Defeating Man U will be my greatest achievement: Hughes

October 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Young Australian opener Phillip Hughes said an interaction with Indian batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar helped him get over the disappointment of being dropped during the Ashes series. Hughes, 20, was dropped from the third Ashes Test at Edgbaston.

September 22nd, 2009 LONDON - Manchester City will complain to the Football Association over the behaviour of fourth official Alan Wiley in Sunday's heated derby. City are furious with Wiley for shooing away boss Mark Hughes when he questioned where all the added time had come from.

August 28th, 2009 LONDON/ NAGPUR - Sacked Australian opener Phillip Hughes is determined to make his way back into the squad and hopes to return against the West Indies in the first Test at Brisbane. Hughes, who was axed after the Lord's defeat against England, has been training in India with his coach Neil D'Costa and even has a chance to have a one-on-one session with Sachin Tendulkar this weekend.

August 19th, 2009 LONDON - England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff has said that winning The Ashes this summer would be the greatest feat of his career. Recalling England's epic 2005 Ashes triumph, Flintoff, who scored 402 runs, took 24 wickets and was named BBC Sports Personality of the Year, said the difference back then was England believed they would win.

August 12th, 2009 LONDON - Discarded Australia opener Phillip Hughes says he is still preparing for next week's Ashes series decider at The Oval just in case he is needed. Arriving in the United Kingdom as one of the most exciting batsman on the planet, the 20-year-old was dumped after just three innings in the Ashes series.

August 12th, 2009 LONDON - Dumped Australian opener Phillip Hughes has declared he has no fear of the short ball, citing his enormously successful debut tour in South Africa as proof it is not a major flaw in his game. Hughes also retained hope his Ashes series was not over despite his replacement Shane Watson excelling at the role with three half-centuries in as many innings.

August 6th, 2009 YORKSHIRE - Australian all-rounder Shane Watson has been spending some of his time off the field consoling dumped youngster Phillip Hughes. Watson was a surprise selection for the third Ashes Test at Edgbaston and made the most of it with back-to-back half centuries (62 and 53) as an opener.

July 31st, 2009 MELBOURNE - Former Australian openers Matthew Hayden and Justin Langer have decided to take struggling youngster Phil Hughes under their wings. Hayden promised that he and Langer would counsel Hughes and help him return stronger as the selectors' decision to sack the 20-year-old ahead of the third Test at Edgbaston in the ongoing Ashes series drew flak from the country's former cricketers.

July 25th, 2009 LONDON - Australian opener Phil Hughes' latest failure has heaped yet more pressure on skipper Ricky Ponting ahead of next week's Third Test at Edgbaston. Opener Hughes made just 10 in a warm-up game at Northampton on Friday and remains horribly out of touch just when Ponting needs him to start firing.

July 21st, 2009 LONDON - Following the historic Ashes test match victory at Lord's, the English media praised England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff. "Flintoff's may not go down in history as the greatest of great careers.

July 15th, 2009 LONDON - Australian opener Phillip Hughes has said that he is eyeing off another showdown with giant England quick Steve Harmison, who has been drafted into the host squad for the second Test, beginning at Lord's tomorrow. Harmison twice bounced out Hughes in a tour match at Worcester and England insists the 20-year-old opener has a clear weakness against extreme bounce.

July 8th, 2009 LONDON - Australian batsman Simon Katich, who is Phillip Hughes's captain at New South Wales, has said that he had initially doubted the then 18-year-old's Hughes talent in 2007 Katich said he and Cricket NSW chief executive David Gilbert had heated arguments over Hughes in 2007, where Katich believed that Hughes was not ready for first-class cricket - as he could not handle the short ball, The Sydney Morning Herald reports. However, when Hughes scored an undefeated 51 on Sheffield Shield debut, Katich's fears were dispelled.

July 6th, 2009 Dubai, July 6 (ANI): Chelsea and England skipper John Terry and Manchester City manager Mark Hughes stayed in the same Dubai hotel complex last week, and rumors are in circulation that the latter is very keen to have the former in its squad of stars. According to The Sun, Hughes and Terry holidayed in separate sea-front villas at the exclusive Jumeirah Beach complex.

June 27th, 2009 SUSSEX - Australian opener Phillip Hughes was once again amongst the runs, 13 days before the first Ashes Test against England to be played at Cardiff from July 8. Hughes, Ponting and Clarke all passed 70 and the Australians declared their second innings against Sussex with a lead of 417 so as to give the bowlers a second crack at the county batsmen on Saturday.

June 12th, 2009 SYDNEY - Australian opener Phillip Hughes feels that his quick stint with Middlesex will help him to adjust well to the English conditions for the Ashes series starting next month. "It was different, but not overly different," Hughes was quoted as saying by The Australian.