After nearly two months of crash-bang IPL, cricket will return to its international colours with the ICC Champions Trophy to be played in England from June 6-23. Once touted as the 'mini World Cup' and a brainchild of then ICC president Jagmohan Dalmiya, the tournament's main aim was the development of cricket in the non-Test playing nations and raise funds for the same purpose. But after this seventh edition of...
11:26 AM, May 31, 2013
The sixth season of the IPL has reached its business end and the big boys are all set to fight it out for the coveted trophy. The likes of Chris Gayle, Shane Watson, Suresh Raina, Rohit Sharma, Michael Hussey, and Shikhar Dhawan ruled the roost in the league stages with others putting up their best supporting acts for their respective teams. But, like everything in life, the exciting of the...
08:27 AM, May 22, 2013
New Delhi: At 26, Anand Pawar has seen a lot of lows in his career and at the India Open 2013, the Mumbaikar had his moment recording career best showing at a Super Series reaching the semi-finals. It was by no means an easy draw for the Indian. He had to stave off challenges from world number 19 Takuma Ueda of Japan, third seed Yun Hu of Hong Kong and...
09:17 PM, Apr 27, 2013
New Delhi: World No 1 Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia beat Boonsak Ponsana of Thailand 21-11, 18-21, 21-8 to enter his third India Open men's singles final while Juliane Schenk went past Aprilla Yuswandari to book a place in the women's singles final here at the Siri Fort Sports Complex on Saturday. The two Indians in the fray, Anand Pawar and PV Sindhu, lost their respective semi-final matches much to...
08:14 PM, Apr 27, 2013
New Delhi: India's PV Sindhu lost out to 18-year-old Ratchanok Intanon of Thailand rather tamely in straight games 12-21, 6-21 in just 31 minutes in the semi-finals of the India Open here at the Siri Fort Sports Complex on Saturday. In the most anticipated clash of the day, the future of women's badminton was on display with the 17-year-old Sindhu taking on vastly talented and highly rated Intanon but the...
07:22 PM, Apr 27, 2013
New Delhi: World number 53 Anand Pawar's dream run at the India Open 2013 ended in the semi-finals with a defeat at the hands of sixth seed Kenichi Tago of Japan 21-16, 21-11 in 43 minutes at the Siri Fort Sports Complex here on Saturday. Pawar, who beat world number 19 Takuma Ueda and third seed Yun Hu en route to to his best ever career result at the Super...
04:45 PM, Apr 27, 2013
New Delhi: HS Prannoy started off as a qualifier at the India Open 2013, but by the fourth day the Indian had beaten Indonesian legend Taufiq Hidayat. On Friday, he was up against the world number one Lee Chong Wei at the Siri Fort Sports Complex and he lost 21-14, 21-19 but he put up a very good fight prompting the Malaysian to say that Prannoy is a very bright...
07:47 PM, Apr 26, 2013
New Delhi: Eighth seed PV Sindhu of India dispatched Yui Hashimoto of Japan 21-16, 21-16 to enter the semi-finals of India Open for the first time here at the Siri Fort Sports Complex on Friday. The Indian took 47 minutes to beat her Japanese opponent who had ousted the top seed Saina Nehwal a day earlier. Sindhu took the first game in just under 21 minutes leading throughout, with the...
07:17 PM, Apr 26, 2013
New Delhi: World number two woman shuttler Saina Nehwal is the top seed at the Yonex Sunrise India Open, and in the absence of Chinese players, she is eager to put her best foot forward trying to emulate her 2010 success at the BWF Super Series tournament to be held in Delhi from April 23 to 28. Talking at the pre-tournament press conference, Saina sounded upbeat ahead of the tournament...
04:02 PM, Apr 22, 2013
The likes of Malinga and Narine have been a revelation in the IPL and this year too, the bowlers will definitely have their say. ...
04:28 PM, Mar 30, 2013
Five batsmen who could set the sixth season of the IPL on fire with the willow. ...
04:10 PM, Mar 29, 2013
The Spainards's recovery trail will be complete only at Paris when he succeeds in defending his Roland Garros title in May. ...
02:54 PM, Mar 07, 2013
The Australian allrounder, on debut in Chennai, scored fighting half-centuries in both innings to vindicate the decision to pick him ahead of Glenn Maxwell and Steve Smith. ...
06:17 PM, Feb 25, 2013
There has been talk of India holding the advantage against an inexperienced Australia, but the tourists could spring a surprise or two. ...
08:27 AM, Feb 21, 2013
What Armstrong did with his trail of lies and dissembling was to shake the very foundations of cycling and make mockery of sports in general. ...
04:04 PM, Jan 18, 2013
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