It has been recently learnt that 10% of the Indian Premier League earnings of England stars Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff would be donated to their respective counties Hampshire and Lancashire.

The agreement was arrived when the two players were permitted a three-week window for this year's IPL, which means they will miss the start of the county season.

Lahore, Jan 24: A career-best centuary of Sri Lankan batsman, Tillakaratne Dilshan leads Sri Lanka to thrash Pakistan by 235 runs to win the three-match cricket series by 2-1 on Saturday.

Muttiah Muralitharan castled his 500th wicket in the match and he needs 3 more wickets to overtake Wasim Akram''s tally of 502 wickets.

Elected to bat first, Sri Lanka scored 309 runs and skittled out Pakistan in a mere total of 75 in just 22.5 overs.

Apart from Dilshan, Sanath Jayasuriya and Kumar Sangakkara also played good innings and scored 45 and 50 runs respectively.

In a significant move, Sri Lanka Cricket has announced that it has granted the worldwide rights to broadcast India's upcoming cricket tour of Sri Lanka to the Nimbus Sports International. The Singapore-headquartered global sports management company will also be producing the television coverage for the series which will be broadcast worldwide. Neo Cricket will air these matches.

Mumbai Indians and Bangalore's Royal Challengers have reached a transfer agreement to swap explosive batsman Robin Uthappa and left-hand fast bowler Zaheer Khan for the second edition of the Indian Premier League.

The IPL transfer window opened on December 22 and it was reported that Mumbai Indians were "looking specifically" for an Indian fast bowler.

Here’s sad news for the Indian fans.

Sania Mirza bowed out of the singles event at the Australian Open singles event as the Indian teenager went down in straight sets to Russia’s Nadia Petrova.

Sania failed to reproduce her round one form, where she defeated Marta Domachowhska 6-1, 6-4.

Sania Mirza crashed out singles event following a 3-6, 2-6 second round loss to World number 10 Petrova, thus bringing down the curtains on India's singles challenge in the process. The 10th seed Petrova took just 70 minutes to beat the 22-year-old Indian girl from Hyderabad.

Opening Indian batsman, Virender Sehwag is all set to be declared Castrol Indian Cricketer of the year 2008 with 59 points.

The others in the race include: left hand batsman Gautam Gambhir, Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, off-spinner Harbhajan Singh and fast bowler Ishant Sharma.

Sehwag had an unparalleled year in Test Cricket with a triple ton against South Africa and a double ton against Sri Lanka, along with some roaring starts at the top of the order in the ODI’s.