test in nottingham in august england regained the historic little urn by taking a 31 lead at home stuart broads incredible performance on the opening day of the test saw him take a careerbest 815 as australia were bowled out for 60 in their first innings this was the second successive time in the series that australia surrendered within three days australia though secured a consolation victory in the fifth test that also marked the end of their captain michael clarkes international career stuart broad was the leading wickettaker with 21 scalps at 2090 while steven smith was the top rungetter with 508 at 5644world athletics championshipsusain bolt entered the event with the herculean task of saving athletics from a villain in the form of justin gatlin who returned after being banned for the use of banned substance twice the build up to the showpiece event 100m sprint final was a dramatic affair with bolt seemingly out of sorts while gatlin seemingly in the form of his life however the jamaican won by the thinnest of margin 1100th of a second and produced an encore in the 200m pocketing his 10th world championship gold kenya topped the medal tally with seven gold six silver and three bronze medals followed by jamaica and usa at second and third respectively hosts china finished 11th with one gold seven silver and one bronze medaltennis grand slamsafp photo the singles arena was dominated by serena williams and novak djokovic both won three grand slam titles each serena pocketed the australian open french open and wimbledon championships and her march towards completing a serena slam was broken in the us open semis where she was outsmarted by italian veteran roberta vinci djokovic too had a nearperfect season but for the french open final where stan wawrinka and his pinkcheck shorts stole the limelight in the womens doubles the indoswiss pair of sania mirza and martina hingis was unstoppable they were deservedly named womens doubles world champions after winning two grand slams apart from seven other tournaments during the seasongolf majors jordan spieths climb to the top continued as the 21yearold american became the second youngest golfer to win the masters in april he then collected his second major title becoming the youngest ever to win the us open in june he also claimed the top spot in the golf rankings zach johnson the open championship and jason day pga championship won the remaining two major championships in the year spieths rise was coincided by the continuing decline of tiger woods who shot a careerworst score of 85 at the memorial in june underwent back surgery twice in 18 months and is now ranked 414th in the worldindias resurgence under virat kohli under the leadership of kohli the indian test team registered successive series victories over sri lanka and south africa creating several records that marked the resurgence of a side that was beaten and bruised on overseas tours last