Centurion: Fast bowler Dale Steyn set up a series-clinching 204-run win for South Africa on the fourth day of the second and final Test against New Zealand at SuperSport Park on Tuesday. Steyn took three wickets with his first 11 balls of the innings and finished with five for 33Read More

Mumbai: Subrata Paul has remained the top choice as India goalkeeper for a bulk of the last decade but he has started losing the slot to Gurpreet Singh Sandhu. However the 29-year-old Arjuna awardee isn’t worried that chief coach Stephen Constantine has started to show more faith in Gurpreet andRead More

Nottingham: Alex Hales’s stunning 171 provided the platform for England to post the highest ever one-day international total of 444 for three as they beat Pakistan by 169 runs at Trent Bridge on Tuesday. Victory in this day/night clash gave England an unbeatable 3-0 lead in the five-match series afterRead More

New Delhi: Post the Rio Games, it has been “very busy” but no less than a “dream” for Olympic silver medallist P.V. Sindhu. It was a tight schedule of a different sort – not with her training but attending functions, receiving honours and giving interviews. Her mother Vijaya even saidRead More

New Delhi: Pullela Gopichand and P.V. Sindhu share a special bonding. Much like her fellow trainees at the Gopichand Academy, the national chief coach is a father figure to Sindhu. Sindhu, at nine, was the youngest when Gopichand started off his academy in 2004. Twelve years have passed and littleRead More

Fort Lauderdale (Florida, USA): Limited over captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni believes that India’s Test side led by Virat Kohli can regain its top ranking in longest format by the end of the home season in which they play 13 Tests against New Zealand, England, Australia and Bangladesh. Dhoni feels theRead More

New York: Romania’s Monica Niculescu dumped Czech 18th seed Barbora Strycova out of the US Open on Monday and credited Indian doubles star Sania Mirza with the victory. Niculescu won 6-3, 6-7 (3/7), 6-1 in her opener and paid tribute to Mirza with whom she teamed last weekend to winRead More

New York: Defending champion Novak Djokovic overcame an arm injury scare and long-time rival Rafael Nadal shone in 33-degree heat as the US Open showcased its $650 million upgrade on Monday. World number one Djokovic, also the 2011 winner in New York and chasing his third major of the year,Read More

New Delhi: Indian wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt’s bronze medal from the London Olympics may be upgraded to silver amid reports that the silver medallist from the 2012 Games– deceased Besik Kudukhov of Russia–has been stripped off his medal for using banned substance. As per Russian agency flowrestling.org, the four-time world championRead More

Madrid: Ivan Rakitic’s first-half header maintained Barcelona’s 100 per cent start to the La Liga season as the champions withstood a wave of late pressure to win 1-0 at Athletic Bilbao. Rakitic finished off an excellent team move after 20 minutes, but with Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez uncharacteristically waywardRead More