Port Elizabeth, Dec 25 (IANS) The West Indies captain Denesh Ramdin has said his team must change their mental approach ahead of the Boxing Day Test against South Africa at the St. George’s Park here Friday. The tourists were beaten by an innings and 220 runs by South Africa in the first Test but Ramdin […]
New Delhi, Dec 25 (IANS) Continuing his upward trend, India’s leading male shuttler Kidambi Srikanth jumped two places to take a career-high fourth position in the latest Badminton World Federation (BWF) rankings Thursday. With this move, the 21-year-old, became only the third Indian to break into the men’s singles top-five rankings. Legendary Praksh Padukone (No.1) […]
New Delhi, Dec 24 (IANS) Karnataka pacers Abhimanyu Mithun(5-31) and Vinay Kumar (2-37) shared seven wickets among them to bowl out Railways for a paltry 114 in their 2nd innings to set up a 136-run victory for their team in a Ranji Trophy Group B match here. Chasing 251 for victory, Railways were never in […]
Kolkata, Dec 24 (IANS) City football giants Mohun Bagan Wednesday roped in midfielder Denson Devadas on loan from Indian Super League (ISL) club Chennaiyin FC to boost their supply line ahead of their new season. The 32-year-old Devadas has previously played for I-league teams like United SC. He was released by Mohun Bagan at the […]
Islamabad, Dec 23 (IANS) Former Pakistani wicket keeper Moin Khan says that the current Pakistani team has what it takes to be the champions in the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup,. Khan, who was a part of the World Cup winning team of 1992, has his hopes pinned on the big event returning to Australia […]
Kolkata, Dec 23 (IANS) City football giant Mohun Bagan Tuesday said a city court has stayed an ex parte decision by the FIFA directing the club to pay compensation to its Australian recruit Okwy Okonkwo Diamondstar who had alleged nonpayment of salaries. The court has issued show cause notices to All India Football Federation (AIFF) […]
Mumbai, Dec 22 (IANS) A few weeks after they were left out of the 30-member preliminary squad for the 2015 World Cup, Gautam Gambhir and Yuvraj Singh were Monday dropped from the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) contracts list while medium pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar was promoted to a Grade A contract. Pacer […]
London, Dec 22 (IANS) English Premier League club Hull City have recalled Tom Ince and Maynor Figueroa from loan spells in order to reinforce the squad and climb out of the relegation zone. “Tom Ince and Maynor Figueroa have been recalled from their loan spells with Nottingham Forest and Wigan Athletic respectively,” said a statement […]
New Delhi, Dec 19 (IANS) Open water swimmer Bhakti Sharma will be financially backed in her swimming efforts by Vedanta company Hindustan Zinc for a year, a release said Friday. Bhakti will be promoting open water swimming and will also train girls in swimming leagues during the year she will be sponsored. “I am very […]
Dubai, Dec 17 (IANS) Leading woman shuttler Saina Nehwal beat reigning Asian Games champion Shixian Wang of China 21-17, 21-18 to win the first match of Group A of the Badminton World Federation (BWF) Superseries Finals Wednesday. Displaying vintage form, the Indian World No.4 prevailed over World No.2 Shixian in 58 minutes at the Hamdan […]