Australia captured Pakistan’s last two wickets to win the first day-night test in Brisbane by 39 runs before tea on day five on Monday but the touring side won huge admiration for their dogged fourth innings chase. Paceman Mitchell Starc proved the game-breaker, ending a stubborn 71-run partnership between Asad Shafiq and Yasir Shah with a searing delivery that dismissed […]
» Read moreFourteen-times grand slam champion Rafa Nadal has turned to fellow Mallorcan Carlos Moya in an attempt to revitalise his career, the 30-year-old Spaniard said on Saturday. Moya, like Nadal a former world number one, will join his team for the coming season and work alongside his uncle Toni Nadal and Francis Roig. “To have someone like Carlos who is not […]
» Read moreIndia defeated Belgium 2-1 in the final of Junior Hockey World Cup 2016 to win the title for second time. India had earlier won the title in 2001. Indian hockey is slowly but steadily looking forward to a brighter future. The junior national team asserted the fact once again as it defeated Belgium 2-1 in the Junior Hockey World Cup […]
» Read moreOpener Lokesh Rahul scored a fine century to lead India’s first-innings reply against England on day three of the fifth Test on Sunday. India, who resumed from an overnight score of 60 without loss, reached 391/4 for three at stumps, still 86 runs behind, with Murali Vijay on 17 and Karun Nair on 71 at the crease in Chennai. Brief […]
» Read moreOlympic Silver medallist PV Sindhu’s brilliant run at the BWF World Super Series Final came to an end after she suffered a narrow defeat against World No 5 Korean Sung Ji-Hyun in the women’s singles semi-finals, here on Saturday. It was a contest between Sindhu’s power and Sung Ji’s precision and unfortunately the Indian failed to break the Korean’s impregnable […]
» Read moreThe Vijender Singh juggernaut rolled on without a glitch as the Indian boxing star took less than 10 minutes to successfully defend his WBO Asia-Pacific Super Middleweight title with an emphatic Technical Knockout win over Tanzania’s Francis Cheka here on Saturday. Vijender landed the winning blow in the third round of what was to be a 10-round contest to leave […]
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