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Tamil Nadu batsman Dinesh Karthik celebrates after completing a hundred during the Ranji Trophy match against Bengal at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Thursday. Photograph: Swapan Mahapatra/PTI Dinesh Karthik followed up on his 92 in the first innings with a match-saving 103 not out in the second to help Tamil Nadu walk away with one point against Bengal in their Ranji Trophy Group A match at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Thursday. The out-of-favour India wicketkeeper was rock-solid during ...

India’s out-of-favour senior cricketers like Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh and Gautam Gambhir were today omitted from the 30-member probables list for next year’s World Cup with the selectors reposing faith on the young guns to retain the title in ...

A summary of the first day's play in the Ranji Trophy league matches at various venues across the country. Middle-order batsman Deepak Hooda's fine century rallied Baroda from a precarious position to 320 for 8 against table-toppers Karnataka at stumps on the opening day of their Group A Ranji Trophy match, in Mysore, on Wednesday. Electing to bat in the four-day encounter at the Srikantadatta Narasimha Raja Wadeyar Ground, the Aditya Waghmode-led side experienced a top-order collapse and were ...

As the cousins share there birthday and profession, we pick up for you seven Bollywood directors who have made their presence felt on silver screen. Farhan Akhtar: The man who directed the urban hit ‘Dil Chahta Hai’ has proved his credentials as ...

Image: A file photo of Bhavani Bala, the victim of the low intensity blast which occurred on Sunday night at Church street in Bengaluru. Photograph: PTI Bhavani Balan’s kids are inconsolable. Their Christmas vacation had just been blown to smithereens by someone blinded by radical venom.Bhavani, 37, succumbed to head injuries sustained in a low-intensity blast outside the Kerala-themed Coconut Groove restaurant on Church Street in the heart of Bengaluru on Sunday evening.The blast caused ...

A woman places flowers amongst other tributes next to a photograph of Phil Hughes outside the Adelaide Oval. Photograph: Morne de Klerk/Getty Images New Zealand's Corey Anderson took 36 balls to score the fastest century in ODIs while India's Rohit Sharma blasted a 173-ball 264 to register the highest ODI score by a batsman. Key reforms by the ICC promise England, Australia and India a greater share of the revenue pie, while projecting higher earnings for other boards as well. ICC comes down ...

The 20-year-old Shreyas Iyer smashed his maiden first class century (153) to help Mumbai grab the day one honours against Bengal in their Group A Ranji Trophy cricket match at the Eden Gardens. Promoted to number three, Iyer hit the Bengal bowlers all over the park with four sixes and 16 boundaries in his 175-ball knock en route to his first century as Mumbai ended the day at a commanding 306 for four. His four sixes included two against Veer Pratap and one off pacer Ashok Dinda as the ...

Director Magizh Thirumeni's Meaghamann is an intense thriller that sheds light on the deadly war between powerful drug cartels and the police, says S Saraswathi. Magizh Thirumeni of Thadaiyara Thaakka fame is back with yet another exciting action thriller titled Meaghamann. Arya plays the lead role. In significant roles are a host of actors from the Hindi film industry - Sudhanshu Pandey, Ashutosh Rana and Ashish Vidyarthi.  The glamorous Hansika who was paired opposite Arya ...

Living up to a legacy can be an arduous task -- in sports and in life. Now, that hard job beckons Karnataka when they start their campaign in the 2014-15 edition of the Ranji Trophy as the defending champions. Last season, Karnataka resembled a train -- a ...