West Indian spinner Sulieman Benn faces a one Test suspension following an altercation with the Australian duo of Brad Haddin and Mitchell Johnson on day two of the ongoing third cricket Test here today.

Mumbai: Putting to rest all speculations over Lalit Modi's future as the Indian Premier League (IPL) chairman and commissioner, the Indian cricket board Thursday made it clear that he would hold the office till his five-year term ends in 2012.

Perth: West Indian spinner Suleiman Benn and Australian players Brad Haddin and Mitchell Johnson were involved in an ugly spat during the second day of the third Test between Australia and West Indies in Perth on Thursday.

Centurion: England off-spinner Graeme Swann struck four balls before tea to halt a South African fightback on the first day of the first Test at SuperSport Park.

Experienced South African all-rounder Jacques Kallis will not be able to bowl in the first test against England, captain Graeme Smith said on Tuesday.

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) was Tuesday planning to lodge a formal complaint with the International Cricket Council (ICC) claiming the national team was racially abused on the final day of the third and final Test against New Zealand in Napier.

Karachi: Pakistan's regular cricket captain Younis Khan who has been mysteriously missing from the scene for the last few days, returned to action surprisingly as a budding coach.

Pretoria: England all-rounder Stuart Broad will turn down offers to play in next year's lucrative Indian Premier League (IPL) in order to be in peak form for the 2010 Ashes in Australia.

Perth: Key West Indies batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul has undergone scans on an injured finger and is in doubt for the third Test against Australia starting at the WACA Ground on Wednesday.

New Delhi: Indian Premier League (IPL) chairman and commissioner Lalit Modi pooh-poohed reports circulating in a section of the media that he is being eased out of the cricket's biggest money-spinner.

Robert Kubica's manager has cast doubt on whether the Pole will actually race with the Renault team in 2010.

Jenson Button insists he has time to forge a good relationship with Lewis Hamilton prior to the start of the 2010 season.

Nick Fry has admitted that talks with Michael Schumacher are taking place.

Kamui Kobayashi will race for the Sauber team in Formula One next year, the Finnish newspaper Turun Sanomat reports.

The Lotus Formula One team confirmed Jarno Trulli and Heikki Kovalainen as its driver line-up Monday for the 2010 season.

London: Max Mosley the president of the FIA has rejected accusations that he presided over a dictatorship during his 16-year tenure and claimed that Flavio Briatore was trying to “distract attention” from his “outrageous act of cheating” with his civil suit against the governing body.

Mercedes is reportedly proposing to pay Michael Schumacher 7 million Euros if he agrees to return to F1 as Nico Rosberg's teammate in 2010.

A new MotoGP-style points system could be approved for the 2010 Formula One season during Friday's meeting of the World Motor Sport Council.

n a meeting on Thursday, it is believed the French carmaker Renault decided to stay in Formula One in 2010 but sell the majority of its Enstone based team.

All F1 teams have agreed to participate in a common launch for 2010 cars next month.

ABU DHABI: Lionel Messi's match-winning gene can inspire European champions Barcelona to victory over Estudiantes in the Club World Cup final on Saturday (1600 GMT), according to the Spanish side's coach Pep Guardiola.

London: David Beckham is eager to play against his former club Manchester United in the Champions League when he joins AC Milan next year.

Cape Town: Critics say South Africa has wasted resources on stadia to be used for the World Cup next year.

London: Manchester City boss Mark Hughes is facing a two-game touchline ban for saying that referee Mark Clattenburg’s decision to show a red card to Craig Bellamy on was premeditated.

London: Eighteen months after his 30.75-million pound move from Tottenham to Manchester United, Dmitar Berbatov says the huge fee is weighing heavily and United fans have yet to see him perform consistently at his best.

London: Didier Drogba who has so far scored 18 goals for Chelsea could miss the club’s game against Portsmouth because of an injured back.

London: Manchester United’s Welsh star Ryan Giggs has said that all he could think about at the BBC Sports Personality Awards was how the club lost to Aston Villa, and how this defeat has motivated him to continue turning out for it.

Dhaka: Goalkeeper Arindam Bhattacharya made two scintillating saves as India's under-23 team defeated defending champions Maldives 3-1 via the penalty shoot-out to lift their fifth South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Cup title here on Sunday.

London: Arsenal are planning to sue the Dutch Football Federation, the KNVB, for compensation over the injury suffered by Robin van Persie when he was on international duty and the step is likely to transform the face of international football.

Madrid: Real Madrid scored an important 3-2 win over Valencia, with all the goals coming in a heart-stopping second half.

London: Belgians Yanina Wickmayer and Xavier Malisse can return to the tennis circuit after their one-year doping suspensions were lifted by the International Tennis Federation (ITF)

A Men's doubles Grand Slam title has eluded Mahesh Bhupathi since 2002 and the Indian tennis star is hoping to end the seven-year drought next season when he rejoins forces with Max Mirnyi.

Brussels: A Belgian court has suspended a one-year ban imposed on tennis players Yanina Wickmayer and Xavier Malisse for violating anti-doping regulations, Wickmayer's agent said.

Barcelona: Rafael Nadal and David Ferrer completed Spain's Davis Cup whitewash over the Czech Republic.

Barcelons: Spain secured a fourth Davis Cup win and confirmed their status as the team of the decade by extending their lead over Czech Republic to an unassailable 3-0 in Saturday's doubles.

Spain Vs Czech Republic

Paris: Twice grand slam winner and former world number one Amelie Mauresmo, who will be remembered as much for her elegance on the court as her incapacity to prevail in her home major, announced her retirement on Thursday.

LONDON: Spain playing Davis Cup tennis on clay in front of a home crowd is about as close to a sure thing as sport provides, and just because Rafael Nadal suddenly looks vulnerable the Czech Republic are not about to forget it.

London: World number one Serena Williams has been fined $175,000 and put on probation for two years for her foul-mouthed tirade at the U.S. Open, the Grand Slam Committee said on Monday.

Sydney: Serena Williams has confirmed her participation in next year's Sydney International, a lead-up to the Australian Open, after escaping a ban over her U.S. Open tirade.

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"I love ice hockey, and I am in the process of making a film on the game. I will start work on it next year,'' the "Singh is King" hero said here while participating in the torch relay race for the 2010 Winter Olympics to be held in Vancouver.

Olympic swimming champion Michael Phelps expressed sympathy on Thursday for the plight of fellow American Tiger Woods and said he fully understood what it was like to make mistakes.

New York: Tiger Woods’ wife and kids are heading to Sweden for holidays while the golfer will remain with his friends.

New York: Elin Nordegren the Swede who married Tiger Woods in 2004, will divorce the billionaire golf star following the sex scandal that has halted his career according to media reports.

As sports go, it wasn't close: Tiger Woods was famous for his golf long before he became infamous for his personal life.

New Delhi: The Commonwealth Games Federation's Coordination Commission (CoCom) has expressed concern at the deadline for the completion of venues being extended by at least three months, and cautioned that further delays could compromise final preparations for the Oct 3-14 mega event.

New York: Theresa Rogers the latest woman linked to Tiger Woods, bragged to her friends that she showed the sports ace "everything he needed to know to be a great lover."

London: While tabloids keep busy with details of Tiger Woods' many flings, a website has designed an online game that spoofs the celebrity golfer, reports The Sun.

Wellington: Tiger Woods spoke of his commitment to his family during an interview screened in New Zealand but conducted in the days before his car crash and subsequent admission of several infidelities.