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C hennai Super Kings star Ambati Rayudu failed to clear the Yo-Yo test on Friday at the National Cricket Academy in Bengaluru. R ayudu turned out to be the only player to have failed the fitness test in India's England-bound squad. According to reports, his score was well below the permissible set limit of 16.1 for India and the India A teams. The Hyderabadi is set to be dropped form the squad, said a senior Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) official. R ayudu had a made a comeback in the Indian ODI squad after one and a half years due to his tremendous form in the Indian Premier League. The CSK batsman hit 602 runs from 16 matches as CSK won the IPL after returning to the competition. It is learned that he performed in the range of 14. I t has come as a shock to a lot of people as to how someone, who played so well in the IPL, who couldn't maintain a requisite fitness standard within three weeks of the tournament's completion. H e is now the...

Gros-Islet:   Sri Lanka captain Dinesh Chandimal denied tampering with the ball by using a sweet in his pocket before his team raced into a substantial 287-run lead on the fourth day of the second Test against the West Indies on Sunday. Following the controversy of day three, when the start of play was delayed by two hours with the Sri Lankan captain refusing to lead his team onto the field for the continuation of the West Indies first innings, the International Cricket Council confirmed a charge of "altering the condition of the ball" -- effectively ball tampering -- against Chandimal. Match officials charged Chandimal after television footage from the final session's play on Friday appeared to show the captain taking sweets out from his left pocket and putting them in his mouth, before applying the artificial substance to the ball which the umpires viewed as an attempt to change its condition. Chandimal will face a hearing at the end of the Test ...