Pune: Ace off-spinner Harbhajan Singh termed Indian captain Virat Kohli as “an intense cricketer” who thrives on . “Virat (Kohli) is a very intense cricketer. He likes to take on the responsibility and expects the same from his team. That has really worked well and the team has performed beyondRead More

Pune: Australia paceman Josh Hazlewood is not keen to believe the predictions that the pitch will offer good bounce in the series-opener, saying the bowlers will have to find other ways to get rid of Indian batsmen. “I would be surprised if (the ball) flies around here,” Hazlewood said reactingRead More

Pune: Australia’s Nathan Lyon today revealed that he has been analysing ace off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin to improve his own bowling as there is a lot to learn from the in-form Indian. “I have watched a lot of Ashwin. He is a world class bowler and I can learn a lotRead More

New Delhi: Manpreet Singh’s double field goals in the 9th and 32nd minute went in vain as Ranchi Rays could not make it to the semi-final despite 6-2 win over Delhi Waveriders in a Hockey India League match today. Delhi, however, made it to the last four stage of theRead More

New Delhi: Two days after being removed from captaincy of his IPL franchise Rising Pune Supergiants, Mahendra Singh Dhoni was named captain of the Jharkhand state side for the Vijay Hazare Trophy starting February 25. In the last couple of seasons, Dhoni while playing for Jharkhand, never captained the sideRead More

North Rhine-Westphalia: Javier `Chicharito` Hernandez has hit goalscoring form again for Bayer Leverkusen in a warning to Atletico Madrid ahead of their Champions League clash on Tuesday. Five goals in three games ended a 16 match scoring drought for the Mexican and took him back into the top five hitmenRead More

New Delhi: Sports Minister Vijay Goel today felicitated the Indian blind cricket team for winning the Blind T20 Cricket World Cup. India defeated Pakistan by nine wickets in the final to lift the trophy at Bengaluru’s Chinnaswamy Stadium earlier this month. “The Indian squad has played exceptionally well throughout theRead More

Buenos Aires: Japanese top seed Kei Nishikori lost a sixth successive final on Sunday when he was defeated by Ukraine`s Alexandr Dolgopolov 7-6 (7/4), 6-4 in the Buenos Aires clay-court title match. The world number five had already lost in the Brisbane final in January to Grigor Dimitrov which followedRead More

Bengaluru: Despite holding the top bowling spots in both the International Cricket Council (ICC) One-day Internationals (ODI) and Twenty20I rankings, South African leg-spinner Imran Tahir failed to attract any buyer in the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) auction here on Monday. Tahir, who missed out in the morning session, onceRead More

Mumbai: A 24-year-old cricketer was today arrested for allegedly driving his car onto a platform of the Andheri railway station, causing chaos during the morning rush hour, police said. Harmeet Singh, who represented India in the ICC Under-19 world cup in 2012, drove the four-wheeler directly onto the platform 1Read More