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Dubai, October 8: The Indian cricket team’s disastrous World Twenty20 campaign pushed it to third place in the ICC T20 rankings while this year’s champion West Indies jumped five places to grab the second spot. India, ousted at the Super Eight stage, are a point behind the Caribbeans at 120 in the rankings, which continue to be led by Sri Lanka, the ICC said in a statement. In the rankings for

In their very first season, MSD RN Racing Team, finished on the podium at the final race of the Supersport Championship 2012, a support race for the World Superbike Championship on the Magny Cours track in France on Sunday as their rider Dan Linfoot took the third spot. Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, whose passion for bikes is well known, had floated his own racing team and the

Colombo, October 7: West Indies outclassed hosts Sri Lanka by 36 runs in a low-scoring finale to lift the 2012 World Twenty20 title at R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo on Sunday. West Indies bowlers were on a roll as they dented Sri Lankan chase by removing seven batsmen within 70 runs in 15 overs in the final clash of the World T20. Chasing 138, Sri Lanka lost Tillakaratne Dilshan, for a duck, in

Colombo, October 7: Australia lifted the Women's World T20 trophy for the second consecutive time after beating England in a thriller by 4 runs in the final in Colombo on Sunday. Put into bat first, openers Meg Lanning (25) and Alyssa Healy (26) gave Australia a great start with a 51 run-opening stand in six overs. England pulled back the strings with two quick wickets, but Jess Cameron and Lisa

Colombo, October 7: West Indies, apart from their home side, have been the biggest draw among Sri Lankan fans. And Chris Gayle, without a shadow of doubt, has been the most popular of them. On Sunday night, the 35,000 spectators will not be celebrating Gayle’s sixes, if he manages a few, with the same delight for they will be flowing off Lankan bowlers. Both teams know, depending upon how Gayle

New Delhi, October 7: In a major blow to the aspirations of Suresh Kalmadi, V K Verma and Lalit Bhanot ahead of the elections, the Ethics Commission of the International Olympic Committee has recomended that the tainted trio be suspended from all their functions within the IOA with immediate effect. The Commission also observed that in view of their tainted history, the trio's candidature for the

The Sir Lankans have played their part in making sure the World T20s on their home soil was no wet blanket. Despite some rains, a boring first round and allegations of ‘cheating’ over Mahela Jayawardene handing over captaincy, the Lankans kept the party going. The infectious beat of music, cue the theme song (Vissai vissa rocks ICC World T20 Sri Lanka 2012), and has left the thousands of cricket

Mumbai, October 6: India's Suresh Raina, disappointed with the team's ouster from World T20 as they failed to make it to the semi-finals of the mega event tweeted on his micro-blogging site in a controversial manner after Sri Lanka defeated the arch-rivals on Thursday. Raina, following the match at home, tweeted on his micro-blogging page, twitter as the arch-rivals would also return to their

Sri Lanka would look to rein in a marauding Chris Gayle, whose performance may be a determining factor when the dominating hosts clash with an upbeat West Indies in the final of the World Twenty20 in Colombo on Sunday. Sri Lanka are aiming to win their second world title after a gap of 16 years as their first and only World trophy came in 1996 while the Caribbean side are playing a World event

He was wearing his cricket spikes and walking on tiles as he made his way to the press conference. He lost his balance but quickly corrected it and then grinned sheepishly. It was his only slip of the day and unfortunately for Australia, before that he had managed to guide West Indies into the final on the back of a powerful display that left the men from Down Under feeling helpless. The