Deccan Chargers captain Kumar Sangakkara has been fined $20,000 for his team's slow over rate during their Indian Premier League (IPL) match against Pune Warriors here.

Deccan Chargers, who recorded their first IPL victory Thursday by a margin of 18 runs, were assessed at the end of the game to be one over behind the required rate after allowances were taken into consideration.

The former Sri Lankan skipper, who scored 12 runs before being bowled by leg-spinner Rahul Sharma, was fined $20,000 as it was his first offence of the season under minimum over-rate offence.

Source : mangalorean

The doors stayed closed as the anticipation mounted. In what was the equivalent of curtains rising on a grand theatrical performance, camera crews waited expectantly - and patiently - at the airport here Monday for ace cricketer Yuvraj Singh to walk out after three months of battling cancer in the US.

Thousands of television viewers also watched as channels went live with the homecoming of the 30-year-old cricket hero who survived rare germ cell cancer after undergoing treatment at the Boston Institute of Cancer Research.

Long before the Jet Airways flight from London landed here 9.45 a.m., there was a huge media presence at the Indira Gandhi International Airport. Yuvraj had been resting in London for a while after the treatment.

Dressed in a black T-Shirt, glares and a red baseball cap, he returned home in a blaze of flashlights. TV channels' OB vans were lined outside Terminal 3 of the airport while scores of cameramen jostled with photographers to get the best view for their shots.

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