India faltered late in their innings to end at 264 for nine against Sri Lanka in an Asia Cup match at the Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium here Friday. Shikhar Dhawan (94) and Virat Kohli (48) shared a 97-run stand for the second wicket before a middle-order collapse pushed India back from a promising 175 […]
The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) could not have started the New Year on a happier note after a turbulent 2013. It now has newly elected office-bearers, headed by N. Ramachandran, ending a 14-month ban. Ramachandran, who is also the president of the World Squash Federation (WSF), will be under scrutiny of the the International Olympic […]
The Mozambican Council of Ministers has declared a national mourning Friday for former football player Mario Coluna, who died at the age of 78 in Maputo. “Taking into consideration his valuable deeds for this country, the government in its extraordinary session of the Council of Ministers decided to declare national mourning Friday when the flags […]
Head Coach Ottis Gibson has described the limited overs series against England starting this weekend as important to the West Indies preparations for the defence of the ICC T20 World Cup in Bangladesh in March-April. The West Indies cricketers arrived in Antigua Monday and have had full training sessions at the match venue, the Sir […]
Second-seeded Nicolas Almagro of Spain, a three-time winner in the Brazilian Open clay court event here, has been upset by Federico Delbonis of Argentina 6-3, 3-6, 2-6. Almagro took the first set easily, but thereafter found the going tough as the Argentinean started stretching him on every point and lost the next two sets. Top-seeded […]
Work on Brazil’s troubled Arena da Baixada World Cup stadium has been further delayed by a public transport strike, media reports said. More than two thirds of the venue’s 1,300 employees were absent from work Wednesday, Xinhua quoted a local daily O Globo. World football’s governing body FIFA last week warned that local organisers faced […]
Following are the English Premier League results Sunday, Xinhua reported. Liverpool 4 (Sturridge 3, 36, Henderson 20, 74) Swansea City 3 (Shelvey 23, Bony 27, 47-penalty) Newcastle United 1 (Remy 90+2) Aston Villa 0 Norwich City 1 (Snodgrass 47) Tottenham Hotspur 0 Played Saturday: Arsenal 4 (Giroud 5, 31, Rosicky 42, Koscielny 57) Sunderland 1 […]
Pep Guardiola’s team seems unstoppable as the Bavarians remain unbeaten at their 47th match after a 4-0 win at Hannover, meanwhile Frankfurt and Bremen shared points to close the 22nd round of Bundesliga . The German record champions are on their way to defend their Bundesliga title as Bayern established a 19-point lead to their […]
Juventus extended their unbeaten run in Turin derbies to 16 matches as Carlos Tevez’s fist-half strike earned them a 1-0 win against Torino. Tevez’s thunderous shot on the turn after 30 minutes of the latest Turin derby proved enough to restore the Italian champions’ advantage Sunday, Xinhua reported. Seventh-placed Torino — who have now failed […]
The attorneys of German biathlete Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle Monday denied the accusation of conscious or “even willful” doping, three days after the biathlete was kicked out of the Sochi Games due to positive doping test result. “On the basis of the existing evidence, there is no indication available for this,” Xinhua quoted her as saying in […]