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Lucknow: Smarting from their opening game defeat against India, a determined Australian team will be aiming to put up a much better batting performance with a rejigged playing eleven against an upbeat South Africa in a World Cup encounter, here Thursday. The five-time champions' World...

New Delhi: Rohit Sharma oozed class and elegance en route to a recording-breaking hundred, leading India to an emphatic eight-wicket win over Afghanistan in the ODI World Cup here Wednesday. Hasmatullah Shahidi's dogged 80 and the young Azmatullah Omarazai's gutsy 62 took Afghanistan to 272...

New Delhi: Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra believes the day is not too far when two Indians javelin throwers will join the elite 90m club following his stirring duel with compatriot Kishore Jena at the Hangzhou Asian Games. Exactly a week back, Chopra and Jena had...

New Delhi: The image of HS Prannoy breaking down and hugging coach Pullela Gopichand after battling excruciating back pain to seal his maiden bronze medal in Hangzhou was one of the most emotional moments of the Hangzhou Asian Games. It was a culmination of years...

New Delhi: Afghanistan posted a decent 272 for 8 against India in their World Cup match here Wednesday. Skipper Hashmatullah Shahidi (80) and Azmatullah Omarzai (62) struck fine fifties but Afghanistan had a slump between 35th to 45th over as they eventually just managed a...

Mumbai: Nita Ambani, the first woman to be elected as an International Olympic Committee (IOC) member from India, and Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani hosted IOC President Thomas Bach at their residence Tuesday, ahead of the 141st IOC Session to be held between October 15...

Bengaluru: Manikanta H H of Services created new men's 100m national record on the opening day of National Open Athletics Championships here Wednesday. The 21-year-old Manikanta clocked 10.23 seconds to win heat number 3 and qualify for the final. He erased the earlier national record...

Lahore: PCB chief Zaka Ashraf will reach Ahmedabad Thursday to watch his nation's marquee World Cup clash against India Saturday after it was confirmed that Pakistani media personnel were given the go-ahead to submit their passports for procurement of visa to cover the global event....

Hyderabad: Pakistan's wicket-keeper batter Mohammad Rizwan, Wednesday, dedicated his team's record-breaking performance against Sri Lanka in World Cup to "brothers and sisters in Gaza". Rizwan (131) had conjured an unbeaten century while young Abdullah Shafique (113) smashed his maiden ODI century to lead Pakistan to...

New Delhi: Recovering steadily from a bout of dengue fever, India opener Shubman Gill will be reaching Ahmedabad Wednesday but still remains a doubtful starter for the marquee World Cup clash against Pakistan Saturday. Even as Gill reaches Ahmedabad later in the day, his teammates...