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Indian eves finish agonizingly short of lifting the trophy at Lords Anya Shrubsole’s six-wicket haul helped England beat India by 9 runs in the final of the Women’s World Cup at Lord’s on Sunday. With this win, hosts England won their fourth ICC Women’s World Cup title. India, led by Mithali Raj, had reached the final for the second time ...

Roger Federer won a record eighth Wimbledon title and became the tournament’s oldest champion today with a straight-sets victory over injury-hit Marin Cilic who dramatically broke down in tears midway through the final. Federer claimed his 19th Grand Slam title 6-3 6-1 6-4 and at 35 is Wimbledon’s oldest men’s winner of the modern era, succeeding Arthur Ashe, who was ...

The BCCI today named Ravi Shastri as the new chief coach of the Indian cricket team with former fast bowling great Zaheer Khan being appointed the bowling coach for a period of two years. “On Cricket Advisory Committee’s recommendation, we have decided to appoint Ravi Shastri as the chief coach while Zaheer Khan will be appointed bowling coach for a ...

10 time French Open Champ ousted in 4 hour 48 minute marathon match Rafael Nadal’s bittersweet relationship with Wimbledon endured another twist today when he was knocked out in a five-set, fourth round epic by Luxembourg journeyman Gilles Muller. Nadal’s stunning 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 4-6, 15-13 defeat came after defending champion Andy Murray and seven-time winner Roger Federer had cruised ...

The Indian football team on Thursday rose to the 96th spot in the latest FIFA rankings, its best-ever in the last two decades and the second best overall. As far as Asia is concerned, India are the 12th highest ranked team in the continent, while Iran lead the chart at the 23rd spot. India’s best-ever FIFA ranking till date stays ...

An inexplicable slow batting pushed India to a 11-run defeat in the fourth cricket One-day International against West Indies, who kept the five-match series alive. A second-string West Indies which never looked like challenging India enough in this series, scored a modest 189 for nine, but sluggish batting by the visitors specially Mahendra Singh Dhoni (54 off 114 balls) turned ...

Kidambi Srikanth continued his dream run and grabbed a third successive Super Series final spot at the Australian Open with a straight-game victory over China’s Shi Yuqi here today. Srikanth, who had reached the summit clash in Singapore and Indonesia, joined Indonesia’s Sony Dwi Kuncoro, Malaysia’s Lee Chong Wei, the Chinese duo of Chen Long and Lin Dan to become ...

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 ...