Cleveland (Ohio), Oct 6 (IANS) LeBron James made his first Cleveland Cavaliers appearance since 2010 as the NBA franchise beat Maccabi Tel Aviv 107-80 in an international friendly basketball game. James played only 20 minutes, scoring 12 points on 4-of-11 shooting with four rebounds and as many assists Sunday, reports Xinhua. Kyrie Irving top scored for […]
Incheon, Oct 2 (IANS) Indian runners Rahul Kumar Pal and Suresh Kumar set their personal best times to finish a creditable fourth and fifth in the men’s 10,000 metres final at the Asian Games here Thursday. Bahrain’s Elhassan Elabbassi finished the race in 28 minutes and 11.2 seconds to clinch the gold from Japan’s Osako Suguru, […]
Incheon, Oct 2 (IANS) India’s Inderjeet Singh took home the bronze medal from the men’s shot put final at the Asian Games here Thursday. The Indian’s best throw of 19.63 metres came on his fifth attempt, out of six, to surprisingly clinch the medal at the Incheon Asiad Main Stadium. Saudi Arabia’s Sultan Abdulmajeed Alhebshi set […]
Incheon, Oct 2 (IANS) India’s campaign in Asian Games boxing ended Thursday with Vikas Krishan and Satish Kumar settling for the bronze medals after losing their respective semi-final bouts to Kazakhstan pugilists at the Seonhak Gymnasium here. In the men’s 75 kg category last-four match, Vikas went down to Zhanibek Alimkhanuly while Satish, plying his trade […]
Incheon, Sep 28 (IANS) A brilliant performance by Indian pair Sanam Singh and Saketh Myneni helped them overcome top seeded Thai team of Sanchai and Sonchat Ratiwatana to reach the men’s doubles final of the 17th Asian Games at the Yeorumul Tennis Courts here Sunday. The fifth seeded team beat their Thai opponents 4-6, 6-3, 10-6 […]
Incheon, Sep 28 (IANS) The Indian men’s and women’s table tennis teams suffered comprehensive defeats in their preliminary group stage matches of the 17th Asian Games at the Suwon Gymnasium here Sunday. The men’s team comprising Achanta Sharath Kamal, Harmeet Desai and Soumyajit Ghosh, was thrashed 0-3 by South Korea in the Group B match while […]
Incheon, Sep 26 (IANS) India’s Yuki Bhambri and Sanam Singh reached the men’s singles quarterfinals while compatriot Ankita Raina was ousted in the pre-quarterfinals of the women’s singles tennis competition at the 17th Asian Games here Friday. Bhambri, the highest seeded Indian in Incheon, eased to a 6-3, 6-3 straight-set win over 13th seed, Christopher Benjamin […]
Incheon, Sep 26 (IANS) India’s Sanam Singh reached the quarterfinals of the men’s singles tennis event of the 17th Asian Games with a straight sets victory over higher ranked South Korean Hyeon Chung at the Yeorumul Tennis Courts here Friday. The Indian 10th seed, staged a remarkable comeback to beat the sixth seed 7-5, 6-1 in […]
Kingston (Jamaica), Sep 26 (IANS/CMC) Middle order batsman Marlon Samuels is relishing his return to the West Indies team ahead of the tour of India. Samuels, who was dropped in June, was recalled to the regional side preparing to play five One-Day Internationals (ODI), three Test matches and one T20 International in India, reports CMC. The […]
Incheon, Sep 26 (IANS) India bagged their second silver in the 17th Asian Games as the men’s shooting team finished second in the 25 metre center fire pistol at the Ongnyeon International Shooting Range here Friday. The Indian trio of Pemba Tamang, Gurpreet Singh and Vijay Kumar scored a combined 1740-68x to finish behind China’s team […]