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Melbourne: Top-ranked Ash Barty has reached the Australian Open quarterfinals with a 6-4, 6-3 win over 20-year-old Amanda Anisimova. Barty is aiming to be the first Australian woman to win her home Grand Slam title since 1978 and has gone through the first four rounds...

Dubai: Pakistan wicketkeeper-batter Mohammad Rizwan and England's Tammy Beaumont were Sunday named the ICC men's and women's T20 Player of the Year, respectively, following a prolific 2021. Rizwan ruled the roost in 2021 when it came to the shortest format in the men's game, while...

Cape Town: India captain KL Rahul won the toss and opted to bowl first against South Africa in the third and final ODI of the three-match series, here Sunday. Speaking at the toss, Rahul said that India have made four changes in their playing XI for...

Melbourne: Spanish tennis stalwart Rafael Nadal drew inspiration from a 30-minute-long 16-14 first-set tie-break Sunday as the winner of 20 Grand Slams defeated 33-year-old Frenchman Adrian Mannarino 7-6(14), 6-2, 6-2 to advance into the Australian Open quarterfinal here. The 35-year-old Nadal will face the winner...

Melbourne: India's Sania Mirza and her American partner Rajeev Ram advanced to the mixed doubles quarterfinals of the Australian Open with a straight set win over Ellen Perez and Matwe Middelkoop here Sunday. The unseeded Indo-American duo took one hour 27 minutes to dispatch Australian...

Bridgetown (Barbados): England's T20 International series against hosts West Indies got off to a disappointing start with the Eoin Morgan-led side suffering a nine-wicket defeat in a D/N match at the Kensington Oval Sunday (IST). West Indies all-rounder Jason Holder came up with career-best T20...

Basseterre: Defending champions Bangladesh triumphed in a winner-takes-all game as they beat the UAE by nine wickets via the D/L method in a rain-interrupted match to reach the quarterfinals of the U-19 World Cup. Bangladesh's bowlers worked in tandem to restrict the United Arab Emirates...

Cape Town: Having already lost the ongoing ODI series against South Africa, India will look to adjust to the tempo of 50-over cricket and win the third and final match here Sunday to avoid a whitewash. KL Rahul-led side lost the first ODI by 31...

New Delhi: The BCCI is set to conduct the 2022 IPL from last week of March to end of May and efforts would be made to host the lucrative event in India as per the wishes of team owners, Board secretary Jay Shah said Saturday....

Lucknow: Two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu reached the women's singles final of the Syed Modi International badminton tournament after her fifth-seeded Russian opponent Evgeniya Kosetskaya retired hurt midway into their semifinal here Saturday. Sindhu, the top seed, easily pocketed the first game 21-11 before Kosetskaya...