Colombo: Sri Lanka’s batting great Kumar Sangakkara on Saturday ended speculation about his future, saying he will retire during the home series against India in August. “This is my time to call it a day,” Sangakkara, 37, told reporters on the sidelines of the second Test against Pakistan at theRead More

Canterbury: Fast bowler Mitchell Johnson continued to look in good form as Australia strengthened their grip on Kent in their Ashes tour opener at Canterbury on Saturday. Kent were dismissed for 280 all out in reply to Australia’s first innings 507 for eight declared — a deficit of 227 runsRead More

Kolkata: Mahendra Singh Dhoni may have faced lot of flak for his team’s embarrassing ODI series defeat against Bangladesh but Pakistan T20 captain Shahid Afridi is “not happy” in the manner the Indian ODI skipper was being targeted. Afridi termed this as “sub-continental trend” where the cricketing heroes are pilloriedRead More

Bengaluru: Indian pace spearhead Mohammed Shami has said that he played with his knee injury during the World Cup as the team’s chief wicket-taker did not want to disturb the winning momentum in the final stages of the showpiece event. Forced to miss season eight of IPL, Shami underwent aRead More

Colombo: Leg-spinner Yasir Shah claimed five for 95 as Pakistan halted Sri Lanka`s march towards a big first innings lead in the second Test at the P. Sara Oval in Colombo on Friday. Shah made up for the absence of injured pace spearhead Wahab Riaz to keep Sri Lanka downRead More

Zurich: Sepp Blatter has told a Swiss newspaper he has not quit as FIFA president, adding to speculation he may try to stay on as head of world soccer`s governing body that is gripped by a corruption scandal. “I have not resigned, rather I am offering my mandate at anRead More

New Delhi: Indian Olympic Association chief N Ramachandran on Friday dismissed Narinder Batra’s claim of having requisite support to bring a no confidence motion against him, saying that the Hockey India boss does not even have enough backers to call a Special General Meeting to propose the move. In aRead More

Actress Deepika Padukone has made a special request to keep the earrings from this year’s successful film “Piku” as a memento. “‘Piku’ has been an extremely special film for me so I wanted to keep something that will remind me of the film even years later,” Deepika said in aRead More

London: Five-time champion Serena Williams and 2004 winner Maria Sharapova were drawn to meet in the Wimbledon semi-finals on Friday. Top seed and world number one Williams, who is bidding to hold all four majors at the same time for the second time in her career — ‘the Serena Slam’Read More

Eastbourne: Top seeds Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis were ousted from the WTA Aegon International following a semifinal defeat to Caroline Garcia and Katarina Srebotnik, here on Friday. The top seeds lost 5-7, 4-6 to fourth seeded French-Slovak combine in the last-four stage of the USD 31,000 WTA Premier grassRead More