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Melbourne: Australia pacer Lauren Cheatle has been ruled out of the Women's Premier League (WPL) 2024 after undergoing a medical procedure to remove skin cancer from her neck. Cheatle, who made her Test debut against India in last December, underwent the procedure Wednesday. This year's...

Visakhapatnam:  England has suffered a major injury blow as experienced left-arm spinner Jack Leach will miss the second Test against India due to injury. England had been hoping that the injury would settle down and Leach would be available for the second Test that commences...

Dubai: Senior India off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin maintained the top spot, while compatriot Jasprit Bumrah jumped to fourth in the latest ICC Test bowling rankings released Wednesday. Ashwin, who had grabbed a match haul of six wickets in India's 28-run loss in the opening Test against...

New Delhi: Indian Cricket Board (BCCI) secretary Jay Shah was Wednesday appointed as the president of the Asian Cricket Council for a third consecutive term. Shah's extension was proposed by the Sri Lanka Cricket president Shammi Silva for the second time and the nomination was...

New Delhi: Indian sailor Vishnu Saravanan secured the country's first Paris 2024 Olympics quota in sailing at the ILCA World Championship 2024 in Adelaide, Australia. Competing in the one person dinghy event at the Adelaide Sailing Club, Saravanan accumulated 125 net points over six days...

Geneva: FIFA has released the 2023 Global Transfer Report, which confirms a record of 74,836 cross-border transfers last year. About 31.7 percent of these moves involved professional male and female players, which accumulated a record spending of 9.63 billion US dollars in total. The top...

Brisbane: Former Australia fast-bowler Rodney Hogg said he was glad the West Indies used his comments of them being 'hopeless and pathetic' as inspiration for securing a magical eight-run win at the Gabba. Following West Indies' ten-wicket loss to Australia in Adelaide, Hogg made headlines...

Chennai: At 4.30 in the morning, Jagdish Gulia and his eight-year-old daughter Tannu were glued to the television watching Indian women wrestling at the 2016 Rio Olympics. When Sakshi Malik turned the bout on its head in the dying seconds to secure bronze, both Jagdish...

London: India wouldn't have lost the Hyderabad Test to England if Virat Kohli was their captain, according to former English skipper Michael Vaughan, who believes Rohit Sharma completely "switched off" during the game. In a dominant position after taking a 190-run first innings lead, a...

Karachi: Former captain Shahid Afridi has urged the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to follow the policy of having one skipper across formats to prevent infighting over captaincy. Star batter Babar Azam had stepped down as skipper from all three formats after Pakistan failed to advance...