The Indian women’s cricket team scripted history on Friday by clinching its maiden Twenty20 series win over three-time world champion Australia with a comprehensive 10-wicket triumph in the rain-truncated second game, in Melbourne. With today’s win, the Indians thus established a 2-0 lead in the three-match series which will wind up on January 31 in Sydney. Opting to bowl after […]
» Read moreIndia recorded their first ever bilateral series triumph on Australian soil, as they clinched the Twenty20 rubber by taking an unassailable 2-0 lead with a comprehensive 27-run victory in the second match, riding on an all-round show here today. Put in to bat, India relied on brilliant innings by Rohit Sharma (60) and Virat Kohli (59), along with a useful […]
» Read moreSania Mirza and Martina Hingis were on friday crowned the Australian Open women’s doubles champions after they tamed the spirited Czech duo of Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka in straight sets for their 36th win in a row, here. The top seeds fought past the seventh seeds Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka 7-6 (1) 6-3 in the women’s doubles final […]
» Read moreIndia’s tennis star Sania Mirza and her Croatian partner Ivan Dodig entered the mixed doubles semifinals at the Australian Open after posting straight-set win over defending champions Leander Paes and Martina Hingis on Thursday. Sania and Dodig took exactly one hour and 10 minutes to get the better of Indo-Swiss pair of Paes and Hingis 7-6(1) 6-3 in the quarterfinal […]
» Read moreChampion Novak Djokovic foiled a stirring fightback from Roger Federer to defeat the Swiss 6-1, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 at the Australian Open on Thursday and charge into a fifth successive Grand Slam final. Storming to a two-set lead within an hour, Djokovic appeared destined to complete a stinging humiliation but the net-rushing Federer responded brilliantly in the third as a […]
» Read moreA Pakistani die-hard fan of Indian batsman Virat Kohli is facing up to 10 years imprisonment after being arrested for hoisting the Indian tricolour atop his home in Punjab Province which he had done to show his love for the cricketer. 22-year-old Umar Draz, a tailor by profession from Okara district of Punjab province, was produced before a district court […]
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