Anderson replaces Jadeja as No. 1 Test bowler

Wednesday night saw a few surprise results while a debutant club makes a mark Defensive lapses cost Liverpool again IMAGE: Liverpool's Roberto Firmino and Sevilla’s Simon Kjaer vie for possession. Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters Juergen Klopp’s men did just enough to save themselves of an embarrassing defeat at home against Sevilla in their Champions League match on Wednesday. Sevilla ended Liverpool's six-game European winning streak at Anfield, holding them to 2-2 draw.   ...

Jimmy Anderson is the first Englishman to take 500 Test wickets.Rajneesh Gupta gives us all the numbers about Cricket's Exclusive 500 Club. IMAGE: James Anderson celebrates dismissing West Indian Kraigg Braithwaite, his 500th Test wicket at Lord's, September 8. Photograph: Dan Mullan/Getty Images   The exclusive club of 500 wicket-takers includes two Australians, one West Indian, one Indian, one Sri Lankan and one Englishman. The list is headed by Sri Lankan Muttiah Muralitharan who had ...

Anderson said that if 16-times grand slam champion Nadal could stay healthy, he would have a shot of catching Roger Federer's record of 19. 'I really don't think much about these kind of things. I do my way, he does his way' 'I still have the passion and the love for the game. I still want to compete and still feel the nerves every time that I go on court. While these things keep happening, I will be here'   IMAGE: Spain's Rafael Nadal reacts on winning a point against South Africa's Kevin ...

IMAGE:  Rafael Nadal of Spain holds the trophy after defeating Kevin Anderson of South Africa. Photograph: Abbie Parr/Getty Images). A relentless Rafael Nadal thumped Kevin Anderson 6-3, 6-3, 6-4 to win the US Open on Sunday, earning the Spaniard his second Grand Slam title of the season and 16th of his career. While women’s tennis produced three first-time Grand Slam winners this season the old guard continues to reign supreme in the men’s game with Nadal and longtime rival ...

Shai Hope continued to defy England as West Indies wickets tumbled around him in the third and deciding Test at Lord's today. West Indies were 153 for six at lunch on Saturday's third day, a lead of just 82 runs in a series all square at 1-1. Hope was 60 not ...

England have retained Steven Finn in their 13-man squad for the fourth and final Test against South Africa after injured Mark Wood was ruled out of the Old Trafford match. The Middlesex fast bowler, who has played 36 Tests, was included as late cover for Wood ...

IMAGE: Jonny Bairstow is bowled by Keshav Maharaj. Photograph: Carl Recine/Action Images via Reuters South Africa took a firm grip on the second Test at Trent Bridge after a see-saw second day in which 15 wickets tumbled and the fragility of England's fragile top-order batting was brutally exposed on Saturday. Scorecard The touring side reached 75-1 in their second innings at the close, a lead of 205, with Dean Elgar (38 not out) and Hashim Amla (23 not out) bringing some order to the final ...

IMAGE: Stuart Broad, James Anderson and Ben Stokes of England. Photograph: Gareth Copley/Getty Images. Joe Root said England will be unchanged for the second Test against South Africa on Friday at Trent Bridge, where he expects his seam bowlers make a greater contribution than in the series opener last week. Moeen Ali was the star of the England bowling attack in the first Test victory at Lord’s, taking 10 wickets in a Test match for the first time. He was well supported by fellow ...

Reuters Nadal collects yet another Grand Slam title — number 16 — with a clinical demolition of Kevin Anderson in the US Open final Rafa Nadal has long been king of the Paris clay but he was just as dominant on New York hardcourt on Sunday as he collected ...