Sachin Tendulkar is set to lose his top position in the ICC Player Rankings for Test batsmen as he will not feature in India's three-match Test series against the West Indies starting in Kingston, Jamaica on Monday.
Beset with injury worries but bolstered by the return of talismanic skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, World No 1 India take on the West Indies in the first cricket Test of a three-match series, starting in Kingston, Jamaica on Monday.
The morale-shattering 103-run loss to West Indies in the third One-dayer, notwithstanding, India's vice-captain Harbhajan Singh has exuded confidence that the visitors will sign off the series on a winning note in the fifth and final ODI in Kingston, Jamaica.
Jolted by the massive loss in the fourth ODI, India would aim to get the crucial psychological edge over the West Indies before the Test series when they take on the hosts in the fifth and final one-dayer in Kingston on Thursday.
Former 100 meters world record holder Asafa Powell has returned home to Jamaica and should be ready for the country's world championships trials after a weekend scare, his manager said on Tuesday.
Over 50 people have been killed in Jamaica after sleuths stormed a drug gangster's bastion, emerging reports said. The violence has already spread to capital Kingstons, leaving more than 50 people hurt.
Rajneesh Gupta lists some amazing coincidences in cricket -- a feature guaranteed to amuse you in these anxious times.
Hat-trick man Jasprit Bumrah attains highest rating points by an India seamer since since Kapil Dev in 1981.
Harbhajan Singh believes Jasprit Bumrah will forever remain indebted to Virat Kohli's "gut feeling", which got him the hat-trick, just as he is grateful to Sadagopan Ramesh for an incredible catch at forward short-leg 18 summers ago.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni became India's second most successful Test captain after guiding the side to a 63-run win over the West Indies in the first match in Kingston on Thursday.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Thursday
World 100 metres champion Yohan Blake will not defend his title at next month's World Athletics Championships in Moscow due to a nagging hamstring injury, his manager said on Tuesday.
Jamaica and West Indies cricketer Jerome Taylor has been charged with assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest after a confrontation with officers in a bar in which he had been drinking, police said on Thursday.
Australia opening batsman Matthew Hayden will miss the remainder of the Test series against West Indies after failing to recover from an Achilles tendon injury, a team spokesman said on Wednesday.
Five Jamaican athletes have tested positive for a banned substance, a Jamaican doping official told Reuters on Friday. 'I can confirm that five athletes tested positive for a minor substance, but a further announcement will be made,' an official said on condition of anonymity.
Mobile services provider Vodafone Hutchison has announced offshoring a total of 450 call centre jobs from Melbourne to India and Tasmania.
The duo has replaced Jonathan Carter and Kesrick Williams in the squad.
Chasing a competitive target of 191, Lewis smashed his way to an unbeaten 125 off 62 balls with as many as 12 sixes and six fours as the reigning World T20 champions knocked off the runs in only 18.3 overs.
Usain Bolt has cautioned Canadian young gun Andre De Grasse to temper his expectations of dethroning him at the world championships in London in August.
Umpire Steve Bucknor announced that an hour's play will be lost, resulting in a 45-over game.
Asafa Powell ran the fastest 100 meters in the world this year.
Olympic and world sprint champion Usain Bolt should seriously consider running the 400 metres, Michael Johnson said on Monday.
David Beckham's professional commitments seem to be hindering his role as a family man as the footballer missed his eldest son Brooklyn's tenth birthday party.
Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and elected to field. India made two changes, bringing in Ishant Sharma for Praveen Kumar, while Ravindra Jadeja made way for Abhishek Nayar. West Indies fielded the same team that won the second one-dayer at Sabina Park, Kingston.
The West Indies team was fined for slow over-rate during its 20-run defeat against India in the first ODI of the four-match series at Kingston, Jamaica, on Friday. Match referee Chris Broad imposed the fines after Chris Gayle's side was ruled to be two overs short of its target at the end of India innings when time allowances were taken into consideration, according to an ICC statement.
Deepak Chahar is the first Indian bowler ever to hold the record of best bowling figures in any format of international cricket (Test/ODI/T20I), points out Rajneesh Gupta.
Dropping shooting from the 2022 Commonwealth Games will be a huge setback for India, especially for its young shooters, says Abhinav Bindra, the country's only individual Olympic gold medallist.
Bolstered by the comprehensive win in the series opener, an upbeat India will look to assert their supremacy over an inexperienced West Indies with yet another commanding show in the second cricket Test, starting in Kingston on Saturday. The 'Men In Blue' made a confident start to the 2016-17 season, recording India's biggest win outside the sub-continent when they thrashed the hosts by an innings and 92 runs in the opening cricket Test.
The Antigua Recreation Ground has been the scene of some magnificent batting performances and while Andrew Strauss's 169 on Sunday was not of the magnitude of some, the value of the innings to England was immeasurable. After the tourists were dismissed for a woeful 51 in their innings and 23 run defeat to West Indies in Kingston last week, the team and their captain badly needed a convincing performance in the rescheduled third Test of the series.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni's defiant 95 went in vain as India suffered a humiliating eight-wicket defeat at the hands of an inspired West Indies in the lopsided second cricket one-day international in Kingston on Sunday.
The one-day cricket series between India and the West Indies has been put under "special swine flu surveillance" in view of the H1N1 virus spread in Kingston.
India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni admitted that his teammates got complacent after polishing off the West Indies' top-order in the high-scoring first one-day international in Kingston on Friday. India put up a massive 340 but had to toil before winning by 20 runs at Sabina Park.
Yuvraj Singh hit a rollicking 131-run knock as India pipped West Indies by 20 runs in a thrilling first one-day international to take a 1-0 lead in the four-match series, in Kingston on Friday.
The 2007 World Cup humiliation in the Caribbean is still fresh in his mind, says Indian cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who wants to get rid of the troubled memories by winning the four-match one-day series against the West Indies.
West Indies captain Chris Gayle has admitted that his team needs to quickly sort out its weakness as his players are focused on bouncing back by winning against India in the four-match series beginning in Kingston on Friday.
As the sprinter runs his last race, we veer off the trodden tourist trail in Jamaica and revisit his hometown, Trelawny Parish.
England captain Andrew Strauss, in charge of his first tour, is learning the lessons of captaincy the hard way after suffering two hard-to-take results against West Indies in his opening Tests.
West Indies and England head into the second Test in Antigua in contrasting moods with the common aim of putting the astonishing first Test out of their minds. The tourists, shell-shocked after being bowled out for 51 to slump to an innings and 23 run defeat in Kingston, sorely need to focus purely on the next game. Excluding back-to-back wins over Bangladesh, the last time West Indies won two successive matches in the same Test series was at home to Australia in 1999.
Andrew Strauss's first game in full-time charge of England began in the worst imaginable manner, a shock defeat by West Indies by an innings and 23 runs in Kingston on Saturday leaving the captain disconsolate. England's batting wilted to 51 all out in the Sabina Park heat against outstanding pace bowling from the five-wicket Jerome Taylor, leaving the tourists 1-0 down after the first of four Tests.
West Indies captain Chris Gayle planned to celebrate Saturday's first Test victory over England by joining his team's fans for a beer and this time no-one will say a word against him. The last time England played West Indies at Sabina Park in Kingston five years ago, they bowled the Caribbean side out for 47 and won by ten wickets and Gayle was the focus of supporter outrage.
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