Sri Lanka's Chamari Athapaththu won her maiden women's ODI Cricketer of the Year award, becoming the first female cricketer from the country to win an ICC award.
The failure of their batsmen was more than made up for by their bowlers in the low-scoring win over Kolkata Knight Riders and Kings XI Punjab pace spearhead Mitchell Johnson says it has proved that his side is the most balanced in the ongoing IPL.
England batsman Jonathan Trott has insisted that Australian fast bowler Mitchell Johnson was not the one to blame for his early exit from their Ashes tour as he criticised former English skipper Michael Vaughan's reaction to his health problems.
A Florida man was convicted on Friday of stalking Olympic gold medalist Shawn Johnson at the time she was starring on reality television show Dancing With the Stars.
Championship (second tier) side Rotherham, who haven't made it through to the fourth round of the competition since 2001-02, kept their composure early on as Fulham controlled the play.
Australia dismissed New Zealand for 302 in the second innings to win the second Test by 176 runs. Man of the match Mitchell Johnson claimed 6-73 for a total of 10 in the Test.
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Matthew Short has also been called up as an extra batter while Travis Head recovers from a fracture to his left hand.
May announced her first big shake-up just minutes after entering Downing Street on Wednesday.
Ben Johnson was a drugs cheat. His awesome performance in a world-record time on that track really did happen, but it was a fraud.
Apart from May, the four other contenders for the Conservative leadership and prime ministership are Stephen Crabb, Liam Fox, Michael Gove and Andrea Leadsom.
Australia registered a tense 12-run win over New Zealand in the second one-day international at Auckland.
Mitchell Johnson, who rediscovered his lost form at Headingley during the series-levelling fourth Ashes Test, said he feels more confident by sledging England players and will continue his banters in the fifth and final Test at the Oval as well. The Australian paceman, who helped the visiting team comeback into contention to defend their title with his superb spell of five for 69 to wrap up the fourth Test inside three days.
Zach Johnson's putter was as red-hot as the weather at Muirfield on Thursday, the 2007 US Masters champion scorching his way to a five-under-par 66 to set a blistering pace in the British Open first round.
Mitchell Johnson's double blow left West Indies reeling at 134 for five at close of play on Day 2 of the first Test against Australia at the Gabba in Brisbane, on Friday.
Maxwell battled cramps and severe pain to score a scintillating double century
Twenty-five years to the day since he blasted down lane six of Seoul's Olympic Stadium, leaving arch-enemy Carl Lewis wide-eyed in his wake, Ben Johnson returned to the South Korean capital on Tuesday with a warning for the next generation of athletes: stay clear of performance-enhancing drugs.
The 67-year-old former Goldman Sachs banker, who has been the chairman of the UK taxpayer-funded licence fee-backed British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), said the investigation found he had breached the governance code for public appointments.
Maxwell eyes off shock red-ball return for World Test Championship series
Captain George Bailey believes the forthcoming Champions League Twenty20 tournament is a new start for his team Kings XI Punjab but the Indian Premier League runners up are ready for the challenge and hoping to win their first major title.
India's voting pattern in the United Nations with regard to the Israel-Palestine conflict is lately marked by a calibrated distancing from Israel, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Five-times Olympic champion Michael Johnson will return his final gold medal won in the 2000 Sydney Games 4x400 meters relay after a team mate admitted taking drugs. Antonio Pettigrew testified at the trial of coach Trevor Graham that he had taken banned drugs since the 1996 US trials.
The World heavyweight boxing champion will fight for the first time in more than a year in Los Angeles on June 21.
Struggling to be consistent, Kings XI Punjab will have their task cut out when they take on the in-form Chennai Super Kings.
Following is the chronology of the main events illustrating Sunak's second shot at UK prime minister's post.
Steve Smith and fast bowler Mitchell Starc have been ruled out of the white-ball series in South Africa through injuries.
Dr Samir Shah, who was honoured with a CBE by Queen Elizabeth II in 2019 for services to television and heritage, will replace Richard Sharp, who had been forced to resign after his communication with former prime minister Boris Johnson came under scrutiny.
How the IPL teams have shaped up after the auction.
Ceramic tile manufacturer H&R Johnson is in talks with the UK-based Johnson Ceramics International for a strategic global alliance
Australian paceman Mitchell Johnson feels India would be under pressure ahead of the third Test despite leading 1-0, as the hosts would want to seal the four-Test series by wrapping up the issue in New Delhi.
'Rama is Lord God of maryada. Today's maryada is the Constitution.'
Europe resisted a fierce American fightback to secure the four points required to reclaim the Ryder Cup
He is among several leaders of Indian heritage who have ascended to the highest echelon of public service globally.
Shot putter Inderjeet Singh and half-miler Jinson Johnson bagged a gold each as Indians won eight medals in the first leg of the Asian Athletics Grand Prix Series in Bangkok, on Monday.
In what will be a dress rehearsal of their opening game in the World Cup, an unbeaten Australia take on England in the cricket tri-series final, in Perth on Sunday.
Aware of the fact that letting Virender Sehwag play his free-flowing game could be perilous for them in the upcoming Test series, Australian pacer Mitchell Johnson has vowed to stop the explosive Indian opener by peppering him with short-balls.
The American sprint legend says the 400m challenge could provide the Jamaican the motivation to keep running beyond the 2012 Olympics.
Jailed ex-Pakistan premier Imran Khan's party-backed independent candidates on Friday sprang a surprise by winning 86 seats out of the 201 results declared following unusual delays and allegations of rigging, as the country appeared heading towards a hung assembly.
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