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New Delhi: World championship bronze medallist Lakshya Sen defeated current World Champion Loh Kean Yew in straight games 24-22, 21-17 to win the first India Open men's singles title, here Sunday. It was a double delight for India as earlier, Chirag Shetty and Satwiksairaj Rankireddy...

Melbourne: Novak Djokovic's Australian sojourn for the year's first Grand Slam came to a disappointing end Sunday with the government deporting the Serbian World No. 1 after a Federal court panel dismissed his appeal against the cancellation of his visa. Djokovic boarded a plane to...

New Delhi: India's Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty displayed nerves of steel and even put their more illustrious opponents under pressure with their tactics to clinch the men's doubles title in the Yonex-Sunrise India Open 2022, here Sunday. It was the second BWF World Tour...

New Delhi: Team India missed a golden opportunity to end their losing Test series streak in South Africa after being defeated in the third and final match at Newlands, Cape Town on Friday to let underdogs and less-experienced Proteas bag the contest 2-1. There were several...

Melbourne: Australian great Ian Chappell feels the just-concluded Test series between India and South Africa involved the kind of emotion that the lop-sided Ashes lacked completely. Beaten comprehensively in the three-match series opener, South Africa bounced back in style to claim the rubber 2-1 after...

New Delhi: The former India cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar has outlined the reason behind Virat Kohli relinquishing India Test captaincy, saying the prolific batter might not have felt safe about his captaincy after the series loss against South Africa. A day after India lost the series...

Hobart: Australia thrashed England by 146 runs in the fifth and final Test on Day 3, to clinch the 2021/22 Ashes series 4-0, here Sunday. England were 68/1 at Tea but they suffered a massive collapse to get bowled out for 124 in their second...

Mumbai: Actress Anushka Sharma took to social media and penned a heartfelt note for her husband Virat Kohli after he stepped down as Test captain of the Indian cricket team Saturday. Kohli quit the captaincy a day after the Indian squad failed to clinch their...

Cape Town: Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar feels Virat Kohli's decision to step down as captain of the Test team could stem from the possibility that the star batter might get sacked for a second time in a short duration of time. Ahead of the...

Hobart: England were 68/1 at Tea on Day 3 and needed 203 runs to win the fifth and final Ashes Test against Australia, here Sunday. Chasing a challenging target of 271, Rory Burns and Zak Crawley logged England's highest opening partnership of the tour in...