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New Delhi: Opener Usman Khawaja notched an unbeaten half-century as India reduced Australia to 94 for 3 at lunch on day one of the second Test here Friday. Senior off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin (2/29) got the prized scalps of Marnus Labuschagne (18) and Steve Smith (0)...

Melbourne: Australian all-rounder Glenn Maxwell could be priming himself for Sheffield Shield action after assessing his fitness during a weekend club cricket fixture on his return from a grievous leg injury suffered last year. Maxwell fractured his left fibula at a friend's birthday party days...

New Delhi: The legendary Sunil Gavaskar Friday hoped Cheteshwar Pujara would become the first Indian to score a century in his 100th Test, adding that the veteran batter has been a role model for "hard work and self-belief". Pujara became the 13th Indian to reach...

New Delhi: The Sports Ministry Thursday approved financial assistance towards training and competitions for 10 judokas, two badminton players and three fencers, among others. Ten judokas, including three TOPS development and seven NCOE athletes, will train for 21 days in Uzbekistan and Georgia, and compete...

Chennai: India and Sweden should explore opportunities for joint promotion of tennis, said tennis' living legend, Bjorn Borg. Borg also said he was happy with his decision to retire from professional tennis at the age of 26 as he stopped enjoying the game at that...

Kolkata: Bengal's dream of winning a Ranji Trophy after more than three decades suffered a setback as left-arm Saurashtra pace duo of Jaydev Unadkat and Chetan Sakariya rattled the home team's top-order to bundle them out for a paltry 174 on the opening day of...

New Delhi: Former Australian captain Allan Border has suggested significant changes to the approach to selection and tactics for the second Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy and reckoned that Australia should go with their strengths -- three fast bowlers and just one spinner. "We tend...

New Delhi: Spinner Nathan Lyon and company's effectiveness on Indian tracks has been curtailed because of low carry as they are used to bowling on bouncy Australian pitches, conceded skipper Pat Cummins on Thursday. Though Australia's young Test debutant spinner Todd Murphy took seven wickets,...

Kolkata: India's Asian Games gold-medal winning footballer and Olympian Tulsidas Balaram died here Thursday after a prolonged illness, sources close to his family said. Balaram was 87 and a widower living in a flat on the banks of Hooghly river in Uttarpara. The 1962 Asiad...

Mount Maunganui: Dramatic lightning flashes around Bay Oval echoed lightning innings by Ben Duckett and Harry Brook which allowed England to declare at 325-9 with time to spare Thursday on the first day of the first, day-night cricket test against New Zealand. While thick black...