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DAINIK NATION BUREAU Ace India women’s pacer Jhulan Goswami has added a fresh feather into her already illustrious cap as she became the first female cricketer to scalp 200 ODI wicket, during the second ODI against South Africa in Kimberley on Wednesday. The experienced India pacer scalped the wicket of opener Laura Wolvaardt for her 200th scalp. The official account ...

The boys in blue were a class apart from the rest of the competition throughout the tournament bowling out every opposition they faced and winning by huge margins. Batting first in the final, Jonathan Merlo made a solid 76 before the India’s left-arm spin duo of Shiva Singh and Anukul Roy sprung pulled back the opposition to bowl them out ...

Rival captains, Virat Kohli and Faf du Plessis, both scored superb centuries but in the end India coasted to a comfortable six-wicket victory with nearly 5 overs to spare in the opening ODI at Kingsmead on Thursday. Chasing 270 to win, Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane (79) put on 189 runs for the third wicket as India got to the target ...

India reaffirmed their supremacy in age-group cricket as they walloped arch-rivals Pakistan by an incredible 203 runs to make it to their sixth ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup final in Christchurch on Tuesday. This is India’s biggest win against Pakistan at the age group level as the gulf in standard was way too visible. Gill with his batting prowess and ...

Saina Nehwal and P V Sindhu will meet in an all-Indian quarterfinal clash after both won their respective preliminary matches at the USD 350,000 Indonesia Masters, adding another chapter to their new rivalry. London Olympics bronze-medallist Saina, who is coming back from an ankle injury, took 37 minutes to overcome World No.20 Chinese Chen Xiaoxin 21-12 21-18, while Sindhu stream- ...

India’s Rohan Bopanna and Timea Babos of Hungary entered the mixed doubles semifinals at the Australian Open with a straight-set win over Colombian Juan Sebastian Cabal and Abigail Spears of USA, here on Wednesday. The fifth seeded Indo-Hungarian pair took one hour and 15 minutes to get the better of Cabal-Spears duo 6-4 7-6 (5) in the quarterfinal duel. It ...

Lungi Ngidi claims 6 wickets on debut Lungi Ngidi’s sensational debut led South Africa to a memorable 135-run victory in the second Test at Centurion Park on Thursday. 21-year-old Ngidi’s figures of 6/39 in the second innings, which was also the sixth best for South Africa on debut, left the Indian batsmen gasping for breath as they were succumbed for ...

India skipper Virat Kohli has been fined 25 per cent of his match fee for showing dissent against the umpire during the third day’s play of second Test against South Africa here. “India captain Virat Kohli has been fined 25 per cent of his match fee and received one demerit point for breaching Level 1 of the ICC Code of ...

South Africa defeated India by 72 runs in the first match of the three-Test series despite losing Steyn to injury in the second inning. The match ended inside four days even with day 3 being completely lost due to rain. South Africa scored 286 runs in the first innings and 130 runs in the second innings. Team India scored 209 ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat participated the closing ceremony of 66th All India Police Athletics Championship 2017 held at Maharana Pratap Sports College, Raipur, Dehradun on Saturday. The CM also rewarded the winning players and teams during the program. The CM Rawat said that it was the privilege of Uttarakhand that the youth of the police force ...