India eye victory after Sangakkara falls for 18

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiduH7yp2boqzdqhnr2yLbleY6HGT7qcQDX7j0ECnncp96GE-IY4zzQnO3hbe2lJpLUNCYS_pOrr94Q9udwhw5HSX65O5PbZbj3KoII7M_atSheyu2_0RmuHmtu-OEH8YBpsqOZMVd_EgE/s1600/sports-cricket-S.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="352" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiduH7yp2boqzdqhnr2yLbleY6HGT7qcQDX7j0ECnncp96GE-IY4zzQnO3hbe2lJpLUNCYS_pOrr94Q9udwhw5HSX65O5PbZbj3KoII7M_atSheyu2_0RmuHmtu-OEH8YBpsqOZMVd_EgE/s640/sports-cricket-S.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">India eye victory after Sangakkara falls for 18</td></tr> </tbody></table> <b><br /></b> <b>COLOMBO: Kumar Sangakkara, the fifth-most elevated run-scorer in Test history, was rejected for 18 in his last worldwide innings Sunday to leave Sri Lanka in a bad position in the second Test against India. </b><br /> <br /> The hosts, set an extreme triumph focus of 413, drooped to 33-2 after Sangakkara's rejection before shutting the fourth day's play at 72-2 at Colombo's P. Sara Oval.<br /> <br /> Opener Dimuth Karunaratne was on 25 and captain Angelo Mathews was on 23. Sri Lanka start the last day's play on Monday requiring 341 more to win with eight wickets close by.<br /> <br /> India, hoping to level the three-match arrangement in the wake of losing the first Test in Galle, announced their second innings at 325-8 in the post-tea session after Ajinkya Rahane top-scored with 126.<br /> <br /> It exited the hosts confronting a bit less that four sessions to accomplish the colossal target or bat out for a draw on a moderate, wearing pitch that ought to support India's spinners.<br /> <br /> The most noteworthy fruitful fourth-innings run pursue at the venue is 352-9 by the hosts against South Africa in 2006.<br /> <br /> Sangakkara did not need to hold up long to bat after Sri Lanka lost opener Kaushal Silva in the third over, tapping a full hurl from Ravichandran Ashwin to the short mid-wicket defender.<br /> <br /> A full place of around 7,000 home fans cheered warmly as Sangakkara was invited to the wrinkle by two watchmen of honor - one shaped by youthful youngsters with raised bats close to the limit and another by Indian defenders.<br /> <br /> He hit three limits yet tumbled to Ashwin for the fourth time in the same number of innings in the arrangement when he edged a catch to Murali Vijay off the eighteenth ball he confronted.<br /> <br /> Sangakkara completed with 12,400 keeps running from 134 Tests at a normal of 57.40. He scored 38 centuries including a best of 319 against Bangladesh in Chittagong a year ago.<br /> <br /> The Sri Lankan incredible takes after Sachin Tendulkar of India, Ricky Ponting of Australia, Jacques Kallis of South Africa and Rahul Dravid of India in the unequaled rundown of driving Test scorers.<br /> <br /> Rahane tied down the Indian innings before being released in the blink of an eye before tea for 126, his fourth Test century that was studded with 10 limits.<br /> <br /> Rahane put on 140 for the second wicket with Vijay (82) and 85 for the fourth with his Mumbai colleague Rohit Sharma (34).

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Rain comes to England's rescue in Ashes finale

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwC0wicNxQz3CXkIs5PhdSzHfL8ITtfLbTQKod9naby6HAF0YaykFt0KJrDyoMjEDlGe5XmqZ47ylpz9NKdZxjpVCPd5rd8Fq3vAvYrB4GxPiBTy45ivvmHP_Vn_xDj2orblNC0QKLtck/s1600/sports-cricket-EngvAu.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="352" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwC0wicNxQz3CXkIs5PhdSzHfL8ITtfLbTQKod9naby6HAF0YaykFt0KJrDyoMjEDlGe5XmqZ47ylpz9NKdZxjpVCPd5rd8Fq3vAvYrB4GxPiBTy45ivvmHP_Vn_xDj2orblNC0QKLtck/s640/sports-cricket-EngvAu.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><h1 style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left; width: 440px;"> <a class="NewsDetailheading" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_HyperLinkMain" style="color: #005689; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal;">Rain comes to England's rescue in Ashes finale</a></h1> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <b><br /></b> <b><br /></b> <b>LONDON: Rain went to England's guide with Australia on the precarious edge of an innings triumph on the fourth day of the fifth and last Ashes Test at The Oval on Sunday. </b><br /> <br /> Britain, taking after on, were 258 for eight in their second innings when downpour prompted an early lunch.<br /> <br /> Moeen Ali was 17 not out and Stuart Broad 10 not out, with England still 74 keeps running behind Australia's first innings 481, which included commander choose Steven Smith's 143.<br /> <br /> Play continued Sunday underneath dark skies and it was not much sooner than the floodlights were exchanged on.<br /> <br /> The inquiry was could England, who had effectively won the Ashes at 3-1 up in the five-match arrangement, hang on sufficiently long with the bat for the gauge terrible climate to help them in their mission for a draw which would deny Australia commander Michael Clarke a triumph in his last match before retirement.<br /> <br /> Britain began Sunday on 203 for six, still 129 keeps running behind, having endured the blow of losing skipper Alastair Cook late on Saturday for 85 after his marathon innings of more than five-and-a-half hours was finished when the left-given opener tumbled to low maintenance leg-spinner Smith.<br /> <br /> Jos Buttler was 33 not out and nightwatchman Mark Wood nothing not out.<br /> <br /> Australia, an over far from the new ball, took it when they could and very quickly had an achievement when the amazing Peter Siddle, playing his first match of this arrangement, had Wood lbw for six - despite the fact that it required an audit of umpire Kumar Dharmasena's introductory choice to affirm the rejection.<br /> <br /> The way Siddle - just playing this match after Josh Hazlewood was harmed - knocked down some pins with both pace and control on his approach to lunch figures of two for 25 in 22 overs, including 12 ladies, made the accomplished seamer's oversight from the past four Tests all the all the more shocking, regardless of the possibility that Australia extraordinary Shane Warne marked his determination at The Oval a "frenzy" measure.<br /> <br /> Britain's 221 for seven was soon changed into 223 for eight after Buttler, on 42, tamely chipped all-rounder Mitchell Marsh low to Mitchell Starc at mid-off.<br /> <br /> The wicket-attendant batted for barely shy of over two hours, confronting 107 balls with four fours.<br /> <br /> It was Buttler's best score of the arrangement yet England required more from their gloveman on Sunday. (AFP)

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Rahane ton puts India on top

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO-v3VWMwDOumM5TATsQ6NFOz2FMrwGmUkaD_WUVqE-MiHgh0U5Mgbod9a6Lx72JmEe-aZoXdXMtsxCB83cOpzJ2IFSsgpqmHkIugNPDmfAnqy-tlUD19-iD-BYQYffHP-3YvAmR42T-A/s1600/sports-cricket-SLvInd.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="352" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO-v3VWMwDOumM5TATsQ6NFOz2FMrwGmUkaD_WUVqE-MiHgh0U5Mgbod9a6Lx72JmEe-aZoXdXMtsxCB83cOpzJ2IFSsgpqmHkIugNPDmfAnqy-tlUD19-iD-BYQYffHP-3YvAmR42T-A/s640/sports-cricket-SLvInd.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rahane ton puts India on top</td></tr> </tbody></table> <b><br /></b> <b>COLOMBO: Ajinkya Rahane scored a century as India constructed a close secure lead in the second Test against Sri Lanka at the P. Sara Oval on Sunday. </b><br /> <br /> The vacationers, hoping to level the three-match arrangement in the wake of losing the first Test in Galle, had taken their second innings from an overnight 70-1 to 283-5 by tea on the fourth day.<br /> <br /> With a general lead as of now at 370, India are relied upon to pronounce right on time in the last session to give themselves enough time to bowl Sri Lanka out a second time on a moderate, wearing pitch that ought to support their spinners.<br /> <br /> The objective for Sri Lanka is as of now more than the most noteworthy fruitful fourth innings pursue so far at the venue - 352-9 by the hosts against South Africa in 2006.<br /> <br /> Rahane tied down the innings before being released in no time before tea for 126, his fourth Test century that was studded with 10 limits.<br /> <br /> The Mumbai batsman and Murali Vijay (82) included 140 for the second wicket to help the aggregate after Lokesh Rahul had tumbled off the fifth chunk of the innings on Saturday evening.<br /> <br /> Vijay hit four limits and two sixes, yet missed his seventh Test century when he endeavored to scope off-spinner Tharindu Kaushal and was declared leg-before not long after the morning beverages break.<br /> <br /> Kaushal then caught chief Virat Kohli leg-before for 10, however Rohit Sharma (34) helped Rahane include 85 for the fourth wicket.<br /> <br /> Kaushal evacuated Sharma and Rahane in progressive overs as India slipped from 256-3 to 262-5.<br /> <br /> Sharma pulled a short ball to Jehan Mubarak on the mid-wicket wall and Rahane's 243-ball vigil finished when he edged a catch to wicket-guardian Dinesh Chandimal.<br /> <br /> Wriddhiman Saha resigned hurt with a hamstring niggle subsequent to making five and it was misty if the wicketkeeper will take the field when Sri Lanka bat.<br /> <br /> India made an energetic begin in the adding so as to morn 68 keeps running in the first hour, with Vijay pummeling sixes off quick bowler Dushmantha Chameera and Kaushal.<br /> <br /> At the flip side, Rahane came to his half-century by converse clearing Kaushal for his fifth limit and went to 100 with a flick off the same bowler for a solitary after lunch.<br /> <br /> India scored 393 in their first innings subsequent to choosing to bat and knocked down some pins out Sri Lanka for 306 to pick up a lead of 87 runs. (AFP)

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South Africa pile up 304-7 and Amla hits ton

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-1S8poPncvKecgj9m08nmnLMwqQ9wRSaLLMf2gQa9AQ3hVRqBFa-HUajkzcUtFASNE1qWvG1Li_InX174O45aZWajOvLNGrlFjGhcdULNC_S9ShhEPgrUMD7lzMw7EVFg8_WRMq6tAV0/s1600/Amla+hits+ton+as.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="352" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-1S8poPncvKecgj9m08nmnLMwqQ9wRSaLLMf2gQa9AQ3hVRqBFa-HUajkzcUtFASNE1qWvG1Li_InX174O45aZWajOvLNGrlFjGhcdULNC_S9ShhEPgrUMD7lzMw7EVFg8_WRMq6tAV0/s640/Amla+hits+ton+as.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">South Africa - Hashim Amla</td></tr> </tbody></table> <b><br /></b> <b>CENTURION: Hashim Amla finished the longest incline spell of his global vocation when he hit a century in the first day worldwide against New Zealand at SuperSport Park on Wednesday.</b><br /> <br /> Amla (124) and Rilee Rossouw (89) mutual a second wicket organization of 185 as South Africa scored 304 for seven in the wake of being sent into bat.<br /> <br /> Amla had gone ten global innings without a fifty since making 159 against Ireland in a World Cup match in Canberra on March 3. In seven of those innings he neglected to achieve 20.<br /> <br /> However, a lot of Amla's standard familiarity returned as he posted a half-century off 54 balls and his 21st one-day global hundred off 109 conveyances.<br /> <br /> He was played by Adam Milne for 124 off 126 balls, with 13 fours and three sixes. He was dropped on 74 when a plunging Tom Latham at spread couldn't hold a furious commute off low maintenance bowler Colin Munro.<br /> <br /> The left-gave Rossouw attempted to locate his timing on a moderate pitch, scoring just two keeps running off the initial 17 balls he confronted.<br /> <br /> He worked to his fifty off 81 balls however grabbed his scoring rate to complete with 89 off 112 balls.<br /> <br /> Rossouw additionally profit by a missed chance, dropped by Milne on the midwicket limit off Grant Elliott when he had 32.<br /> <br /> It was the initially meeting between the two groups since a sensational World Cup semi-last, which New Zealand won by four wickets with one ball to extra in Auckland in March.<br /> <br /> Be that as it may, just four of the New Zealand group and seven of the South Africans from the Auckland experience lined up for Wednesday's diversion. Wounds, retirement and players being given time off represented the vast majority of the progressions.<br /> <br /> New Zealand opening batsman Martin Guptill fell unadroitly in attempting to get David Miller in the somewhere down in the 48th over and left the field grasping his left wrist. (AFP)

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Chris Rogers confirms retirement from global cricket after Ashes finale

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmwuCjGgylhWyl9A-41DGozW6SvhXidPwl1W33gn3UG5z6e5s5LGuqTQPdPqTBWWJUyZLgL2Q6CmnnZKSFDpCztC0KgoUFGCnu3heCKApHS_Ju9XCoTOUVYmYOjW9jeGPnrj_xui-9xY0/s1600/global+cricket.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="352" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmwuCjGgylhWyl9A-41DGozW6SvhXidPwl1W33gn3UG5z6e5s5LGuqTQPdPqTBWWJUyZLgL2Q6CmnnZKSFDpCztC0KgoUFGCnu3heCKApHS_Ju9XCoTOUVYmYOjW9jeGPnrj_xui-9xY0/s640/global+cricket.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chris Rogers</td></tr> </tbody></table> <br /> LONDON: Chris Rogers is resigning from global cricket after the current week's Ashes finale against England, the Australia opener reported on Tuesday.<br /> <br /> The 37-year-old joins his skipper Michael Clarke in resigning from universal vocation after the fifth Test.<br /> <br /> He said: "I have had an astonishing couple of years playing for Australia and delighted in it and been a piece of some really unique things - however everything reaches an end."<br /> <br /> Britain wrapped up the Ashes with triumph in the fourth Test that put them 3-1 up in the five-match arrangement.<br /> <br /> Tuesday's affirmation comes after Rogers had proposed it was his arrangement to make the Oval his worldwide swansong in what will be his 25th profession Test.<br /> <br /> Rogers, who has more than 24,000 five star races to his name, made his Test introduction in 2008 yet did not win his second top until the begin of the 2013 Ashes - at 35 years old.<br /> <br /> The decided left-hander has subsequent to scored five Test hundreds of years, most as of late in Australia's just triumph of this Ashes arrangement at Lord's.<br /> <br /> Rogers endured a bleary eyed spell in the second Test at Lord's and was constrained off the field on 49 in Australia's second innings.<br /> <br /> Medicinal tests uncovered the harm was identified with an equalization issue in the internal ear brought about when Rogers was hit on the head protector by a James Anderson bouncer amid his Test-best 173 in the first innings.<br /> <br /> Regardless of harm questions he found himself able to play at the following Test at Edgbaston.<br /> <br /> Disclosing his choice to go with Clarke into retirement, Rogers included: "You are never 100 for every penny beyond any doubt, yet I felt like this (Test at The Oval) was the last one.<br /> <br /> "There's been a couple of things, especially the head issues of late, so I am truly upbeat to give it up.<br /> <br /> "It's the ideal time for Australian cricket to roll out a couple of improvements and get a couple of new gentlemen, a couple of crisp appearances.<br /> <br /> "It will be a testing time, especially for the new gentlemen - yet that is a piece of it." (AFP)

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Real Madrid captain Sergio Ramos signs new five-year Real Madrid Deal

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfwc8CfNmo-ZAmEghVW7vT6322VXGqyeYqNFOvBnrsPvPlDHeKfJNGuWEse5E5Xe85tPUCYJhbDfCbg_4Mi3v0nIvFK2ANih9i2HJPnXkosTLYOKTUnFLTmf4UnnOV4MGB9txFkKnyzcQ/s1600/Sergio_Ramos-Real_Madrid.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfwc8CfNmo-ZAmEghVW7vT6322VXGqyeYqNFOvBnrsPvPlDHeKfJNGuWEse5E5Xe85tPUCYJhbDfCbg_4Mi3v0nIvFK2ANih9i2HJPnXkosTLYOKTUnFLTmf4UnnOV4MGB9txFkKnyzcQ/s640/Sergio_Ramos-Real_Madrid.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sergio Ramos signs new five-year Real Madrid Deal</td></tr> </tbody></table> <b><br /></b> <b>MADRID: Real Madrid skipper Sergio Ramos has finished hypothesis signing so as to encompass his future another five-year manage the Spanish goliaths, the club affirmed on Monday. </b><br /> <br /> Ramos had been courted by Manchester United amid a standoff in arrangements between his agents and Madrid president Florentino Perez over the Spanish global's pay with his past arrangement set to terminate in 2017.<br /> <br /> On the other hand, the club said in an announcement he will stay "attached to the club for the following five seasons."

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India awarded Khel Ratna Award to Sania Mirza

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7Z31IqA1TKvjmyqYyzK0ixBjL61HHg2jXmKCCcHxmG-3c5Pxa4u3zPUEQgNL941WmEKAkivE_b4qLdhYoQjlpm6Sr4xoY1ag-Tgs7zFxLIPiRjG_LPcZELZ8wdifCOd9-lSolVUHC3Tg/s1600/SaniaMirza-India.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="352" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7Z31IqA1TKvjmyqYyzK0ixBjL61HHg2jXmKCCcHxmG-3c5Pxa4u3zPUEQgNL941WmEKAkivE_b4qLdhYoQjlpm6Sr4xoY1ag-Tgs7zFxLIPiRjG_LPcZELZ8wdifCOd9-lSolVUHC3Tg/s640/SaniaMirza-India.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">India awarded Khel Ratna Award to Sania Mirza</td></tr> </tbody></table> <b><br /></b> <b>NEW DELHI: Sania Mirza's name was formally endorsed for the pined for Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna grant, turning out to be just the second tennis player to be assigned for the most astounding wearing honor. </b><br /> <br /> The administration additionally named the victors of the 2015 Arjuna Awards. The rundown has 17 games persons including cricketer Rohit Sharma and shooter Jitu Rai. Acrobat Dipa Karmakar, hockey player P R Sreejesh, wrestling team of Bajrang and Babita, competitor M R Poovamma, shuttler K Srikanth and boxer Mandeep Jangra are among the individuals who won the Arjuna.<br /> <br /> "It's a huge honor for me to be given the Khel Ratna recompense and I feel humbled with the adoration and admiration showered on me by my nation," Sania told PTI from Toronto.<br /> <br /> "Speaking to my nation in all edges of the world has been my incredible benefit for such a variety of years and this acknowledgment of my endeavors by the legislature of India is sure to motivate me to win more shrubs for our nation. I might want to wish all my kindred Indians a glad autonomy day," she said.<br /> <br /> Sania, as of now positioned world number one in ladies' copies, scripted history by turning into the first Indian to win a ladies' duplicates Grand Slam title when she and Martina Hingis secured the Wimbledon trophy not long ago.<br /> <br /> Sania is just the second tennis player after Leander Paes to be named for the top grant. Paes had been offered the honor path in 1996 after his bronze decoration in the Atlanta Olympics.<br /> <br /> The 28-year-old, who has won three blended pairs Grand Slams in her vocation, beat rivalry from squash player Deepika Pallikal, plate hurler Vikas Gowda, olympic style sports star Tintu Luka, rising shuttler P V Sindhu, and hockey skipper Sardar Singh for the pined for honor.<br /> <br /> The honors will be presented by the President Pranab Mukherjee on August 29, the National Sports Day.<br /> <br /> The Khel Ratna conveys a prize cash of Rs 7.5 lakh alongside a reference, while the Arjuna recompenses accompany a money prize of Rs 5 lakh and a reference. Other than doing admirably on the expert circuit, Sania had additionally won the gold decoration and the bronze award in the blended and ladies' copies classifications of the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea.<br /> <br /> The Hyderabadi young lady had won the Arjuna honor in 2004 and was the most loved for the top recompense this year. In 2006, she was presented the Padma Shri - the nation's fourth most astounding regular citizen honor.<br /> <br /> Sania's blended copies trophies had come in the Australian Open (2009), French Open (2012) and US Open (2014).<br /> <br /> Rohit has been India's batting backbone in the ODIs and turned into the most astounding individual scorer with a thump of 264 against Sri Lanka a year ago.<br /> <br /> Jitu, then again, has been in mind blowing structure, winning seven universal awards in the most recent one year other than an Olympic share billet.<br /> <br /> Sreejesh was suggested for his exceptional show as India's goalkeeper. He was a piece of the group that won the Asian Games gold award a year ago, which likewise got the side an immediate capability for one year from now's Olympics.<br /> <br /> Dipa has been remunerated for turning into the first Indian lady tumbler to win an award at the Commonwealth Games, while boxer Mandeep has been suggested for his silver decorations in the Asian Championships and the Commonwealth Games.<br /> <br /> Srikanth has been one of India's top entertainers on the badminton court, winning three titles this year.<br /> <br /> The rundown of sportspersons prescribed for Arjuna honors: PR Sreejesh (hockey), Dipa Karmakar (vaulting), Jitu Rai (shooting), Sandeep Kumar (arrow based weaponry), Mandeep Jangra (boxing), Babita (wrestling), Bajrang (wrestling), Rohit Sharma (cricket), K Srikanth (badminton), Swarn Singh Virk (paddling), Satish Sivalingam (weightlifting), Yumnam Santhoi Devi (wushu), Sharath Gaekwad (para-cruising), M R Poovamma (games), Manjeet Chhillar (kabaddi), Abhilasha Mhatre (kabaddi), Anup Kumar Yama (rollerskating).

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Indian Shikhar Dhawan out of Sri Lanka series due to Injury

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg34m06BYj2AeQnW_zPKskymBFWf2f4ZdnOqG0IoxVCQzMNCIpVheX8QW5z95OMv0aS4mnfNZR0BdcUj16yu7FPABekdceZvNvUYwTPDi8po9whV4JJ7GjUC_v3ZPrPP3O32D-rFzN-d18/s1600/Shekhar_Dhawan_sports.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="352" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg34m06BYj2AeQnW_zPKskymBFWf2f4ZdnOqG0IoxVCQzMNCIpVheX8QW5z95OMv0aS4mnfNZR0BdcUj16yu7FPABekdceZvNvUYwTPDi8po9whV4JJ7GjUC_v3ZPrPP3O32D-rFzN-d18/s640/Shekhar_Dhawan_sports.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Indian Shikhar Dhawan out of Sri Lanka series due to Injury</td></tr> </tbody></table> <b><br /></b> <b>COLOMBO: Indian series opener Shikhar Dhawan was on Monday discounted of whatever remains of the Sri Lanka arrangement with a hairline crack on his right hand, in a noteworthy hit to the vacationers. </b><br /> <br /> Dhawan, 29, maintained the harm amid the first Test in Galle which India lost by 63 keeps running on Saturday to surrender the lead in the three-match arrangement.<br /> <br /> Dhawan, who hit a century in the first innings at Galle, will miss both the second Test beginning at the P. Sara Oval in Colombo on Thursday and the last match at the Sinhalese Sports Club in the Sri Lankan capital from August 28.<br /> <br /> "He experienced tests that affirmed a hairline crack in his grasp. He would oblige four to six weeks to recuperate from the harm," an announcement from the group administration said.<br /> <br /> Group chief Ravi Shastri said it was "disastrous" to lose the in-structure left-hander for the key Tests ahead.<br /> <br /> "Shikhar demonstrated a great deal of mettle at Galle," Shastri said. "That is the thing that I search for in a player. It is lamentable to lose him."<br /> <br /> No substitution has been named. The damage to Dhawan left India in a spot of trouble after the other opening batsman, Lokesh Rahul, was released for seven and five in Galle.<br /> <br /> Initially decision opener Murali Vijay missed the Galle Test with a hamstring damage however is relied upon to recoup in time for the second match.<br /> <br /> Top-request batsman Cheteshwar Pujara is holding up in the wings, while India had effectively summoned all-rounder Stuart Binny to join the squad as the sixteenth part before Dhawan's non-accessibility was affirmed.<br /> <br /> Dhawan has scored 1,158 keeps running in 15 Tests at a normal of 44.53, with four centuries. (AFP)

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Pakistanis are wonderful cricket fans Said by Sangakkara

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PCB is going to launch Pakistan Super League T20

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Australian team all out on 60 against England

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Afridi addresses About Sarfraz dropping controversy against Srilanka

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