New Zealand won the fourth One-day International against India by seven wickets here Tuesday to take an unassailable 3-0 lead in the five-match series. Ross Taylor (112 not out) and captain Brendon McCullum (49 not out) took New Zealand easily past India’s 278 for five. The third ODI had ended in a tie after New […]
India once again slipped to number two position in the latest ICC rankings and now need to win the final two one-dayers against New Zealand to reclaim the top spot from the current table-toppers Australia, who acquired the position on Sunday after beating England 4-1 in five-game series. India, initially, lost the number one ranking […]
Top Indian shuttler Saina Nehwal ended her 15-month title drought by packing off compatriot and second seed P.V. Sindhu in the women’s singles final to win the $120,000 India Grand Prix Gold here Sunday. The top seed, who last won a title at the Denmark Open Super Series Premier in October 2012, beat Sindhu 21-14, […]
India’s Sania Mirza failed to grab her second Australian Open mixed doubles title as she and her Romanian partner Horia Tecau lost 3-6, 2-6 to Daniel Nestor of Canada and Kristina Mladenovic of France in the final at the Rod Laver Arena here Sunday. Nestor and Mladenovic, who won the Wimbledon title last year, fended […]
Melbourne, Jan 24 The top-seeded pair of Sara Errani and Robert Vinci defended their Australian Open women’s doubles title by defeating Russian pair Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina here Friday. Italians Errani and Vinci took two hours and six minutes to record a 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 win and became the first women’s doubles team to win back-to-back Australian titles since Serena and Venus Williams in 2010, reports […]
Being selected for India’s third highest civilian award – the Padma Bhushan – was a great honour, chief national badminton coach Pullela Gopichand said Saturday. “It is a great honour. I would like to thank the entire badminton fraternity. All my players, the coaches I have worked with, the government, Sports Authority of India (SAI) […]
N. Ramachandran, Rajeev Mehta and Anil Khanna will be elected unopposed as president, secretary general and treasurer respectively of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) during the Feb 9 elections. The elections may finally pave the way for the IOA’s return to the Olympics fold since it was suspended by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in […]
Leander Paes and Pullela Gopichand were on Saturday selected for the prestigious Padma Bhushan awards, while Yuvraj Singh was among the seven sportspersons chosen for this year’s Padma Shri award. Dipika Pallikal, former Indian women’s cricket captain Anjum Chopra, Sunil Dabas (Kabaddi), Love Raj Singh Dharmshaktu (Mountaineering), H. Boniface Prabhu (Wheelchair Tennis) and Mamta Sodha […]
China’s third-seeded Li Na beat Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia 7-6(7-3), 6-0 to win her first Australian Open women’s singles title here Saturday. Both players broke each other’s service twice and forced a tiebreak in the first set. Mini-breaks were exchanged in the tiebreak before Li served out to win the first set. Cibulkova failed to […]
honiIndia pulled off a dramatic last ball tie against New Zealand in the third One-day International here Saturday to stay alive in the five-match series. India, chasing 315, looked down and out at 184 for six in the 36th over before a 85-run stand between Ravichandran Ashwin (65) and Ravindra Jadeja (66 not out) brought […]