tunnel’ at ‘The Bullring’. You know it won’t be the Little Master walking down that famous slope. But you’d

Kolkata, Dec 14: Former Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly has been offered a ticket to contest the general elections next year by the BJP but is undecided on whether to accept the offer. It is learnt that the offer has come from the BJP's prime ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi, who has promised to make the Bengal sports icon the sports minister in the Cabinet if the party comes to power.

Dubai, Dec 14: Rising Test batsman Cheteshwar Pujara bagged the 'Emerging Cricketer of the Year' trophy as India had to be content with just two winners in the ICC Annual awards announced today in which Australian captain Michael Clarke clinched the top honours. "Australia captain Michael Clarke was today announced as the winner of the Sir Garfield Sobers trophy for ICC Cricketer of the Year and

Nashik, Dec 13: There will be no cheerleaders in the upcoming edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) in the wake of spot-fixing scandal, which rocked the sixth edition of the cash-rich tournament, BCCI vice-president Ravi Savant said. (Also read: 'Joker's card' a new concept in IPL auction) The seventh edition of the IPL is scheduled in April-May next year. "There will be no cheer girls in the

London, Dec 13: Former world champion Viswanathan Anand outclassed Frenchman Andrei Istratescu to jump to sole lead at the halfway stage of the preliminaries of the London Chess Classic in progress here at the Olympia. On what turned out to be another fine day as black, Anand came up with some brilliant planning, sacrificed an exchange and romped home without much ado to almost seal a place in the

Centurion, Dec 13: India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni is hopeful his squad will learn from their defeat against South Africa in the just-concluded One-day series in time for the first of two Test matches at the Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg on December 18. The Indians lost the ODI series 2-0 after rain prevented the tourists batting in the third match on Wednesday which was subsequently

Dubai, Dec 12: Star batsman Virat Kohli lost his top position to AB de Villiers while most of his teammates, barring skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, also slipped in the latest ICC one-day rankings issued on Thursday after the 0-2 series loss to South Africa. India, in fact, dropped two ratings points but held on to the top spot with 120 ratings points despite the 0-2 loss in the three-match series