Sydney, Jan 5 - Captain Michael Clarke posted the highest Test score at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) while Mike Hussey struck the third century of the innings to take Australia to a massive 583 for four in the first innings, in reply to India's 191, at lunch on the third day of the second cricket Test here Thursday.

Clarke was batting on 293 and Hussey on 111, and their 258-run unbroken stand for the fifth wicket stretched Australia's first innings lead by 392 runs after a dominating first session's play.

Premier League footballers, wayne rooney and Michael Owen visited a hospital and inspired a schoolboy, who fought back from leukaemia. The starts of the Manchester United foot club visited the hospital and gave him the extra push that he needed to get better. Callum Rose, 12 is now learning to walk again. He has been on chair for months.

Hyderabad, Oct 9 - All-rounder Chris Woakes, who played a key role in England's 56-run win in the warmup match against Hyderabad XI, feels it is an honour to open the bowling for his country.

Woakes made a useful contribution of unbeaten 46 and later chipped in with two wickets off successive deliveries to virtually end the home side's run chase late Saturday.

The 22-year-old from Warwickshire opened the bowling with Steve Finn.

Rio de Janeiro, Oct 9 - Brazilian tennis great Gustavo "Guga" Kuerten beat former rival Carlos Moya in the 2011 International Challenge, a friendly competition between the two players.

With individual set scores of 6-4, 2-6 and 6-3, Guga eased to a 2-1 set victory ovre his Spanish native Saturday.

Both are former No. 1 ranked players in the ATP Tour. They faced each other seven times in their professional careers with Guga winning four times to Moya's three, Xinhua reported.

Hyderabad, Oct 9 - A fine hat-trick by Steven Finn helped England defeat Hyderabad XI by 56 runs in their 50-over warm-up match at the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium here Saturday.

Chasing a target of 220 runs in the day-night match, Hyderabad were all out for 163 in 36.5 overs.

Finn's hat-trick folded up Hyderabad innings and ensured that the English team score a comprehensive win despite not so impressive performance by their batsmen.

Bangalore, Oct 6 - In a nail-biting finish, Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) late Wednesday snatched a thrilling victory by two wickets from a defiant South Australian Redbacks (SAR) to qualify for semi-finals of the ICC Champions League Twenty20 (CLT20) at the Chinnaswamy stadium here.

Requiring six runs of the last ball in the 20th over for a sensational win, RCB's wicket-keeper Arun Karthik lofted a massive six of Redback's Daniel Christian to reach the stiff target of 215 for eight wickets.

Dhaka, Oct 5 - West Indies cricket captain Darren Sammy said his side's month-long tour of Bangladesh will be quite challenging.

Sammy and the rest of the West Indies side minus five players taking part in the Champions League Twenty20 with Trinidad & Tobago arrived at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the Bangladesh capital Tuesday.

"Playing Bangladesh at home is always tough, as New Zealand found out the last time they were here," said Sammy.

Dhaka, Oct 1 - Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) selectors have recalled seamer Shahadat Hossain and called up uncapped all-rounder Elias Sunny but axed batsman Junaid Siddique for the limited overs series against the West Indies starting here next week.

Shahadat was named in an 18-man squad for the three One-Day Internationals while Elias is part of a 14-man unit for the one-off Twenty20 International.

Bangladesh will also host the West Indies in two Tests in the tour Oct 7-Nov 2.

Chennai, Sep 27 - After the huge letdown in their opening game when they lost to Mumbai Indians in the last over, Chennai Super Kings have their task cut out when they take on a buoyant Nashua Cape Cobras in the Champions League T20 tournament, here Wednesday.

Chennai, Sep 27 - In what would be a key game in Group A, 2009 champions New South Wales Blues would be looking to get their campaign back on track by getting past Trinidad and Tobago when the two teams meet in the Champions League T20 tournament here Wednesday.

The Blues went down to Cape Cobras in their opening fixture with a performance that did not reflect the talent within, and they would need to up their game a lot more if they hope to put it across the Caribbean outfit in a repeat of the
2009 final.

London, Sep 27 - West Indies captain Darren Sammy hailed his side's 25-run victory in the second and final match of their Twenty20 International Series against England, saying it was a big morale booster ahead of the series in India and Bangladesh.

The skipper said the victory at the Oval Sunday puts them in a good frame of mind as they travel to Asia.

"We needed this," he said. "This would give the guys a lift, and improve on the belief in the team that if we do the basics well, we can get the results in our favour."

Berlin, Sep 25 - Germany's Bayern Munich showed all its class when it defeated Leverkusen 3-0 to remain on the top of Bundesliga football Saturday.

The Bavarians dominated the match from the kick-off as young striker Thomas Mueller opened the scoring after a build-up play by midfielder Franck Ribery.

With 19 minutes into the match, Bayern defender Daniel van Buyten extended the lead to 2-0 when he marked a dead ball goal from 25 metre into bottom left.

Rome, Sep 25 - Inter Milan's new coach Claudio Ranieri said his side started on the right foot in their 3-1 away victory over Bologna Saturday.

Ranieri took charge only Thursday after Gian Piero Gasperini's dismissal, but secured their first victory of the season in all competition.

"It was important to start on the right foot as the lads have to get back on track," Xinhua quoted Ranieri as saying.

Kolkata, Sep 20 - Eden Gardens is set to lose all its three Champions League Twenty20 matches with the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) favouring shift of the matches due to monsoon rains lashing the city almost daily.

"When the conditions are such, how can we host the matches? We need time to prepare the track. Who will gain if we organise the matches and not a ball can be bowled?" said a CAB official.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), however, left the decision to the CAB.

Karachi, Sept 18 : Retired Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi has expressed his desire to return to international cricket as Waqar Younis, with whom he had serious differences during his captaincy, is set to quit as head coach.

Afridi had announced his retirement from international cricket in May after the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) removed him as one-day international (ODI) captain following a dispute with coach Waqar.

Dhaka, Sep 18 - Bangladesh Cricket Board director Enayet Hossain Siraj has questioned the axing of Shakib Al Hasan as captain, as the authorities begin shopping for a new skipper ahead of the West Indies tour.

Shakib, appointed for the 2009 tour of the Caribbean, was dismissed from the post following Bangladesh's disappointing tour of Zimbabwe recently.

Siraj, who did not attend the board meeting at which the decisions were taken, was highly critical of the process used to get rid of Shakib.

Cardiff, Sep 17 - India's nightmarish English summer came to an end Friday without a win as they lost the rain-affected fifth and the final ODI via the Duckworth-Lewis method, souring Rahul Dravid's farewell from the shorter version of the game.

It was debutant John Bairstow who ruined Dravid's final ODI as England chased a reduced target of 241 with 10 balls to spare and six wickets in hand and wrapped up a 3-0 series win over India.

London, Sep 12 - India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni hoped that his boys would be able to win at least the fifth and the final ODI against England after the fourth ODI here at Lord's ended in a tie due to rain interruption.

India were staring at their first win on English soil but rain interrupted the match for the third time when the hosts needed 11 runs to win off seven balls with two wickets in hand.

But with the rain falling the Duckworth/Lewis method came into play and India were unlucky. England clinched the series with still a match left.

Washington, Sept 9 : Five-time champion Roger Federer has reached the US Open semi-finals after defeating French tennis star Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.

Federer beat Tsonga 6-4, 6-3, 6-3, and will now face Serbia’s Novak Djokovic in the semi-finals.

Djokovic beat fellow countryman Janko Tipsarevic in five dramatic sets score to reach the semi-finals.

London, Sep. 9 : Chelsea boss Andre Villas-Boas has warned misfiring striker Fernando Torres that he has two more matches to improve his game or face being dropped.

Villas-Boas has insisted that he will not jeopardise his team’s ambitions for the sake of an individual.

The Daily Mail quoted the Portuguese, as saying: “I have no problem dropping players. You have to persist, but it can never compromise the objectives of your team and the things you want to achieve.”