Australian vice-captain Michael Clarke has said that the captaincy of the Test and ODI teams is his ultimate dream.
Since the retirement of Adam Gilchrist, Clarke has taken over the mantle as Ricky Ponting’’s vice-captain.
He was the captain of the side in the final two ODI’s of Australia’’s 2008 tour of the West Indies, both of which were won, in the absence of an injured Ponting.
“I could sit here and lie and say I don”t think about it. The truth is I hope, I ... Read Full Story
British tennis player Andy Murray has said that winning in tennis is much more important to him, and that he is not motivated by the money that is on offer.
The highest-ranked British player since Fred Perry has won 2.25-million pounds in prize money this year, and also stands to bank another one million pounds if he wins all five matches at the World Tour Finals starting Sunday at London’’s O2 Arena.
“There’’s a lot of money to be won, but it’’s funny, bec... Read Full Story
Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal has reacted to the claims made by former American player Andre Agassi about taking crystal meth in 1997 and lying about it to an independent doping tribunal to save his skin
“I haven’t read the book, but he is not saying the truth of everything,” The Times quoted Nadal, as saying.
“He is saying he hates tennis — that is impossible. One player plays for eight years and he becomes rich and he does not need to play for money and you hate that?” he added.
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Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez has silenced critics who have claimed that Manchester City can nick the Reds” place in the top four of the Premier League table.
Earlier, a survey of all the 20 Premier League managers, revealed that 80 per cent tipped Manchester City to shatter the league of the consistent top four following their big-spending this season.
With five league defeats this term, Liverpool is currently seventh placed in the league table, and is the most at threat of not topp... Read Full Story
Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan on Saturday assured the journalists delegation that strict actions will be initiated against the attackers of IBN Lokmat offices in Mumbai and Pune.
A journalist delegation led by Rajya Sabha member Vijay Darda and CNN-IBN Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai met Chavan at his official residence here.
The delegation demanded Chavan to make attacks on media a non-bailable offence.
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Former Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf certainly put the safety of his ministers and bureaucrats on top of his priorities even if it cost the nation millions of rupees.
During the autocratic rule, the then Prime Minister Shukat Aziz had finalised a deal of importing 35 bulletproof Mercedes from Japan.
Seven of those luxurious cars were purchased for a whopping 350 million rupees, and 28 other such vehicles were imported at a price much higher than its original cost.
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Sarah Palin’s book “Going Rogue” is selling like hot cakes with a bookseller even claiming to have sold over 2000 of his stock of 3000 copies after the former Alaska governor left his store following a book signing event.
According to publisher HarperCollins, 300,000 of the 1.5 million copies printed sold out on the first day of sale itself.
Palin, who has undertaken a book tour to promote her tome, signs copies for exactly 1,000 people before heading to the next bookstore.
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Former Australian batsman Matthew Hayden and Cricket Australia board member has said that cricket is being overplayed and undervalued around the world.
Hayden’s comment comes after the tedious seven-match series Australia recently played against India and England, including which the world champions played a record 40 one-day matches this year.
“I don”t buy this `more is better” mentality. We should have an obsession with perfection,” The Australian quoted Hayden, as saying.
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Scientists have determined that colorful cave deposits found on the walls of lava tubes, long thought to be ordinary minerals, are actually mats of waste excreted by previously unknown types of microbes, a discovery that offer clues in the search for life on Mars and beyond.
According to a report in National Geographic News, the microbes were found on the walls of lava tubes in Hawaii, New Mexico, and the Portuguese Azores islands, a volcanic archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Chief of the America’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Leon Panetta, met National Security Advisor M K Narayanan here on Saturday.
Panetta, who arrived here late last night after his visit to Pakistan, met for nearly 30-minutes with Narayanan.
Narayanan later accompanied Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to the US.
During his three-day visit to India, the CIA chief will also meet RAW chief K C Verma and Intelligence Bureau Chief Rajeev Mathur. Read Full Story
