Sri Lanka stick with World Cup squad for Windies series

Kumar Sangakkara will lead the side while Mahela Jayawardene will be his deputy.

Sri Lanka have named their World Cup squad of 15 players to meet the West Indies in a one-day international series originally scheduled for November but abandoned due to bad weather.

The three-match series will start on Monday with the remaining games on Feb. 3 and 6 before the World Cup gets underway on Feb. 19.

Whatmore attends CAB camp to spot young talents

Whatmore attended the camp to spot the young talents.

Former World Cup winning cup coach of Sri Lanka Dav Whatmore attended the cricket camp organsied by the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) here to hunt young cricket talents.

"Forty boys in the age group of 14-year to 18-year from the districts of Birbhum, Murshidabad and North 24 Parganas took part in the three-day organsied by CAB," Vice-President of the District Sports Association (DSA) of Birbhum, Kalyan Ghosal said here today.

Whatmore attended the camp to spot the young talents, who would by selected for the cricket academy, which the CAB is setting up, Ghosal said.

The young talents selected would undergo training in the cricket academy, he added.

It will be a dream to play in World Cup: Misbah

Misbah's Test form has been superb and he has scored 50+ in all of his last six innings.

Veteran batsman Misbah-ul Haq, one of the prime candidates who is in the fray to lead the Pakistan side in the forthcoming World Cup has said that playing in the mega event would be a dream come true for him.

Misbah, 36, who has never played in World Cup and is currently the captain of the Test team said that taking part in a World Cup tournament feels playing in the showpiece event is a dream for every cricketer.

Road in Gwalior named after Tendulkar

The road was named after Tendulkar to mark his historic double century in the ODI against SA.

A new 3.55 km long road here named after master-blaster Sachin Tendulkar was inaugurated by the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursday.