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Australian skipper Ricky Ponting has no intention of giving up captaincy and is looking to guide the team through the transitional phase

Ricky Ponting, the most successful captain in 134 years of Test cricket, resigned as the Australian Test and one-day skipper on Tuesday but will continue as a batsman with the team.

Under-fire Australia captain Ricky Ponting was given just three days to decide his future on Monday as selectors said the next one-day squad would be announced on Wednesday.

Sparking speculation about his orientation, Puerto Rican pop singer Ricky Martin has partly admitted to being bisexual. Celebrity blogger Perezhilton.com reports that the "Maria" singer has come "one foot out of the closet" after he reportedly said "his heart could belong to a woman or a man".

The hallmark of this new-look Indian outfit is that an in-form player has the responsibility to carry the team on his shoulders through the series and Yuvraj Singh and Gautam Gambhir are living up to that role, skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni said.

Masked gunmen launched a brazen attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in the Pakistani city of Lahore on Tuesday, killing at least eight people and wounding seven cricketers, police said.

Right from the time the World Cup squad was selected, the selectors and skipper MS Dhoni were not sharing the same thought process. With the group stage almost done and dusted, the rift has only increased.

Australian actress Holly Valance is so keen to bare all for Playboy that she has issued a "come get me" plea to Hugh Hefner.

Andrew Strauss has been appointed as England's captain for the entire tour of the West Indies, 24 hours after being unveiled as the new Test skipper. He will work alongside the current coaching set-up, headed by Andy Flower, although according to an ECB statement, his one-day captaincy will be reviewed at the end of the tour, leaving open the possibility that England could yet seek their fourth captain in 12 months should results not go to plan.