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Maharashtra to bear all expenses for teen cricket prodigy

IMPRESSED BY PRANAV DHANAWADE'S international record-busting performance, the Maharashtra government has decided to foot all his educational and coaching expenses, state Education Minister Vinod Tawde said in Mumbai on Tuesday.

January 05, 2016

Laxman's 281 rated as best Test innings in 50 years

FORMER INDIAN BATSMAN  great V.V.S. Laxman's epic knock of 281 against Australia at Eden Gardens here in 2001 has been rated as the greatest Test performance of the last 50 years.

January 05, 2016

Twitter world reacts to school boy Dhanawade's record-breaking innings of 1009*

MUMBAI CRICKETERS ARE well known for their insatiable desire to score runs and their ability to create and break world records over the years. From Sachin Tendulkar/Vinod Kambli’s marathon innings in the early 80s to the recent past heroics of Prithvi Shaw’s and Sarfaraz Khan, Mumbai school cricketers and fans thought they had seen it all.

January 05, 2016

Tendulkar congratulates Pranav Dhanawade for record-breaking innings

INDIAN BATTING LEGEND Sachin Tendulkar took to Twitter on Tuesday morning to congratulate local school cricketer Pranav Dhanawade for his record-breaking innings of 1,009 not out in an H.T. Bhandari Cup Under-16 inter-school cricket tournament clash.

January 05, 2016

Duleep Trophy to be day-night matches, played with pink ball

THE PRESTIGIOUS DULEEP TROPHY will return to the domestic first class cricket calendar in the 2016-17 season in a new avatar with matches being day-night affairs played with a pink ball, it was announced on Tuesday.

January 05, 2016

Mumbai school cricketer Pranav Dhanawade scores a record 1,009

MUMBAI SCHOOL CRICKETER Dhanawade became the first batsman to score 1,000-plus runs in an innings in when he reached 1,009 not out in an H.T. Bhandari Cup Under-16 inter-school cricket tournament in Mumbai on Tuesday.

January 05, 2016

Gayle slapped $10,000 fine for cheeky comments on Big Bash reporter

CHRIS GAYLE’S CHEEKY comments in an interview with reporter Mel McLaughlin after yesterday’s Big Bash game has certainly not gone down well with cricket authorities in Australia. The West Indian has now been fined $10,000 by his team the Melbourne Renegades. 

January 05, 2016

Watch Gayle invite a reporter out for a drink, saying -- "don't blush baby"

WEST INDIAN HERO CHRIS GAYLE is well known for his funny antics on and off the cricket field and just after playing a swash-buckling innings (36) in today’s Big Bash T20 match against the Hobart Hurricanes, the Jamaican created an awkward situation for the Channel Ten reporter Mel McLaughlin. 

January 04, 2016

Watson, Lyon ignored as Australia name ODI squad against India

SHANE WATSON NATHAN LYON were ignored as Australia on Monday announced their 13-member squad for the first three matches of the One-Day International (ODI) series against India starting in Perth on January 12.

January 04, 2016

Court considers defamation case against Kirti Azad

A COURT IN NEW DELHI on Monday took cognizance of a defamation complaint against suspended BJP leader Kirti Azad for his alleged "defamatory" and "false" remarks against Delhi-based cricketer Himmat Singh and his father Tejbir Singh.

January 04, 2016

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