GALLE: Spinner Nathan Lyon took match figures of 9-121 as Australia hammered Sri Lanka by 10 wickets inside three days in the opening Test on Friday. The tourists, with a
STOCKHOLM: Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra clinched his first top-3 finish at the prestigious Diamond League Meeting with a national record-shattering effort but missed the 90m mark by a whisker in
Jos Buttler has been appointed England‘s new limited-overs captain following the retirement of Eoin Morgan, the country’s cricket board (ECB) said on Thursday. The 31-year-old, who had been Morgan’s deputy
KUALA LUMPUR: Two-time Olympic medallist P V Sindhu entered the quarterfinals with a come-from-behind victory over Thailand’s Phittayaporn Chaiwan in the Malaysia Open on Thursday. The world No. 7 dispatched
BIRMINGHAM: Virat Kohli has set an altogether different bench-mark with his 70 international hundreds but Rahul Dravid, from a coach’s perspective, wants his best batter to make “match-winning contributions” even
LONDON: Top seed Novak Djokovic once again looked every bit the dominant player who has won the last three Wimbledon titles as he swept aside Australian Thanasi Kokkinakis 6-1 6-4
MALAHIDE (Ireland): The big-hitting Deepak Hooda believes himself to be “a warrior” when faced with the task of tackling the new ball in conditions favourable to bowlers. Because, according to
MALAHIDE (Ireland): Deepak Hooda hit a master-class maiden century as India survived a mighty scare before defeating Ireland by four runs in a nail-biting high-scoring second T20 International to sweep
LONDON: World number one Iga Swiatek recovered from a dip in her level in the second set to see off Croatian qualifier Jana Fett 6-0 6-3 in the Wimbledon first
The first T20I between India and Ireland was affected quite a bit due to multiple spells of rain in Dublin. Consequently the match was shortened to a 12 overs a