'If we're going to be the best team in the world we're going to have to play on good wickets which are flat in certain periods. We're also going to have to be able to learn to deal with the scoreboard pressure. We should also be able to deal with the pressure of spinning wicket towards the back end of the Test match.'
England pacer James Anderson has been fined 15 per cent of his match fee for showing dissent at an umpire's decision during the second day of the ongoing fifth Test against India in London.
Legendary Argentine World Cup winner Diego Maradona died following a heart attack on Wednesday, aged 60.
Amartyada, says Omkar Goswami, thank you for being the humane, caring and socially concerned economist that you are.
England coach Steve McClaren refused to point the finger at blundering Paul Robinson after the goalkeeper's error gifted Germany an equaliser in Wednesday's 2-1 friendly defeat at Wembley Stadium.
Kids don't just ask for food from McDonald's, they actually believe that the chicken nugget they think is from McDonald's tastes better than an identical, unbranded nugget
Brentford will go into the playoffs along with Fulham and Cardiff City but in a huge swing in fortunes, Nottingham Forest missed out on goal difference with Swansea City grabbing the last slot in astonishing fashion.
Images from Day 4 in the second Test between England and India, at Lord's, on Sunday.
Mexico's Vanessa Ponce de Leon was crowned Miss World 2018.
England squad for the World Cup finals in Germany comprises the following 23 players:
Spanish second division side Rayo Vallecano refused to turn up for the first day of group training due to a dispute with the club hierarchy over a pay cut for staff and players, a club source said on Monday.
Images from Day 2 of the second Test between England and India, at Lord's, on Friday.
Chelsea moved into the Premier League's top four as Mason Mount's superb first-half goal earned them a 1-0 win at champions Liverpool who suffered a club-record fifth straight home league defeat on Thursday.
Images from Day 4 of the fourth Test between England and India, at The Oval, on Sunday.
Pakistan have been dealt a blow ahead of their World Cup quarter-final against Australia with the news that left-arm fast bowler Mohammad Irfan will miss the remainder of the tournament due to a stress fracture of the pelvis.
Manasi Joshi and Rohit Roy celebrate their only child's 17th birthday in the Maldives.
Images from Day 2 of the third Test between England and India, at Headingley, Leeds, on Thursday.
Glittering pieces made of diamond or gold, embellished with gems were the cynosure of all eyes at the Mumbai Jewellery and Gem Fair fashion show.
Gene Robinson - who has lived with his male partner for 15 years - was formally appointed bishop of New Hampshire in a controversial ceremony on Sunday.
Bollywood lost to Indian cricket team in the football match.
India 21 for no loss at stumps on Day 1 after bowling out England for 183 in the first Test, in Nottingham, on Wednesday.
When Bollywood ladies turn up their fashion game.
Michael Phelps was crowned 'Male Athlete of the Year' for a fifth time at the 2014 USA Swimming Golden Goggle Awards on Monday despite being suspended from competition for six months after a drunken driving arrest in September.
The 48-year-old, who has been lodged at Wandsworth prison in south-west London, appeared via videolink from prison before district judge David Robinson. "I am told that your case is proceeding in accordance with the directions for a final hearing on 11 May," the judge told Modi, as he set the next 28-day remand hearing via videolink for February 27. Modi's extradition trial is scheduled for five days starting May 11, with the case management hearings in the case set to begin once all the evidence has been handed in to the court for the trial.
Dhoni scored a brace and was fittingly awarded the 'man of the match'
Let's take a look at some cities that have the most expensive hotel rooms in the world.
Femina Miss India added glamour, beauty and style to the year by launching the Femina Miss India 2013 in the capital.
Sruthi Vijaychandran has won the top prize of a scholarship to study for an MBA in London after upstaging eight other contestants in the Best Young Speaker from Asia competition held at the University of Cambridge
The country's growth cannot be sustained without a revitalised state that performs more limited functions, but performs them well.
He was among the key plotters of England's historic 2012 Test triumph in India and former coach Andy Flower sees no reason why an encore is not possible this year as he believes the visitors have enough 'formidable players' to challenge the upbeat hosts.
He appeared via videolink from the prison as his legal team offered a package of "stringent" bail measures, including bail security of 4 million pound, house arrest with a 24-hour electronic tag as well as a private security guard service and a strictly monitored access to gadgets and telephones.
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Burns became the first England opener other than Alistair Cook to score a Test century in four years.
Concerned over high rate of child marriage in Bihar, Nobel laureate and anti-apartheid icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu, former Ireland President Mary Robinson, former Norway Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland and Gandhian and social activist Ela Bhatt, during their day-long visit to Bihar as members of The Elders, on Tuesday announced to work in the state to eradicate this social evil.
India accused the two Italian marines on board the MV Enrica Lexie, an Italian flagged oil tanker, of shooting dead two Indian fishermen off the Kerala coast on February 15, 2012.
IMAGES from the Euro 2020 qualifiers
A career Citibanker, 'Selva' came into the spotlight as the person who rewired the financial behemoth's Indian retail operations.
United States President Barack Obama and the first family lit up the national Christmas tree in a traditional ceremony in Washington, officially marking the start of the Christmas season.
Puns flew high as President Obama cracked what he referred to as his "corny-copia of dad jokes about turkeys."
Michael Jordan, considered by many as the greatest basketball player of all time, was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame on Friday.
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