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London: Wimbledon tennis championship organisers will ban selfie-sticks from this year’s tournament. Fans would not be allowed to take the sticks into their headquarters during the Grand Slam tournament, the All England Lawn Tennis Club said, Xinhua reported. Selfie-sticks help users take self-portrait photos. “In common with many other major sports and entertainment events and […]

Mumbai: Mumbai Indians skipper Rohit Sharma said on Monday that having two-time World Cup-winning captain Ricky Ponting in the side as coach helps him learn a lot about leadership skills and qualities. “Whenever I get the opportunity to captain a side, it is a learning process for me. Also I am working alongside a great […]

Kolkata: The BCCI on Sunday decided to set up a cricket advisory committee comprising prominent players for the overall conduct and development of the game, according to its secretary Anurag Thakur. The Board of Control for Cricket in India working committee, which met here during the day, authorised its president Jagmohan Dalmiya to constitute the […]

St. George’s (Grenada): Mediocre batting coupled with a devastating new ball spell from seamer James Anderson combined to see the West Indies squander a position of strength and slide to a heavy nine-wicket defeat to England in the second Test here. Resuming the final day at the Grenada National Stadium on 202/2 with a lead […]

Barcelona: Defending champion and top seed Kei Nishikori advanced to the semi-finals of the Barcelona Open with a 6-2, 3-6, 6-1 victory over Spain’s Roberto Bautista Agut, but David Ferrer and Pablo Andujar kept the home country’s hopes alive with quarter-final victories. Like he did in his previous match against Colombia’s Santiago Giraldo, the 25-year-old […]

Wuhan (China): India’s Saina Nehwal lost her women’s singles quarterfinal to Chinese Taipei’s Tzu Ying Tai in three tough games at the $200,000 Badminton Asia Championship here on Friday. The fifth seed defeated World No.1 Saina 16-21, 21-13, 21-18 in 55 minutes at the Wuhan Sports Center Gymnasium to level her head-to-head to 5-all against […]

New Delhi: An impressive all-round display helped Delhi Daredevils overpower Mumbai Indians by 37 runs in an Indian Premier League (IPL) match at the Ferozeshah Kotla stadium here on Thursday. Chasing a formidable target of 191, Mumbai managed only 153 for nine. With the win, Daredevils improved to six points from six matches, occupying the […]

Madrid: The FIFA Club World Cup will return to Japan in December 2015 and 2016, three years after it last hosted the competition, FIFA announced on Thursday. FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke explained that the Japan Football Association’s experience in organising a number of major tournaments will go a long way to ensuring the event’s […]

Stuttgart: Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis lost their first competitive match as a women’s doubles team as they crashed out of the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix here. First-time pairing of Petra Martic and Stephanie Vogt pulled of a straight set stunner, 6-3, 6-3 on Wednesday. Martic and Vogt were playing together for the first time […]

Visakhapatnam: Rain halted the proceedings of the Indian Premier League (IPL) encounter between defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Sunrisers Hyderabad at the ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium here on Wednesday. Put into bat, Sunrisers posted a formidable 176/4 in their 20 overs courtesy knocks from skipper David Warner (91) and his opening partner Shikhar Dhawan […]

Visakhapatnam: Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) skipper Gautam Gambhir won the toss and decided to field against Sunrisers Hyderabad in their Indian Premier League (IPL) match at the ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium, here on Wednesday. KKR brought in South African spinner Johan Botha dropping Ryan ten Doeschate in the playing team. Sunrisers made two changes bringing in […]

Melbourne: Australian cricketer Aaron Finch has underwent a surgery on his left hamstring yesterday. The top-order batsman had sustained the injury while batting for Indian Premier League (IPL) team Mumbai Indians on April 14. “After returning to Australia injured from the IPL, Aaron had scans that confirmed a high grade hamstring injury. As such, Aaron […]

Ahmedabad: Australian all-rounder Glenn Maxwell believes the emotional high of his country’s World Cup win has contributed to his form slump for Kings XI Punjab in the Indian Premier League (IPL) this season. After Michael Clarke and his teammates lifted the Cup last month, the dynamic all-rounder has only registered scores of seven, six, 15 […]

New Delhi: High on confidence after his superb World Cup performance, Kolkata Knight Riders pacer Umesh Yadav said he was focusing on his line and length to outsmart batsmen in the ongoing Indian Premier League. Having finished with the man of the match award against Delhi Daredevils yesterday, the 27-year-old Yadav said he used the […]

Melbourne: Former Australia captain Steve Waugh believes controversial England batsman Kevin Pietersen no longer merits a place in the national side. Pietersen was sacked by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) following a series of disputes between him and the team and has not played for the national team in over a year. But […]