Auckland, New Zealand blitzed the second T20I against Sri Lanka in Auckland today with a whirlwind display by Martin Guptill and Colin Munro to set up a nine-wicket win. Munro brought up the winning runs with a six to be unbeaten on 50 after 14 balls, the second fastest T20Read More

Karachi, Former Pakistan captain Salman Butt hit a century as he and fast bowler Mohammad Asif returned to competitive cricket on Sunday after serving five-year bans for spot-fixing. Butt scored 135 runs and Asif picked up two wickets for Water and Power Development Authority in Pakistan’s domestic One-day tournament. Their returnRead More

Brisbane, January 9 Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis carried the dominance of 2015 into the new season, winning their sixth consecutive title by lifting the WTA Brisbane trophy, here today. The top seeds quelled the challenge of German wildcards Angelique Kerber and Andrea Petkovic 7-5 6-1 in mere 69 minutes.Read More

Perth, January 9 Pacer Mohammed Shami was today ruled out of India’s limited-overs cricket series against Australia due to a hamstring injury and Bhuvneshwar Kumar will replace him for the ODIs and Twenty20s starting here on January 12. “The BCCI medical team confirms that Mohammed Shami has been ruled outRead More

Melbourne, January 9 Former captain Ian Chappell feels the Indian team will be quite a handful for world champions Australia in the upcoming ODIs but the hosts will still be the favourites to win the five-game series as the visitors are short of one specialist batsman. Chappell, in his columnRead More

Chennai, JANUARY 8 Britain’s Aljaz Bedene ended the run of home favourite Ramkumar Ramanathan, beating him 6-7(5) 6-4 6-3 in the quarterfinals of the Chennai Open. But there was no trouble for two-time defending champion Stanislas Wawrinka, who cruised into the singles semifinals with a 6-4 6-4 victory over GuillermoRead More

New Delhi: Team India started off their Australian campaign on a winning note as they crushed a Western Australia XI by 74 runs in a Twenty20 match at the WACA Ground in Perth. India won the toss and put up a massive total of 192 runs after winning the toss,Read More

NEW DELHI, Apurvi Chandela shot her way to a second successive gold medal and emerged as the ‘Shooter of the Tournament’ in the Swedish Cup Grand Prix in Savsjo, Sweden. The 23-year-old Chandela shot 208.9 in the final to clinch the top prize in the women’s 10-metre tri-series event. Chandela wonRead More

Chennai, A gutsy Ramkumar Ramanathan fought back after a sluggish start to pull off an inspiring win over Alexander Kudryavtsev and enter the quarterfinals of the Chennai Open here today. The wildcard entrant worked his way to a 3-6 6-4 6-4 win over the higher-ranked Russian. This will be his firstRead More

New Delhi, Former India opener Virender Sehwag has lashed out at the selectors for picking players under the influence of the “people in power”. Sehwag, who recently retired from international cricket, added that the state associations were not being run efficiently. Sehwag, who recently shifted to Haryana from Delhi in domesticRead More