Indian tennis stars Leander Paes, Sania Mirza and Rohan Bopanna made a rampaging start to their campaign at the US Open as they advanced to the second round along with their respective partners after notching up contrasting wins at Flushing Meadows. Defending champions in mixed doubles, Paes and Swiss Martina Hingis prevailed over USA’s Sachia Vickery and Frances Tiafoe 6-3, 6-2 in just […]
» Read moreAlex Hales-inspired England put on one of the finest displays of batting in modern-day cricket to batter, bully and eventually decimate Pakistan to secure a mammoth 169-run victory and put the five-match One-Day International (ODI) series beyond the visitors’ reach with a 3-0 lead at Trent Bridge in Nottingham on Tuesday (August 30). Hales’s 171 is now the best individual […]
» Read moreThe national selectors named Grace Harris and Nicole Bolton in the Australia Women’s squad for their upcoming limited-overs tour of Sri Lanka in September. The 14-member squad, which features as many as 12 players who were a part of the Australian contingent for the 2016 ICC World Twenty20 in India, will play four One-Day Internationals and a lone Twenty20 International […]
» Read moreSerena Williams started strong in her latest bid to rewrite the record books, storming past Ekaterina Makarova and into the second round of the US Open on Tuesday. The US world number one, slowed since her Wimbledon triumph by a right shoulder injury, needed just 63 minutes to dispatch 29th-ranked Makarova 6-3, 6-3. “I got off to a fast start […]
» Read moreIn an anti-climactic finish to the second Twenty20 cricket International, wet outfield denied India chance to level the series after dominating proceedings in the West Indies innings as the match was called off due to wet outfield, here today. The match began late by 40 minutes due to technical reasons and later rain spoilt India’s chase when they were 15 […]
» Read moreSalma Khatun, the 25-year-old all-rounder, has been ruled out of Bangladesh Women’s tour to Ireland, scheduled for September this year. Salma, who bowls off-spin and bats in the lower-middle-order, sustained an injury to her shoulder during a practice session about two weeks ago. Bangladesh Women are scheduled to play two Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) and two ODIs during their short tour. […]
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