Sania bids adieu to Australia Open with quarterfinal loss in mixed doubles
Melbourne: Trailblazing India tennis star Sania Mirza’s swansong appearance at the Australian Open ended with a quarterfinal loss to local pair Jaimee Fourlis and Jason Kubler in the mixed doubles event here on Tuesday. Mirza, partnering American Rajeev Ram, lost the match 4-6, 6-7 to wildcard entries Fourlis and Kubler in one hour 30 minutes. […]
Australia set to tour Pakistan with full-strength squad
Melbourne: Australia are set to tour Pakistan with a full-strength squad as no player has so far expressed any reservation about travelling to the country which did not get to host top-flight international cricket for nearly a decade due to security concerns. The last time Pakistan had an ICC event on its soil was when […]
ICC Awards: Babar Azam, Joe Root, Shaheen Afridi, Lizelle Lee bag top honours
Dubai: Pakistan skipper Babar Azam was on Monday named ICC ODI Cricketer of the Year while England Test captain Joe Root took home the top honours in the red-ball category, beating competition from, among others, Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin. Babar’s team-mate and left-arm pacer Shaheen Shah Afridi won the Sir Garfield Sobers Award for ICC […]
Smriti Mandhana named ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year
DUBAI: India opening batter Smriti Mandhana was on Monday named the ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year for her incredible run of form across all formats in 2021. Mandhana was short-listed for the top award — the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy — along with Tammy Beaumont of England, Lizelle Lee of South Africa and Gaby […]
People will get security but we will also demand performances: Dravid
Cape Town: He is all for stability and security but India head coach Rahul Dravid says players will also have to deliver “really big performances” to justify the long rope given to them as he reflected on all that went wrong during a dismal tour of South Africa. India lost the Test series 1-2 and […]
Rizwan, Beaumont named ICC T20 Cricketers of the Year
Dubai: Pakistan wicketkeeper-batter Mohammad Rizwan and England’s Tammy Beaumont were on Sunday named the ICC men’s and women’s T20 Player of the Year, respectively, following a prolific 2021. Rizwan ruled the roost in 2021 when it came to the shortest format in the men’s game, while Beaumont finished the year as the third-highest run-getter in […]
Sindhu wins Syed Modi International badminton title
Lucknow: Two-time Olympic medallist PV Sindhu eased past young compatriot Malvika Bansod in straight games to win her second women’s singles title at the Syed Modi International badminton tournament here on Sunday. Playing in a depleted field due to multiple COVID-19 cases, top seed Sindhu hardly broke her sweat to get past Bansod 21-13 21-16 […]
Dravid has to prove he is not an overrated coach, says Shoaib Akhtar
Muscat: Former Pakistani pacer Shoaib Akhtar believes Indian cricket finds itself at the crossroads after the end of Virat Kohli’s captaincy era, leaving a big task ahead for Rahul Dravid who will have to prove that he is not an “overrated” coach. Weeks after he was sacked as ODI captain, Kohli took everyone by surprise […]
Where we need to get better is right in front of us: K.L. Rahul
PAARL: A fragile middle-order and lack of wickets in the middle overs are obvious areas of improvement needed for the Indian team, skipper K.L. Rahul admitted after an embarrassing ODI series defeat against South Africa here on January 21. For the second game in a row, Indian bowlers looked pedestrian especially in the middle overs. […]
Sindhu enters final of Syed Modi after Russia’s Kosetskaya retires midway
Lucknow: Two-time Olympic medallist P V Sindhu reached the women’s singles final of the Syed Modi International badminton tournament after her fifth seeded Russian opponent Evgeniya Kosetskaya retired hurt midway into their semifinal here on Saturday. Sindhu, the top seed, easily pocketed the first game 21-11 before Kosetskaya conceded the second women’s singles semifinal match. […]
