Buoyed by a strong start to the season, Olympic champion javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra is primed to clinch his maiden Diamond League podium finish in his first appearance in four years in the prestigious one-day meet in Stockholm on Thursday.
With the ICC finally terming it 'run out' and removing 'unfair play' in its rule book, the de-stigmatization of running players out at non-striker's has started.
The Madurai bench of the Madras high court on Monday issued an order terming the 10.5 per cent internal reservation for the Vanniyars community in Tamil Nadu as 'unconstitutional.'
India held on to sixth place in the medals tally
England were 74/2 in the first innings in the day-night Test after winning the toss before crumbling to 112 all out.
According to Kartik, Pant has an 'X-factor' in his batting and believes that he can produce results for the side
The selectors offered the pair, the most successful bowlers in Sri Lanka's one-day international history, an opportunity to rest because both have niggling injuries.
The Sri Lankan off-spinner said that New Zealand were unsporting in executing his run out in the first Test.
Muttiah Muralitharan was run-out as he went to congratulate centurion Kumar Sangakkara against New Zealand.
The 34-year-old off-spinner, the second most successful bowler in Test history with 635 wickets, will fly to Chennai, Tamil Nadu, to be with his young son and is not expected to return
Muttiah Muralitharan said Kevin Pietersen's innings of 142 was one of the best he had seen
The ace off-spinner ripped through Bangladesh's first innings with figures of 5-79 on the opening day of the second Test.
Sri Lankan cricket team was on Wednesday hit by an injury crisis after off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan and pacer Dilhara Fernando were ruled out of the ongoing one-day series against India due to finger injuries.
The ace spinner said Sri Lanka are still capable of coming hard at the Indians in the reminder of the ODI series.
"I read in the newspapers somewhere recently that a boy in Mumbai scored 400-odd runs. The papers said he's going to be the next Sachin. How can anyone say that?" an incredulous Sri Lankan spin wizard Muttiah Muralitharan asks as the Indian master batsman completed 20 years of international cricket on Sunday.
Local superheroes and villains, award winners and hopefuls, a fan favourite from a galaxy far, far away and wizards and witches of Hogwarts regale and rejoice on OTT this week.
The Sri Lankan off-spinner believes that spinners would dominate world cricket over the next few years
Murali took 6-36 and Samaraweera top scored with 51 in their second innings.
Former Pakistan off-spinner Saqlain Mushtaq says it is a shame that leading finger spinners were banned from bowling the 'doosra'.
Left-arm seamer Thilan Thushara and off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan shared six wickets to leave New Zealand struggling on 281 for eight on the third day of the first Test on Thursday.
'Jobs for transgender people should be advertised widely and they should be motivated to join. There should be reservations for them.'
Muralitharan will resume bowling on March 17 after shoulder surgery while Zoysa is recovering from a knee injury.
Muralitharan stirred up controversy when he said the bowling actions of McGrath, Gillespie and Lee could be deemed as illegal.
Matthew Hayden thinks Muralitharan accusing the Australian pace trio of chucking will not get him any favours in world cricket.
Murli Sreeshankar qualified for the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday after bettering his own National record with a leap of 8.26 metres on the second day of the Federation Cup Senior National Athletics Championships, in Patiala.
The Sri Lankan off spinner is hopeful that the ban will soon be lifted following further research into spin bowling by the ICC.
The three-times IPL champions played a practice game at the Sevens Stadiums in Dubai where the CSK batsmen and bowlers got a good run.
The country's top three venture debt firms -- Alteria Capital, Innoven Capital, and Trifecta Capital -- combined deployed about $300 million (Rs 2,200 crore) in start-ups such as BigBasket, Cure.fit, Ninjacart, Dunzo and Lendingkart till April end, according to the government's Investindia website.
Despite being one of only five players nominated for all three main categories, the off spinner was omitted from the World Test XI.
The Sri Lankan off spinner is suffering from general wear and tear, and a build up of fluid around a nerve.
Muttiah Muralitharan bowled with a cast on his arm which did not allow him to bend the arm beyond the defined limit.
The ace spinner will sit out of Sri Lanka's last Super League match against India in the Asia Cup following the death of his grandfather.
Sri Lankan spin wizard Muttiah Muralitharan created history on Thursday, becoming the highest wicket-taker in one-day cricket. He eclipsed Pakistani pace legend Wasim Akram's world record of 502 one-day scalps.
The highest Test wicket-taker was escorted by motorcade to the Sri Lanka Cricket Board headquarters.
The off-spinner has been advised by his Board and the ICC to not bowl his 'doosra.'
The report from the University of Western Australia was sent with the observations of the bowling review group to the ICC.
India would be looking for at least half a dozen medals in the July 28 to August 8 Games.
The ICC chief said match officials are well within their rights to raise concerns about any delivery from any bowler.
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