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Anil Kumble has stepped down as the Indian cricket team’s head coach, two days after India lost the Champions Trophy final against Pakistan and four days prior to the team playing their first match in the limited-overs series in the Caribbean. According to a top BCCI official, Kumble’s decision to step down also means fresh applications will be invited for ...

A clinical India demolished a hapless Pakistan 7-1 to register their third consecutive victory and seal a place in the quarter-finals of the Hockey World League Semi-Final, in London on Sunday. While their cricketing counter parts lost their finals in the other part of the city, Indian hockey team topped their group to reach the quarter finals. Dragflicker Harmanpreet Singh ...

Ranked eighth out of eight at the start of the ICC Champions Trophy tournament for which they barely qualified, Pakistan’s prospects of reaching even the semi-finals looked at best a dream. But with this cricket team unpredictability comes as standard. The team was rejigged to such effect that the commentators were let wondering where Pakistan had been hiding these young ...

India to defend title against Pakistan on Sunday Imperious India to meet arch-rivals Pakistan again, this time in the Champions Trophy final, after their comprehensive nine-wicket victory over Bangladesh. Powered by a measured century from Rohit Sharma (123*) and a brisk fifty from captain Virat Kohli (96*), India coasted to a nine-wicket win, chasing down 265 in 40.1 overs. The ...

Captain Sunil Chhetri stamped his class yet again as he scored the match-winner to fire India to a 1-0 win over Kyrgyz Republic in a fast-pace and entertaining Asian Cup qualifier match on Tuesday. Chhetri drilled a low shot with his right foot off a fine pass from Jeje Lalpekhlua in the 69th minute to lead India to a crucial ...

India beat South Africa by 7 wickets to play Bangladesh in Semi Finals of Champions Trophy Defending champions India made it to the semi-final of the ICC Champions Trophy by defeating South Africa in a must-win encounter in the final league match by eight wickets at the Kennington Oval, London on Sunday. After bowling out the number one ranked ODI ...

To win even a single Grand Slam when your contemporaries include Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray, Marat Saffin, Lleyttton Hewitt amongst others is a commendable job winning the same Grand Slam 10 times is inhuman. Rafael Nadal achieved “La Decima” in Paris by decimating his opponent Stan Wawrinka 6-2,6-3,6-1 thus ensuring he wins on the red dirt without dropping ...

Stan Wawrinka defeated Andy Murray in a five set thriller on Friday to storm into the Roland Garros final. The 2015 champion prevailed 6-7(6), 6-3, 5-7, 7-6(3), 6-1 in a gruelling four-and-a-half-hour contest. In a match that was always going to be a tussle between Wawrinka’s brilliance and Murray’s resilience, it was the Swiss who drew first blood in the ...

   India kicked off their defence of the ICC Champions trophy with a clinical performance beating Pakistan by 124 runs (D/L) in their opening match at Edgbaston, Birmingham on Sunday. India put on 319 for three despite two rain interruptions in 48 overs and managed to bundle out Pakistan for 164 in 33.4 overs. India’s top four registered fifties and ...

Rafael Nadal game reached near immortal heights once again that have made him nothing short of a living legend at Roland Garros. Nadal who turns 31 today couldn’t have given himself a better birthday gift a 6-0,6-1,6-0 drubbing of World No. 63 Nicolaz Basilashvili. La Decima in Sights Rafael Nadal has raked up a staggering 9 trophies in Paris losing ...