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Former Indian cricket team skipper Sunil Gavaskar picked his preferred playing XI for India in the World Test Championship (WTC) Final against Australia and it came with a couple of surprises. In the race for wicket-keeper, he picked KS Bharat to retain his position as he has been playing for the side regularly. Gavaskar also went with two spinners…
Novak Djokovic battled into the French Open fourth round for a 14th consecutive year on Friday as Carlos Alcaraz also progressed, after women’s third seed Jessica Pegula and men’s seventh-ranked Andrey Rublev were dumped out of the tournament. Djokovic has made headlines for his comments about Kosovo this week but his on-court progress has been…
India’s Kiran George continued his good run as he cruised into the quarterfinals of the Thailand Open Super 500 tournament, beating world number 26 China’s Weng Hong Yang in straight games in Bangkok on Thursday. Kiran, the world number 59, took 39 minutes to beat his higher ranked Chinese opponent 21-11, 21-19 in the men’s…
Yorkshire vs Lancashire Led by another vintage performance from Dawid Malan, Yorkshire beat Lancashire by 15 runs at Headingley on Thursday (June 1). Malan continued his prime form this season with a classy half-century that was the backbone of Yorkshire’s batting performance as they got to a competitive total after being put into bat. Malan almost batted…
Fifth seed Caroline Garcia loses to Anna Blinkova 6-4, 3-6, 5-7 in French Open women’s singles second round Russian Anna Blinkova needed nine match points to finally beat home hope Caroline Garcia and reach the French Open third round on Wednesday. Fifth seed Garcia saved eight match points on Blinkova’s serve late in the deciding…
After a historic debut season where they went on to become champions Gujarat Titans faced the litmus test this year. A one-season wonder is something they certainly didn’t want to be and their performances ended up showing that they’re anything but that. Like their victorious 2022 campaign, this year was also about creating heroes out…
In an interesting conversation between Virat Kohli and umpire Nitin Menon, the former Indian skipper was heard saying, “Mai hota toh out tha,” during Day 5 of the fourth and final Test in Ahmedabad. The incident took place just before the Lunch when R Ashwin bowled the fourth delivery of his 14th over to Travis…
