All eyes on Yuvraj as India A face WI A

BANGALORE: Yuvraj Singh would be the cynosure of all eyes when he captains India A, a team on a roll after the clean sweep against New Zealand A, in an ODI series against the West Indies A starting on Sunday.
India A: Yuvraj Singh (Capt.), Unmukt Chand, Robin Uthappa, Baba Aparajith, Kedar Jadhav, Naman Ojha, Yusuf Pathan, Siddharth Kaul, Jaydev Unadkat, Vinay Kumar, Sumit Narwal, Shahbaz Nadeem, Mandeep Singh, Rahul Sharma.

West Indies A: Kieran Powell (Capt.), Veerasammy Permaul, Ronsford Beaton, Nkrumah Bonner, Jonathan Carter, Sheldon Cottrell, Miguel Cummins, Narsingh Deonarine, Kirk Edwards, Andre Fletcher, Leon Johnson, Nikita Miller, Ashley Nurse, Andre Russell, and Devon Thomas.

PCB hoping for tri-series invite in India

KARACHI: Desperate for regular cricket clashes with India, the PCB is hoping to convince the BCCI to host a tri-series later this year when the officials from the two boards come face to face during an Asian Cricket Council meeting in Chennai on Saturday.
Reliable sources in the Pakistan Cricket Board said that chief operating officer Subhan Ahmad will not only attend a meeting of the ACC but also hold discussions with BCCI officials.

Liverpool double

It's a Liverpool double: Barclays Player of the Month for August is Daniel Sturridge; Barclays Manager of the Month for August is Brendan Rodgers.

David Backham with his super bike

David Backham with his super bike.Awesome footballer wid a awesome bike!!!!

Marquez leads Pedrosa in first practice at Misano

Marquez threw down the Friday morning gauntlet with a best lap time of 1’34.476. As the sun shone, Pedros,a recovered from early bike vibrations to move to within a quarter of a second of Marquez, while Jorge Lorenzo pipped Valentino Rossi by 76 thousandths; incidentally, Misano marks a critical weekend for the Yamaha pairing as they hope their seamless system will move them closer to the pace-setting Hondas.
At the start of this penultimate European race weekend prior to the Asian triple-header, 2012 Misano podium finisher Alvaro Bautista was fifth for GO&FUN Honda Gresini, ahead of LCR Honda MotoGP’s Stefan Bradl and Ducati Team pairing Nicky Hayden and Andrea Dovizioso. Michele Pirro was ninth for Ignite Pramac Racing, while Power Electronics Aspar’s Aleix Espargaro placed his CRT machine inside the top ten, ahead of Monster Yamaha Tech3’s Cal Crutchlow.
Second free practice will be underway from 2:05pm local time (GMT +2)

Kohli a fit candidate to lead team India in future said Chetan Chauhan

Kohli's aggressive attitude and cool head even in trying times makes him a fit candidate to lead team India in futuresaid Chetan Chauhan.

Lance Armstrong returns Olympic bronze medal

Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong has handed over his 2000 Olympic bronze medal to US Olympic officials, nine months after the International Olympic Committee demanded it back, he said on Thursday.

"The 2000 Bronze is back in possession of @usolympics and will be in Switzerland asap to @Olympics," Armstrong said on Twitter, posting a photo of the medal.

USOC spokesman Patrick Sandusky confirmed on Twitter that the American body had the medal.

"I can confirm that The United States Olympic Committee has received the bronze medal awarded to Lance Armstrong at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney," Sandusky said.

"The International Olympic Committee and the USOC had previously requested that the medal be returned. The USOC has made arrangements to return the medal to the IOC."

Thomas Bach, who was elected president of the IOC in Buenos Aires on Tuesday, had revealed on Monday in his role as head of the IOC judicial commission that Armstrong had yet to return the medal.

The IOC had written to Armstrong -- who was third in the time-trial event in Sydney -- in January to ask him for it.

The IOC had to wait to punish the American until world cycling's governing body, the International Cycling Union (UCI), sanctioned Armstrong, which it did on December 6 last year.

It then had a further three-week wait in which the Texan had recourse to appeal his lifetime doping ban at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned from the sport for life in October, 2012, after the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) produced evidence of widespread doping by him and his former team-mates.