West Indies face England in the first of a three-Test series at Lord's in London on Thursday with the tourists' batting likely to determine the course of the match.
India have found genuine fast bowlers in the last couple of years but lack of proper facilities and guidance have left them prone to frequent breakdowns.
Debjeet Kundu writes.
Australia captain Michael Clarke married his model girlfriend Kyly Boldy in a secret ceremony in the Hunter Valley, north of Sydney.
Middle-order batsman Yuvraj Singh, who has been forced out of action for the past few months following a rare germ cell cancer between his lungs, today said he is eyeing a comeback by September this year.
Soon after India TV on Monday claimed to have blown the lid off "murky deals" in the IPL, a rattled Indian cricket board reacted swiftly suspending five players until an inquiry is conducted. We asked our readers in a poll - will the truth ever come out?
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'Salary cap sham encouraging underhand deals'
England cricket captain Andrew Strauss today received the ICC Test Championship mace for leading the team, which finished on top of the ICC Test Championship table on the annual cut-off date of April 1.
Kings XI Punjab on Wednesday said it will take strict action against any of its player found guilty of indulging in spot-fixing even as the BCCI has suspended five uncapped Indian players in the wake of a television sting operation which claimed to have exposed corruption in the IPL.
Shalabh Srivastava deposed on Wednesday before the the BCCI's anti-corruption unit, which is probing the spot-fixing scandal that has rocked the IPL. The two-member panel, led by Ravi Sawani, quizzed Srivastava in New Delhi for almost four hours. HT reports.
In the wake of suspension of five domestic players and allegations about players being played 'black money', the Indian Cricket Board may have a separate auction for the uncapped domestic players in the coming seasons of the cash-rich IPL.
Sports minister Ajay Maken Wednesday said suspending five domestic players allegedly involved in spot-fixing was not enough and the Indian cricket board needed to do more to get to the root cause of the menacing problem.
Refusing to be drawn into the furore surrounding a TV sting operation which claims to have exposed corruption in the IPL, David Hussey said he would be "very disappointed" if media questions the integrity of his players.
'We don't lack strike bowlers' 
English umpiring great Harold "Dickie" Bird was presented with an honour at Buckingham Palace in recognition of his outstanding sporting career and charity work.
Keeping faith in the IPL franchisee owners, BCCI President N Srinivisan on Tuesday refused to believe that the team owners may have some involvement in the spot-fixing as the Twenty20 league is under-scanner now.
All the five cricketers shown in the TV sting are expected to appear before the BCCI's anti-corruption unit in New Delhi on Wednesday.
A day after being stunned by a television sting that has raised serious concerns of possible corruption and underhand dealings, particularly in the Indian Premier League, senior Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) officials tried to link the conduct of the players caught in the row to the now-defunct Indian Cricket League.