Leicester player  collapses on field
Leicester’s League Cup football tie at Nottingham Forest was abandoned after the Championship club’s defender Clive Clarke collapsed at half-time, reports AFP from Nottingham.
Clarke needed treatment in the Leicester dressing room at the interval of the second-round match on Tuesday, was taken by ambulance for hospital examination.
Although Clarke was conscious by the time he left the City Ground, the restart was delayed for 25 minutes before the match was called off.
Leicester confirmed that Clarke ‘was in a stable condition... but would be kept in hospital overnight to monitor his progress.’
Sehwag all set to go ballistic 
Discarded Indian Test opener Virender Sehwag has said he will go ballistic in next month’s Twenty20 World Cup with the hope that his batting pyrotechnics would open the team’s doors again for him. Sehwag added that the slam-bang format suited his aggression and that he was raring to unleash himself in the Twenty20 extravaganza in South Africa next month.
Woolmer inquest from Oct 16
The long-awaited coroner’s inquest into the death of former Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer will begin on October 16, a Jamaican radio station reported, reports Reuters from Kingston.
Radio Jamaica, citing Ken Pantry, the director of public prosecutions, said on Tuesday more than 50 witnesses would be called at the inquest, to be held at the Jamaica Conference Centre in Kingston.
Woolmer was found unconscious in his Kingston hotel room on March 18, a day after Pakistan crashed out of the World Cup following a shock defeat by Ireland. Jamaican police, acting on autopsy findings, initially said Woolmer was strangled and launched a murder investigation.
Dravid climbs to fifth spot
Indian skipper Rahul Dravid climbed eight places to return to the top-five ODI bastmen in the latest ICC Player Rankings while his deputy Mahendra Singh Dhoni dropped 10 places to be 15th, reports PTI from Dubai.
Dravid’s impressive run in the ongoing one-day series against England with the scores of 46, 92 not out and 56 in the first three cricket ODIs, pushed him to the fifth spot just behind Australian opener Matthew Hayden.
In the team rankings, India remains in fifth place.
Warne, Sehwag for HK Sixes
Cricket’s all-time leading wicket-taker Shane Warne is set to star at the Hong Kong International Sixes tournament later this year, a media report said on Wednesday, reports AFP.
The veteran spinner is likely to be joined by another Australian legend, paceman Glenn McGrath, at the six-a-side event.
The duo will be joined by leading batsmen Virender Sehwag from India and Shahid Afridi from Pakistan, the report added, on an all-star side to compete against nine national teams from across the world.
Three from Assam sign up with ICL
Three upcoming cricketers have joined the Indian Cricket League (ICL), affecting the Assam Cricket Association’s (ACA) Ranji Trophy preparations, reports UNI from Guwahati.
Abu Naschim Ahmed, Sujay Tarafder and Pervez Aziz defected to the ICL at the Buchi Babu tournament in Chennai, ACA secretary Bikash Baruah revealed.
Baruah said at some stage, he was contemplating lodging an FIR because the three cricketers had gone missing without informing team officials. Abu and Sujay are medium-pacers and Pervez is an opening batsman. All of them have played for the India U-19 team.