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Fast bowler Lungi Ngidi took three wickets in his last two overs as South Africa snatched a thrilling one-run win in the first Twenty20 international against England at Buffalo Park on Wednesday. Jason Roy and captain Eoin Morgan hit half-centuries for England and they looked well on the way to […]

The week gone by was unusually poor for Indian cricket: Virat Kohli’s team got whitewashed by New Zealand in ODIs, the under-19 team lost to Bangladesh in the World Cup final and the women’s team was beaten by Australia in the Tri-series final on Wednesday. Of these, India being drubbed […]

Custodian of cricket laws, the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), will play one 50-over game and three T20 matches during their upcoming tour of Pakistan, beginning on Thursday. All the matches will take place in Lahore, the MCC said in a press release. Lahore Qalandars will be the Club’s first opposition […]

Injured New Zealand pace bowlers Trent Boult and Lockie Ferguson are “tracking nicely” as the side begin their preparations for the test series against India, according to captain Kane Williamson. Bowling spearhead Boult broke his hand in the second game against Australia in Melbourne while Ferguson bowled just 11 overs […]

Cutters, slower ones, knuckleballs, yorkers – Siddarth Kaul’s bowling revolved around them. They were the reason why he had two terrific IPLs – 16 wickets in 10 matches in 2017 and 21 wickets in 17 matches in 2018 – helping him break into the Indian side. But the same variations […]

Football legend Pele is experiencing “a kind of depression” and barely leaves home anymore because health problems have left him unable to walk normally, his son said in an interview. “He’s pretty fragile in terms of his mobility… and that makes him suffer a kind of depression,” Edinho said of […]

Arsenal have won just three matches since Mikel Arteta took over as manager in December but playmaker Mesut Ozil says the team have improved thanks to the Spaniard’s fresh tactical approach. Arsenal are 10th in the Premier League on 31 points, 10 behind fourth-placed Chelsea, but Ozil said the players […]

When Sweden’s Armand Duplantis broke the pole vault record clearing 6.17m last week, an important member of his support staff had a link with Indian sport, having helped Indian boxers produce top performances in recent times. Rickard Nilsson, renowned strength and conditioning expert employed by the Swedish Olympic Committee for […]

     Rarely it happens that India skipper Virat Kohli has a bad day in office but what’s more rare is that he has a bad series. Unfortunately for India, it happened in the three-match ODI series against New Zealand and the team paid the price by conceding the series. According to his […]

Legendary captain Kapil Dev has given his opinion into the raging debate as to why India don’t play spinners Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal together anymore. The duo have played 34 ODI together and scalped 65 wickets at an average of 22.73. Despite these good numbers, India haven’t played them together since […]

Michelle Li is well on her way to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics. Her preparations will include not just those punishing hours on court, but also intense brainstorming sessions off it—to arrange over $150,000 she would need to fund herself along with a travelling coach and phsyio for the crucial […]

     Lionel Messi gave a hat-trick of assists as Barcelona ended their turbulent week with a thrilling 3-2 victory over Real Betis to stay in touch with Real Madrid at the top of La Liga. Madrid’s 4-1 win at Osasuna earlier on Sunday put pressure on Barca to respond, only […]

After the semi-finals on Saturday, Jiri Vesely had said, “I will keep focus on my serves.” He stayed true to his word and produced 26 aces to take home the Tata Open Maharashtra title defeating Egor Gerasimov of Belarus 7-6 (2), 5-7, 6-3 in two hours and 11 minutes. Enjoying […]

Shesh kore asho! (Finish it boys!), Richard Stoinier’s heavily accented Bengali could have been forgiven for all the nerve-racking emotions that his team was going through against India in the U-19 World Cup final here. In a tense dugout, Bangladesh’s strength and conditioning coach from England seemed to be the […]

Live score India vs New Zealand 2nd ODI: Yuzvendra Chahal picked up three wickets while Ravindra Jadeja and Shardul Thakur were good with both with the ball and in the field but half-centuries from Ross Taylor and Martin Guptill took New Zealand to 273 for 8 in the 2nd ODI at […]