Sri Lanka beat Australia in third Test; clinch series whitewash

Sri Lanka clinched their first series whitewash over a major cricketing nation today at Colombo as they won the third and final Test against Australia by 163 runs, with spinner Rangana Herath taking seven wickets for 64 runs.Set a formidable target of 324 in their second innings, the world number on...

Sri Lanka beat Australia in third Test; clinch series whitewash

Sri Lanka clinched their first series whitewash over a major cricketing nation today at Colombo as they won the third and final Test against Australia by 163 runs, with spinner Rangana Herath taking seven wickets for 64 runs.Set a formidable target of 324 in their second innings, the world number on...

Argentina & Belgium reach Olympic Games hockey final

Argentina and Belgium reached the Olympic Games hockey final for the first time yesterday as defending champions Germany and fellow favourites Netherlands came up short. Argentina stunned Germany, the gold medallists in 2008 and 2012, by 5-2 while Belgium clinched a 3-1 semi-final win over neighbour...

Argentina & Belgium reach Olympic Games hockey final

Argentina and Belgium reached the Olympic Games hockey final for the first time yesterday as defending champions Germany and fellow favourites Netherlands came up short. Argentina stunned Germany, the gold medallists in 2008 and 2012, by 5-2 while Belgium clinched a 3-1 semi-final win over neighbour...

Badminton kindles India's hopes for medal at Rio Olympics<br/>

Badminton has kindled India&apos;s hopes for a medal at the Rio Olympics. On 12th day of the games, Kidambi Srikanth will eye for a semi final berth in the men&apos;s singles section. In his quarter-finals match today, Srikanth will be taking on two time Olympic and defending Champion Lin Da...

Mexican synchronised swimmers perform on Bollywood song

Rio Olympics: Brazil's Thiago da Silva wins gold medal in pole vault

Brazilian Thiago da Silva edged out world record holder Renaud Lavillenie of France to win the Rio Olympic pole vault in dramatic fashion and give the host country its first athletics gold medal of the Games.Against a back drop of raucous fan cheering, Da Silva skipped an attempt at 5.98 meters and ...

Kaushal Silva's gritty century dims Australia hopes of win in Colombo

A gritty century from Kaushal Silva gave Sri Lanka a commanding 288-run second innings lead, dimming Australia&apos;s hopes of a consolation win in the third and final Test in Colombo.Sri Lanka, who are pushing for a rare series whitewashafter winning the first two Tests, were 312 for eight at s...

WADA appeals against clean chit to wrestler Narsingh Yadav

Indian wrestler Narsingh Yadav&apos;s Olympic campaign hit a massive roadblock after the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) decided to appeal against the clean chit given to him by NADA in a dope scandal back home.Indian contingent&apos;s chef-de-mission Rakesh Gupta informed a news agency that...

Rio 2016: shuttler PV Sidhu enter Women's single semifinals; beat world no. 2 Yihan Wang

In Rio Olympics, shuttler PV Sindhu has stormed into the Women&apos;s Singles semi-finals.AIR correspondent reports, there was determination and intent which pumped up PV Sindhu as she entered last-4 stage, that has convinced that a medal in Rio Olympics is not far away for India. In a high inte...