Australia's captain scored a brave unbeaten century in a three-wicket win over Bangladesh in the first Test.
South African cricket captain AB de Villiers continued to script statistical history at the ongoing World Cup as he entered the top-10 of all-time scorers' list.
Australia's senior cricketers are playing down suggestions they might retire en masse if they win back the Ashes.
Pankaj Advani beat Ashok Shandilya 76-101, 101-40, 100-0, 100-32 to win the billiards final at the Asian Games.
The recent ODI tour of the Windies have cost the players their top slots.
Polly Umrigar was a completely different person off the field, who once approached teammate Bishan Singh Bedi with a humble request to help him make tea with tea bag.
Australia named an unchanged squad on Monday for the second and final Test against New Zealand in Adelaide which starts on Friday.
A summary of sports events and sports persons, who made news on Wednesday
Fomer England captain Mike Atherton feels players will now be duty bound to keep walking when they feel they are out.
Australia's stand-in captain Adam Gilchrist won the toss and elected to bat in the first Test against India.
A selection of musings from around the cricket World Cup.
The leg spinner brushed off suggestions that the Australians are worried about losing after dominating the last eight series against England since 1986-87.
World XI captain Graeme Smith said he supports the use of television replays after the video umpire gave out three Australian batsmen on the opening day of the ICC Super Test.
Australia, chasing 307 to win, were 212 for four at the close of the fourth day of the first Test against Bangladesh
Bangladesh reduced Australia to 145 for six after piling up a score of 427 in their first innings
Katich opened the batting with Gilchrist after Australian selectors dropped Hayden from the one-day side.
India's Dinesh Karthik has been shortlisted for the Emerging Player of the Year award.
Australia levelled the five-match one-day international series against South Africa at 2-2 after a nerve-shredding one-wicket victory.
Pakistan's captain disagrees with those who believe that Sachin Tendulkar is on the declines. 'He's good for another four-five years.'
The upcoming tri-series affords an opportunity to Sachin Tendulkar to make strides in the ICC rankings after falling out of the top 20.
Like the guy always last to leave the party, it was inevitable Steve Waugh would walk away from international cricket on his own terms.
Australian all-rounder Shane Watson will quit international cricket after the ongoing World Twenty20 in India, Cricket Australia (CA) said on Thursday.
A clampdown down on bouncers is unlikely despite the death of Australian Phillip Hughes this week, International Cricket Council (ICC) chief executive David Richardson said on Sunday.
Adam Gilchrist said that at the start of the tour he had not expected a 2-0 lead going into the last Test.
Australia beat Bangladesh by four wickets in the first ODI
'Dhoni was a very shrewd captain in terms of his out of the box thinking and getting the work done.'
Shahriar Nafees scored a maiden Test century as Bangladesh posted 355 for 5 on day 1 in the first Test against Australia.
England batsman Kevin Pietersen has a "minor" strain of his right hamstring, team coach John Wright said on Saturday.
New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum set a new record for the fastest Test century after lunch on the first day of the second Test against Australia on Saturday when he clouted exactly 100 runs in 54 balls.
All-rounder Mitchell Marsh leads a 14-man squad packed with international experience, a group featuring Alex Carey, Ashton Agar, Peter Handscomb, Head, Jon Holland, Usman Khawaja, Joel Paris, Matthew Renshaw and Chris Tremain.
Pankaj Advani completed a clean sweep of the 150-up and Timed formats titles after trouncing England's Robert Hall 1928-893 in the final of the World Billiards Championship in Leeds, on Wednesday night.
The wicketkeeper-batsman jumped six places to a career-best third, behind the Australian duo of Adam Gilchrist and Ricky Ponting.
Damien Martyn was named Test player for the year and Andrew Symonds the best one-day player.
