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November 3, 2015 9:04 PM

Shoaib Malik announces retirement from Test cricket

Former Pakistan captain Shoaib Malik announced his retirement from Test cricket in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates today.The 33-year-old had made a comeback in the longer format of the game after five years in the first Test against England in Abu Dhabi, smashing a career-best 245.But in the remaining...

November 3, 2015 5:47 PM

Michelle Payne becomes first female jockey to win Melbourne Cup

Michelle Payne has become the first female jockey to win Australia's most prestigious horse race, the Melbourne Cup. The New Zealand-bred Prince of Penzance won despite being an outsider, with French horse Max Dynamite second and New Zealand horse Criterion third. Payne said winning was eve...

November 3, 2015 4:55 PM

South Africa delay women cricket tour in Bangladesh

Security concerns in Bangladesh has resulted in South Africa putting on hold its women cricket tour. The team was scheduled to arrive in Dhaka Tuesday to play 3 ODIs and 4 T20 matches. After deferring the visit, Cricket South Africa (CSA) has now postponed it indefinitely. CSA has informed Banglades...

November 3, 2015 2:26 PM

IPL COO Sundar Raman resigns, BCCI accepts resignation

Indian Premier League Chief Operating Officer, Sundar Raman has resigned from his position. Board of Control for Cricket in promptly accepted the resignation today, putting an end to the intense speculation over his future in the wake of the change of regime in the BCCI. Sundar Raman's role...

November 2, 2015 6:31 PM

Mana Patel, Virdhawal win best swimmers' award

Mana Patel of Gujarat and Maharashtra's Virdhawal Khade emerged as the best swimmers of the 69th senior National Aquatic Championships that concluded in Rajkot last night. Mana, was adjudged the best swimmer in the women's category of the competition while Khade was declared best s...

November 2, 2015 6:08 PM

Anand draws with Liren Ding to end joint 3rd in Bilbao Masters

Former world champion Viswanathan Anand has ended as joint Third with Liren Ding of China in the Bilbao Masters Chess Final. In the sixth and final round at Bilbao, Spain, Anand drew with Ding. Both the players finished with five points each. Anand finished with five draws and a lone loss in the fou...

November 2, 2015 12:29 PM

New Zealand's Dan Carter named World Rugby player of year

New Zealand fly-half Dan Carter has been named World Rugby player of the year for a third time at a ceremony in London yesterday. Carter, 33, helped the All Blacks to a 34-17 win over Australia in Saturday's World Cup final at Twickenham.He has announced his international retirement after s...

November 2, 2015 9:16 AM

Roger Federer beats Rafael Nadal to win Swiss Indoors final

Roger Federer has defeated his old foe Rafael Nadal to win Swiss Indoors Basel Tennis title 6-3 5-7 6-3. With this win, Federer has ended a three-and-a-half year drought against Nadal. Competing in a record 12th final on home soil in Basel yesterday, he added the Basel trophy in his kitty for the se...

November 2, 2015 7:00 AM

Sri Lanka beat West Indies by one wicket in first ODI

Sri Lanka edged past West Indies by one wicket in the rain-curtailed first one-day international Cricket match in Colombo yesterday. Set a Duckworth-Lewis target of 163 in 26 overs, the hosts survived anxious moments before winning with seven balls to spare. Tilakaratne Dilshan was the man of the ma...

November 1, 2015 8:03 PM

Agnieszka claims her maiden WTA Finals title; Defeats Kvitova

Agnieszka Radwanska claimed her maiden WTA Finals title with a 6-2, 4-6, 6-3 victory over Czech Petra Kvitova in an absorbing encounter at the Singapore Indoor Stadium today.Playing a first final in her seventh appearance at the season-ending event, the sixth-ranked Pole also created history by beco...

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