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Milan: Defending champion Italy and World Cup semifinalist Croatia are among the lower-seeded teams in Saturday's draw for next year's European Championship, a quirk created by the way UEFA decides the seedings for the tournament. While FIFA relies on its world rankings to help ensure...

Raipur: Rinku Singh (46) and Jitesh Sharma (35) provided late fireworks to take India to 174/9 against Australia in their fourth T20 International here Friday. Rinku missed his maiden T20I fifty by a narrow margin as he was dismissed in the final over of the...

Madrid: Rafael Nadal will return to playing at the Brisbane International in Australia in January, the 22-time Grand Slam champion said Friday. "After a year of not competing, it is time to come back," Nadal said in a video posted on social media. "It will...

Raipur: Australia won the toss and elected to bowl against India in the fourth T20 International here on Friday, with both teams making wholesale changes in their respective playing XIs. India predictably dropped Prasidh Krishna and brought back Mukesh Kumar while seasoned Deepk Chahar replaced...

Bengaluru: IPL chairman Arun Dhumal believes that the media rights value of the league has the potential to touch a staggering $50 million over the next two decades, provided it keeps innovating and improvising with fans' interests in mind. The current media rights value of...

New Delhi: Andhra wicketkeeper-batter KS Bharat will lead India A in the two four-day matches against South Africa A which will coincide with the senior team's tour to the country later this month. The BCCI Thursday announced two separate squads for the two matches with...

Santiago: India squandered a two-goal advantage to go down 3-4 to last edition's runners-up Germany in a thrilling FIH Hockey Women's Junior World Cup match here. Annu (11'), Ropni Kumari (14'), and Mumtaz Khan (24') were the goal scorers for India, while Sophia Schwabe (17'),...

Raipur: India's young bowling unit, which has been under the pump, will look to better its death overs performance while utilising Glenn Maxwell's absence to its advantage in the fourth T20 International against Australia here Friday. India's second-string attack did not paint a good picture...

New Delhi: Suryakumar Yadav, who is captaining the Indian team in the ongoing five-match T20I series against Australia, will continue in the role in the shortest format during the three-match series against South Africa beginning December 10 in Durban, while KL Rahul will be the...

Windhoek (Namibia): Uganda qualified for next year's T20 World Cup, set to be held in the West Indies and the USA, with a nine-wicket win over Rwanda here Thursday. It will be joining Namibia as the second side to enter the main tournament from the...