Sri Lanka have hired former South Africa paceman Allan Donald as a bowling consultant to help with their preparations for June’s Champions Trophy, the cricket board announced on Sunday. Donald was expected to take charge as the assistant coach at English county side Kent who have agreed to release him for a two-month stint with SLC’s pace coaching unit, Sri […]
» Read moreIndian star P.V. Sindhu went down fighting to Bingjiao of China in the women’s singles quarter-finals in the Badminton Asia Championships 2017 on Friday. The fourth seeded Sindhu won the first game before the eighth seeded Chinese staged a comeback to win 15-21, 21-14, 24-22 in one hour and 17 minutes.
» Read morePV Shashikanth, the former Karnataka batsman, has been appointed as the new head coach of the state side, the Karnataka State Cricket Association announced. While Shashikanth will replace J Arunkumar, KSCA have also appointed former batsman GK Anil Kumar as the new assistant coach in place of Mansur Ali Khan. “They (Shashikanth and Anil Kumar) have been coaches of various […]
» Read moreFormer world number one Maria Sharapova crashed out of the Stuttgart Grand Prix semi-final in her first event back after a 15-month doping suspension, losing to France’s Kristina Mladenovic 3-6 7-5 6-4 on Saturday. Wildcard entrant Sharapova, a five-time grand-slam winner, squandered a 6-3 2-0 lead as Mladenovic clawed her way back into the game to win after two hours […]
» Read moreThe Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is set to legally notify the BCCI by next week about compensation for India’s refusal to play bilateral series. A top official of the PCB told PTI that the Board’s legal advisor Salman Naseer had visited London recently in connection with the preparation of the legal battle. “He went there to complete the preparations for […]
» Read moreIndian shuttler PV Sindhu stormed into the second round at the Badminton Asia Championships with a straight-game victory over Indonesia’s Dinar Dyah Ayustine while Saina Nehwal suffered a defeat at the hands of unseeded Sayaka Sato of Japan. Sindhu took just 31 minutes to outplay her unseeded opponent 21-8, 21-18. Saina went down fighting 21-19, 16-21, 18-21 against Sayaka Sato.
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