New Zealand will take on the mighty Netherlands in the final of the Hockey World League Final here Saturday after the two teams notched up wins in their respective semi-finals at the Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium Friday. The Netherlands overcame reigning world champions Australia 4-3 in the last match of the day to make […]
Wild card Ashwin Vijayaraghavan from Andhra Pradesh continued his great run to shock top seed Tamil Nadu’s Vijay Sundar Prashanth and storm into the semi-final of the national grasscourt tennis championship here Thursday. Prashanth took the first set of the men’s quarter-final outing 6-4 with a break of serve in the fourth game at the […]
Leading Indian shuttler P.V. Sindhu was ousted by South Korean sixth seed Yeon Ju Bae in the women’s singles second round of the $500,000 Malaysia Open Super Series Premier here Thursday. The World No.7 Korean won 21-16, 21-19 in 45 minutes at the Putra Stadium to take a 2-0 lead in career meetings over the […]
a Earlier, the Netherlands beat reigning Olympic champions Germany 2-1 in another last eight match to set up a semi-final clash against reigning world champions Australia. India will now play the World No.1 Germans in a 5-8 position classification playoff Friday. The first 23 minutes completely belonged to World No.10 India who surprised the Kookaburras […]
A much improved India almost bagged a win against reigning Olympic champions Germany but a goal in the dying minutes by the latter helped them eke out a 3-3 draw in the final Pool A match of the Hockey World League Final here Monday. Earlier, England handed New Zealand a 5-1 drubbing in the other […]
India suffered their second consecutive loss of the Hockey World League Final after they went down 1-3 to World No.7 New Zealand in a Pool A clash at the Major Dhyan Chand National Stadium here Saturday. Earlier, England surprised reigning Olympic champions and World No.1 Germany 2-1 in the other group clash as Ashley Jackson’s […]
India skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni said here Saturday that he would personally like to atone for his poor performance in South Africa during the forthcoming New Zealand tour. Dhoni was out of form in the Test series and came to bat at No.7 and managed only 87 runs in four innings. He also wants the […]
Chris Gayle is set to captain Jamaica in the West Indies NAGICO Super50 tournament to be staged in Trinidad and Tobago from this month. Gayle was recommended for the job by the national selection panel, a decision ratified by the Jamaica Cricket Association (JCA) during a board meeting Thursday, the Gleaner has reported. The decision […]
Real Madrid have extended the contract of midfielder Xabi Alonso for a further two seasons, it was confirmed Wednesday. The news means that the Spain international, whose contract was due to expire at the end of the current season, will now remain with the club until the end of June 2016, reports Xinhua. It also […]
Following are the standings of the French Ligue 1 after Wednesday’s match (tabulated under games played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals against, points), according to Xinhua. PSG 19 13 5 1 44 13 44 Monaco 19 12 5 2 31 13 41 Lille 19 12 4 3 22 8 40 Saint-Etienne 19 10 3 […]