Perth: Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Thursday made a surprise revelation that he may retire from Test cricket if he is to play in the 2015 cricket World Cup. “If I have to see through the 2015 (World Cup), I would have to retire from one of the formats,” Dhoni told mediapersons here [...]
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It wasn’t the milestone India was waiting for, but the euphoria is no less. Rahul Dravid completed his 36th Test century and overtook Ian Bell as the highest run-getter in Tests in 2011. While all of India was sighing in disappointment at the dismissal of Sachin Tendulkar yet again, Dravid quietly made his hundred. Dravid [...]
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The Indian Olympic Association and the federations might be against it but the National Sports Bill has got a collective thumbs up from India’s top athletes, who feel the draft has the potential to drastically change the country’s sports scene. Welcoming provisions like the one seeking a 25 per cent quota for athletes in all [...]
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Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin, will get married Today, a day ahead of the second Test against West Indies. The Chennai-based is getting married to childhood sweetheart Preethi Narayanan. Ashwin and Preethi were engaged earlier this year. Ashwin’s father Ravichandran, while reluctant to divulge details, said the marriage, scheduled a day ahead of the second India-West [...]
Add to orkutThe Master Blaster has now completed 15,000 runs in Test cricket New Delhi: Sachin Tendulkar on Tuesday achieved another milestone as he became the first cricketer in the history of the game to cross 15,000-run mark in Test cricket. Playing in his 182nd match, Tendulkar reached the mark on the third day of the first [...]
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Greater Noida: World champion Sebastian Vettel made history by winning India’s first ever Formula One race with ease on Sunday as McLaren’s Jenson Button tightened his grip on the championship’s second place. Red Bull’s Vettel led throughout for his 11th victory of the season, finishing some 8.4 seconds ahead of Button with Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso [...]
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New Delhi: It’s a big day for cricketer and India’s star batsman Gautam Gambhir as he gets married on Friday. Gambhir is all set to tie the knot with Delhi girl Natasha Jain. Her family hosted a mehendi ceremony in the capital on Thursday night. The wedding is scheduled to be held at a farmhouse [...]
Add to orkutA clinical India moved into third position in the ICC ODI rankings after producing a world champion-like performance against England which has helped it to wrap up the series 5-0. Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s side had started the series in fifth position with 112 ratings points and after winning all the five ODIs, it has moved [...]
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Without uttering the word ‘revenge’, Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Tuesday indirectly took a dig at the Englishmen for their sorry record on Indian soil. Talking to reporters after a 5-0 whitewash over England with a thumping 95-run victory here, Dhoni said: “I don’t want to sound rude. But if you the see the [...]
Add to orkutNew Delhi: For everyone who held his breath on the last ball of the last over of the last match of World Cup 2011 and exhaled as skipper MS Dhoni hit a six to win it for India, here’s the story behind it. At the NDTV Indian Of The Year Awards 2011, where the Indian [...]
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