Who isn’t well aware of the temperament of pacer Shanthakumaran Sreesanth? In fact all of us! Keeping this in mind the former India captain, Kapil Dev has passed a piece of an advice for Sreenath that the player should focus more on cricket and rather use his aggression to improve his performance.

India did well for itself in the five-match series, as it beat Sri Lanka on Sunday at the Premadasa Stadium and secured 2-1 lead in the series.

Man-of –the-Match was none other than M.S. Dhoni, as he helped the team score 237 runs in partnership with Suresh Raina (53), and 67 with Rohit Sharma, for nine in 50 overs after winning the news.

The top order of Sri Lanka was broken by Zaheer Khan and Praveen Kumar, as they took the early four wickets, and India won by 33 run in the third one-day international.

Although the Sri Lankan Captain, Mahela Jayawardene, played well and scored 94 to save his team, the team could not survive as four players were already out till the team had scored 40 runs.

It is in news now that the Champions Trophy cricket tournament to be held in Pakistan next month will not see the arrival of South Africa as the country. SA Cricket board on Friday announced that it would not send its team to Pakistan for the tournament next month. This has made South Africa the first country to officially boycott the tournament.

The decision came after a meeting held between Cricket South Africa, International Cricket Council chief executive Haroon Lorgat and ICC security officials
In a statement passed by Cricket SA President Norman Arendse, he said, “After extensive discussions and a frank exchange of views, the board resolved not to send our team at this time to Pakistan to take part in the ICC Champions Trophy.”

At the working committee meeting on Saturday, the BCCI took the decision to have paid selection committees for the junior and senior women’s and national senior teams.

It was a heart wrenching moment for the nation when the Indian women’s quartet of 4x400m relay could not qualify for the finals after they had finished seventh in qualifying heats in the Olympic on Friday.

The India’s overall campaign was over when the team including Satti Geetha, Manjeet Kaur, Chitra Soman and Mandeep Kaur clocked 3:28.83s in the eight-team heat number one.

India had entered the race as 15th best timed team and was unable to beat their 3:28.29s effort in Korat (Thailand) in Asian Grand Prix two months ago, which booked a berth in Olympics. On the contrary, they could not even perform better than their national record of 3:26.89s, which they had set at Athens’s Olympics in 2004.

After doing his bit in leading Jamaica to victory in 4x100 meters relay, Bolt stopped off at the 100m start-line on his victory lap and performed a forward roll over it. He did this right next to where the Australian, Steve Hooker, was preparing himself for a crucial jump-off in the pole vault. While Hooker took the Jamaican’s expression of jubilation in good spirits, the president of the International Olympic Committee did not seem to be very pleased with Bolt’s antics. He suggested earlier this week that Usain Bolt would do well in restraining his triumphal celebrations.