India will look to win its third Champions Trophy title when it plays Pakistan in Sunday’s final at the Oval. Pakistan has had the better of the rivalry overall, with a 72-52 head-to-head record. India won the toss and elected to bowl first. “We are used to this before. It’s a good wicket and will be good throughout the match, […]
» Read moreThe World Twenty20 Championship’s seventh edition next year is all set to be scrapped and pushed to 2020 as the top member nations will be busy with bilateral commitments in 2018. According to highly-placed sources in the International Cricket Council, the next edition of ICC World T2O will only be held in 2020. However, the venue is yet to be […]
» Read moreIndian captain Virat Kohli on Thursday became the fastest cricketer to score 8000 runs in ODIs during his unbeaten knock of 96 against Bangladesh in the semifinals of the Champions Trophy here. Kohli reached to the 8000-run mark in his 175th innings to go ahead of South African captain A B de Villiers who had taken 182 innings to reach […]
» Read moreA full-strength Indian team will travel to the Caribbean islands. However, exciting young wicketkeeper batsman Rishabh Pant will replace Rohit, who returned to international cricket during India’s Champions Trophy campaign in England. Rohit was in fine form at the top of the order making 91 against Pakistan before smashing a more confident 78 against Sri Lanka. Pant has been in […]
» Read moreIndia’s HS Prannoy has entered the quarter-finals of the Indonesia Super Series Premier by beating the world no 3 Lee Chong Wei in straight games to smash the Malaysian shuttler’s bid for a record seventh Indonesian Open title. In other good news, Kidambi Srikanth beat world No 9 Jan O Jorgensen of Denmark 21-15, 20-22, 21-6 to enter the quarters […]
» Read moreFive-time Grand Slam champion Maria Sharapova has received an invitation to play at the WTA Stanford tournament at the end of next month as the Russian star continues her return from a doping suspension. Sharapova’s comeback from a 15-month doping ban will include a stop at Stanford University for the July 31-August 6 event, organizers announced on Wednesday. “I am […]
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