Skipper Virat Kohli’s blazing blade ensured a comfortable seven-wicket win in the lone Twenty20 game as the visitors completed a 9-0 rout of Sri Lanka, here on Wednesday. It was the first time that an Indian cricket team registered an all-win record across formats in an overseas tour.
» Read moreVenus Williams, seeded ninth, came through in a riveting 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (7-2) quarterfinal against 13th-seeded Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic to move into the U.S. Open semifinals. She is one match away from reaching the third Grand Slam final of the year. The match ended Kvitova’s remarkable run at the tournament just nine months after suffering a knife […]
» Read moreRohan Bopanna’s campaign at the last Grand Slam of the season ended with defeat in the mixed doubles along with Canadian partner Gabriela Dabrwoski while India’s juniors also fizzled out in the singles in the US Open. Seventh seeded Bopanna and Dabrowski, the French Open winners, lost 6-4, 3-6, 8-10 to third seeded team of Hao-Ching Chan and Michael Venus.
» Read moreCricket Australia insisted on Tuesday it is comfortable with security in Bangladesh following an incident in which a window on the team bus was smashed. CA said the window was broken by a “small rock or stone” as Australia’s players were returning to the team hotel after Monday’s opening day in the second Test in Chittagong. No one was injured. […]
» Read moreSri Lanka Monday named a 15-member squad led by the newly appointed Twenty20 skipper Upul Tharanga for a one-off match against India at the Premadasa Stadium in Colombo. Sri Lanka squad: Upul Tharanga (captain), Angelo Mathews, Niroshan Dickwella, Dilshan Munaweera, Dasun Shanaka, Milinda Siriwardana, Wanidu Hasaranga, Akila Dananjaya, Jeffrey Vandersay, Isuru Udana, Seekkuge Prasanna, Thisara Perera, Lasith Malinga, Suranga Lakmal […]
» Read moreLondon Olympics bronze medal winning shuttler Saina Nehwal has resumed her partnership with former coach Pullela Gopichand with an aim to achieve her “future goals”. Saina today announced the decision on her twitter handle. “For a while I’ve been thinking about moving my training base back to the Gopichand academy and I had a discussion about this with Gopi sir […]
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