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Coding to cricket: Saurabh Netravalkar aces all pitches

Mumbai: Day job of a software engineer in Oracle, developed his own cricket app, adept at playing Ukulele, a decent singer and yes, also a game-changing pacer for T20 World Cup debutants

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Scotland beats Namibia by 5 wickets

Bridgetown (Barbados): Scotland moved atop Group B with a five-wicket win over Namibia. Namibia posted 155-9 and Scotland reached its winning total with nine balls remaining. Captain Richie Berrington made an unbeaten

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England eye improved bowling effort to halt formidable Aussies; SA face Netherlands

Bridgetown (Barbados): Defending champions England will look to restitch their T20 World Cup campaign through an improved bowling effort when they face ‘old’ rival Australia in a Group B match here on

PM discusses COVID-19 with top sportspersons

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday discussed the the rapidly-growing threat of the COVID-19 pandemic with India’s top athletes, including cricket icon Virat Kohli and star shuttler P V Sindhu,

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India-returned South Africa cricketers are COVID-19 negative

JOHANNESBURG: All the South African players, who returned from their incomplete ODI tour of India, were found to be symptom-free of coronavirus and those who underwent tests returned negative, according to the

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Suarez ‘hurt’ by criticism of Barca players’ pay cut delay

Montevideo: Uruguay star Luis Suarez complained that he has been “hurt” by criticism of him and fellow millionaire Barcelona players for the time it took to agree to pay cuts to help

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Lewis of ‘DLS method’ cricket fame dies, aged 78

London: Tony Lewis, one of the men behind the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method used in weather-affected limited overs cricket matches, has died aged 78, the England and Wales Cricket Board announced Wednesday. “It is

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IOC chief thanks PM Modi for his support to Tokyo Olympics

Lausanne: International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has thanked India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his unflinching support to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, which has now been shifted to 2021 because

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Pakistan cricket chief selector Inzamam-ul-Haq speaks during a press conference to announce the Twenty20 and one-day international squad for the upcoming series against West Indies, in Lahore, Pakistan, Wednesday, March 15, 2017. Pakistan has recalled veteran Kamran Akmal and Ahmed Shehzad for the Twenty20 and one-day international series against the West Indies. The four-match T20 series begins from March 26 at Barbados while the three ODIs will be played at Guyana in between Apr. 7-11. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Some key players refused to tour India, Inzamam recalls 2005

Karachi: Former Pakistan captain Inzamam ul Haq says that ex-coach Bob Woolmer had doubted his decision to declare early in the 2005 Bangalore Test against India but he proved him wrong by

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Wimbledon set to be cancelled for first time since World War II

London: Wimbledon looks certain to be scrapped for the first time since World War II by tournament chiefs on Wednesday as the coronavirus wreaks further havoc on the global sporting calendar. The

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Buttler auctions World Cup-winning shirt to raise funds for hospitals battling pandemic

London: England’s flamboyant batsman Jos Buttler is auctioning the shirt he wore during their World Cup-winning final last year, to raise funds for hospitals battling the COVID-19 pandemic. In a video message

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Ex-Marseille president Pape Diouf dies from coronavirus

Marseille: Former Marseille president Pape Diouf has died aged 68 after contracting coronavirus, a family source told AFP. Diouf, who was born in Chad but had French and Senegalese citizenship, led the

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Duration of World Test Championship should be extended: Misbah

Karachi: Pakistan head coach and chief selector Misbah-ul-Haq has suggested extending the time span of the ICC World Test Championship with the COVID-19 pandemic bringing all cricketing activities to a halt and

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