Suspended off-spinner Shane Shillingford has been cleared to return to international cricket, the West Indies Cricket Board said on Saturday.
According to a study, social media is leading young adolescent girls and boys to develop body image issues and eating disorder behaviours.
According to the results, women who were regular tea drinkers had higher bone density in two sides in the hip compared with non-tea drinkers. Even the bone mineral density in tea drinkers was higher than in non-tea drinkers.
Banned Pakistan paceman Shabbir Ahmed had his bowling action cleared by biomechanics experts in Australia.
He has undergone private tests to prove his bowling action is legal after receiving a hostile reception from Australian crowds.
The Sri Lanka spinner could be banned for up to 12 months if he continues to bowl his doosra because his action exceeds official guidelines.
Pakistan has asked the ICC to clear the bowling action of all rounder Shoaib Malik on medical grounds.
An independent assessment by the University of Western Australia confirmed that the Pakistan bowler has an illegal action.
The complete report into the examination of Muthiah Muralitharan's doosra. A rediff.com exclusive.
The report from the University of Western Australia was sent with the observations of the bowling review group to the ICC.
Professor Bruce Elliot, the biomechanic specialist at the University of Western Australia, concluded that his off break and "doosra" deliveries are illegal.
An Australian biomechanics expert says Tendulkar will have to be careful of when he returns to cricket.
Former Sri Lanka captain Duleep Mendis once remarked that 'Murali' could turn the ball even on concrete and it was no exaggeration.
If his trip to Australia for tests on his bowling action has left him too jet-lagged to play.
'India is ahead only of Pakistan in the amount spent on each soldier a year.' 'The Indian military is a manpower-heavy throng that is poorly armed, equipped, and trained,' observes Ajai Shukla.
The citation for his medal -- awarded at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Rio de Janeiro -- highlights his "profound contributions to an exceptionally broad range of subjects in mathematics" and his "strikingly far-reaching conjectures."
Devangshu Datta walks you into the mind of the winner of the Fields Medal, considered by pure mathematicians as the equivalent of the Nobel Prize.
Meanwhile, the independent biomechanical analysis of Marlon Samuels' bowling action concluded that his standard off-break delivery was legal but his quicker deliveries exceeded the 15 degrees' level of tolerance and thus, were considered to be "illegal."
In a major crackdown against chucking, a senior official revealed that Pakistan on Thursday suspended 16 domestic bowlers with suspect actions following the ban of ace off-spinner Saeed Ajmal.
Pakistan off-spinner Saeed Ajmal has been suspended for an illegal bowling action, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said on Tuesday.
Was Flight MH370 diverted en route Beijing? What exactly caused the fatal crash? Even as Malaysia confirms that the wing part washed ashore Reunion Island was from the missing jet, crucial questions remain unanswered
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