New Delhi:Blistering unbeaten knocks by David Hussey and Suresh Raina took two-time champions Chennai Super Kings to their fifth Indian Premier League (IPL) final in six seasons with a comprehensive 48-run win over Mumbai Indians in the first qualifier at the Ferozeshah Kotla here Tuesday. Hussey struck an unbeaten 86 off 58 balls, with the [...]
Bangalore: Aditya Mehta, the 27-year-old from Mumbai, became only the second Indian after Geet Sethi to score maximum 147 break in a snooker match as he achieved this rare feat during the Asian Indoor Selection Camp at the KSBA, here Tuesday. The break came in the fourth frame of Mehta’s match with Brijesh Damani who [...]
Jaipur: Shane Watson’s brilliant all-round effort and a brisk half-century by Sanju Samson helped Rajasthan Royals beat Royal Challengers Bangalore by four wickets in their Indian Premier League (IPL) match here Monday. Rajasthan Royals thus maintain their unbeaten run at home at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium. A combined batting effort from the Royal Challengers took [...]
New Delhi: H.S. Prannoy may have lost his men’s singles quarterfinal of the India Open Friday but he gained the respect of World No.1 Lee Chong Wei, who lauded the Indian’s performance. After winning the match 21-14, 21-19, the top seeded Malaysian said Prannoy is a spirited fighter and one of India’s upcoming talents. “This [...]
New Delhi: Olympic bronze medallist and top seed Saina Nehwal advanced to the second round of the women’s singles event at the $200,000 India Open Super Series badminton here Wednesday. The World No.2 beat Belaetrix Manuputi of Indonesia 21-12, 21-15 in 33 minutes at the Siri Fort Sports Complex to improve her career head-to-head to [...]
Pune: Amit Mishra picked up four wickets in one over to take Sunrisers Hyderabad to a sensational win over Pune Warriors in the Indian Premier League here Wednesday. Mishra took all his scalps, including the hat-trick, in the 19th over of the Pune innings which ended at 108 — 11 runs short of Hyderabad’s 119 [...]
New Delhi: Olympic medallist Vijender Singh can heave a sigh of relief after the sports ministry announced Tuesday that the boxer’s samples tested negative for drugs. The boxer was alleged to have consumed recreational drugs with sparring partner Ram Singh. The Beijing Olympics bronze medallist had submitted his blood and urine samples to the National [...]
Lahore: Pakistan Test and ODI skipper Misbah-ul-Haq and Twenty20 captain Mohammed Hafeez Wednesday denied reports of rifts between them and said that such rumours are taking a toll on the team’s performance. Following the team’s poor performance in South Africa, which the media attributed to the differences between Misbah and Hafeez, former Pakistan Cricket Board [...]
Bangalore: Skipper Virat Kohli struck a blistering 93 not out and carried the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) to a splendid seven-wicket win over Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League (IPL) tie here Tuesday. It was Sunrisers’ first defeat in three matches in IPL-6. Kohli’s classy batting (47b, 11×4, 4×6) saw RCB making light of [...]
Victoria (Canada): Sweden has become the first country to win the World and European men’s curling championships in the same season after defeating Canada 8-6 in the final. In front of the Victoria, British Columbia, crowd, Niklas Edin’s team denied the Canadians a fourth straight title and earned Sweden’s first World triumph since 2004. “It’s [...]
