Mumbai: Countering Shiv Sena supremo Uddhav Thackeray’s comment that great cricketers like Sunil Gavaskar and Sachin Tendulkar have retired but Mumbai Cricket Association president Sharad Pawar “is still with pads on and his score is still zero”, Pawar on Tuesday said his score is the best in history of MCA.Read More

Rafael Nadal suffered a shock first-round exit from the Wimbledon warm-up event at Queen`s Club as the Spanish star was beaten 6-3, 6-7 (6/8), 6-4 by unheralded Ukrainian Alexandr Dolgopolov on Tuesday. Nadal`s dismal defeat against the world number 79 is the latest in a growing list of lacklustre performancesRead More

New Delhi: Chelsea have agreed a deal with French club Monaco to sign former Manchester United striker Radamel Falcao. According to reports in Sky Sports, the Premier League champions agreed upon a season long loan move with Falcao’s parent club Monaco. The Colombian has decided to take a pay cutRead More

Fatullah (Bangladesh): India Test opener Murali Vijay believes good rapport off the field with teammate and opening partner Shikhar Dhawan helps them perform better on the field. “It’s said that for openers, it’s important to be good friends off the field in order to succeed as a pair on it.Read More

London: Kevin Pietersen has revealed that Surrey players were in tears in their dressing room as Australia`s Moises Henriques and Rory Burns received treatment following their sickening collision on Sunday. Henriques and Burns were knocked unconscious as they collided while going for a chance in a Twenty20 match away toRead More

New Delhi: Australia vice captain, Steve Smith on Monday leapfroged Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkra to reach at the top spot in ICC’s Test batting rankings. It makes Smith the second youngest batsman after former India legend Sachin Tendulkar to achieve the number-one spot. The 26-year-old, has also become the firstRead More

Zurich: Sepp Blatter could still perform a U-turn on his promise to stand down as FIFA president, a former adviser said on Monday, while FIFA did not directly deny the possibility. Klaus Stoehlker, who advised Blatter during the recent election campaign, told Sky News that Blatter could remain head ofRead More

London: Rafael Nadal is willing to put his body and his bank balance on the line as he bids to get back on track after plunging to his lowest ranking for a decade. Nadal has endured a miserable run in 2015 and the Spaniard hit a new low last monthRead More

Fatullah: Claiming to be a much-improved batsman, India’s Shikhar Dhawan, who returned to form with a blazing 173 in the ongoing one-off Test against Bangladesh, on Saturday said that many more big stands are in store with his opening partner Murali Vijay. Dhawan added 283 runs for the first wicketRead More

New Delhi: After spilling the beans on how N Srinivasan stopped Virat Kohli replacing Mahendra Singh Dhoni as India’s One-Day International captain in 2011, former national selector Raja Venkat received widespread criticism from his former colleagues and Board of Control for Cricket in India ​(BCCI) officials. According to a reportRead More