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Wigan Athletic manager Gary Caldwell and striker Will Grigg have been rewarded for their role in securing promotion after they were nominated for the Sky Bet League One Manager and Player of the Month awards for April.Caldwell secured promotion to the Championship in his first season as a manager. Will Grigg scored seven goals in six games helped to seal the Latics promotion A haul of 13 points from six games was underpinned by exciting attacking play and two convincing away victories - 5-1 at Shrewsbury Town and 4-0 at Blackpool. Grigg secured a second successive nomination after his seven goals in six games helped to seal the Latics promotion. Highlights of Wigans 4-0 win at Blackpool on Saturday, which secured promotion His predatory instincts were on show with the braces he netted against Shrewsbury and Southend.Scunthorpe boss Graham Alexander has also earned a nomination for manager of the month. Scunthorpe won five successive games under Graham Alexander in April After a narrow defeat to begin the month, victory over second-placed Burton was the first of five successive wins which lifted Scunthorpe to the fringe of the play-off places and underlined Alexanders impact since returning to Glanford Park, where he began his playing career.Bradfords Phil Parkinson also gets the nod. His steady influence helped the Bantams secure a League One play-off berth. Bradford City manager Phil Parkinson is up for the April award The highlight of a month in which they collected 13 points from 18 while conceding just two goals was a convincing 4-0 win over promotion rivals Walsall.Oldham manager John Sheridan completes the quartet of nominees. After reviving Newports League Two fortunes in the autumn, he guided the Latics to safety in League One. John Sheridan has led Oldham Athletic to 13 points from seven games, and league one safety Thirteen points from seven games with the aid of four clean sheets completed the task.Oldham and Scunthorpe also have players nominated for the April award.Curtis Mains achievements at Boundary Park have been recognised. He scored the only goal in crucial wins over Walsall and Southend, with four goals in his sides tally of seven proving vital in securing Oldhams League One status. Doncaster Rovers Curtis Main goalscoring has been crucial this month Scunthorpe winger Luke Williams also gets a nod, with his natural attacking instincts inspiring The Irons promotion push. Scunthorpe winger Luke Williams has been nominated for Aprils Player of the Month award Williams is happy to take on defenders or find his way into central positions, as he did to score three goals in the month.Finally, Millwall defender Byron Webster is nominated after he became a central figure in a backline missing the experienced Tony Craig. Byron Webster has been a key player for Millwall this month Allied to his organisational nous and positional sense at the back is his knack for scoring headers at the other end of the pitch, with three goals at set pieces in April.The winners will be announced on Sky Sports News HQ from 6am on Friday May 6.Also See:League One videoFixturesTableLive on SkyGet Sky SportsJoe Hudson Cardinals Jersey . With his new coach and six-time Grand Slam singles champion Boris Becker watching him during an official match for the first time, Djokovic appeared tentative early against the Slovakian player, who often appeared content to keep the ball in play. 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They were favourites to win this series despite the absence of the injured Sachin Tendulkar, but the scoreline was still 0-0 going into the fourth and final Test at Sabina Park. A tricky pitch with unpredictable bounce awaited, and, having chosen to bat, India were 3 for 2 in no time. Wickets kept falling at one end, but the man who walked in at No. 4, Rahul Dravid, delivered a masterclass at the other, staying at the crease for more than five-and-a-half hours to score 81 and take India to a total of 200.It was enough to secure a first-innings lead of 97, with no one in the West Indies line-up showing comparable patience and application. Indias advantage, though, seemed to be slipping away when they slumped to 6 for 2, and again Dravid stood alone, his 68 helping set West Indies a target of 269. It proved a touch too far out of reach, despite aggressive half-centuries from Ramnaresh Sarwan and Denesh Ramdin, as Anil Kumble steadily chipped away to pick up a six-wicket haul and deliver India a 49-run win. Kumble was the only man in Indias side born before April 1971, when India had last won a series in the West Indies.By Karthik KrishnaswamySreesanth steamrolls South AfricaIndia vs. South Africa, Johannesburg, 2006If S Sreesanths career were to be remembered for one match, it would have to be the one in which he steamrolled South Africa on a pacy Wanderers pitch to set up Indias first ever Test win in the country.The pre-match talk was about how South Africas pace attack would bully India into submission; the post-match chatter sought to examine how the opposite had happened. A large part of the answer lay in performance of the wiry 23-year-old pace sensation from Kerala.Bowling with pace and swing, Sreesanth took a five-wicket haul to blow South Africa away for 84 and give India a 165-run first-innings lead. India ultimately set South Africa a target of 402 and romped home to a 123-run victory.But one of the most memorable passages of play involved the contest, in Indias second innings, between Andre Nel, the bowler, and Sreesanth, the batsman. Sreesanth did not particularly relish the nasty bouncers Nel directed at him. He had even less of a liking for the nasty words. With tempers mounting, Sreesanth slogged Nel for a six down the ground and broke into an elaborate, bat-twirling, hip-gyrating jig.It was the touch of madness that underpinned so much of Sreesanths compelling intensity and match-turning brilliance. At the Wanderers in 2006, India was grateful for it.By Sirish RaghavanZaheer Khan bowls India to what turns out to be a series-winning TestIndia vs. England, Trent Bridge, 2007This Test was to become a marker of Indian excellence in that English summer. India got away with a hair-raising draw at Lords, settled under Nottinghams grey skies, and ended up looking more at home than the home team.dddddddddddd Indias bowlers made good first use of a damp wicket, England all out for 198, Sreesanth succeeding in annoying the opposition and getting their wickets. A scratch opening combination of Dinesh Karthik and Wasim Jaffer negated the new ball with a century stand and Indias greatest middle order - Dravid, Tendulkar Ganguly and Laxman - revelled in what was to be their final England tour together.As India pushed past 450, there came the jelly beans. Scattered on the pitch to annoy Zaheer Khan, all they did was rile him into producing what he was to call his best spell overall. India were ahead by 283, and Zaheer returned to give England an exhibition of high-quality swing bowling. A bowler at the top of his craft, Zaheer used the width of the crease, went round the wicket and moved the ball both ways to produce befuddling angles for the batsmen. By the time he was done with 5-75, England were all out for 355; India was to knock off the 73 required, and take the first step towards winning an away series in England in 21 years.By Sharda UgraIndia rebound after Sydney shamblesIndia vs. Australia, Perth, 2008It was a Test win especially significant in light of what had gone before. Australia, then the No. 1 ranked team, had won their previous 16 Tests. Of greatest salience was the last of those 16 wins - in the 2nd Test against India, at the SCG.Australia had won that match by 122 runs, but controversies surrounding umpiring decisions, unsportsmanlike conduct and a highly charged incident between Harbhajan Singh and Andrew Symonds had caused bad blood between the teams and almost led to Indias withdrawal from the tour.When India arrived at the WACA, 2-nil down in the four-match series, they were not greatly fancied to end Australias streak. This was, after all, a venue where no subcontinent team had won a Test. Moreover, the demoralising defeats in Melbourne and Sydney, and the distractions that followed the latter defeat, had presumably left them ill-prepared to take on the worlds best side at one of the more daunting Test venues.Or so one thought. Instead, India turned out a spirited team effort to beat Australia by 72 runs. Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid laid the platform in the first innings, VVS Laxman directed a crucial rearguard effort in the second, and opening bowlers RP Singh and Irfan Pathan led the wicket-taking operation. And who can forget the dazzling spells of a 19-year-old fast bowler who repeatedly got the better of Ricky Ponting? That bowler, now 28, is Ishant Sharma, the only remaining link between that team and Indias current Test XI.By Sirish Raghavan ' ' '