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Saina wins Syed Modi International

India ace shuttler Saina Nehwal on Sunday snapped her 15 months title drought, clinching the Syed Modi International India Grand Prix Gold badminton crown with a straight-game victory over compatriot P V Sindhu in the women's singles competition, here today

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India vs New Zealand 3rd ODI ends in a tie

The third cricket one-dayer between India and New Zealand ended in a tie here today.

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BCCI exploring chances of playing Pak at 3rd venue

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is exploring the possibility of playing a cricket series against traditional rivals Pakistan at a neutral venue like Dubai or Sharjah in the near future

Ravichandran Ashwin
Ashwin lacks required deception: Prasanna

Former Test spinner Erapalli Prasanna is highly critical of Ravichandran Ashwin's performance for India while playing abroad, saying the Tamil Nadu tweaker "lacks deception" in his bowling

Suresh Raina
''Shot selection is an area Raina needs to work on''

Auckland: It is great to be a strokemaker but it is must for a batsman to have control over his shots to have continued success. This precisely was the message for Suresh Raina from his skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni after India’s 15-run loss in the second ODI at Hamilton. India’s hopes had diminished when Virat […]

BCCI
Set to gain from ICC overhaul, BCCI backs revamp plan

Chennai: Set to benefit immensely from the structural overhaul of the ICC, the BCCI today unanimously backed the plan which would cede executive decision-making in world cricket to India, Australia and England. In an emergent meeting called here, the Indian Board reviewed the proposals of the ICC Commercial Rights Working Group, which have created quite […]

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India surrender top ODI ranking after back-to-back defeats

India were Wednesday dethroned as the number one ODI team after they suffered an agonising 15-run defeat in a rain-truncated second cricket one-dayer against New Zealand, who have now taken a 2-0 lead in the five-match series here

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It's a huge victory for New Zealand: McCullum

New Zealand skipper Brendon McCullum today termed his team's victory in the first ODI against world No. 1 team, India as "huge" and said the fact that the Kiwis came out on top despite Virat Kohli's century is a good sign.

  • Monday, 21 June 2021
Hero Hockey league
Jonker's hat-trick hands Dutch HWL Final title

Constantijn Jonker slammed a hat-trick to help the Netherlands spank New Zealand 7-2 in a lop-sided summit clash and lift the inaugural Hero Hockey World League Final title here on Saturday

  • Monday, 21 June 2021
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India suffer 2-7 thrashing by Australia

India squandered a two-goal lead to suffer a 2-7 hammering at the hands of world champions Australia and crash out of the Hero Hockey World League Final here on Wednesday

Ian Chappell
India have by far the best young batsmen: Chappell

Effusive in his praise for the Indian batsmen, former Australia captain Ian Chappell has said that the side is currently producing "by far the best" crop of young talented cricketers

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Kapil Dev conferred with BCCI 'Lifetime Achievement Award'

Former India captain Kapil Dev was Saturday honoured with the C K Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award by the BCCI at its seventh annual awards ceremony here

IPL
IPL cases against Lalit Modi to be finalised soon

New Delhi: Investigating agencies will soon finalise cases of alleged financial irregularities against former IPL Chairman Lalit Modi in various editions of T20 cricket tournament, notwithstanding their failure to get him back to India. The Enforcement Directorate (ED), which has nine cases of alleged foreign exchange violations registered against Modi and others, is expected to […]

Hockey
Improvement is coach Walsh''s goal in HWL Final

New Delhi: The inaugural Hockey World League Final is chief coach Terry Walsh’s first real test with the Indian team and the Australian sounded realistic about his side’s chances, saying he was eyeing nothing but “improvement” from his wards in the tournament. India got a chance to play in the HWL Final by being the […]

  • Monday, 21 June 2021
Harbhajan Singh
Bhajji plays a captain's knock as Pb recover against J&K

Punjab captain Harbhajan Singh made a superb return to competitive cricket as he smashed 92 off only 80 balls to rescue his team from a precarious position against an impressive Jammu and Kashmir bowling attack on the first day of the Ranji Trophy quarter-final here today

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