Andy Murray moved into the fourth round of the Australian Open in surreal circumstances on Saturday, completing a 6-2, 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 victory over Joao Sousa after his father-in-law had collapsed ill a few hundred metres away. The Briton was unaware throughout the 158-minute contest that Nigel Sears, the coach of Serbian Ana Ivanovic and father of his expectant wife […]
» Read moreManish Pandey, the middle-order batsman, has batted responsibly to help India clinch the 331-run target set by Australia in the fifth and final One-Day International at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Alongside M. S. Dhoni, he led India’s chase after the fall of Rohit Sharma, who scored 99. Needing 13 off the last over, India were helped by a wide off […]
» Read moreAce Indian shuttler P.V. Sindhu scored an upset victory over top seed Ji Hyun Sung of Korea in a hard-fought three setter to storm into the women’s singles final of the USD 120,000 Malaysia Masters Grand Prix Gold badminton tournament in Penang on Saturday. Sindhu, the double World Championship bronze medallist, beat her world number eight Korean opponent 21-19 12-21 […]
» Read moreRohan Bopanna and Florin Mergea breezed into the pre-quarterfinals of the Australian Open while Mahesh Bhupathi made a second round exit with partner Gilles Muller on Friday. Fourth seeded Indo-Romanian team was fluent in their 6-3, 6-2 win over Lukas Dlouhy and Jiri Vesely as they saved all the three break chances. They broke the Czech team thrice, racing to […]
» Read moreSpin great Erapalli Prasanna feels time has come to make Virat Kohli the India captain in all three formats and M S Dhoni, whose leadership skills are on the wane, can continue playing as a wicketkeeper-batsman in the limited-overs format. Though it has already been announced that Dhoni will lead India in the World T20 in March-April, Prasanna wants the […]
» Read moreBattered and bruised after four successive hammerings, India will make a last-gasp effort to avoid the embarrassment of being whitewashed by an unrelenting Australia when the two sides clash in the fifth and final cricket one-dayer in Sydney on Saturday. The Indians came a cropper while defending three back-to-back 300-plus totals and in the fourth match in Canberra, they bungled […]
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