Tottenham Hotspur hammered 10-man Aston Villa 4-0 in the Premier League on Sunday thanks to four second-half goals, allowing them to close the gap with their Birmingham rivals to two points in the chase for Champions League football next season.
Villa remain fourth on 56 points, three points above Spurs in fifth, having played a game more. West Ham are seventh on 44, three points behind sixth-placed Manchester United who have a game in hand.
Boycott said that Anderson deserves all the adulation but owing to his age, he is being used too less.
Delhi Capitals bowling coach James Hopes feels that the team's under-fire pace spearhead Anrich Nortje will get better with time having recently made a comeback to competitive cricket after six months.
'I wanted to convert the loose balls, and play till the end.'
IMAGES from the Premier League matches played on Wednesday.
IMAGES from the Premier League matches played on Saturday.
Images from Day 2 of the second Test between India and England at Visakhapatnam.
India will be looking for another favorable result to extend their lead in the World Test Championships standings.
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India off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin broke yet another record in the ongoing home series against England.
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Images from Day 3 of the fourth Test between India and England in Ranchi on Sunday, February 25.
Rohit Sharma's 11th Test century -- 131 from 196 balls -- was laced with 14 fours and three sixes. He played a crucial role in India's recovery putting on 204 runs for the fourth wicket with Ravindra Jadeja.
Images from Day 3 of the fifth and final Test between India and England in Dharamsala on Saturday.
Yelena Isinbayeva became the latest victim of a curious curse at the world athletics championships on Tuesday, while Grenadian Kirani James lit up the track in the 400 metres to become the third youngest ever world champion.
Images from Day 3 of the second Test between India and England in Visakhapatnam on Sunday.
Images from the English Premier League matches played on Saturday, April 13.
Rohan Bopanna and Matthew Ebden barely broke a sweat in a straight-set victory over local hopes John Millman and Edward Winter at the Australian Open.
A summary of Sunday's action in the Premier League.
Star England paceman James Anderson has broken Australian legend Glenn McGrath's record for number of wickets by a pacer in home conditions. Anderson, who claimed four wickets in England's thumping victory against Pakistan in the second Test, has now 291 wickets at home. The England pacer overcomes McGrath's long-standing record of 289 wickets that he took in Australia.
'Looking at them, five or six Tests between them, to bowl the way they did yesterday without Joe -- what they produced was incredible.'
LeBron James said the fact that his 51-point performance in Game One of the NBA Finals on Thursday ended with a Cleveland Cavaliers loss underscores just how difficult it will be to dethrone the defending champion Golden State Warriors.
Will continue to play for India in multi disciplinary events
'Dreams of family and friends take me away and happiness fills my heart,' wrote American journalist James Foley days before he was to be executed on-camera by Islamic State militants to send out a brutal message to his country.
Indian sailor Sunil James, jailed in Togo for the last five months, was back home on Friday for a reunion that was tinged with sadness as his family prepared for the funeral of his toddler son who died when he was away.
Depleted India out to gatecrash Ben Stokes's 100th Test party
IMAGES from Day 1 of the 2nd Test played between India and England in Visakhapatnam, on Friday
Former India pacer Zaheer Khan feels the Rajkot pitch will be similar to the ones in Hyderabad and Vizag, bringing reverse swing into play once again.
Teen sensation R Praggnanandhaa will enter as the favourite among the three Indian participants in the Candidates chess tournament that will get underway in Toronto from Wednesday to decide the challenger for the next world championship match.
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Several high-profile international cricketers have pulled out of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) due to the overlapping of dates with other franchise-based tournaments and many cricket boards denying permission to their players to compete in domestic T20 competitions.
Australia's ODI World Cup-winning captain Pat Cummins was named as the captain of Sunrisers Hyderabad for IPL 2024.
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Joe Root was forced to leave the field after copping a blow on his right little finger during the morning session on day 3 of the second Test
Nathan Lyon is the eighth bowler to take 500 Test wickets.
Miami Heat forward LeBron James was named on Saturday as the National Basketball Association's Most Valuable Player for the 2011-12 season.
Each of India's top five batters, including debutant Devdutt Padikkal, managed 50-plus scores to power the hosts to a commanding 473-8 for a lead of 255.
'If their next knocks do not go good, the problems will become grave for both of them.'
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