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Ashish Nehra and Kiwis Ross Taylor have deal places with Delhi Daredevils and Pune Warriors India agreeing to create use of the Player Trading Window for the sixth edition of the IPL. Nehra, who played for Mumbai Indians in the opening 2008 edition, played for Daredevils in 2009 and 2010. 

The left-arm fast bowler was part of the Pune Warriors squad for 2011 but fail to spot the season due to injury. He played for the Pune franchise last year. Taylor, a previous New Zealand captain, joined Daredevils last year after playing one season for Rajasthan Royals. He stands for Royal Challengers Bangalore from 2008 to 2010

Australia's Matthew Wade says the skill of wicketkeeping on last year's West Indies explore has given him self-confidence ahead of a difficult four-Test series in India. Wade will captain Australia in their opening two-day game against an Indian Board President's XI starting today in Chennai as the visitors prepare for the first Test on February 22.

Squad:

Board President’s XI: A Mukund (C), R Uthappa, A Rayudu, M Singh, K Jadhav, P Patel (WK), S Binny, S Ladda, P Rassol, M Shami, P Awana, K Makwana

Australians: M Wade (C & WK), E Cowan, G Maxwell, J Bird, J Pattinson, M Henriques, N Lyon, P Siddle, S Smith, U Khawaja, A Agar

Stressed opener Gautam Gambhir has been dropped from the squad for the first two Tests against Australia and been replaced by Delhi partner Shikhar Dhawan, while expert off-spinner Harbhajan Singh is back in the fight. Gambhir's opening partner Virender Sehwag has been retained.

Keeping the disaster against England and the struggles of R Ashwin and Pragyan Ojha in mind, the national selection committee but Harbhajan is still India's trump card at home.

Squad: 

MS Dhoni (captain & wicket-keeper), Virender Sehwag, M Vijay, Shikhar Dhawan, Cheteshwar Pujara, Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, Ravindra Jadeja, R Ashwin, Pragyan Ojha, Harbhajan Singh, Ishant Sharma, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ashok Dinda.

BCCI may force Indian Premier League franchise Rajasthan Royals to move matches out of their home city of Jaipur in what could be a twice bluster for the former champions. The Royals, who are already planning to competition an $18.8 million fine handed down earlier this week by Enforcement Directorate for breaking foreign exchange rules, have been given by the BCCI with its stadium owners.

Royals, champion of First season in 2008 under then-captain Shane Warne, is previously facing a difficult time after the fine announced by the Enforcement Directorate. The Indian cricket board has been deemed to be not entitled for certain income tax benefits since a change of its objectives in 2006 and the organization of the profitable and cash-rich IPL.

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Inoka Ranaweera finished no mistake as she held on to the catch at short midwicket from Goswami’s mistimed shot. The hosts, at one stage, were placed at a precarious 69/5. Goswami’s wicket put paid to any hope of an Indian improvement. 

It was finished for the Indian women as they were knocked out in the group stages for the first time in a World Cup. The Sri Lankans, who played as a unit, turned giant-killers for the second time as they defeated by an enormous 138 runs in their final league meet at the Brabourne Stadium. 

The visitor improved considerably on their batting effort in the second Perth fixture though they lost by 54 runs, with opener Kieran Powell (83) and Dwayne Bravo (45) showing some fight in their 126-run partnership. But on that day, once the Powell-Bravo stand was break West Indies lost their last seven wickets for 53 runs to be bowled out for 212 chasing 267. It's easy to see where the troubles lie.

Glenn Maxwell, the off-spinning all-rounder from Victoria, was the main buy in the Pepsi-Indian Premier League player auction. Auctions have thrown up shock in the IPL and Maxwell, who began with a base price of $200,000, was lastly bought by Mumbai Indians for an enormous $1 million.

List of sold players in IPL auction:

Glenn Maxwell - $1,000,000 to Mumbai Indians

Ricky Ponting - $400,000 to Mumbai Indians

RP Singh - $400,000 to Royal Challengers Bangalore

Johan Botha - $450,000 to Delhi Daredevils 

Michael Clarke - $400,000 to Pune Warriors

Luke Pomersbach - $300,000 to Kings XI Punjab 

Phillip Hughes - $100,000 to Mumbai Indians 

James Faulkner - $400,000 to Rajasthan Royals 

Moises Henriques - $300,000 to Royal Challengers Bangalore

Abhishek Nayar - $675,000 to Pune Warriors

Thisara Perera - $675,000 to Sunrisers Hyderabad

Jesse Ryder - $260,000 to Delhi Daredevils

Darren Sammy - $425,000 to Sunrisers Hyderabad

Jaydev Unadkat - $525,000 to Royal Challengers Bangalore

Pankaj Singh - $150,000 to Royal Challengers Bangalore

Ravi Rampaul - $290,000 to Royal Challengers Bangalore

Manpreet Gony - $500,000 to Kings XI Punjab

Fidel Edwards - $210,000 to Rajasthan Royals

Sudeep Tyagi - $100,000 to Sunrisers Hyderabad

Dirk Nannes - $600,000 to Chennai Super Kings 

Nathan McCullum - $100,000 to Sunrisers Hyderabad

Ajantha Mendis - $725,000 to Pune Warriors 

Jeevan Mendis - $50,000 to Delhi Daredevils 

Chris Morris - $625,000 to Chennai Super Kings 

Sachithra Senanayake - $625,000 to Kolkata Knight Riders 

Christopher Barnwell - $50,000 to Royal Challengers Bangalore 

Nathan Coulter-Nile - $450,000 to Mumbai Indians 

Ben Laughlin - $20,000 to Chennai Super Kings 

Kane Richardson - $700,000 to Pune Warriors 

Jacob Oram - $50,000 to Mumbai Indians 

Quinton de Kock - $20,000 to Sunrisers Hyderabad 

Dan Christian - $100,000 to Royal Challengers Bangalore 

Akila Dananjaya - $20,000 to Chennai Super Kings 

Clint McKay - $100,000 to Sunrisers Hyderabad 

Jason Holder - $20,000 to Chennai Super Kings 

Ryan McLaren - $50,000 to Kolkata Knight Riders 

Kushal Perera - $20,000 to Rajasthan Royals 

Australia announced the 17-member team to tour India for a four-match Test series, which begins on February 22 with the first Test at Chennai. The four-match series will start on February 22 and the competition will be held in Chennai, Hyderabad, Mohali and Delhi.

Squad:

Michael Clarke (c), Shane Watson (vc), Jackson Bird, Ed Cowan, Xavier Doherty, Moises Henriques, Phillip Hughes, Mitchell Johnson, Usman Khawaja, Nathan Lyon, Glenn Maxwell, James Pattinson, Peter Siddle, Steve Smith, Mitchell Starc, Matthew Wade, David Warner.

India handle to retain its No.3 position among T20 teams in the ICC rankings for Twenty20 batsmen list recently issued. India is placed at third with 119 points in the team rankings, which was being led by reigning T20 champions Sri Lanka followed by the West Indies.

Sri Lanka, with 131 points, has additional strengthened its number one position following its 2-0 series win over hosts Australia, which is placed seventh in the list. Meanwhile, star India batsman Kohli has dropped a step to the sixth spot in the T20 batsmen list with 731 points. Suresh Raina also slipped a position to the ninth place.

Second T20I - Sri Lanka 4 for 161 beat Australia 3 for 119 by 2 runs (D/L method)

Thisara Perera was shine with the bat and then held his spirit, although only barely, with the ball to fasten a two-run triumph off the final ball of a rain-affected chase. In a excited finale, Glenn Maxwell needed four runs from the last ball for victory and when Perera sent down the ball wide of off Maxwell missed and all the batsmen could manage was a bye.

Former New Zealand cricket coach John Wright on the comeback track and will return to India to coach in the IPL-6 season. Wright was declaring as head coach of the Mumbai Indians team for the sixth version of the beneficial Twenty20 competition, which begins on April 3.

He had a winning period as coach of the Indian team from 2000-2005 and direct his home country for 18 months until July last year. Wright is highly regarded in India, having control over a successful period for the national team in both test and ODI - they won a home test series against Australia, drew an away series in Australia, and make the final of the 2003 World Cup during his tenure.

The IPL Player sale 2013 will be held on Sunday, February 3, 2013, at the ITC Grand Chola, Chennai, and a media release said. The proceedings will begin at 11:00 am. The public sale will be conducted by Richard Madley, a specialized auctioneer from England who has behavior each of the previous IPL player auctions. The events will be telecast live on SONY SIX.

"The Dutch auction signals the start of the sixth season of what has been an occurrence. The 2013 version of the IPL will feature a new title support - PEPSI - and a new team - SUNRISERS HYDERABAD. It will be attractive to see how the Franchises go about bolstering their respective line-ups prior to the contest.

The development during the auction will be followed by fans from all over the country, and overseas, who cannot wait for the action to begin," Rajeev Shukla, Chairman, IPL, said. The aperture match of the Pepsi IPL 2013 will take place on 3 April 2013 in Kolkata.

Tim Bresnan has been ruled out of the tour schedule of New Zealand with an elbow injury while Craig Kieswetter was fall from the one-day squad. National selector Miller announced 15-man squad for the three Test series, Warwickshire seamer Chris Woakes replacing Bresnan, who has been struggling with a right elbow trouble for over a year.

Test squad: Alastair Cook (capt), James Anderson, Jonathan Bairstow, Ian Bell, Stuart Broad, Steven Finn, Graham Onions, Monty Panesar, Kevin Pietersen, Matt Prior (wkt), Joe Root, Graeme Swann, Jonathan Trott, Chris Woakes

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India overcome England by five wickets in the fourth ODI to take an unquestionable 3-1 lead in the five-match ODI series at Mohali. With the temperature hovering around in hazy Mohali, India achieve the 258-run target in 47.3 overs, with Suresh Raina continue unbeaten on 89. Rohit Sharma (83) was the other huge contributor for the hosts.

England fought hard to reach a decent 257 for seven with skipper Alastair Cook and Kevin Pietersen contributing 76 each. Knowing well that defeat would cause to be the fifth and final game Dharamsala worthless, the visitors fought till the very end.

Mumbai Indians appointed former India captain Anil Kumble as their chief mentor for upcoming sixth season of the Indian Premier League. Kumble had been share the same post at the Royal Challengers Bangalore for two years, while former South Africa skipper Shaun Pollock, played that role for MI till last season.

"I have made this decision to take up a new assignment based on a chance that my company has been offered. With this, we will be exclusively located to consolidate my passion with the benefit of our partners to contribute to the growth of sport across disciplines, especially grassroots sport" Kumble said.