New Delhi, Aug 11: Tennis star Sania Mirza has been recommended for the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award — the second tennis player to receive the country’s highest sporting honour. Sania, currently ranked world number one in women’s doubles, scripted history by becoming the first Indian to clinch a women’sRead More

Virat Kohli’s aggressive strategy to deploy five specialist bowlers will be tested when India take on Sri Lanka in the first Test at Galle on Wednesday. India will be hoping to end a 22-year-old wait for a series triumph on Lankan soil. While the baton was passed on to himRead More

Leander Paes will team up with Andy Murray at this week’s Montreal Masters after parting ways with Daniel Nestor – his doubles partner since April. Paes and Nestor played eight tournaments together but failed to reach even a single final. That may well change with the veteran Indian partnering MurrayRead More

jakarta, August 11: Parupalli Kashyap and HS Prannoy warmed up for bigger battles ahead with straight-game victories in the opening round of the World Badminton Championship. Commonwealth Games champion Kashyap, seeded 10th, defeated Netherlands’ Erik Meijs 21-17 21-10 to set up a clash with Vietnam’s Nguyen Tien Minh in the men’sRead More

Sri Lanka and India will face off in the first of a three-Test series at Galle on Wednesday with one eye on the ICC Test Team Rankings as both teams aim to improve their respective positions. Fifth-ranked India knows that a 3-0 victory can propel it up the rankings table,Read More

Gagan Narang, the London Olympics Bronze medallist in the Men’s 10m Air Rifle, reached his first final in a world event after the 2012 Games indicating that he is slowly coming back to his best in his pet event. After being laid low by a neck injury, Narang finished fifthRead More

Gurbaj Singh, who has played over 200 internationals for the country, has been suspended by Hockey India for nine months. The mercurial midfielder has been charged with “misbehaviour and creating disharmony within the team”. Gurbaj will have an opportunity to appeal to the Hockey India Executive Board against the decisionRead More

Manchester: Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal has said that buying a forward is not a priority for the English football club this season. Dutch striker Robin van Persie and Colombian Radamel Falcao have both left Old Trafford and Wayne Rooney, who was often playing as a midfielder last season,Read More

Sydney: Australia captain Michael Clarke angrily denied Monday claims that the disastrous England tour has been plagued by off-field dramas, saying it was “absolute garbage”. Clarke, 34, announced he was retiring after England completed a crushing innings and 78-run victory in the fourth Test at Trent Bridge on Saturday toRead More

London: Petr Cech suffered a nightmare Premier League debut for Arsenal as the goalkeeper’s costly blunder condemned the Gunners to a shock 2-0 defeat against West Ham on Sunday. Cech’s £10 million ($15.5 million, 14.1 million euros) arrival from champions Chelsea was hailed in some quarters as the move thatRead More