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Cardiff, Jun 5: Umesh Yadav wreaked havoc with a five-wicket haul after Dinesh Karthik hit a sublime unbeaten hundred as India demolished Australia by 243 runs in their final Champions Trophy warm-up match here today. Yadav took five for 18 as Australia collapsed to 34 for six wickets by the end of the 12th over and were eventually bowled out for a paltry 65 in 23.3 overs. Gangly paceman Ishant

New Delhi, Jun 4: Delhi Police has invoked stringent provisions of MCOCA against cricketer Sreesanth and 25 others arrested in the IPL spot-fixing scandal. Police sources said the stringent provisions of Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA) was invoked to strengthen the case against those involved in the spot- fixing scandal. Players Sreesanth, Ajit Chandila and Ankit Chavan and 23

Mumbai, Jun 4: Actor Vindoo Dara Singh and Chennai Super Kings (CSK) principal Gurunath Meiyappan, arrested in connection with the IPL spot-fixing and betting scandal, were today granted bail by a local court. Besides Vindoo and Meiyappan, the son-in-law of N Srinivasan who recently stepped aside as BCCI president, six bookies too were granted the relief on the bond of Rs 25,000 each. The duo

New Delhi, Jun 4: Rhiti Sports, the management group run by Arun Pandey, a close friend of Mahendra Singh Dhoni, on Monday denied the India skipper had any stake in the company. Dhoni, according to media reports, was alleged to hold 15 per cent stake in the company. Pandey, a club cricketer from Uttar Pradesh, claimed that Dhoni was briefly connected with Rhiti Sports which represents players from

Mumbai, June 3: Disgraced Mumbai cricketer Ankeet Chavan savoured moments of happiness as he tied the wedding knot with Neha Sambari in a quiet ceremony here Sunday afternoon. Chavan, who was arrested in the Indian Premier League (IPL) spot fixing scam mid-May, was released last Friday by a Delhi court on bail for six days to enable him enter into the wedlock planned several months ago. After his

Chennai, Jun 3: So, N Srinivasan has "stepped aside" as BCCI president, not "stepped down". What does this really mean? How much of his powers have been abridged and for how long? There are two versions on this: One that Srinivasan has merely, so to say, gone on leave and will be back; the other, that once he's out of actually running the board, he's virtually gone for good. The Jaitley-Shukla

Chennai, Jun 2: Embattled BCCI chief N Srinivasan is to step down from his post till investigation into IPL spot-fixing scandal is over, said sources. Former BCCI chief and Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) head Jagmohan Dalmiya is likely to be named interim President. His name was proposed by BJP leader and Delhi and Districts Cricket Association president Arun Jaitley. The Indian cricket board

Chennai, Jun 2: The Indian cricket board's working committee meeting - being held to decide the fate of its president N. Srinivasan - has begun in Chennai. The meeting was called after the Board of Control for Cricket in India's secretary Sanjay Jagdale and treasurer Ajay Shirke quit Friday on moral grounds following the betting scandal in IPL. The IPL chairman Rajeev Shukla also resigned on

Chandigarh, Jun 2: Even as the spot-fixing scandal rages on, Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) President I S Bindra has created a fresh controversy by claiming that a BCCI official had arm-twisted the Sri Lankan board to withdraw a report which violated the anti corruption regulations during India's tour of Sri Lanka in 2010. Bindra, in an article on his website, made three points in the wake of

New Delhi/Bangalore, Jun 2: Indian Premier League (IPL) chairman Rajeev Shukla on Saturday became the third Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI)?office-bearer to resign from his post, on the eve of a working committee meeting of the board. The meeting may force BCCI?president N Srinivasan to resign in the wake of the recent scandals hitting the cash-rich league. Shukla’s decision to quit