Chandigarh, Have you recently caught Chris Gayle or Dwayne Bravo dancing away in Chennai? Or spotted Dean Jones, Brett Lee and Matthew Hayden, wearing mundus (lungis, or sarongs), in Tirunelveli in Tamil Nadu? Well, they’re there, braving heat and humidity, testifying to the economic magnetism of T20 cricket. They’re here forRead More

Ayana produced an astounding run to clock 29:17.45 and take 14 seconds off the 23-year-old 10,000m record, set by China’s Wang Junxia in Beijing in 1993. No woman had broken the 30-minute barrier in the previous seven years and Wang’s time was also 22 seconds faster than anything that hadRead More

Rio de Janeiro,  Thousands of fans and athletes will open the 2016 Rio Paralympics at a gala ceremony where organisers hope to draw a line under a chaotic build-up. A Russian doping scandal and claims that the athletes’ classification system is being manipulated have made for a rocky start for theRead More

Montevideo, Brazil’s march towards the 2018 World Cup gathered pace with a Neymar-inspired win over Colombia as Uruguay surged to the top of the South American qualification standings with a 4-0 rout of Paraguay. Just four days after their first ever victory over Ecuador in Quito, Brazil dug deep to beatRead More

New Delhi: Former Indian women’s team captain Anjum Chopra has been awarded an honourary life membership of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) along with former men’s team stalwarts Zaheer Khan and Virender Sehwag. She is the first Indian woman cricketer to get the prestigious life membership of MCC. The 39-year-oldRead More

Johannesburg: South Africa pace spearhead Dale Steyn believes that his side’s bowlers will be like a pack of “wild dogs” who will be ready to “wear down” Australia when they travel Down Under for a three-Test series in November. The 33-year-old bowler, who grabbed eight wickets to dismantle New ZealandRead More

New York: World No 1 Sania Mirza and her Czech partner Barbara Strycova were ousted from the women’s doubles event after losing to top seeds Caroline Garcia and Kristina Mladenovic in straight sets in the quarter-final of the US Open, here. The French pair of Garcia and Mladenovic won 7-6Read More

Mumbai: Sakshi Malik inspired many after winning the first medal for India at Rio Olympics but she revealed on Tuesday that it was Japan’s wrestlers who had inspired her at the pre-Olympic camps in Bulgaria and Spain. “I learnt a lot from Japanese wrestlers during our camps. They are disciplinedRead More

Shillong: London Games bronze medallist boxer MC Mary Kom on Tuesday described her trials for Rio Olympics as “unfortunate” and said things probably would have been in her favour had there been more competitions for women. “I only got two chances to qualify. Male boxers get five to six chances,Read More

Pallekelle: David Warner crowned his first series win as Australia captain with a century that set a new benchmark and banished some old demons as he led his team to another hefty win over Sri Lanka. Having endured a lean trot during the Test match whitewash (163 runs at 27.16)Read More