New Delhi: Olympic bronze medallist Saina Nehwal continued her consistent run on the international circuit, reaching yet another semifinal at the $200,000 Asia Badminton Championship at Wuhan, China, on Friday. In a battle of long rallies, the 26-year-old Indian held her nerves in tricky situations to eke out a 21-16,Read More

Mumbai: Gautam Gambhir continued his purple patch to lead Kolkata Knight Riders to 174/5 against Mumbai Indians in their IPL game at the Wankhede stadium on Thursday. The visitors’ skipper scored 45-ball 59 (6×4, 1×6) — his third half century in six games — to set the platform for AndreRead More

New Delhi: Professional cricketers have a way of putting perspective on issues those outside the ground may not have. After reviving Delhi Daredevils from the dead and carrying them to the edge of an outrageous win against the Gujarat Lions, South African all-rounder Chris Morris was almost nonchalant about theRead More

It was just at that point of the night when Jurgen Klopp might have been thinking about how far his Liverpool team have come as a force in Europe’s second competition when they fell prey to the kind of trap that English teams have walked into time and again overRead More

MUNICH: Juan Martin del Potro has won consecutive claycourt matches for the first time in four years by seeing off Germany’s Jan-Lennard Struff 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 to make the Munich quarter-finals on Thursday. The injury-plagued Argentine, who was the 2009 US Open champion, broke serve seven times. The last timeRead More

NEW DELHI: It was under the watchful eyes of their state coach PB Jayakumar that the career of Kerala quarter-milers Anilda Thomas and Anu Raghavan had blossomed. Anilda — who won gold in the Indian Grand Prix — and Anu — who came third in the same competition — hadRead More

Karachi: Former chief coach, Waqar Younis has urged the cricket authorities to drop Umar Akmal from the Pakistan team and blamed Shahid Afridi for the side’s run of T20 defeats against England, New Zealand and in the Asia Cup and World T20. In a hard-hitting report on his two-year tenureRead More

Mumbai: Umesh Yadav had an over to go, so did Andre Russell but Kolkata Knight Riders skipper Gautam Gambhir threw the ball to R Sathish when Mumbai Indians’ (MI) Kieron Pollard looked perilous in his approach chasing 175. Sathish leaked 30 runs off his two overs and eventually, Mumbai beatRead More

Mumbai: Much before the release of ‘Dangal’ — the film starring Aamir Khan and based on Mahavir Singh Phogat on how he taught wrestling to his daughters Babita Kumari and Geeta Phogat — the Phogat sisters’ Rio Olympics dream came to an end. The grapplers have been disqualified from theRead More

Shanghai: Indian archer Deepika Kumari on Wednesday equalled the world record in women’s recurve event before helping the country to the mixed pair bronze play-off in the first stage of the Archery World Cup that got underway here. The former world No.1 and winner of two Commonwealth Games gold medalsRead More