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London: Lionel Messi's record-breaking career with Barcelona started with a contract written on a napkin. It's up for auction with a starting price of 300,000 pounds (USD 379,000). British auction house Bonhams is selling the napkin in an online auction from March 18-27 on behalf...

Islamabad: India will be without their top singles players but the visitors, who have come to Pakistan after 60 years, will still start as favourites in the historic Davis Cup World Group I play-off tie, which is being played within a restricted environment due to...

Bloemfontein: Sachin Dhas and skipper Uday Saharan hit fluent centuries and lifted India from a tricky 62/3 to a formidable 297/5 against Nepal in their final Group 1 Super Six match of the Under-19 World Cup here Friday. Dhas punished the Nepal bowling attack in...

Visakhapatnam: Young opener Yashasvi Jaiswal slammed a magnificent unbeaten 179 as India reached 336 for 6 at stumps on the opening day of the second Test against England here Friday. The 22-year-old Jaiswal, who made 80 in the opening match in Hyderabad, struck his second...

New Delhi/ Cuttack: The Football for Schools (F4S) programme which kicked off at the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya in Cuttack, Odisha December 3 last year has now reached various districts, including Angul, Dhenkanal, and Deogarh in Odisha, said a source. Apart from that it has reached...

Visakhapatnam: Former India cricketer Sunil Gavaskar left the commentary duty during the second Test match between India and England after his mother-in-law Pushpa Mehrotra passed away. Gavaskar Friday afternoon flew to Kanpur to be with his wife, Marshneil Gavaskar, and their family, according to reports....

Visakhapatnam: Young opener Yashasvi Jaiswal struck a high-quality hundred to push India to 225 for three at tea on day one of the second Test against England here Friday. Jaiswal (125 batting off 185 balls) changed the tempo of the innings with his attractive strokeplay...

Bloemfontein: India skipper Uday Saharan won the toss and opted to bat against Nepal in their final Group 1 Super Six match of the Under-19 World Cup here Friday. Five-time champions India have won all their group matches and are ahead of Pakistan on Net...

London: Lewis Hamilton shocked the motorsports world when the seven-time Formula One champion said he will leave Mercedes at the end of the season to join Ferrari, which had tried to land Hamilton before he signed his latest contract extension with the Silver Arrows. Hamilton...

Visakhapatnam: England's debutant spinner Shoaib Bashir got the prized wicket of India captain Rohit Sharma but Yashasvi Jaiswal's second successive half-century steered the cautious hosts to 103 for two at lunch on day one of the second Test here Friday. Jaiswal (51 batting off 92)...